That will do the trick. There’s got to be some level of court orders for ice to stop or start doing a thing where they can no longer manage to ignore them.

Damn, that pictures almost old enough to stop being a prime target for the IDF and Donald Trump.

Clean pain? But it’s more fun when it’s at least a bit dirty.

“And why was God a swan?”

I actually installed a few different browsers and tried to make sure I was keeping the same accounts to the same fingerprints and IP or VPN history as much as I could. It could be two comments I posted with in minutes in the same sub on the same account, one visible to everyone and the other in shadowban land. It was super weird.

User: "The sitting US President almost certainly raped children, the whole world knows, and no one is doing anything because he’s completely corrupted our nation’s government and law enforcement.

It also seems very, very likely that he is honestly planning to try to completely rig or stop our elections somehow, killing our democracy to stay in power. He has been building his own massive personal goon squad. It’s better funded than most of the militaries in the world. That goon squad has repeatedly killed completely innocent people, including US Citizens, in the streets in front of crowds. They constantly break laws, violate human rights, and completely ignore any legal ruling against them.

This is terrifying. I hope everyone is exercising your 2nd Amendment right to be prepared to defend yourselves and communities if needed. We can’t let this entire country fall to a coup!"

Reddit: “Your comment was deleted for encouraging violence and spreading insane conspiracy theories, and we’re banning your account for a week. Stop talking crazy. Fuck you.”

My huge comment started as a reply to you on all the dumb shit Reddit’s done to fuck it’s users over lately. Thanks for making an old man want to yell at the cloud. :D

If you tried to post a lot it became kind of clear that there was generally a pattern in the things they decided to ban people for.

I try not to be all conspiracy theory, but sometimes it seems like the super rich who own all the media and governments and judges and routinely break all the laws with no punishment also try their best to make everyone feel like even saying maybe we should band together and do something about that is being an evil violent terrorist.

I still need to learn how to post to and find communities that exist on other instances and such… 6 months into using it. I’ve hit the age where things that are new and different are scary and bad, which is super lame for a huge computer nerd.

Fo sho. It’s weird as fuck to realize someone you’re trying to help out with some problem never replied because they can’t see your messages. I was the mod of a sub. I had people message me asking why posts/comments were deleted or still up but not there if they logged out, and I couldn’t even find them.

I started asking for screenshots and they were posted on the sub from the user’s point of view, but whether they said they were deleted by moderators or seemed like a shadow ban even the sub mods couldn’t even see the damn things. There were no restrictions on our end on the users. Reddit admin was just deciding some people should be randomly shadow banned in only some subs. Or only some posts they made.

I tested a new account I made using a VPN and had the same issue. Some comments I made in a few big subs like /r/law showed up for all accounts and logged out, but some only showed up when looking as that user. Seemingly random selective shadow banning of only some comments that had to be being done by AI.

We’re social creatures. Not being accepted as part of the group is some evolutionary terror we’re not even usually conscious of, but if you open a post, read, and agree with it but then see tons of replies laughing and making fun of the OP and calling them an idiot and a conspiracy theorist it’s suddenly going to be way harder for you to voice that agreement. It’s way easier to join the group pointing and laughing to try to fit in with the crowd or to just stay silent than it is to join up with someone being publicly mocked.

It’s in there, you probably just forgot by the time you got to the end of the book. :P

I really hate that they destroyed what used to be an endless stream of new ideas and conversation to make more monies.

Yup. My last autoban that made me give up on the place after trying to come back to it lat year was in the WizardPosting sub. I decided to post as a necromancer and encourage everyone to convert the people they come across into handy undead slaves or something and was instantly banned for encouraging violence. I just said fuck it and deleted my account. When you’re not allowed to tell a dumb joke the AI decides it doesn’t like in a dumb joke sub then there’s not much point in me being there.

Oh ya, rant time.

I was a Reddit user since 2006. It was my place to be. Endless posts on everything, every niche hobby you can think of, global and often even local news, learning about cool new things… I loved it. It was always crazy to me to decide to read a news paper and find that pretty much everything in it I’d already knew from Reddit, often finding out days or weeks earlier.

It started out an amazing place, it really did seem like a global town square where we could all get together and talk about everything and anything. But like all the cool online and tech companies the focus became more and more on money, which meant controlling what people say and see and harvesting as much data as possible from them. Large companies need income, and if you aren’t the one paying then you always end up the product. So they started pushing more and more ads and fake posts and instead of being controlled by the people it became controlled by whoever throw the most money at any and every topic. Since going public they’ve ramped up the user fucking big time.

Trying to force mobile users to use their app so they can harvest more data? It’s a fucking website. The program you use to look at websites is a web browser. Having 1,000 apps on a phone that are virtually all to use websites is not ease of use, or user friendly, or sane. They seem to have toned this down due to backlash, but for a while you literally weren’t allowed to browse Reddit using mobile mode. If you tried it had a popup telling you to get the app and that was all. But if you switched the same browser window on the same device to desktop mode everything worked just fine. That’s nothing but saying “fuck you” so your user base.

Getting rid of /r/all so that everything everyone sees on their home page is controlled entirely by the algorithms instead of having any potential of it by being what was most interesting or talked about (even though the insane amount of bot up/down votes and comments was already wrecking that? Fuck you. I’ve seen people say you can still see /r/all if you use old reddit… but it’s fake. It’s not actually /r/all as it used to be. When you can click through a handful of pages and get told that there’s nothing else that’s very definitely not “all.” As a formerly socially awkward fat kid I’m certain I’ve gone hundreds of pages of deep before.

For years we had genuine news reports on different groups and companies using giant cell phone farms to spam up/down votes on the posts they’re paid to boost or kill off and actually paying rooms of people to work to control the public opinion/narrative on their product/company/political party/country/etc. Shilling went from mostly a conspiracy to something warping everything on the place.

