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That’s because they’re actually propagandists for those authoritarian governments pretending to be communist. They’re about as communist as the Nazis were socialist.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

Yes, actually.

Set the rules, and enforce them. If you, as a user, don’t like the rules of the community, don’t fucking post or comment there. It’s not power tripping to take out the trash. Take the free speech absolutism bullshit to Twitter.

The problem is, they get so trapped up in the vague-at-best definition of “civility”, that they allow propagandaised bullshit as lit as its polite.

This isn’t how a community should be run, and it’s why the divisionists pretty much own the comment sections in any political posts and communities.

No mods have the balls to tell these fuckos to kick bricks.

@oheso @bolderbekah oof

Treat yourself to a bath bomb! Or a bubble bath -- the bubble solution is oft cheap in bulk!

I'll allow it

@mcc Yeah, I agree that these are also possibilities. And that it's extremely bad that we are speculating rather than just reading what they wrote about what happened. Presumably they wanted to pass if the minority leader was a "hard yes" on the vote.

Hey if you use Google Maps and hate the new driving directions voice like I do, you can change it back in Settings > Navigation > English (US)

you're welcome

Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world

I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.

That makes for a pretty bad experience.

landlady can't think of any reason why someone she just doubled the rent on could have picked up a second job other than wanting to kidnap her employer or something like that

It’s kind of neat to be able to apply different textures to different areas of an image based on tone and color.

(via https://toolz.radiantmars.com/distrez/)

#mastoart #art

@ai6yr @bolderbekah Yeah. I don't tell her stories from the summer I worked for the air force in reliability & maintainability.

Train ride from St. Moritz, Switzerland to Tirano, Italy (Bernina pass, winter): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsVJ8PCV-0M&t=1754

#trains #webcam

They tried to unionize to get paid nap time.

Rule 1 is the ml catchall. It’s often the giveaway for an ml hardliner modding another community on an alt account that isn’t ml.