Very nearly! I have desk that I scrounged from the garbage literally right up against the bed and a nightstand right next to it. It's on the desk since the nightstand holds my TV.
So it's not literally on a nightstand, but it is literally bedside, i.e. I can use it without getting out of bed.
Nah because then someone could just post (for example) medical gore in a "safe space" and it'll just get downvoted but not removed.
It wasn't gore, but do you remember the ThuleanPerspective (I think?) trolls from a little while back, spamming that racist photoshopped Simpsons comic by commenting it on literally everything? That effort was neutralized in the short term by deleting those comments on the spot, and then the users who posted them.
It is absolutely a useful tool, but like most useful tools it can be abused.
In Internet culture, shitposting or trashposting is the act of using an online forum or social media page to post content that is of "aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality".
Imagine not being allowed to do any trolling in a shitposting community.
Okay but you can always make your own shitposting community on your own instance with your own rules if you feel so strongly against the rules. That option simply was not available on Rddit. The point of Lemmy isn't that no one abuses their mod and admin powers ever, but that the system is set up so that you can just go to another Lemmy server, which simply was not available on Rddit if you pissed off the site admins.
Although I personally find Lemmy users nicer and moderation better on average, their character is not the point. It is merely the result of an imperfect but better system than Rddit.
Then the mods should be honest about why he's being banned in the modlog.
Him (charitably) being an overzealous meanie in defense of an honest brand of feminism does not make him a shitlord.
Sometimes people need to be dunked on for both their own good and the good of the community, obviously myself included. A perfectly appropriate venue for some gentle dunking is a shitposting community.
It's a shame that the thread got locked. It was getting heated, but IMO that's a good sign that what you're talking about actually needs to be debated.
reason: Admitting to being a troll: "I'm an agent of chaos."
Absolutely the limpest reason to temp ban someone from a shitposting community. From the context it was obviously an offhanded joke, not an actual admission of someone trying to disrupt the community.
I fear that you're mistaking your own pessimism for absolute truth, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
Indigenous Action did a great write-up on this topic. Although to be completely honest, the point of this thread was really to condemn the DNC delegates specifically. Actually, I brought up voting at all in this thread in response to the suggestion that I am:
Willing to let lgbt, people of color, students, poor people and the working class be oppressed and possibly murdered.
As a poor grad student, and sibling to two lovely LGBT POC for whom I would literally kill to protect, this is a particularly offensive implication (from a different user!) that I often see bundled with pro-electoralism rhetoric, so I preemptively brought in Colin Ward's article against voting.
What, in your view, needs to be done?
In the large, abolish all authority and hierarchy by popular revolution. If that is impossible, then approximate it as best as possible in the real world using a basis of popular liberatory actions emulating the end goal.
In the small, these delegates could use their power to physically and logistically disrupt the DNC until at least the US ending weapons transfers is secured. For everyone else, support protesters for Gaza in your life, show up to the protests if you can, do direct actions [1] if you can ... do nothing if you have to, but most importantly, don't cooperate with the war machine!
I hope this clarifies what I meant by saying:
Voting is orthogonal to what needs to be done.
Because while voting doesn't necessarily hurt direct action efforts [2], it doesn't help either. It's just a completely independent class of activity. It's like if, on a typical x-y plane (where the x and y axes are assumed to be orthogonal), we need to move in (let's say) the positive x direction, and people keep spamming inputs in the y direction.
[1] Just the first part of section J.2, not including J.2.1 and onward. The rest is supplementary.
[2] There is an argument to be made (and I believe the article I cited makes it) that activism for voting takes time and energy that would otherwise be spent on direct action. Also, technically speaking, voting does literally take time away from direct action for the amount of time you're waiting to vote and actually in the booth, but I'm an engineer so I'm willing to neglect small-valued terms 😆.
It's not literally everyone, it's people with power and influence who use their energy to prop up the Democratic machine.
So clearly I'm not irritated at literally all people with power of any form.
Keep in mind, in this thread I am charitably replying to the dishonest suggestion that the average taxpayer has just as much culpability in the genocide in Gaza as someone who goes deep into the halls of power and participates in their process as a delegate.
The power and influence to which my previous comment alluded is that which these delegates fought hard to get, and are now using to prop up the war machine. Again, there is a huge difference in culpability between DNC delegates and the average liberal that's just trying to get back.
Clearly that kind of nuance cannot be indicated by the meme that started this whole thread, as memes intentionally trade substance for brevity, but my other comments throughout the thread have sufficiently explained that my position is a lot more nuanced than "haha all Democrats all bad".
The power and influence I have is basically entirely privilege that I didn't choose to get and can't fully reject even though I try my damnedest. I literally don't even have a job, can't find one if I tried, no influence on social media other than what you're reading now, and look what good that's doing.
Basically the only real power I took for myself in my entire adult life is my education, on which I defer to Bakunin:
Does it follow that I drive back every authority? The thought would never occur to me. When it is a question of boots, I refer the matter to the authority of the cobbler; when it is a question of houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For each special area of knowledge I speak to the appropriate expert. But I allow neither the cobbler nor the architect nor the scientist to impose upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and verification.
I.e. I don't think that all the power afforded to me by my education is unjust. I am most certainly not using the little power I have to prop up the war machine. (Much to my personal detriment! My line of work is extremely useful to the war machine.) That power which is unjust I take very seriously to reject as best as I can.
Again, it is a ludicrous suggestion that a poor grad student posting memes dunking on the misfortunes of people in power has a comparable power and influence to a delegate at the Democratic National Convention.
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Very nearly! I have desk that I scrounged from the garbage literally right up against the bed and a nightstand right next to it. It's on the desk since the nightstand holds my TV.
So it's not literally on a nightstand, but it is literally bedside, i.e. I can use it without getting out of bed.