casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer

fair

Oh right, I forgot that funding and companies manifest solely from engineers' desires to build things. Silly me.

I agree, and intend to block them on my account, but I am disconcerted with their readiness to censor based on personal bias and feel that their doing so is a critical matter that should not go unignored.

Even wirh defederation as the extreme, I brought it for discussion to make clear how critical I feel it is for the fediverse to acknowledge it's weakness to influence by bad actors embedding themselves in positions of social trust.

I reserve the vile habit of referring to people/personas as "it" only for a certain type of individual who attacks others based on identity whilst using identity politics as their personal shield.

This behavior is irregardless of their purported identity or orientation, beliefs-- it is me signalling staunch refusal to engage in any form of identity nuance when I have only ever seen them use identity in bad faith.

I can recall only two personas I go out of my way to refer to in this manner-- I can't promise that I wouldn't refer to anyone else similarly, but I hope everyday that I may never come across more who earn the distinction.

~~I'm not familiar with the context of that accusation, besides having seen the meme.~~

[insert more incessant rambling here because idk it's what I do I guess (see edit)]

~~At the end of the day, this may be an entire nothing burger, but I am still exercising my right to protest what I have all reason to believe is a deliberate attempt to censor accurate and relevant information in favor of obvious misinformation. Because while I could care less about how or when social media dies, I care deeply about the fruitful efforts of certain bad actors to skew public perception and further a social divide for their own gain.~~

edit: just paid better attention to the comment you linked, I was mistaken and that is my accusation. I disagree with the notion that I was intentionally misgendering, however-- I intentionally refused to acknowledge any gender identity for one subject in particular, but the other one I believe to be entirely accidental.

The modlog is public and you can check exactly what I said that they didn't like, then make the decision for yourself whether it's justified.

And yes, my online persona is that of an asshole. I try to not be too unpleasant of one, but I don't have the energy to sugarcoat anything and unfortunately go a little overboard with the salt.

I've never met any Minecraft player that played Story Mode, but a few had primary school siblings that did.

I'm lost. The one originally posted in this thread looks like the pool photo but ~~very slightly desaturated~~ with slight adjustment of white balance, whereas the fake is clearly oversaturated.

I don't really care to pull this up on my desktop to confirm, but I don't really need an answer because the rest of the photo, unaltered, is enough to marvel at. His hands show he never worked a day in his life. His poor handwriting in such big text, either meant to be seen by reporters or just for his own amusement, is telling. Who still supports this child?

bite it back

You can do it through the instance API.

Admins at lemmy.ml used vote tracking against me to retaliate by deciding what communities to ban me from after I spoke out against disinformation. They felt that censorship wasn't enough, they felt the need to be malicious in order to make a point. Sucks to be them though, they forgot the part about keeping your cards close to the chest.

glad they posted it twice so we can all play both sides, upvote one in case it's sarcasm, downvote the other in case of troll.

Yes-- campaigns that involve influencing people's opinions with covert guerrilla campaigns across social media with no accountability. Among the other shady tactics in their playbooks.