False.

My statement is about the relationship between sides, in reference to part of the previous comment, illustrated by what I recalled of a recent event, and how it ties into it.

If you want similar examples from different sides, you’ll find plenty of them both these days and throughout history, I just happened to recall this one.

But us onlookers can’t even know for sure what these frictions are, only speculate.

I’ve looked at an interview with an Israeli political sciences professor yesterday, that went something like this:

• Professor: “…and this is why countries like Israel have the right to defend themselves”
• Host: “Right. What about the Pales…”
• Professor: “That’s not an issue”
• Host: “There are civilian…”
• Professor: “Israeli civilians have been harmed and we need to respond”
• Host: “Is the response proportion…”
• Professor: “Respond to destroy the terrorists”
• Host: “It seems like Gaza population is…”
• Professor: “Gaza is Israel, there is no population, we need to rid it of terrorists”

As an onlooker, I’d say that is a FREAKING HUGE and obvious “friction”, when one side denies the existence of the other.

The US never negotiates with “terrorists”, they fund “freedom fighters” to kill the terrorists and maybe recover some of the hostages.

Hamas likely wanted to force a confrontation in order to make it abundantly clear who’s paying for which “freedom fighters”… even if everyone knew for a long time, did very little about it, and is likely to do very little more either way.

Or rather… the tokens were held on a sidechain created in collaboration with FTX… yes, that FTX, the one that “misplaced” a bunch of billions of dollars, and for a long time it took a somewhat elaborate way to convert Reddit community points (Moons, Bricks) into USD.

A couple months ago, after the API debacle, the tokens got listed on Kraken… and their value took a quick nosedive.

They “IPO-ed” them, and it failed, so now they’re slashing them.

it’s like watching two children fighting over who’s sandcastles can be built in the sandbox

Welcome to war.

And what do we do if children can’t learn to share? You take away everything and no one is happy.

So is that what this is going to come to? Do adults need to intervene to quell the infants?

That would be nice… only there are no adults.

PS: any adults 👽 out there… whenever you’re ready, we welcome you 🛸

Misinformation covers situations like defamation and many kinds of hate speech.

Not really:

• Misinformation: “false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead.”
• Disinformation: “deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda.”

The difference is between “I don’t believe you, so you get banned” vs. “I think you’re trying to mislead people, so you get banned”.

Misinformation allows banning any information a mod believes to be “false”, for whatever reason, no matter the proof.

(PS: if any mod doesn’t agree with these definitions, they could remove this comment based on “misinformation”)

IANAL, but if they’re using private conversation contents without your permission to harass you… that sounds illegal to me.

And you don’t need to be rich to sue anyone. To win the case, maybe, but not just to sue.

Create a community and invite over the nice users? If it’s just a misunderstanding, try talking it out with the mods? If you have a political motivation… sorry, can’t help you there, most online forums are not the place to run a campaign that doesn’t align with the nod’s views, there is no free speech protection on non-government property.

reveddit.com/whatever and you can see most of deleted comments.

Deleted, not edited comments. The linked comment would be edited to say “Removed by Reddit”, which reveddit wouldn’t see as a deleted comment, and it didn’t keep an edit history so there was no way to see what the comment said before (I know, I tried).

You could see it in context, but if you thought you didn’t break any rules, that wouldn’t help much, and no way to argue it.

Anyway, my best ban was for “violent content” from a sub with no link. Decided to blank the last month of comments… and got suspended site wide for repeated “violent content” offense. Blanked 10 years of comments… and that bought me 2 more years before getting suspended again, and perma banned when I appealed the suspension.

Cherry on the top: a couple months after being perma-banned site-wide, last week I got banned from a sub. Reason: link to a blanked comment, “breaking the sub rules”. OK 🥱

The abusive price hikes scenario, is what happens when subsidies are tied to a specific purpose and income threshold: the providers of that particular service can increase their prices by the subsidy amount for everyone, while only those qualifying get the actual subsidy, and everyone else gets swindled. (This has also been tried, and proven)

There needs to be some form of price control

The price control with an UBI, is the lack of a single provider who can blindly increase prices without getting undercut out of the market, meaning the increase would get spread over all services, particularly those someone earning $0/month would spend their money on, like rent, food, and utilities.

