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  • I appreciate that point and always good to see what works. I don’t think they’re a bad thing per se. Everything is good in moderation. I think !Linuxmemes@lemmy.world and similar are better positioned for that than this community. I’m sure the privacy communities will always have that content to hook folk in. I guess I see our goal as when folk are hooked in, how can we help them continue that journey. We are a wee bit niche and specialised and many communities may struggle on Lemmy with that.


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    The rules are against them but this has a lot of up votes so I’ll let it slide.

    I won’t lose sleep about one or two but don’t personally don’t want to see them dominate the community. There are enough “haha, meme” communities without turning this into one. This community is to help folk in their journey to de-googling which is a difficult and challenging process. It isn’t anti-google. Hating google is unproductive and solves nothing, but actively moving away from a company with so little respect for privacy is fantastic.

    I don’t see how this meme helps folk to transition away, so feels real low value to me.


  • Yeah, because it’s the loophole around the charade that the gov doesn’t surveil the population. By paying companies, they can easily do what is forbidden by the constituency. Effectively, the constitution is a marketing exercise, barely existing in practice.

    However, if you pay someone to murder someone, its a crime, if you pay a company to break a law, you should be held responsible. Weird shit like companies being like humans and having rights is insane and if they are treated as beings, they should be held accountable legally and that includes the CEO and board who drive them.



  • A .world user singular, complaining about .ml users plural. I’m complaining about the regular pattern of some users and it is frequent.

    This is a regular narrative that all .ml users are tankies so are not worth engaging with and yeah, it is insulting.

    You don’t know me and that’s fine. I’m not sure why your recognition of me is relevant? Am I irrelevant if not known? There are 10s of thousands of users on Lemmy. I put time into moderating 2 big communities here for the greater good, but hey, because I’m on this instance, I’m seen as “tankie” scum.



  • User on .world account complains about .world moderation.

    This isn’t a new problem, folk have been warning about it for a long time on Lemmy. Folk didn’t want to hear it. I personally have zero confidence in their moderation. The cases I saw lacked impartiality and occasionally maturity. There are better instances. .sh.it.works for example.

    I cannot imagine an organisation that appointed these moderators/admins would do particularly different on a mastodon server.

    Best you can do, is move away from .world so folk see there is more out there to the fediverse than them. All eggs in the .world basket is a scandal waiting to happen.






  • This is whatabouttery. I care about Darfur, Myanmar, Tigray, etc. That doesn’t take away from what is happening in Palestine.

    You have yet to describe why any of those situations are worse than flattening schools, hospitals, collapse of healthcare, full blockade of food, medical supplies, water, people living in camps where disease is rampant.

    How is Iran killing a number of civilians worse than killing civilians, starvation, disease, shooting babies in the head?

    All your post is doing, is showing bias, and a lack of care about what is happening there. The problems is you cannot persuade someone to care about human suffering, and if you don’t, why should I engage with you in a logical debate?

    Your problem is, you don’t care, and you want people to be fine with you being fine with children being shot in the head. You’re on a left-leaning platform where people give a shit about their fellow man. People who give their time to work on open source generally have empathy as a core view.

    Post your pro-Israel views on Xitter, or reddit and you’ll get the validation you prefer. Its an echo chamber close to yoir political persuasion. You enter a place that think differently and prepare to be challenged. Ultimately, if you want to be an empathetic human being, prepare to be wrong. Can you handle that? Your bio suggests you won’t engage if downvoted. I’ve not down voted you, but I’ll tell you you’re wrong. I say you’re wrong because I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt and I’m assuming you’re not evil.


  • When the pattern of behaviour gives very clear indication of intent, the denial of this indicates that either you’re in favour of it, or don’t think it’s a bad thing.

    When what folk see makes them feel sick to their stomach, such as a child being shot in the head, or families being shot in line for food due to a scarcity created by those making the people line up like animals, it’s going to elicit a visceral response. I personally could not fathom how a human being with functioning empathy could be fine with that.

    You’ve already stated you like discussing with people of privilege. That I’m alright, Jack attitude when it comes to life and death is pretty disturbing. What makes us feel is what makes us human.