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  • It’s something that is sporadically done, by some people based on the phase of the moon or what they feel like; but it’s tolerated by the other mods.

    One does not see it much unless it happens to oneself or it’s read about elsewhere. However it certainly has an effect and perhaps is one of the reasons there are cycles of low engagement ( or at least lower than normal). Often people like me who have issues with it just quietly go elsewhere, which I more or less done.

    But once I moved away, choosing a non political server as my new home, I was exposed to all the communities world blocks, and it was then I realized I had been censored


  • If you call out genocide denialism you get banned.

    Which is the reason I stopped participating in some of world’s news and political communities, but because of a different genocide.

    But I certainly did not go running to a community that promoted denial of other crimes. Instead I use the power of lemmy to pick and chose healthy communities.

    Each instance has communities which are toxic.



  • It’s not wall to wall tankees , this is only a minority. Which for the non tanker, can be avoided and ignored.

    I was talking more of a general problem by deciding what I wanted to censor myself rather than letting others do it for me. Baby and bath water analogy and all that.

    And this extends way beyond tankees and piracy.

    And since people are talking about hexbear, it does have the best Syrian news coverage


  • I’m sort of new to Lemmy, having only been here a few months, and I started my first account here in world, the one I am commenting with.

    What I found is that world has many cool and fun and interesting communities, but for news ( world or USA centered) is really centralist USA based. World has cut off access to many other cool and interesting communities that may have different viewpoints here and there.

    I think the few experiences by trolls here from other communities is more of a walled garden thing, and if world has a more inclusive mix this would solve a lot of issues .

    Me migrating to another instance still allows me to participate here in world, and I simply ignore what I don’t like here and elsewhere.

    Honestly, world has as many issues with gatekeeping and power hungry mods as instances and the only way to get the full lemmy experience is to pick and chose what fits best with oneself






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    8 days ago

    He is right about the Palestinian humanitarian orgs, been doing that for a year. I don’t know about the military, unless he means Biden is probably not doing all he can to prevent them from being misused domestically. Don’t know anything there


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    9 days ago

    Biden is not sharpening the knife: he simply placed a knife sharpener on the counter and is a good sport about letting others use it .

    It always was a caretaker presidency, that’s what I thought when he first got into office.

    I expect thoughtful words from his speeches as he gently leaves office








  • My gut reaction about lack of content in peer tube is because the platform is ethical. It’s my understanding that popular video platforms started by pirating content, marketing campaigns and other shady things . This obviously is a not a good thing here.

    This creates a cascading effect where only people who are more ethical ( rather than less ethical) post videos there. And only ethical ( more or less) people watch the videos there for more or less political reasons ( not national politics but belief how things should happen)

    There are probably ways for them to jumpstart content there , but are dismissed, never to be used because it’s against the spirit of the idea. Hopefully someone can solve this by doing something that fits into the vision !



  • I have a conspiracy theory that most users who are an expert don’t post much about that.

    For example I am an expert on two things most people find obscure; and for all my comments I just avoid talking about them. It’s too hard to wrap up an idea without lots of background information, there are no short posts or comments I can make about it.

    Almost all the highly upvoted stuff are short. Were I to try to make an expert post it would be totally ignored. So why bother for me when I can snarky about things I know nothing about ? More fun !

    I think experts who write short terse pithy comments that hit the mark, at a timely fashion, are rarer than hens teeth