I like how most websites nowadays just say that your account is being suspended or even banned without saying for what reason. I had that happened multiple times, especially on various subreddits. Sometimes even by reading rules, you can’t figure it out.
Because despite the Web not necessitating that architecturally, the platform owners own you.
In olden days - you just leave for some similar forum, inform all your friends you want to keep communicating on the community’s subject via some of a dozen places where you and any particular friend are registered, and of course the community asks the admin or the moderator why the hell they banned you. There were some moderators even then who’d also ban for discussing bans, but in the end such places would get deserted quickly. Banhammers were to be carried with responsibility and honor.
Anyway, those bans wouldn’t affect your ability to communicate via ICQ or something else.
I think this is the exact reason so much propaganda and Troyan horse effort has been spent to make IM and forums inseparable functions in the minds of the masses. And, of course, to aggregate them all together.
Because now they can ban one person everywhere. It’s a vertical structure without responsibility. Very dangerous. Arbitrary bans negligibly affect platform’s reputation, while sufficiently affecting the environment.
One can compare big platforms to European politics before peace of Westphalia, and things like Lemmy as an attempt to create something similar to European politics after peace of Westphalia.
But ultimately we need both homogeneous distribution of power (many mutually replaceable instances of the same) and heterogeneous distribution of power (that same being divided by narrow functionality and layer).
As a ginger. I support this.
As a ginger. I support this.
Little Johnny: Sorry Twitter, that’s incorrect, but I like the way you’re thinking.
A I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History meme template? A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
I’m so sorry, it’s snipe, not spine. Take them straight to jail.
Buttsex with pealed ginger is medium spicy.
And a lighter penis is just a practical survival tool (and def not an infection that needs medical or local witch/shaman help).
Ah, LemmyWorld, if this post indicated that American Gaza protesters were gamed to help Trump get elected, it would be banned here too…
The mod log is public, care to cite the source?
Although I will say, the majority of protests were probably legitimate and just, but certainly some were railing against the machine because it was the other side’s machine.
Out of left field this comment entered my eyes like a fnaf jumpscare
Did you try that?
Do you support genocide?
Nope. That’s why I voted for Harris.
