btaf45 @ btaf45 @lemmy.world

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There is no growth potential at all. They regularly bleed large numbers of users with their rando-bans, and the new user experience is so terrible that there is no reason any new person would ever want to use it.

I appealed it and it was lifted, but not before it was upgraded to a permanent ban for ban-evasion on other accounts (I’ve never had more than one account in my 14 years of reddit.)

Reddit has a feature where there helpfully link your account to stranger's accounts. When the stranger is banned from any sub, you are too. But you don't know you are banned from those subs. So when you innocently post, you get perma-banned.

Piefed sucks bigtime.

Plus it will have all the usual edge case errors of software thrown together by some code monkey trying to make his "agile" arbitrary sprint deadline. Most places these days use a software development process that minimizes quality and maximizes bugs.

Move fast to give billionaires gigantic tax cuts and break Social Security!

Don't worry. The most important part of software development these days is not to make sure the code works and is free of errors, it is to attend the daily standups and the many other "agile" time waster meetings. If the software sends your money to another person instead like the software my company created, they can just fix it in some followup sprint 6 months later. Maybe.

[Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the only Republican to join Democrats in opposing the resolution, disagrees. “Why would we help the big banks at the expense of working people?” Hawley asked reporters following the vote, per Semafor. “I just don’t understand it.”]

Wow I would have never guessed that Jog Hallway of all people would be on the people's side of this.

Perhaps instead of finding and breaking fresh news

They still do exactly this. Their quality of reporting has not gone down at all. Getting the official lie from Traitorapist Trump on any topic does not add to the story at all. I actually prefer not hearing the unimportant lie Trump is telling on some specific story.

Seems like the only time we have leverage as voters is during the election.

And you predictably used that 'leverage' to make things much worse. Now we have 700 people routinely killed in one day under Trump, with total apathy from preople who used to cry 'genocide'. Everybody with common sense knew that Gazans would be way worse off with Trump in the WH. Both the big increase in killings under Trump and the increase in apathy about the killings under Trump were things that we already knew were going to happen under Trump back when irresponsible people were crying "genocide" during the election. There was never any chance that you were going to improve things by doing that and the entirely predictable result in increases in both killings and apathy.

By 2024, Harris and running mate Tim Walz failed to directly or meaningfully mention the impacts of racism, police brutality, inequality or diversity in their 82-page policy platform.

That is a very good thing for 2 reasons. (1) It would have sunk them in the election, and (2) Dems already so way too much identity politics which is what always sinks them in the elections.

Science has nothing at all to do with voodoo economics and nobody thinks that it does.

Its insane to be against science and intelligence and knowledge.

I always call it the Department of Government Enshitification

They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

Then they are unfit to be moderators because they are subtracting value from free discussions. I would much rather have to little moderation than lazy heavy handed moderation.

Lenin was not “targeting” what we think of today as “the middle class”.

He damn sure was. And him and Stalin were also targeting all the other socialists. And Stalin was also targeting random working class people.

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

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

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111

https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2010/09/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/ezpp8k/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_kill/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stalin-kill

https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/The-U-S-S-R-from-the-death-of-Lenin-to-the-death-of-Stalin

Lenin and Stalin's top targets was exterminating all the other socialists, not right wing people. All the members of these 2 socialist parties were either killed or forced into slave labor camps.

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

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

Hey, I’ve got unpopular opinions. No, it’s usually someone who is trolling.

A lot of people can't tell the difference and just assume that someone with an unpopular opinion must be trolling.

If/when it does get big enough, what would be a good solution?

The best solution is to do nothing and don't try to bring reddit's groupthink enforcement flaws to lemmy.

Unpopular opinions deserve to be silenced? Terrible idea. We already have way too much group think.

One of the things I miss about reddit (and slashdot before that) was that if you got downvoted/downmodded a lot in a short amount of time, it would tell you to slow down

That was a horrible system. If you didn't get positive karma on your very first post, your account was ruined because you could never dig yourself out.

It’s not about being elitist.

What's the difference? They shouldn't be doing it.

when is the last time you came across a post on Lemmy that is specifically for/about women or women’s issues

The same amount of time I came across a post that is about men's issues. A really long time. The vast majority of comments should not be about identity politics, unless it is a feature of the specific community.

Does that feel good?

I just want the absolute value of my comment's karma to be high. That means it has been read at least that many times.