wonderingwanderer

Right, exactly, that’s my point. None of them can ban you from the fediverse, just their instance.

Really? How? I thought instances had the highest level of control? Or are admins a per-instance thing?

That’s fucking insane.

The planet is fucked.

Good to know!

So VPN isn’t irrelevant yet, because they haven’t started checking IDs, is what you’re saying?

You have that backwards, it’s one wizard in an oz

Even google’s “verified apps” are full of spyware, backdoors, and telemetry. They’re so fucking hypocritical. Like an abuser who says “You can’t make it in this world without me!”

Also, is this going to effect third-party ROMs like Lineage and its offshoots?

Upvoting for the E.F. Schumacher reference (and the self-awareness/deprecation!)

It’s easier to choose and curate for oneself. Blocking comms actually works (even if blocking instances or users doesn’t). I don’t see any tankie comms anymore, even if I still have to argue with .ml users in comments on other threads.

And even though mods can ban from communities or instances, no automated admin bots can give you a site-wide ban over petty reasons. I can say I hate nazis without getting my entire IP banned for “hate speech”…

It’s a trillion ounces, I don’t know how much that is in metric…

I remember my first 2GB flash drive. I thought I had sooo much storage…

Years later when I learned I could get an SD card with 32GB, I was like “It comes in 32GB? 🤯”

And don’t even get me started on my first 1TB hard drive!

If a bit is 3.5 grams, then a byte is an ounce…

That makes a kilobyte about 1000 ounces!

I’m not here for mental gymnastics just to convince myself reddit doesn’t suck.

It’s a shit platform. It used to be good, but they sold out. Now it’s a publicly traded corporation with a for-profit motive and a business model based on ad revenue. It’s been corrupted, and it will never again be what it was.

Sorry if the truth is too much for you to handle.

“Don’t mind me, I’m just an ordinary yurtain minding my own business behind this curtain… carry on…”

…you’re almost there, keep thinking just a little longer…

Oh sorry, I meant cue… I always get those mixed up…

“manual review” …

…rriiiiigghht…

The topic is reddit overzealously banning people. People commented with their experiences being banned by overzealous reddit mods and admins.

If you don’t like it, you can go somewhere else. That’s how the threadiverse works. You don’t have to be here if you don’t like the conversation, but you don’t get to tell people what not to post or comment.

If that’s how you want to be, go back to your beloved reddit where you can be a mod and ban people for stupid reasons. No one here will miss you.

Queue nazi-sympathizers showing up to say “yOu CaN’t JuSt CaLl AnYoNe YoU dIsAgReE wItH a NaZi!!1!1”

My brother in christ, the dude was wearing a red armband with a swastika and doing nazi salutes…