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  • Except even that never happened and it was just overcautious mods dealing with vague ToS. I’m pretty sure the only thing the admins did in that whole issue was make the ToS more clear.

    I’d like to see what do you mean about it happening “over and over”.

  • Eh, just the fact that a modlog exists (and that you can effectively see which moderator performed the action through filtering by moderator) is something I've never seen in any other online platform, the lack of a notification could not even be intentional (there's even an open issue in GitHub by dessalines himself).

    I'm glad the PieFed devs put the matter in their own hands since, as I said, it's not a huge issue for me but I can understand why it would be for others.

    (As in, I can understand why people would move to PieFed, Mbin, or any other fediverse alternative. I'm seriously confused at people who don't like Lemmy for being too authoritarian-adjacent and move back to freaking Reddit)

  • Some users don’t want to support a project that’s being developed by people they don’t like.

    It’s kind of how some people left Reddit because of Spez, even though the amount of money Lemmy devs make doesn’t remotely compare, and the risk of enshittification/powertripping is minimal due to the whole project being open source.

    I personally don’t see it as a huge issue, but I can see why it would be for someone (and I’d definitely see it differently if I was actively supporting the platform through donations).

  • purchasers have legitimate moral and legal grounds to demand that they be informed that they are buying a license, or renting, the game; they are not owning a functional copy of the game outright.

    I’m pretty sure that’s already the case, if you read the ToS of most games.

    Not that it makes this any better.

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  • They’re not “millions” right now. Imagine every single dollar they currently spend for different types of advertising, all used as budget for astroturfing. It would turn every online space into bots talking to themselves and nothing else.

  • I know, and that sucks. But outright banning something that has its benefits has always been detrimental (not to mention, they’d just find sneakier ways to do it and it’d be worse for everyone). We need regulations, a lot of them, not banning entirely.

    Plus who are we kidding, everyone in power is so deep into the advertising/propaganda industry that neither of those options have a decent chance of happening in our lifetime.

  • Yup. The whole article and “we should bring back bullying” rhetoric (even used ironically) just reeks of someone who doesn’t like “uncool” people and finally found a morally valid excuse to hate on some of them.

    Really, not much different from misogynists pointing at random female tiktok influencers and concluding “See? This is why women are dumb and we need sexism”.

  • That’s a generalization. The White Rose was doing “advertising”, and I think that’s all but “by the wealthy, against the working class”.

    Advertising has its place and can be beneficial to society, it just needs regulations (admittedly, A LOT of them).

  • We all know if every other way of advertising was banned, they’d start paying (or “incentivizing”) millions of people to “do word of mouth” for them.

    And then we’ll have those people polluting every online space with unlabeled ads. No thank you.

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  • That makes sense when it harms business being done in that country, people’s opportunity to find jobs and stuff like that.

    But blocking people from working for free on open source projects where there’s nothing to be gained is harming progress, not individuals or countries. That’s not what sanctions were made for.

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