Tretiak

@Tretiak@lemmy.ml

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Tretiak,

Icon for this community should be an image of a toilet getting flushed.

Reddit has permanently suspended my account for supporting Lemmy.

I have been supporting Lemmy recently a lot and made posts about Lemmy that got big reach. Today, sadly the reddit account through which, I moderated a lot of subs and spent time on, comes to an end. The reason was because I spammed according to reddit, but the reality is that they have censored me because I was hurting Reddit....

Tretiak,

Can we please get a badge/flair added for this?

Wish I could've had the same honors bestowed upon me, but I've already had multiple accounts banned there for going against the grain of the hivemind.

Tretiak,

I randomly got banned there just the other day for using a VPN connection to log into my account. Now the last one I had has become permanently suspended.

Tretiak, (edited )

I remember I used to fuck with and annoy the shit out of all the users on r/politics. I would make sure I commented something like "Biden 2020 WOO!," and see my comment escalated all the way to the top of the thread. Then I'd wait about 24/48 hours, go back and edit it to something, like praising Donald Trump, and the comments I got back where hilarious. People demanding I got banned. People asking how my comment got to the top of the page. People claiming I was a bot account that paid for upvotes. It was hilarious to watch in real time.

Tretiak,

... and forward thinking.

Let me go ahead and stop you right there.

Tretiak,

I almost don't want them to succeed, so the exodus can continue to happen. Then again, I don't want this overrun with their overwhelmingly idiot userbase.

Tretiak,

100% with that. In fact I was listening to the Darknet Diaries ('highly' recommend their show/podcast if you're a techie) episode with Samy Kamkar from back in the day (1, 2), and he echoed the same sentiment. A lot of his exploits he's done, he's tried taking to the vendors only to have them make legal threats against him for his actions. So the next best thing was... you guessed it... essentially doing a controlled release of it into the wild.

Tretiak,

Don’t get ahead of yourself. Most people ‘vastly’ overestimate their ability to spot propaganda.

Tretiak,

Project Censored has entered the chat.

Tretiak,

You wouldn't believe how many times I got called a 'Putin' shill on r/geopolitics and elsewhere.

Tretiak,

It reminds me when Jaron Lanier said in today's world, anytime two people come together on the Internet, that arrangement is financed by a third party, that believes he can manipulate the first two. I really miss the good old days when the Internet was still a dirt road you could meet fellow travelers on, and have fun exploring it.

Tretiak,

I'm not inherently against the idea of advertising. I get why it exists, and I'm all for it. What I resent and have no intention of complying with, are the attempts at identifying me and collecting my data, as a means to 'manipulate' me into buying things. And, it also can't ruin my experience on the site. If advertisements were minimal and invasive, didn't try installing all kinds of ad/bloat-ware on my machine, you'd never see me making any attempt to protect myself against it.

Tretiak,

... pornographic mobile game ads

... What? Jesus.

Tretiak,

Trust me, there will come a day when commercialism finds itself upon Lemmy and makes a tempting pitch to the website administrators, the same as has happened to Reddit. I'm very conservative with the causes I donate to and I understand that people want the freedom, and breath of fresh air that that nostalgia provides. But too many users aren't willing to pay for it, or expect some other user will front the money. I have no problem regularly donating to fund the upkeep of the site to keep things within the median of expectations, but I hope others would be willing to as well.

Tretiak,

Pravda.com, huh? Might as well be directly linking propaganda from the Kyiv Independent. Lol, this place is turning into r/politics already.

Tretiak,

Bruce Schneier's also echoed Chomsky in a way when he said that surveillance was the business model of the Internet.

Tretiak,

I remember getting a lot of push back not too long ago, when I tried telling a group of people that 'good news' is something you have to pay for, because it's difficult to do.

The MSM, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, all that crap is simply the most overt propaganda, tailor made for a mass audience, and free, precisely because it isn't valuable. A subscription to something like The Economist, beats anything the average person wants to compare it to. Or those one-man progressive outlets on YouTube, who went to community college and left with a degree, run their gig out of a one bedroom studio, and think they've got the entire world figured out.

Tretiak,

Yeah, I’m aware of its history and biases..

Nothing should be really uncritically and without a skeptical eye. But to suggest it isn’t informative despite its ideological learnings, when you can directly compare it to examples that are precisely that, is stretching things.

Tretiak,

Cats are the mascot of the Internet. I love dogs too, but they require a lot of maintenance and attention compared to cats. Cats are the most arrogant creatures on Earth, and maybe the only ones that 'truly' live out their philosophy of life; of, "I'm better than you, and I know it."

Tretiak,

Can't spell goat without the "oat."

Tretiak,

Semiconductor manufacturing is something you absolutely can ‘not’ cost cut on. The level of labor and capital intensity required is enormous.

Tretiak, (edited )

Well that’s part of the problem globalization has caused that policymakers have been unable to solve thus far. When the available pool of candidates expands from the state or the domestic national market, to virtually the entire world, labor becomes devalued.

US's Blinken says no to any Ukraine peace deal that doesn't include total Russian withdrawal (apnews.com)

“We believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression,” Blinken said in a speech in Finland, which recently became NATO’s newest member and shares a long border with Russia.

Tretiak, (edited )

You’re arguing against a position that’s every bit as dumb and I’ll-informed, as the chick that heads up the NED, attempting to overthrow regimes opposed to the US all over the world. The people replying to you in ignorance aren’t in need of a ‘debate’, but an education.

Tretiak, (edited )

What's even more upsetting are the people who can write comments like yours, without irony. Why is it anybody who points out the causes of the conflict, gets decried as a Russian asset? Nobody here has explicitly said what Russia did wasn't illegal or immoral, because it is. But what people like you don't understand, is that events like this don't happen in isolation. These moves are highly interactive and very dangerous. You can't ignorantly just point to one in a vacuum and say, "'that's' imperialism!"

Were people like you making similar protestations when the west backed the Maidan coup, which overthrew the democratically elected President (Yanukovych) in Ukraine? Were you criticizing the US for encouraging Ukraine to ignore and break its peace treaty that was agreed to with Russia, under the Minsk Accords? Were you criticizing the west for it's media blackout of the continued shelling and massacring of Russian speaking citizens in eastern Ukraine (i.e. Donbass and Luhansk), while they were crying for Russia's help? Of course you weren't. You have no idea what I'm even talking about. Because you for, this conflict began with Russia moving into Ukraine. You only know what the MSM propaganda in the west tells you you're supposed to believe. I fully understand Putin when he called the US "The Empire of Lies." And people like you ignorantly fall for the bait. Every single time. Without fail. You're a successful product of the American ideological and propaganda system. You haven't seen past the dense fog of propaganda that's deployed to keep you ignorant. It's why the hidden is deliberately and intentionally hidden from you and they don't want you finding out about it.

Why does hating western hypocrisy on the home front make me a Putin shill? Why is politics a 'team sport' that I'm betraying, because I call out the warmongering of my own team?

Tretiak, (edited )

Because configuring it leaves you just as confused as the average transperson is?

Sorry. I had to.

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