AI has only made it worse since along with corporate/govt approved or disliked posts notably having thousands of up/down votes with only a handful of comments they can now spam comments as well. Humans are a social species. There is always pressure to fit in. When we see that pretty much everyone is saying a certain thing or has a certain opinion we’re far more likely to decide the same.

If someone makes a post saying “Israel killing tons of kids seems bad” it can be well thought out and link tons of evidence, but if it quickly has several comments about Israel having the right to defend itself and the constant child murder being fake news propaganda and antisemitism and making fun of the OP then the people who open it and check the comments will be more inclined to feel that way.

A post on “It’s crazy that the US did all this awful stuff to Iran” with lots of links to blowing up lots of little girls in school and sending a delayed second hit so anyone trying to help them dies too, actively causing a shortage of USD there to destroy the value of their currency and push people to protest, etc, and it quickly has many replies are all calling the OP a conspiracy nut and saying the US was trying to bring justice and freedom 'cause the evil Iranian leaders killed 100 million protestors… then most people who read glancingly without checking and considering all the evidence (most people) and who don’t have strong opinions on the matter already will be likely to jump in making fun of OP for supporting middle eastern governments 'cause they’re all terrorists.

It’s something pretty much all big companies and governments do now. They nearly all have large ‘social media’ or ‘PR’ departments that focus on controlling the public opinion on topics. For a lot of companies it started out as customer service, helping people out and trying to convince the public they’re awesome by doing cool shit. But it warped over time into more like just trying to convince everyone that shitty things about them don’t really exist. Loads of subs main mods or full mod teams are employees, and in a lot of places dissent and complaints are quickly deleted.

And finally… the site-wide AI powered “moderation.” Posts/comments can be near instantly automatically deleted and the user banned for a while for pretty much anything. It’s not something the sub mods can control or do anything about even though the threshold for causing it changes based on the sub and the topic. You can be auto deleted and banned for posting a dark joke in a sub dedicated to doing that. You can spend a month talking about guillotines everywhere with no issues, but be deleted and banned for simply using the word in a post about US politics. Saying that you hope people in the US are exercising their 2nd amendment rights so they can defend themselves if the worst happens or suggesting capital punishment for federal agents who murder innocent civilians is “threatening violence.”

Reddit is no longer a social platform for people to communicate with each other. That Reddit died a long, slow death, but it’s gone now. Reddit today exists to collect user data, train AI, sell products, and control public opinion and narratives, and it does that by selling out every topic to the highest bidder.

Sadly most people keep using it instead of coming here because it’s what they know and they miss what it was. I miss the days when I could browse endless new things just refreshing /r/all there too. It sucks that Lemmy moves so much slower, and the decentralized concept does make it more work to use and more difficult to navigate. But Reddit moves way slower now too. If you try to use their default “home” feed or the new /r/all you typically see mostly the same shit all day. Instead of constantly fresh it’s always stale. Hopefully more people notice that and get tired of the bullshit, and we can make Lemmy the new place where conversation is always fresh and there’s a home for every niche you can think of.

Hah, I’ve literally been there. Imagine a 9’x9’ prison cell with two men, steel bunk “beds”, and a solid steel toilet. Also, you’re high on suboxone because there’s not much else to do in prison.

You’re a grown man, standing facing the toilet with wiener in hand, with another grown man’s head like 3 feet behind your ass. Standing there for what feels like eternity. And you’re thinking “Oh shit. He’s going to think I don’t know how to piss or something. This is weird. His head is way too close to my ass. Fuck, I’d better not fart. I forgot how pain killers and shit can make you unable to piss. It’s got to be the sub I took. I have to go so bad but I don’t know how to make it work. I did forget how to pee!”

And as you panic, your bunkie finally says something like “What the fuck, dude? Did you forget how to piss?” and all of your fears come true.

Give him time, man. He’s bound to have a ton of money invested in creating a way to physically replicate the actual children. It’s an area of research a lot of rich and powerful people are highly interested in, especially now that they’ve pretty much perfected boner pills.

The odds on Kalshi that a way to clone kids and quickly age them to whatever age (1-16) you set the dial to will be publicly available at least a year before boring shit like a cure for cancer or Malaria are 7146:1 right now.

I put $30 on cancer coming first just because I’m sure some idiot somewhere is still working on that, and maybe they’ll get lucky. At the moment that’s my most fleshed out retirement plan.

Using AI to undress images of children you filmed in public with your pervert glasses is a first amendment right! They can’t make that illegal! I hate big government meddling in everything that’s none of their business!

The government exists to protect the wealthy, ruin the economy for everyone else, execute brown people and lefty commies in the the street, control women’s bodies and force them to do what men say and bear our spawn whenever we want, keep gays from being able to marry, and make sure the lives of all those rainbow freaks are pure hell every day. And that’s all!

They have ZERO business interfering with the natural, normal, beautiful acts of grown men having sex with children or using technology to undress them without their consent or knowledge!

Oh God, I wish. I can tear apart their bullshit to the point if I decide to play with one of the asshats trying to scream at people on a street corner or school they generally get pissy and pack up and leave.

Having this smug bitch stuck on a plane while I mock her to tears would be glorious. It’s sad that humans get so much enjoyment out of tearing apart other humans we deem to be ‘bad’, but… well, we do. She must believe it’s because that’s how God wants it, so in her case who am I to resist the temptation? ^^

I’m not banned on Tesseract, because I’m a big dick and the Tesseract dev loves big dicks.

That’s not true, a flock of Cardinals gathers around him and chews up food then spits it into the Pope’s mouth. You should watch the National Geographic special on it, it’s really quite amazing.