I agree he wasn’t acting in good faith, but I’m more concerned with any would-be censorship than a silly troll. The moderator actually reached out to me and explained the scenario, and pointed out that they actually left one of their duplicate posts up.

I’m pretty happy with how the particular situation has gone down, but I do still stand by my initial comments and my principles on censorship.

Mods handled it appropriately and sealion is an idiot, misrepresenting the scenario. but that was a given.

Thanks for taking the time to break it down.

I agree that he isn’t acting in good faith, but silencing the discussion is (would be) the bigger issue to me than some silly troll.

I really appreciate your response and reasoning. I don’t have an issue with logistical moderation (e.g. duplicate threads) but I’m extremely adverse to moderation of actual topics for what should be obvious reasons.

Given that you left the other thread up, I think I can put away the pitchfork for now. I’ll have a look at your rules, and hopefully find myself satisfied and participating in your community.

You’re going to lose what appears to be your only defender if you maintain that bullshit rhetoric.

Don’t care. I don’t care about your sealioning either.

It is my view that some things should be dealt with through downvotes and discussion, not moderation. Especially when we are talking about authoritarianism of all fucking things.

Moderation in my view is an extreme measure that shouldn’t be enacted lightly. And I only want to participate in communities that share that view.

Yes. I disagree with their rules and their enforcement of them, and this exposed that. So I wont participate in it.

What else would you have me do in that scenario?

It’s not like I pour over each community’s rules before reading any content that surfaces from them.

Yep, that’s part of my point.

I’ve already blocked the community over this. Know any alternatives?

We used to say the same thing about the internet as a whole, and then the big tech companies crowded out all the smaller options, started controlling narratives and we ended up where we are at now.

I don’t want to see the same thing happen with Lemmy instances. We are on the ground floor.

It starts with us.

I came here to get away from censorship, not join it. We need places for open discussion but I’m starting to see that this isn’t it either.

This was an opportunity to actually have a discussion about the topic and reinforce virtues of freedom, but it is doing the opposite and illustrating the descent to authoritarianism.

Using authoritarianism to silence the question is not the win you seem to think it is. This shit is gross

Yep, I have my PiHole running on a Pi2 still.

You’re underestimating these websites though. I already run into sites that arbitrarily throw up a “Firefox not supported” gate until I switch user agents. That will only get worse.

I’m still very concerned about Firefox’s funding majority coming from Google search, especially after the antitrust shutting it down. https://slashdot.org/story/431592

We’re headed for dark times for the open internet.

Thanks

Really? Where can I find this

In that case, how long til some open source project uses it to make a custom firmware to bypass the manufacturer bs and integrate my cheap IoTs seamlessly into Home assistant?

Shockingly good news from a media corp. Paramount would just steal your discs and tell you to pound sand

I’m not an iOS user, but I checked the app store website and I can see several apps. Voyager, mlem, Arctic, Thunder, Avelon, Echo to name a few.

Not sure what you mean by ‘only apk’, every android app is an apk. That’s what the play store distributes too. But yes, there are several options on Google Play as well. Voyager, Sync, Connect, Boost, Summit, Eternity, Thunder, Jerboa, Raccoon, etc.

I personally have tried more than half of those, and every one has some design aspects that I dislike, but I settled on Voyager for now. Still hoping that the Rif developer ports their old reddit app

I’m also using Voyager on android. There are other apps, like Sync if you had used it for reddit. There are dozens of apps and instances you can use, so if there’s ever anything you don’t like, you can probably find an alternative.

Which app do you like? There are many

… Like I said. There’s enough leaks

They failed to consider that you can’t squeeze blades. Maybe they should’ve added some to their bags as juice DRM

There’s enough leaks at this point, it’s pretty safe to assume Nintendo is just being Nintendo on the announcement. I swear I play leaked builds of half their games before they’re even announced these days.