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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

And fuck nazis

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Got my first warning from upvoting Luigi.

I will keep upvoting him :)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Back in 2017(?) I got whale whaled for telling a racist to commit seppuku. Would've worded it differently but I don't wholly regret it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got banned for posting an animated gif of Luigi.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These are the two genders: "tankie" and "other".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That makes me technically trans.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I left Reddit because they killed 3rd party apps. Since that day, they've only gone on to butcher the platform even further.

Joining Lemmy was a damn good decision.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Enshitification drives stock prices. Only the rich care about stock prices and they have no interest in using the platform. The platform dies off a death of a thousand cuts… story as old as time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it's more stock prices / shareholders drive enshittification

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

damn good indeed! plus with a proper app for mastodon and pixelfed we've got it all!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

also saying Luigi can be considered flagged too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Ok. I'm new here. What's a tankie

Edit: tysm everyone for the answers

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

People who are obsessed with tanks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No you’re thinking of Acoustic people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Sounds right

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey that’s… accurate but fuck your for calling me out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Freshwater or salt?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Panzer IV my beloved

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Makes sense. Tyvm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Derogatory term accusing someone of being a communist/Marxist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More specifically, Stalinist/Maoist/any-other-„communist“-tyrant-ist. It refers specifically to people who excuse/deny tyranny and oppression caused by anyone who calls themselves communist.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Just avoid the Tankie Triad (.ml, hex and grad) and you'll be fine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think hexbear.net is expired, so hexbear straight up isn't an option atm.

EDIT: it's back up, as cm0002 pointed out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah the domain admin (unfortunately) eventually showed up and reclaimed it before the auction could complete. It's been restored and they actually added additional admins to the domain console this time :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I stand corrected. Comment edited.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Context:

Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.

“This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content,” a Reddit employee says in the announcement post. In comments on the post, a user expressed concern that the new policy could make people “paranoid about voting,” but the employee says that “this would be an unacceptable side effect, which is why we want to monitor this closely and ramp it up thoughtfully.”

If it violates policies, remove it and move on. This is weird.

“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.

Now that there is Thoughtcrime territory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

the thought police.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

“Hey investors look away from the huge pile of porn we’re hosting and look at these cool content filters we’re adding”.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This reminds me lots of when Facebook started applying warnings/bans/etc retroactively to content without any context. I remember getting several wrist slaps in the same month for content I had shared a decade prior that really wasn't all that bad. But Facebook decided it was a problem and made me question what I was allowed to post in the future. It didn't take long after that for me to stop using Facebook completely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

and reddit is copying the same methods, retroactively banning people, additionally any old acct with comments that are also old can be reported by other users still.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

It’s actually old hat. Users on r/cth (where hexbear came from) were catching admin bans for upvoting the “wrong” posts years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Pretending that is not tankie behaviour 😂😂

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

The exact wording seems to be "banned content", which includes a lot more than just violence (is violence banned in the first place, considering subs like r/PublicFreakout?).

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