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  • @[email protected]
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    816 hours ago

    He said it was due to the prevelance of violent content…coming from an unelected illegal immigrant who cheated to get someone elected who literally pardoned hundreds of violent felons, WHO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED IN VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

  • @[email protected]
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    1319 hours ago

    I think every lemmy instance should create a daily/weekly (depending on size) “Welcome!” thread, so we can greet all the newcomers.

    • @[email protected]
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      401 day ago

      Of course it is, especially in this new era of censorship and restricted speech, brought to you by a self claimed free speech absolutist.

      From my point of view, it seems like the only solution is to move away from corporate social media, and to federated foss platforms that are much harder to stifle on a global stage.

      It’ll be interesting to see if the world will shift in response to continued encroachment on liberty, or if we just continue to take it.

    • @[email protected]
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      well yeah it’s been straight the fuck up AIDS since Obama bounced and it was certainly staying the course

  • Skiluros
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    261 day ago

    The sad thing is that even with all these scandals, MAU/DAU growth in the threadiverse is flat.

    • @[email protected]
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      Give it some time. It took a while for people to “get” reddit, it will take some time for people to understand federated social media to the point that they feel comfortable using it.

    • Dr. Moose
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      eh, quality > quantity. As long as we can support and improve the platforms we’re good.

      • Skiluros
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        I agree. That’s why I’ve largely moved off reddit and deleted my twitter accounts.

        I would even go as far as saying that the architecture of the fediverse with multiple instances, multiple platforms (Lemmy vs. Piefed vs. Mbin) and multiple frontends has the potential to offer more innovation, a better user experience and better content/communities.

        But that being said user growth (via a competitive federated model) is necessary.

        It would enable expanded coverage of niche topics of interests and other languages. Potentially more funding for development and administration.

        But the most important point is that it would allow the global community to take back digital social interaction from the criminal oligarchs, the marketers and shills and undermine nation state digital propaganda and subversion efforts.

        I am talking in abstract, aspirational terms, but still, from my perspective this is all part of getting quality content/discussions.

    • stebo
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      Basically. Usually it was a tweet that was either funny or being made fun of. For some reason there was a separate subreddit for tweets made by black people. Possibly to make fun of racial segregation?

      • @[email protected]
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        1120 hours ago

        The “some reason” was that black twitter was a cultural subspace on twitter, and a fairly influential one at that.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 day ago

        I was screenshots of people basically being mental or entitled on twitter. You’re classic “white Karen” etc. stereotype. There was or is a black twitter too…wonder if that’s banned. That’s definitely more racist.

        • @[email protected]
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          No, it wasn’t. Nor is it racist for black people to want to have a community that can talk about black issues without Nazis harassing them in the comments.

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              Nah, though people obviously tried to do that a lot, thus the mods having to lock comments pretty frequently when it would trend and the racists would pour in.

              Realistically what they should have done was make it a private community after it got big enough.

          • @[email protected]
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            418 hours ago

            Yeah, no, segregation based on race is racism regardless of your reasoning of it

            Don’t want Nazis? Moderate properly, not force people to upload pictures of their skin color

            • Not Chad McTruth
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              yeah exactly bigotry is when i as a straight white man am not allowed in somewhere i dont understand why minorities dont understand this they have to let me in their spaces and theyre not allowed to call me slurs like cis or cracker

              • @[email protected]
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                This is why I, as a gamer, always make sure to join women’s book clubs as well.

                I don’t read any of the books because there aren’t enough boobs in them but it’s important that women don’t exclude me

                Not one of them has even tried to stop me because they know I’m right, except when they get triggered by my speaking truth to power ovs

  • @[email protected]
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    311 day ago

    I know we are all here because of our distaste of Reddit.

    HOWEVER in a capitalist system the only thing to speak volumes is the people who speak up.

    If there is a way for us to email or blast the admins of Reddit then we should. Not for Reddit but to start a backlash. If we stay silent then nothing changes.

    I bed of you all to actually report false information. There has been no law broken. There has been no laws passed only executive orders thus far.

    https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001103212

    I’m not asking for the sake of Reddit. I’m asking for the sake of everything else.

    When you find things like this, take 5 minutes, that’s it. Research the company find the place to complain and do it.

    • @[email protected]
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      The only thing that speaks in capitalism is money. Want to hurt reddit? Leave. Reddit makes money with your data, stop giving it to those asshats. Your emails will be ignored until you start talking in the way that can hurt them.

