Dr. Moose

Reddit 100% was censoring and shadow banning any kbin or lemmy mentions.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if reddit actively promoted or even creates negative comments. There was a precedent of people abandoning Digg so they were clearly very aware and afraid.

At the end of the day it’s impossible to tell with these incredibly opaque networks. It’s even hard to confirm comment visibility as Reddit employs data fudging and shadow banning.

Just another reminder that nothing any closed source social media says should be trusted, ever.

your tantrum is much more cringe than any complain post I’ve ever seen lmao

it’s 100% that they count mobile games as “gaming” so grandma and grandpa playing candy crush and wordle are “gamers” now. They list 11% on console but even that seems high. 23% on PC probably includes wordle too.

I was just having issues with your opener which sounds whole lot like justification.

Cloudflare is a business. Businesses protect their profits

You say that like it’s ok to do shitty things as long as “you’re a business protecting profits”

but discord is simply less accessible than any other option. I can’t even login without identifying 25 bicycles lmao

This form of propaganda is my pet peeve. It’s not “your posts” as soon as you put something to public you don’t get to eat your cake. It’s out there, you shared it. Don’t share it if you don’t want humanity to ingest and use it.

It’s mostly nerds who had the spine to migrate from Reddit rather than continueing to feed this machine that clearly brings no good for anyone.

Yeah - no one who’s seen industrial meat farming would say it’s OK. Ever. You’d have to be a psychopath to justify this level of cruelty or distance yourself cognitively by justifying it.

Because we no monkey. No need unnecessary cruelty to live. Man not ruled by flavor. Simple enough?

Because it is a fact that ethically speaking meat is extremely cruel. You’re proving my point exactly.

100% it’s just cognative dissonance. Everyone knows meat is bad but most can’t come to terms that they’re too weak to quit it. This is especially painful when people are confronted directly and a self-defence mechanism kicks in.

It’s ok to be a bit weak sometimes, everyone has a lot of going and has to choose their battles. Our contemporary culture hates to acknowledge this thus creating a lot of binary tension.

Cause typing in a password on a real keyboard is just as fast if not faster than a fingerprint scan.

Nah it has nothing to do with attitude but with practicality. This would mean people’s fingerprints need to be public and shared between servers or some other hack. It’s just possible in any safety and its not really a hill worth dying on. Do we really care about users dodging subreddit bans that much? Its silly.

nope. You can do IP analysis to ban IP’s that belong to particular VPN but you can’t ban VPN tech. There are so many VPN services and so many proxies and so easy to setup your own VPN that even Netflix struggles with that.

That’s the entire game of security, not being perfect, but being good enough

Yes and good enough is so hard to reach that this is no way accomplished with Lemmys volunteer resources. We literally have full time people and massive AI driven systems doing this professionally. This is no way achievable in Lemmy if centralized Reddit with multi-million dollar budgets can’t even get close to “good enough”.

But Lemmy gives it to any web scraper for free

Which is good. You either have an open system or a closed one. There’s no in-between.

If you want to have advantages of public free decentralized network you can’t obfuscate and centralize bits and pieces of it. Also, it’s 2024, we need to stop this misinformation that email address is supposed to be private. What is private is email address association with the owner and Lemmy doesn’t leak or infringe on. The address is literally called address because it’s supposed to be public.

What it absolutely was a niche network to the point where if reddit was mentioned in mainstream media it made big waves. Dudes even had secret greetings like when does the narval bacon or smt like that I don’t remember. But reddit was super niche and that’s what made it special imo. The first secret santa exchanges were trully amazing, unique experiences that will never be replicated again and the platform was full of these niche little gems that are forever lost now.

no it’s not better. It’s extremely invasive as you have to fingerprint and store users fingerprint on your servers indefinitely. Not only that but all of this can be avoided by anyone with half a brain cell. Lemmy should not waste their resources on something like this, it’s extremely hard to do to the point where literally nobody has a good system even giants like Linkedin. Source, I work in bot detection.

Lemmy would never get this right no matter how many people contributed and would just cause overal harm to the platform through privacy invasion and false positives.

I think you’re right that they need to be transparent with what is considered political and what is not through a visible flag or something.

Though it’s definitely great idea to reduce weights on political content and discourage it. That’s the only way to get off this swamp and if we have to sacrifice gay pride parade talks to prevent the rise of fascism and genocide then it’s a pretty good deal imo.