They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours

    • drapermache@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Because at least in America, we’re all just temporarily embarrassed billionaires. We’ve had a lifetime of brainwashing and conditioning to act against our own self interest.

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        Don’t worry, I’ll fix it all with my unchecked political influence once I earn my first billion.

        (This is sarcasm.)

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    Wow now I feel justified for leaving and feel like I should do another post where I tell people to follow us here

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      They mostly ban our accounts when we do, but I don’t mind. I like to tell people when the party has moved, if they seem cool.

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    I read the article and the headline is more like click-bait. There’s a lot of innuendo, but not much in the way of factual reporting. I can’t stand the arrogance of Musk, I also believe that venerable reporting companies should be fact based.

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    I look at Reddit like I look at Facebook. Both are trash and have outlived their use. If you have a profile on either one, delete it or at least delete the app.

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      Reddit has been a an archive of some of the greatest collective minds of humanity. Besides the general algorithm up voting bots hogwash, there have been some really good subreddits with excellent information from learned professionals on topics. it I wish it was preserved rather than deleted. The AskHistorians is one of my favourite professional vetted and clean subreddits, lots of academic discussions there.

      But all things have a Golden Era, and then it’s enshittified and fades away. As Lemmy will be one day too.

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        I can likely fall into some version of a category of learned professional. IMO, it’s fine, many of us have made our migration to Lemmy. Reddit can burn.

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          A bit weird that there isn’t the same cultivation of professionalism though. I feel I don’t see much of it here like there was on Reddit. Makes me wonder if Reddit worked behind the scenes to create it

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        Yeah, and try as we might, we haven’t been able to replicate its biggest selling point. It was unfortunately also its greatest vulnerability regarding the corporatetake over.

        It was a central location from which thousands of large, niche communities could be found.

        Lemmy is great, but the decentralized nature of it also fragments small communities and makes it hard for them to launch. I was super active of the Scuba subreddit, but on Lemmy, there are like 8 scuba communities spread across the instances, but they’re all so small there’s no activity on them, and that fragmentation makes it difficult for one to reach the necessary critical mass to become active.

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      Gonna hijack your comment to shill:

      https://redact.dev/

      “The only platform that allows you to automatically clean up your old posts from services like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and more, all in one place.”

    • sunshine@lemmy.ml
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      Journalists do that to indicate that a term is quoted from a source’s word choice; it’s not for emphasis.

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    Personally I couldn‘t care less about moderator outrage. Just read the room already and leave. No amount of kicking and screaming will take the platform off the hands of technofascists. You‘re clearly not valued there so why would they care if you cry about their decisions? Just grow a spine already.

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    Just goes to show how easy it is to get these people upset.

    Just call them out

    Call them often

    Call them out every day

    Never stop calling them out … you’ll know they’re listening when someone either tells you or forces you to stop.

    Nazis and authoritarians every single one of them.

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    I didn’t get banned, I just can’t login anymore. All browsers confirm username and pass are correct, but reddit says they are not. They really don’t like critics. No calls for violence, veiled or otherwise. The wheels are coming off that country quickly.