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[–] oldtimereddit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They have asked for ALL social media as well, fuck 'em. There are are over 50 million people online saying they hate ICE and they can't stop it. This is still about the Epstein files, Sascha's Riley's story still needs to hit the "State run media." .

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

good luck with that, because most of the users are BOTS from russia.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bots are not exclusively russian. In fact a minority of bots are ran by countries in the first place, most are run by monied interests. The american chemistry council, the nuclear whatever trade group, nestle and their ilk's trade group, influence operations protecting the use of aspartame, pfas, fracking, oil in general, every harmful and hurtful business practice you can think of.

After those businesses, the majority of the government ones are still ours ultimately, and to say bots misses the fact that they are mechanized trolls, and influence operations with bots, and now chatbots, llm chatbots of the new unreleased to the corporations or the public yet versions in areas where the US government is flipping the bill ultimately, like anything Israel related. Obviously the government contracts nearly all of that stuff out.

Russia did/does meddle in our politics, they get us, know just how stupid we are, and how to play us, and have decided to help the group that was already near winning, the fascists, but most of the bots on reddit, or facebook, or anywhere else, aren't russian even if they are on the same side, The Enemy is (mostly) Within.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, good thing Reddit permabanned me in the post-Inauguration bloodbath, before ICE got rolling. I would have had plenty to say.

Oh, well, they've got 12 years of my posts, with nearly a million Karma, all actively hostile toward Democrats, Republicans, MAGA, and especially Trump. I figure my name will make it to the top of the list at some point.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hope you edited and put gibberish in all your old comments because they keep that shit forever. There's a useful script on GitHub I used back around the time of reddits bs api changes. Now there's only latin on my old comments.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

Nah, I said stuff they wouldn't like, but it's not illegal. Let them try to come after me. I'm ready.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How many violations did you have when they permabanned you? I always dropped the accounts after a 2nd violation that came with a 3 day ban, always challenged that violation, then never came back to check if they overruled their violation or not, presuming they didn't.

Because it's not in good faith, half of them are violations for things that aren't against the rules because the real reason you are getting violated they don't want to cite. Like arguing with Israel enthusiasts that are connected to the US Influence Agencies running contracts for the government.

Some violations are just misunderstandings though, or even truthful things that a sensitive group apparently mass flags. But the majority are bad faith violations. Anyway I cycled through I don't remember, over 6 accounts in 5 years, but my first I had over a year, then I quit for over a year incensed at the bad faith enforcement. I got a new one this spring, then a new one in summer, then a new one in fall, now have none. They don't last long now.

But if you make a new account you don't get the same scrutiny, the account gets hot and after the first violation the second will come soon no matter how much you follow the rules. It is a rigged game.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

I have no idea, at the end they were banning me for all kinds of shit. I got banned from a bunch of subs because a mod who handles all of them read a comment that offended her in a forum she didn't even mod, and banned me in all of HER subs for that.

Forget appeals, they weren't listening to us they were only listening to DOGEboy. I tried getting around the permaban with an alias and a new Gmail account, but they caught me after a few months, and banned me again. After that, they banned each subsequent fraudulent account faster and faster. At the end, they would ban me before I made my first comment. I'd go to post it, and get the ban message. Now I got a bunch of throwaway Gmail addresses. I use them to sign up for discounts, and send all my spam to a dead email.

So I came to Lemmy. Not much in the way of my favorite guitar or cat subs, but we'll get there. At least I can give full throat to my hate for MAGA.

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Guess it’s good they already banned me for reporting bigots.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You got banned directly for flagging other users? I've never flagged anyone on any platform but that's neither here nor there, I just get shitty back with them, and they try to get me banned.

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A user followed me from sub to sub to call me slurs, using alts when I blocked them so that they could continue. I reported them and got permabanned for “abusing the report button”. Everyone else in my household was then also kicked off the platform.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is weird. What was the user harassing you over, how did the argument start? Were you arguing about Israel?

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Started on a big meme sub. We disagreed about if Mario Kart World was overpriced. He went to my profile, found out I was trans, and got really mad.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder, was it after Luigi was framed for murder? Because it could be the auto system banned you ultimately for making a reference to killing the rich. I heard they went on a spree banning accounts. After it happened I was on reddit and enthusiastically joined in like it was a full time job and there was no reddit push back, but then a month or two later my account did get violations for seemingly unrelated reasons and after a break where I got back on there wasn't a single post outside of pics where somehow I couldn't contribute as nothing seemingly goes through, there was no luigi posts left.

But I heard they did ban a bunch of accounts, and a lot of us were using all sorts of sort of ways to say we need to tune in and drop out and just find ways to play the new mario brothers game multiplayer. So it might be my fault, and my ilk, for you getting banned after that douchebad flagged you, and maybe got his whole crew of douchebags to flag you that seems like something a right wing gaming manfluencer subscriber would do.

Such a dumb thing for the guy to get all up in arms about too. How much was the game?

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Game was eighty dollars, which I thought was too high. And, yeah, maybe a bot decided I meant the other Luigi.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

80 is way high. What kind of asshole would take issue with someone thinking that was too high? Guy is a serious asshole. I remember paying 50 for Empire Total War, or more even I forget, and that was high, but that was over ten years back I forget. Previous total war games were like 30 if I recall, or less. And for that 50 plus dollars despite selling me a disk, I didn't even have a copy of the game myself but was directed to steam that made me ask for permission to play it every time and constantly ran in the background of my computer, or tried to, and spied on me seemingly.

Apparently linux people like steam, idk about that, looking to join linux, if I buy a game, especially for a lot of money, I want a physical copy that I don't need to ask for permission to play every time.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Wonder how busy reddit will be trying to kill the story that spez is a bootlicking fascist who will happily sell out his users to the gestapo he dearly loves.

Sad but not surprising