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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by wit@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

Someone on !pics@lemmy.world is (massively) removing posts with no good justification.

They have removed:

  • Removed Post "Bloody backpack of Iranian girl killed in US-Israeli attack on Iranian elementary school.". This was an image of a bloody backpack. It was well within the rules of the pics community.
  • Removed Post "Lemmy.today is absolutely beautiful" reason: Not a pic. IT WAS A PIC. The reason they gave is a lie. Absolute lie.
  • Removed Post "Talking positively about this person, on reddit, gets you banned.". This was a post about Luigi Mangione. They don't even give a reason for the removal of the post. It was, also, well within the rules of the community.

And now they have removed 2 more posts:

  • Removed Post Donald Trump's Parents. This was a post that had a lot of engagement, with over 100 comments.
  • Removed Post Epstein mural in Sydney, Australia. This was also a post that had a lot of engagement, with over 100 comments as well.

And now they removed another one:

  • Removed Post nothing is out of the ordinary, citizen. After all the other ones got removed, this one managed to get to 50 comments (not sure, but around that?) before being removed..

100 comments is quite a lot on lemmy. Removing such content is absolutely pathetic. Content is the one thing we need on lemmy.

It seems like they just removed any post that had a lot of comments. Any post that was driving engagement, they removed it. I wonder if someone is getting paid by reddit to eliminate engagement? Because this is what it would look like. And after everything we have learned these past few years, it would not be that out of the ordinary. Remember the whole Epstein/Ghislaine stuff and how these "elites" treat their competition....

~~There is no information on which mod removed those posts, but I am sure it was the same one, and I am sure that if you search for all of his mod actions, you will see many such removals.~~ Mods going power hungry. I expected that to not happen on lemmy, but ya.

EDIT: I found out that the mod who removed those is /u/theprogressivist@lemmy.world. It can be seen here: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost&modId=5313819

EDIT2: The mod in question has removed 2 more posts, both with over 100 comments. He is literally removing all the posts that are driving engagement. See here for the removed posts: https://goopics.net/a/5gcjy2dk. What the hell.

EDIT3: And another one was removed, one that had around 50 comments, if I am not mistaken: "nothing is out of the ordinary, citizen".

This is one of the most power hungry mods I have ever seen. Holly fuck.

[-] wit@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

I had no idea what Loops was. Nice I guess, though short form content is just not something with which I want to engage.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wit@lemmy.world to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

I created !wheretopost@lemmy.world because I still find Lemmy a bit confusing. Since there are so many communities across so many servers, I never know where I should be posting certain topics.

The goal of this community is to help people find the right community to post specific content and, by doing that, hopefully, decrease posting friction and increase content.

Please subscribe and help people find the right community!

I know it may not seem like much, but I have had so many instances of content that I wanted to post but ended up just saying"fuck it" because I didn't know where I should be posting it. This friction multiplied by hundreds of people does make the difference!

EDIT: I am looking for 2 (or so) mods for this new community. If you are interested in modding, please let me know. There shouldn't be too much work. Just remove spam, if it ever happens.

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Happy Pride Month! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wit@lemmy.world to c/gaybros@lemmy.world

Happy Pride Month my brothers!

May you be happy, may you be free, may you be healthy!

[-] wit@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I hope you are doing better OP!

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submitted 1 year ago by wit@lemmy.world to c/gaybros@lemmy.world

If you are in the EU, it would be nice if you signed this.

[-] wit@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Statues should be raised for people like him. As to incentivize similar deeds.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wit@lemmy.world to c/gaybros@lemmy.world

I highly recommend this book!

[-] wit@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

Reddit should be sued for removing any mention of "Luigi". Has he been deemed guilty yet? No, he has not. Pieces of shit.

After all this is said and done, I hope the world remembers all these pieces of shit. Everyone who is bending the knee.

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submitted 1 year ago by wit@lemmy.world to c/gaybros@lemmy.world

Here is a post in order to get this community more active.

How are you doing?

[-] wit@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

Guess I am one of the 536 newbies hahahaha!

Welcome my friend! Spread the word around. Be part of the resistance!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by wit@lemmy.world to c/gaybros@lemmy.world

We have a new banner! Let me know what you think. It was created by ChatGPT.

If you have a better one though, I can change it.

Let's get this community more active bros.

[-] wit@lemmy.world 163 points 2 years ago

The comments on this post are entirelly missing the point. Jesus christ lemmy. Yes, we know you like 3.5 mm jacks. That is not the point. The point is that FairPhone launched earphones with ANC with replaceable batteries. This is good!

