this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.

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[–] farngis_mcgiles 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

Pick whatever instance you find first, they said. It doesn't really matter which one, you can participate all over lemmy, they said.

Now every time i post a comment, people automatically assume I'm pro Russia and a tankie on account of having an account on lemmy.ml

This sucks. I can't believe I'm gonna have to migrate instances to be taken seriously on discussions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

See it in a positive way: now you can carefully choose an instance that you like compared to your previous account

Also, this must be my 10th alt. It takes a few minutes to export/import the settings and that's it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

sorry to hear that. My first account was on ML too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah same. I moved after seeing too many words being censored like removed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

I was flabbergasted when I found out the word Chicken was sometimes censored. It would put removeden. Really saved me from those nuggets of hurtful baby hens.

[–] neidu3 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

We don't believe you, you tankie vatnik.

/s obviously.

FYI, just making a new user on a different instance isn't a big deal. Guess why there's a "3" in my user name. Come to think of it, my first account was on lemmy.ml too, although the main reason why I moved at that time was because I forgot the password.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

People are dumb everywhere. You're not really wondering about that hm? 😉 I wouldn't migrate because of that. Quite the contrary, the dumdums sort themselves out this way, saves a lot of time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

But what you also have to consider, migrating instances sends a signal. Its the same as people who stopped using twitter because of musk. When you continue using something you make it look like you font really care, so migrating your account is a good way to tell the admins that you dislike their policies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I could see a strong argument for personal safety around such a question (potential for self-incrimination and going through windows) but bigotry is a head scratcher.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Serious question.. how?

Is everything on Lemmy traceable back to the source?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If it's networked, it's traceable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm using a VPN. How would that work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

VPNs didn't make things untraceable at all. That's not what they are for. They are just a method for encrypting traffic between two networks that have connectivity to the public Internet. Traffic from your machine to the VPN entrypoint gets routed just like any other network traffic. A relatively passive MitM can readily see where packets are going to/arriving from based upon the headers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

ips are probably logged somewhere between here and there

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I legit would not be surprised if Dessalines takes money from some unsavory people to operate .ml as a kind of information war training ground.

User donations are certainly not generating him any real cash flow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I'd be surprised if Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear don't get funding from the Kremlin/CCP

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

To be fair, the first part of the sentence kinda sounds like an accusation against Russians. However, it isn't something i would consider worthy to be deleted.

[–] TriflingToad 6 points 1 day ago

I remember when the Ukraine war started and in the comments of one of the first reddit posts were full of Russian people saying how they hated it and they just wanted peace. Nowadays I can't remember the last time I saw someone who is Russian on reddit or Lemmy really.

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