I like to sort by new, and I occasionally run across these posts. There’s usually no interaction going on, just this … What the heck are these? Can I stop seeing them somehow?
I like to sort by new, and I occasionally run across these posts. There’s usually no interaction going on, just this … What the heck are these? Can I stop seeing them somehow?
@cmeu@lemmy.world @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Others already replied what it is: something to do with blockchain (not Bitcoin, but a blockchain nevertheless).
Just to add something, as someone who also uses to use Nostr alongside the Fediverse: this “fyld” (likely an automated account) also has a Nostr nprofile, posting the exact same thing over there, and they likely do a similar thing across other social protocols and platforms, such as ATmosphere (Bluesky), although I don’t have a Bluesky account anymore to confirm this.
At first glance, it does look like spam, and I muted them both there (didn’t mute here because it only appears for lemmy.world; lemmy.ml doesn’t seem to federate with that community), due to the annoying frequency of posting…
…but for those who are looking for random numbers whenever there are no TTRPG dices (or, in my case, Ouija boards) nearby, I’d say it’s quite a source of randomness with all the fancy colors and hex nibbles. Definitely not a cryptographically safe one (please do not derive a password from that), but for creative purposes, it certainly suffices 😆