[-] wit@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I read all your posts on this thread and honestly.. I am shook. There is very clearly some resentment there, resentment that goes beyond the interests of the community and beyond the points of the OP.

There are always going to be issues with this type of software. You should raise them appropriately, on their repository, so they get fixed in the next release. That is how FLOSS works. Do not use that to divide the community. We are not big enough for that yet.

Instead of being shady and manipulative, how about you create an issue/post with the current lemmy bugs/troubles and give an honest chance to the devs?

And you are mad because of documentation? I mean, I understand, it must be infuriating, specially being the biggest community. I understand the stress. Had it happened to me, I would have been mad as well. But come on. Be better than that. Documentation is text. Just send a PR with the correct configs. That should be easy. Sure, you hurt, but use that to improve the community, not to divide it.

And check the upvote/downvote ratio of all your comments here. You have more downvotes than upvotes. That is the community speaking.

And I wonder @ruud@lemmy.world, is he speaking for Lemmy.world with his comments?

[-] wit@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't understand this post, at all... Did something happen to Lemmy? This post has very clear intentions.

If you just wished to help the folks at sublinks to gather information on moderation tools, as you claimed, you should have just opened an issue on their github or on their sublemmy or whatever. Do not create a sticky for 200k people to see.

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submitted 2 years ago by wit@lemmy.world to c/gaybros@lemmy.world

What are some controllable attributes that you find attractive? What "green flags" do you look for?

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submitted 2 years ago by wit@lemmy.world to c/gaybros@lemmy.world

Nowadays, we have pretty strong medications to avoid becoming HIV+. It is called PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis)..

Get on it.

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submitted 2 years ago by wit@lemmy.world to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6214098

I want to follow some people on tiktok, for the content they put out. I am, however, a somewhat privacy-minded person. Any suggestion on how to make TikTok less privacy-invasive? Some DNS app?

I am on Android, not rooted.

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submitted 2 years ago by wit@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I want to follow some people on tiktok, for the content they put out. I am, however, a somewhat privacy-minded person. Any suggestion on how to make TikTok less privacy-invasive? Some DNS app?

I am on Android, not rooted.

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submitted 2 years ago by wit@lemmy.world to c/space@lemmy.world
[-] wit@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

I have replied to someone else further down with my opinion on this topic. I think it also fits in a reply to you, so I will just copy paste it here:

Yes, it might sound worrisome, but I dont think you are pushing authoritarian ideology by using Lemmy. The code itself is fine. The code is not authoritarian. The server which hosts your account is also not authoritarian.

Lemmy is, right now, the best alternative for a reddit-like platform. It is something created for the users, by the users. By using lemmy, you are not enriching the wallets of the shareholders. By using something like reddit, you provide content and a select few get to buy a new yacht.

Also, plenty of people are contributing code to lemmy. It is no longer just these 2. The code is also Open-Source. Anyone can fork it and create a new version of lemmy, with compatibility with the current version of lemmy. By using lemmy, you are allowing the possibility that, at any time in the future, someone else comes and says “I have some ideas to improve lemmy, let’s do this on my own terms”, forks it and continues the work without massively spliting the community.

[-] wit@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago

Yes, it might sound worrisome, but I dont think you are pushing authoritarian ideology by using Lemmy. The code itself is fine. The code is not authoritarian. The server which hosts your account is also not authoritarian.

Lemmy is, right now, the best alternative for a reddit-like platform. It is something created for the users, by the users. By using lemmy, you are not enriching the wallets of the shareholders. By using something like reddit, you provide content and a select few get to buy a new yacht.

Also, plenty of people are contributing code to lemmy. It is no longer just these 2. The code is also Open-Source. Anyone can fork it and create a new version of lemmy, with compatibility with the current version of lemmy. By using lemmy, you are allowing the possibility that, at any time in the future, someone else comes and says "I have some ideas to improve lemmy, let's do this on my own terms", forks it and continues the work without massively spliting the community.

[-] wit@lemmy.world 108 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think this is bad for Lemmy as a whole, as a community but only due to misunderstanding and generalizations... People are going to equate the "censorship" on the server lemmy.ml as censorship on Lemmy, the platform/software. That is just NOT THE CASE. Please, whenever someone mentions lemmy.ml and its censorship or the likes, be fast to mention that that is a specific lemmy server and the beauty of lemmy is its decentralization and the fact that it is open source. There are plenty of other servers.

I fear that this kind of thing drives people away from Lemmy, when it should not.

[-] wit@lemmy.world 33 points 3 years ago

This is a really good YSK. Thank you for posting!

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