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        I clearly failed to make my point. This isn’t about Reddit. It’s about a company folding based on bullshit. A law has to go through Congress and be signed by the president before it becomes law. An executive order is not a law. And only elected person like mosque, saying something is not law.

        If we let companies fold here about absolute nothing then it’s just the peak. Everything else fails after that.

        Edit: Actually, no I didn’t fail to make my point you’re just ignoring it. I said multiple times is not about Reddit.

        • @[email protected]
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          521 hours ago

          reddit has always had a policy to mute or ban subs that break certain rules and the moderators don’t moderate… reddit site-wide rules such as doxxing or calls the violence.
          i’d argue it’s not doxxing as they’re doing things only public figures should be doing… but comments about shooting them in the head has always been a no-go on reddit….
          when the sub was called out publicly, i reckon a lot of magats went on and hit the report button.
          ….
          it’s not really a big deal… the big deal is them accessing the u.s. treasury computers and ALREADY modifying a “significant” amount of code.
          btw, anyone who programs can tell that means they’re either extremely reckless, or they had previous access to the system and source code.
          they couldn’t even read that much code over a weekend, let alone understand it enough to modify it significantly….
          this very detail is the smoking gun, actually…

        • @[email protected]
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          121 day ago

          I didn’t ignore your point, I countered it. The only way to make a company that’s driven by money to listen to you is to hurt their floating line.

          Reddit (and most if not all big techs) is only worried about one opinion: the conservative opinion. And since we are complaining about them folding to nazis, do you think they will listen? But sure, write an email, spam them with email about how being a nazi is bad.

          Subs are banning links from xitter and what’s doing reddit? Closing subs because poor elmo got his ego hurt. I’m sure a strong worded email will make them listen.

    • @[email protected]
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      I was permanently banned from reddit for “threatening violence against places” when I made a sarcastic comment about someone else’s plan to fix the housing crisis by destroying housing as it was being constructed.

      I can’t believe these people who are openly calling for mass murder aren’t being banned. My reddit account had zero problems for twelve years and then I was banned over that one comment, for a rule that doesn’t exist (they told me I’d broken the rule against “violence against places”, but no such rule exists).

      The obvious bias over there pisses me off.

      • BlackLaZoR
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        This place isn’t any better. Post you were answering to, got removed xD

    • db0
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      Imagine unironically relying on the cockroaches and dead rats guy

      • @[email protected]
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        On any Lemmy instance I would expect admins to axe threads/boards that made specific calls to harm specific people. You cannot advocate targeted violence in many countries

        • @[email protected]
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          118 hours ago

          You cannot advocate targeted violence in many countries

          You can’t do a lot of stuff in many countries, yet when it’s any kind of social consciousness we actually suddenly do something about it

          Meanwhile I can find sites on how to kidnap and rape children with less than 5m of seaeching

              • @[email protected]
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                116 hours ago

                Are you suggesting instance owners should get involved in criminal activity to see what happens?

                Did you forget Kim Dotcom was arrested in NZ by the US FBI for violations of US laws? The jurisdiction for the laws of the USA are not limited to the borders of the USA.

                • @[email protected]
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                  116 hours ago

                  Are you suggesting instance owners should get involved in criminal activity to see what happens?

                  Nothing, that’s what’ll happen

                  Did you forget Kim Dotcom was arrested in NZ by the US FBI for violations of US laws?

                  Do you think what he did is anything like a Lemmy instance?

                  Keep licking that boot, it’s a good look for you .world people

        • db0
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          61 day ago

          Imagine thinking people would make serious counterarguments to the cockroach guy…

    • @[email protected]
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      323 hours ago

      I really don’t want to watch a YouTube video, but I do want to call for violence.

      Violence is often the correct answer

      • @[email protected]
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        120 hours ago

        I’ve got an ever-growing list of comments here on lemmy where leftists call for violence against their opponents.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s part of the tolerance fallacy. If someone is intolerant of someone for just existing, you cannot tolerate those intolerant people or they will run rampant. Whether they don’t want Jewish people to exist, trans people, gay people, or any other group to exist, you cannot tolerate them, or it will just spread.

          Edit: the alternative solution is through education and integration which helps the people learn they aren’t so different and they learn to tolerate each other until everything is forgotten eventually. Some might call that DEI

      • BlackLaZoR
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        but I do want to call for violence.

        You want a witch hunt. But you’re not getting it.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 hours ago

        But platforms cannot host and spread demands for violence without being an accessory to the crimes advocated.