[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 hours ago

I find it pretty ironic and interesting that Trump is single handedly responsible for making democrats believers of state sovereignty. At least something good will come out of this shitshow. It’s really the only way to curb autocracy.

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

Fossil fuels will still have a place even many centuries from now. They are a good backup to have, like paper copies of digital documents.

They still have to sell.

Ah well I’m just parroting what I’ve read. I’m only superficially familiar with most tech stuff. I do know that the ban at least applies to the device, email and ip address for sure.

Doesnt work. They ban your ip, MAC address, email, everything. They even have a tool that flags people that may be doing ban evasion based on behavior and communities that are joined by said account. You could get around it but it’s way too much effort just to use reddit.

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago

I would prefer if it grew because so many communities are dead. It seems that only political and shitposting instances have constant activity.

For me it’s still not a real Reddit alternative. Which sucks because I’m permabanned from Reddit.

I don’t see how this is authoritarian, Bytedance’s bad intentions are clear. They could make money from selling the app, keep making money from it in a stock sale but yet they’d rather have 0 dollars than relinquish control of their brainrot engine. It’s clear that the CCP values it more as a cultural weapon than as a product.

The only reason I still think they will inevitably fail (although not without a heavy cost to the public) is because of how many different factions there are. Currently they are united by a common hate of liberalism, but if they manage to defeat it they will inevitably turn on each other.

No matter how I slice this I strongly feel that all roads leads to a civil war and a fracturing of the federation.

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PermabanQuestion (sh.itjust.works)

I’ve been permabanned from Reddit for harassment. I was fucking with some guys that liked anime in a non anime subreddit, I simply called them Chinese cartoons and they got mad, bigly. Anyways I trolled too much using that account so apparently they figured it was better to cut me off the website entirely. I would like to use Reddit still, but every account gets banned as soon as I make it. It tells me I can appeal but I can’t actually because that was more than a year ago.

If I delete that account and all associated accounts, and make new account not associated with them (new email), will it get banned too? I know reddit bans are not just IP bans but also use device ID and all that shit. Will I have to buy a new computer exclusively for Reddit? Or does my device becomes unflagged the moment I delete the banned account?

I need help with this shit. I like lemmy but there’s just not enough people here.

Yes, but it’s different. Do you really not understand how simple the calculus is for people who are not politically and or philosophically engaged?

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

They only have 2 real options, it’s either more of the same or the guy who’s promising to tear down the system. There’s really no nine dimensional chess, it’s pretty clear cut to me.

To think otherwise is, once more, a failure to learn the lesson.

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

When you send the email to ask about the error and they send you this clearly incorrect calculation, you are scrutinizing wage theft. Clearly a mistake.

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago

Sooooo… what will they do with the $200 million dollars?

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Since Meta announced they would stop moderating posts much of the mainstream discussion surrounding social media has been centered on whether a platform has a responsibility or not for the content being posted on their service. Which I think is a fair discussion though I favor the side of less moderation in almost every instance.

But as I think about it the problem is not moderation at all: we had very little moderation in the early days of the internet and social media and yet people didn’t believe the nonsense they saw online, unlike nowadays were even official news platforms have reported on outright bullshit being made up on social media. To me the problem is the godamn algorithm that pushes people into bubbles that reinforce their correct or incorrect views; and I think anyone with two brain cells and an iota of understanding of how engagement algorithms works can see this. So why is the discussion about moderation and not about banning algorithms?

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