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Ahh, I only knew about lemmy.ml and its description doesn’t mention leftism at all so I wasn’t sure. But thanks, I’ll check them out!

I kinda wondered if lemmy.ml was a left-leaning server, but the description didn’t seem to say anything about it. shrug Didnt’ know about the others tho thanks.

I meant I wish there were more of those communities on lemmy.

Really? I found lots of pretty far-left subs that were pretty friendly to those ideas. Wish I could find more here, honestly, but the ones I’ve seen seem kinda dead.

Yeah, I almost left at that time too, but I didn’t believe the alternatives were really up to snuff. I have been pleasantly surprised to be wrong.

Oh I think some of it is, especially in light of how fashy they’ve become of late banning people for even just upvoting shit about Luigi Mangione.

No indeed, and in fact it just came out the other day that Musk privately pressured reddit to censor shit against him and they did.

I mean these were political debate subs that presumably exist for the purpose of having these discussions so it seems weird to filter it, but… shrug Reddit be kooky sometimes.

I would generally agree, except it seemed to crop up more on longer posts in general, and especially on political posts. It even happened using old.reddit, and that’s - as far as I know - an entirely different codebase, though interacting with the same servers, so… shrug

It’s a frog/boiling water situation. It never gets suddenly, dramatically worse, it just gets slowly worse over time. I had been noticing some weirdness (described in another comment under this post) for a while and was kinda starting to wonder what was up, but it didn’t rise to the level of ‘Oh I should do something like this’ until I got temp-banned for saying Luigi didn’t deserve to go to jail for what he did (which was then reversed on appeal, but not before I got a message saying I was perma-banned for ban-evasion with other accounts (I’ve had only one account in the 14 years I was on reddit, so that was bullshit), but the ban was lifted instead. It was that combination of an increasing sense that something fucky was going on and an inciting event that made me realize it was considerably worse than I realized. People tend to need an inciting event, otherwise the concern doesn’t overcome the inertia to keep doing what you’re familiar with.

I commented a lot in political debate subs before I left, and one thing that I noticed is that Reddit would refuse to accept (error out) or act like it accepted and then just outright delete my comments. I don’t have hard data, but one pattern I really noticed is that any comment that included both ‘Israel’ and ‘genocide’ got errored/eaten a very high percentage of the time.

Good ol’ Skinemax.

Huh, I didn’t know that. Neat.

Meanwhile kudzu is over here like… what trees?

Heh, I came by my abortive (due to disability) cybersecurity career honest - I never really did much hacking, but I built and maintained networks for years and sorta just picked it up. Course it helps that I’d had a couple friends for years before I got into it who had been in the business a long time (one was the network security head for a Tier 2 ISP that covered most of the American Southwest, and the other was on the penetration-testing red team at a US government national laboratory) and liked to talk shop.

That’s… extraordinarily stupid. Sounds like you need better word processing software.

I mean I’m not here to shit on anybody else’s good time, I just hated it myself.

Oh god, I remember the days of creating webpages by hand-editing HTML in notepad. And not fondly.

ctrl+shift+v removes all formatting when you paste. You’re welcome.

Same, I’ve been using PCs with Microsoft operating systems since fuckin’ MS-DOS 3.2 and I only learned about it a couple years ago.