here’s one I ran into just last week, someone claiming to have been unfairly modded on .ml, when they had received a temp ban because they were actually advocating for collective punishment of russian civilians “because it’s the only thing that Russia will understand”:

The code doesn’t actually parse the markdown in the post at all, so it only censors your comment if it’s a link to common gif hosters, and posted in a way that doesn’t actually render the gif.

It’s laughable because it’s both attempting to be draconian and implemented poorly

yeap

Perfect opportunity to repost this

(like damn, people, stop with the “triad” shit! “Troika” is just the superior term).

It really is!

In fact I am not aware of any particular reason to avoid running PieFed, but anyway even presuming that such exists, defederation is definitely not among them.

The injection of the developers biases into the software, the misleading error messages, and the block behavior behaving like a shadow ban are more than enough reasons to not touch the software.

accusing people on .ml of brigading a .ml comm

you clearly didn’t want to be there and were making it everyone else’s problem so I don’t see what’s wrong with banning you

video link

I can’t confirm, but the message makes me think it’s because the community doesn’t allow video links as posts

Elon Musk is a nazi, I don’t think anyone disagrees, but it was because the post directly linked to a video rather than an article that it was likely removed.

My concern is about today’s political and security situation, not that of 200+ years ago

You were minimizing past genocides of indigenous people simply because those have already been completed. You deserved the ban, and it was temporary.

Calling people or ideas ‘stupid’ is ableist because it treats cognitive disability as an insult

Yes lol

The whole study makes a good read.

Srry I can’t take it seriously when the author is this guy

You were temp banned, usually those are for a few days for the person to cool down. The removed comment was part of a chain advocating for the collective punishment of russian civilians

My friend what are you doing? We’re so good at killing the browns together, but you can’t just take our imperial holdings!

whose empire?

In the original map, the yellow map areas are for places which have been a part of China for 200-500 years.

If the same gradiant was applied to a map of the US, the entire map would be yellow or white.

Noah has labeled the parts in yellow as “not really china”, so following that logic, none of the US would ‘really’ be the US either.

According to the original map, Orange has been a part of China for longer than the US has existed. For example, the parts of xinjiang that the silk road passes through.

Y’all have no idea what you’re asking for

I’ve got a pretty good idea: Death to America

Funny story, I banned Jordanlund from /c/transgender for posting a matt walsh video to dunk on someone. He then banned me in retaliation from their news comm.

Americans, when other Americans are being authoritarian: “What are we, a bunch of Asians?”

I need to get better about remembering to do this

took a stab at it:

I just got one of those 😭

cowbee is one of the most patient posters I’ve seen

Death to America