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.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

@amiserabilist @PetraPhoenix 😂

Anti-homosexuality laws in Trinidad and Tobago overturned - big yessss!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm0e0evlpp87o

@mkristensson Also, good historical tips, since it goes back 20 years.

Just deleting all that is a crime.

@TheBreadmonkey there's still one on Goodge Street but they seem to have lost the frog mascot, perhaps realising that a famously hairless creature does not seem like a natural domain expert in the realm of hair management. Especially as he wore a top hat, implying that if he did have a haircut, he was embarrassed by it.

The other day some bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMe shill commented and I pointed out lemmy.ml. More shills apparently showed up to downvote me 🤣

Yeah. They brigade. Well known phenomemon on that instance.

@lowqualityfacts Hurry before Chump steals it.

Seriously, I didn't even know what that thing was at first. I thought it was some kind of bird (maybe incomplete? no head, wings) or some kind of Egyptian artifact.

@scy

Warum sollte das 3 Tage länger dauern?

Dank Echtzeitüberweisung ist das #Geld genau so schnell beim Händler wie bei #PayPal und co.

"Axel Ronde est flic et président de la CFTC Police [...]
Le 31 octobre, sur le coup de 20 h 20, Axel Ronde file en effet à bord d’une Seat rouge à travers le XIIe arrondissement de Paris. Le pare-soleil siglé « Police » bien en vue, le deux-tons et le gyro activés, le conducteur grille les feux rouges et érafle un véhicule en circulation. Un flic, hors service, arrive à sa hauteur, se présente, lui demande s’il est bien de la maison poulaga, l’interroge sur les raisons de ces manœuvres dangereuses.
Ronde dit qu’il doit se rendre sur un dispositif de maintien de l’ordre. Son interlocuteur vérifie par téléphone son identité et demande si la Seat est bien un véhicule administratif autorisé à rouler toutes sirènes hurlantes. Pas du tout, répond le central : c’est la caisse perso du syndicaliste.
Lorsqu’il entend la conversation, Ronde démarre en trombe et « manque de peu de renverser » son collègue
[...]
Une course-poursuite s’engage dans Paris puis sur le périph. Le syndicaliste finit par balancer son gyro sur la chaussée, avant d’être immobilisé par des véhicules venus en renfort. Il sort de sa bagnole en précisant : « Je suis armé. » Une fois désarmé, il dégaine son téléphone pour rédiger un message via WhatsApp.
Selon nos informations, il appelle un commandant au secours. Une « instruction » parvient aussitôt aux poulets : il faut laisser libre de toute poursuite le président de la CFTC Police"

#1312

https://www.lecanardenchaine.fr/police-justice/55378-le-patron-de-la-cftc-police-champion-du-refus-d-obtemperer

I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012372/tv-privacy-acr-questions

It’s Mali’s TLD, they just like that it lines up with Marxist-Leninist

Fuck now you’re telling me I mixed up Malaysia and Mali?! Just put me out of misery now

It’s weird, but they like him because he’s an opposition to the west. They like him because they hate the west.

honestly I think memorizing TLDs for Geoguessr a few years ago made me think Malaysia before i ever considered .ml to stand for marxist leninist lmao

my gender is: why don't they make ultra-rugged tactical EDC gear in cute girly colors

api.rabotaem.app api-dev.rabotaem.app crustaceanson.theshelf.top lem.cochrun.xyz lemmy.1095.me

Pretty sure there others too.