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Cake day: March 3rd, 2025
  • octopus_ink@slrpnk.nettoPolitical Memes@lemmy.ca•The Republicans Should've Faced Way More Criticism During The 2024 Presidential CampaignEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I (*very explicitly and vocally not a communist) left .ml because of all the shit flinging from .world and yes sometimes .ca, among others. It was the only negative experience I had in over a year of keeping my account there that was related to where my account was.

    @[email protected] is exactly correct.

    And here we are again, the monthly “Tankies are the bane of Lemmy!!11!!” post, wherein we have:

    • People who claim to not know what the term means.
    • People arguing about what the term means.
    • People arguing about what the term should mean.
    • People who swear they’ve never met one on Lemmy.
    • People who apparently find them so often it ruins Lemmy for them.
    • A lot of assumptions about folks just for being members of .ml.
    • In sum, a lot of angst over something people can solve themselves if they are truly that aggrieved, by blocking individual users or the entire instance.

    Fucking A people, you largely control your own experience on the Fediverse, that’s one of the things that makes it great.

    In addition, when choosing an instance (both times) I made sure to pick one that was defederated from Threads, because that was important to me. I’m sure there are instances that are defederated from .ml. If blocking the entire instance yourself or individual users yourself is somehow not enough, no one is stopping you from picking an instance that is defederated from .ml or asking your instance admin (who may very well tell you to FO as is their right) to defederate.

    Edit: And you are welcome to search my username at .ml and see how much of what I posted was anti-Trump. Spoiler alert: nearly all of it.

  • octopus_ink@slrpnk.nettoTechnology@beehaw.org•Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship MachineEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Stupid mother fuckers.

    Anyone old enough to remember knows - politicians have been stupid and reactionary about public access to the internet from its earliest days.

    Section 230 of the DMCA is probably the only reason social media as we know it was able to emerge past infancy. (You could argue about whether we might want to put that cat back in the bag, but the earliest discussion forums, leading to sites like Lemmy and Reddit, also could not have existed as we all knew them.)

    And frankly, this looks like another part of the march to oligarchy to me. When the only social media sites that can exist are those with owners that have big enough pockets to hire enough people to become responsible for what users post and aggressively control it… (or, shudder what if the end goal is literally nationalized social media)