Basically, if rent, food, and utilities go up by 50% but I’m only earning 33% more.

They wouldn’t go up “by 50%” (or more precisely, the % is irrelevant), they’d go up, taken together, by less than the UBI amount, which you’d also be receiving. Otherwise, those earning $0/month wouldn’t be able to afford them, and since it means a direct increase to provider margins, anyone trying to rise them more, would get undercut out of business by someone else who’d be fine with a slightly lower margin increase.

That means, the basic services you worry about, would increase by at most the same UBI amount which you’d also be getting, leading to a net zero or barely positive effect.

Your $200 take home wouldn’t change, and only if you wanted more rent, food, utilities, or whatever an UBI-only person would buy, you’d find those $200 would get you less of those… but only of those, not of services an UBI-only person wouldn’t purchase.

A jet ski would still cost almost the same, only increased by the extra amount business owners could pay due to increased profit margins.

Overall, it would mean a huge influx of cash to the top 1% through “trickle up”, which they could spend on more expensive toys, but it would still mean a night-and-day difference to those below the UBI level, little difference to non-business owners earning barely a few times above it, and a slight margin increase to business owners.

Basically a win-for-all scenario.

they’re leaking sensitive chats from back when I was a mod and using them to attack me on other platforms. I asked them to stop. I’m a victim of harassment, but they probably reported me and the Reddit employees don’t care

A surefire way to make a company care, is to sue them. Just saying.

That was possible on Reddit too

Not really. Reddit is a single platform, you get the same overbearing comment-editing admins, with the same tunnel-vision automod tools and black-hole recurse process no matter what new sub you make.

Moving people off a platform is the hardest part, they need to learn new tools an ways of doing things… and TL;DR you lost them.

On lemmy and the fediverse, leaving unwelcoming mods/admins behind is as easy as going to another instance, no need to change the ways of using it. Still need to attract that community, but it’s orders of magnitude easier on a federated platform.

Why would you go back to a community you don’t agree with? There is a reason there are like 20+ “cats” communities on so many different instances; you can pick a different one, or start one yourself (and be the mod you want), or even a whole instance (and be the admin you want).

First, there is email, discord, element, etc. Check your instance for contact options, they usually have some. Second, you can use an alt account from anywhere in the fediverse to PM people. If you’re honest about it, you can find a way.

Or… if you know you broke the rules and plan on doing it again, just move onto some other instance more accepting of your profile, there are 1000+ ones to choose from.

Lemmy is possibly over 300K now, with the whole fediverse over 12 million, but maybe only 4 million active. Reddit claims 1.7 billion active users, while some sources claim they only have 300M.

It’s really BS counts anyways, they don’t count interactions, or quality of interactions. From my time on Reddit, the quality had been going steadily down, then took a nosedive around 2021.

And even on TV they call it “X, formerly Twitter”, so that’s going to be it. They should register the x-formerly-twitter.com domain 😈

They used to link to the content… then you followed the link, and all it said was “Removed by Reddit”. Guess they’re saving you a step there 🤷

Reddit’s u/spez liked what Musk was doing with Twitter 𝕏… just look at how that’s going, to know where Reddit is heading.

If you use it from the same IP, browser, device, or App, that you have previously used with any banned account, then you’ll likely get it banned for ban evasion.

harassment is just “political speech I don’t like”

Some communities on Lemmy have switched to calling it “misinformation”. As in: you provide links to reputable sources to support your point, and it’s “misinformation”.

Harassment seems to be more of a label for “too many people downvoted you, and you still dared to answer”.

Most instances have some way of contacting the admins and talking things out. Unlike Reddit’s “did anyone even read this?” process, they tend to be actual people who actually answer.