Anything that requires end users to react to trolls in a reactive way and in a troll by troll basis, and only after the troll has dropped their payload is going to take its toll on vulnerable folk.

Big popular blocklists that people subscribe to aren’t always the answer, because they also have a history of incidentally impacting marginalised groups, even when they’re trying to protect them.

Instances that welcome that part of Twitter are mostly defederated.

Bluesky just got major investment from a crypto bro…

It’s not flukey…

It’s spam

Flatpak annoys me

CachyOS. I use it because I am a fan of Arch based systems, rolling releases etc, but CachyOS is optimised for my generation of hardware, and has lots of good default configurations for various apps. They have a customised proton version, a good default fish profile etc.

tl;dr It’s Arch, but optimised, and slightly more pre-configured out of the box.

Because it pretends to be different to the centralised corporate social media platforms, whilst giving the cohesive experience of a centralised platform

It’s a federated protocol, but the network itself isn’t meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it’s still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology

I don’t drive. At work and at home I have multiple fast food options within a very short walking distance

Because it’s fast… Because I can take it home… Because it doesn’t feel like I’m trashing something nice when I order it to be delivered…

Many years ago on reddit, you could get given gold. It gave you paid benefits. My comments earned me literally years worth of gold, and my karma was similarly increasing.

Then I came out as trans. Suddenly the gold stopped and my karma stagnated

That kind of bias is built in to the karma system. It doesn’t just punish shit takes, it also sidelines visible minorities

I’m so excited about Cosmic! Bring it on

If you don’t see a how an action from a government committing genocide, that injures or kills hundreds of civilians is a problem, then there is probably little point in having this conversation.

After posting this, I will be blocking NCD from blahaj.zone

Pepe is a red flag. Not enough to ban outright with no other context, but when posted by a user who is posting bigotry elsewhere, it warrants a removal

It is when I’d just removed another post by the same user, conflating palestinians and hamas, blaming palestinians for their own genocide

reason: Violates server rule #7"

lemmy.blahaj.zone doesn’t have a “server rule 7”. The removal that you’re referring to was made by a lemmy.world admin and has nothing to do with blahaj.zone.

Fixed

Your third link now links to the meme that got CDRMITTENS banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone. This meme breaks your own community rules, and conflates Palestinians with Hamas. It’s outright bigotry

The first link isn’t removed and the second link references Pepe. The third link is the same link as your first link

Oh and instead of removing the post that violated your rules,

Anyone that posts bigotry gets instance banned.

I have no idea about NCD. I don’t use it, I have no idea who posts in it, and it doesn’t come in to it. Anyone that posts bigotry gets instance banned, and your most active poster, posted bigotry.

Blahaj zone admin here. There’s quite a bit of confusion and misunderstanding in this thread.

No one is “selectively removing NCD content” or anything close to it.

What happened is that 6 months ago, CDRMITTENS was instance banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone over an anti Palestinian meme they posted. You can see the mod log for that here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog?postId=11419938. This meme conflated Hamas and Palestinians in general, and basically blamed Palestinians for their own genocide. Notably, the post also broke NCD rules 2 and 5, but wasn’t removed by NCD mods.

As a result of CDRMITTENS being instance banned, none of their content reaches lemmy.blahaj.zone anymore. You can see that for yourself here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/CDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works, which shows that no content from this user has reached blahaj.zone. There was no selective removal or editing of content at play, because none of their content reached blahaj.zone to be able to selectively remove it.

tl;dr - It’s just an instance ban, not selective moderation

Just call it the X social media site

Plasma, but I’ll be moving to cosmic as soon as it enables auto power off of monitors on idle