• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Lemmy.ml apparently. When you type B…I…T…C…H it automatically turns to removed. They’re treating you like some kid who can’t handle grown-up words. Switch to another instance if you want more freedom with your choice of words.

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      The more I see people from .ml and the more I learn about it The more I think anyone on .ml is either just objectively stupid or ignorant of how stupid the instance is.

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        11 hours ago

        Not all of us. I just read what it said on the main page “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers” and thought that sounded good. I’m sure a lot of people that were new to lemmy figured the instance run by the devs themselves would be a safe bet. There also wasn’t nearly as much drama around .ml back then, but it honestly hasn’t been enough of an issue to make me create an account on a new instance and switch.

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        I think it has to do with what they are used to. They never knew the freedom other instances provided.

        Also, don’t you have to read like the Communist Manifesto to even join lemmy,ml? Sounds to me only something objectively stupid people would do to join an internet forum.

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          11 hours ago

          lol, no of course not, unless that changed later. I would have noped right out.

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      Lemmy.ml banned me on my Startrek.website account years ago during the height of my posting. Like when I was posting 20 things every hour or two. Why? Posted some Jimmy Neutron meme about Disney having a first gay character and it being the 14th one this month. Title was like “Can always be the first in China at least for a couple minutes” or something along those lines.

      From what I heard from some of the people who worked on .ml behind the scenes, they had to reverse the ban because a bunch of people started asking why there was no new content and other people started to realize it was because I had gotten banned.

      Have never posted on lemmy.ml since and don’t bother to interact with the instance at all. I don’t have it blocked because not all users are like the admins but like fuck am I ever adding to that shithole ever again. I thought that was the worst I’d ever deal with from admins… and then I started getting personally harassed by the startrek.website admins across multiple websites and basically forgot about lemmy.ml entirely.

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        But, isn’t it wonderful that we can have a fediverse where there can be annoying instances like those ones, but if you don’t like it you can just move or block?

        The fediverse is chaotic but I sure prefer chaos to having one corporate overlord with one point of view, and one goal, which is getting ads in front of as many eyeballs as possible.

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        . I don’t have it blocked because not all users are like the admins but like fuck am I ever adding to that shithole ever again.

        Blocking an instance only blocks you from seeing communities there, it doesn’t block you from seeing users posting in other communities.

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          This is a fundamental flaw of the system if you ask me.

          Not being able to blanket block the users of an instance sucks.

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        2 days ago

        They are just trying to be like the CCP, their heroes. Wait until they roll out their social credit system in upcoming Lemmy releases!

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          They are just trying to be like the CCP, their heroes.

          https://old.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/uob3rv/are_curse_words_censored/i8dcxjz/

          Well, there is a type of censorship I guess. Some apps don’t allow people to post bad words like 卧槽,and so on. So people usually abbreviate the bad words to the first letter of each pinyin. So 卧槽 becomes “wc”.

          This isn’t just for bad words tho, there’s many online slangs like xswl which means 笑死我了, and many more.

          https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/

          The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

          — John Gilmore, founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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          We’re all down to shit on new-deal-capitalism-with-chinese-characteristics, but you realize america’s had this for decades? Getting upset that it’s some uniquely chinese novelty is a little infuriating, as someone who has been doxxed and denied housing by that crap.

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            Idk if something has changed but I think this is a baseless claim.

            If it’s just visual gamification…we’ve sort of already come out against that, since we discourage karma-seeking by not displaying user’s comment and post score totals.

            (Source)

            That is a 3 years old comment, but I can’t find anything newer (mostly looking at GitHub) suggesting Lemmy devs have any intention of adding karma

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              Yeah I pretty much know that, and consider the lack of a karma score a feature not a bug of Lemmy. It’s just the obvious joke to crack on the subject of a social credit score on the fediverse.

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          So, what are the facts relating to China’s Social Credit System (SoCS)? First, a system does exist, but it is very different from what is imagined by many critics outside China. The biggest disconnect is around the notion of scores. Some commentators seem to imagine that a magic algorithm draws from AI cameras and internet surveillance all over the country to calculate a score that determines everyone’s place in society. In reality, the SoCS is not the techno-dystopian nightmare we fear: it is lowly digitalized, highly fragmented, and primarily focuses on businesses. Most importantly, such a score simply does not exist.

          https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-untangling-myth-reality

          Classic lib move: dunking on nonexistent “ebil ccp” systems that started off as rumors mere days after the west decided it would clamp down on any semblance of internet freedom - upon a backdrop of rapidly burgeoning fascism and concentration camps. The US State Department has effortlessly oriented you.