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I did it! I got my first warning! (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Someone posted in r/waymo a video of someone covering all the cameras with tape, which apparently immobilizes the self driving car. I interpreted that as non dangerous to actual people since it keep the car from moving at all.

Anyway, everyone in the comments was a circle jerk saying Waymo should come after the person legally. I suggested that big tech like Google and Uber may do more unethical things than this person putting some tape on a self driving car. Never did I once threaten violence lol.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Congrats; I got my first warning in years yesterday just for it to instantly turn into a perma ban, lol.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I got this same warning because I was discussing the color of a shirt. And my phone auto corrected violet into violence. I used the form to report a false flag and got a two week ban. All automated with no human input on their end.

The future is bleak as the ai cant interpret context.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Future isn’t bleak on Lemmy! Hopefully this just pushes more people off Reddit. People deserve better

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It kind of is though?

Essentially no protections for operators from bots, which means no protection for communities from automated infiltration and astroturfing.

The only thing stopping it is that the cost/benefit isn't there yet with how small Lemmy is. But that's slowly changing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are captchas but I suppose you could work around that easily by having a human sign up and offloading the account to a bot. If it really became a problem I’m sure Lemmy could adapt, but it could involve similar fingerprinting techniques to Reddit. Lemmy being petty privacy conscious would likely hate that. But I say we solve one problem at a time. Bots aren’t an issue yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

God no. Bots are already better at solving Captchas than humans are. The only use case for captchas is to do what 4chan did and make every post require a captcha and then charge a fee to bypass them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Flagged for using light mode

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bruh it’s daytime. I actually do all my coding in dark mode but I’m starting to think using dark mode durning the day is straining my vision

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

The fact that you're getting three down votes for explaining choices related to your own accessibility is wild. Fuck the haters, do what you need to for your vision.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At least you got a Warning. My Reddit Account was banned permanently for No reason and i cant make new ones because they to get baned. But tbh i dont care About Reddit anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Is it based on IP? If they ban me permanently was just going to create a new account via VPN or from my local coffee shop WiFi. But I also don’t really care if they delete my account.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is IP and they also do browser fingerprinting. After I got banned I made like 10 accounts and they all got banned no matter what IP I used to sign up. Finally I totally switched IP, browser, OS, everything and managed to sign up an account that didn't get banned.

I use my reddit account much more strategically now, rather than just hang out there and post comments about whatever. If I'm spending my time and effort, I try to make sure it's really actually important to me and worth it knowing that my contribution is also helping that shitty company / platform.

I also deleted every comment from 10+ years on my now banned account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

yea everything as to be different, different IP, and device. they also look time zone, components, posting behaviour and pattern, plus the writing style.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I created one Account on the train WiFi and it got banned one day later. No Post No comments So idk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did you connect to your banned IP address later? Probably not worth figuring out but I'm curious. There are so many ways to fingerprint people, so it's entirely possible they collect a fingerprint from your browser and use that to match you to the banned account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I used the Account on my Home WiFi but fun fact thats Not the Network i used when i got the original ban

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Good job!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

On Facebook I commented that I wanted more trains. Some man responded talking about why trains suck. I said I don't need a man telling me what I want. He went on to suggest that I meant the sex act and plenty of men would be willing to give me that.

Facebook said it doesn't violate their community guidelines.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well you are clearly a terrible person I hope you understand that now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Damn it, you’re right. Thank you Reddit for setting me straight.

In all seriousness I’m feeling a lot better about my decision to move to Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That can happen? I've only ever been banned outright. One time it was for quoting Captain America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

What was the quote?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So if I'm understanding stuff like this correctly, it's R being on the side of big business and user exploitation, etc, but not being willing to actually admit that, and thus, all these bogus 'threatening violence' charges.

Maybe part of what their exec team learned from two summers ago is to just STFU publicly, meanwhile letting their AI grind down legitimate critique / dissent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Best part is when they go from warning you to suspending you within a few hours for the same “incident,” it can happen. IP banned for life baby

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Libs/capitalists regularly conflate violence with expropriation. For example protests are often called violent based on "property damage" even if no people are injured. Similarly from this perspective it's violence to put tape on car, etc. and it's threatening violence to promote this online. I'm not saying this is a good ideology but it's popular on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That makes sense. But in this specific case the tape can easily be removed. The only damage is to Waymo’s revenue on that specific car.