archomrade [he/him] @ archomrade @midwest.social

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For whatever it's worth, I'm entertained by these bans and have no problem with your moderation style.

Users from the larger instances can be melodramatic - it's nice to see them get burned for it on occasion.

I'm just trying to follow your use of the word fanboy bud, take a chill pill

if approving a ban reversal for tiktok is 'fanboying' trump, then approving of biden for not being an out and about nazi seems like an equally obtuse of the word 'fanboying'

There's a hell of a lot of obfuscation happening in your word choices

Was this communist 'fanboying' a neoliberal capitalist? That doesn't sound right.....

pot, kettle

IDK, I know a lot of neo-nazis who'd say 'fuck trump' in response to him being willing to work with Israel

Any time I see a lib complaining about being banned on .ml it's almost always because they earned it by saying something xenophobic or reactionary

for attacking Trump

attacking him for what, I wonder

We're being real loose with the term 'fanboy' now, huh

Is the reason you advocate avoiding VPN dependencies simply due to downtime if the tailscale service fails? Or is there a particular security vulnerability associated with using VPN subnets?

Watching all of this from a place of indifference, it's absolutely fascinating watching liberals and even conservatives process this whole saga in real-time

It's one of those increasingly common moments where the lack of ideological coherence creates chaos until a common perspective gets worked out.

Fair enough, but if you're trying to avoid data collection then open-sourced projects are preferable

Preaching to the choir here but LibreOffice has been excellent since my MSOffice license expired. Unless you're working in an enterprise setting with MS-specific macros or online collaboration, there's no reason to be paying for basic document editing software in 2025.

There are also self-hosted and open-sourced collaborative editing suites available that I haven't tried yet, but there are plenty of options

Was something supposed to happen?

A massive, comprehensive data privacy law would've covered the TikTok base and any software by any other threat

That's assuming the ban is motivated by privacy reasons, but i don't think it is. It's far more likely that it's because the US has no control over the platform's algorithm, which they fear is feeding Americans media and perspectives that are antithetical to their foreign policy objectives (Blinken and Romney have both stated as much).

A US buyer would be more friendly/responsive to US regulatory influence. That's the only reason this isn't a privacy bill instead of a ban or forced sale.

There has been no official announcement that such a change is coming, but Reddit commenters speculated that possibly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was requiring a change to stop American TikTokers from using the app to influence Chinese citizens.

Ah, that trustworthy and unbiased group of China experts that are Redditors

Two sentences before this they were explaining quite clearly why chinese users might actually be bothered by the flood of american users and why they might want the ability to filter by IP region, but because some redditors speculated that the SeeSeePee doesn't want the Americans to spread their freedom-loving germs to their country then that must be why they'd do it, if that rumor were to be proven true

Because our empire is collapsing

Real 'chicken or egg' vibes with that one

I'd be lying if I said I don't do that myself

I can't think of anything more american than complaining about anti-american bias while accusing everyone else of just being jealous

Yea, they were comparing tiktok to other american-owned social media sites, which are guilty of exactly the same thing themselves.

Any site that doesn't explicitly push anti chinese content is going to look like a pro-chinese bias

(there are several people in this thread who would not mind banning certain lemmy instances on this basis)