Spyke

Rules, regulations, or: why am I banned???

Heads up, We are mostly moving this community over to Lemmy.world. If you're wondering where most of the funny went, go to ![email protected]! If you're wondering why we did this, click here.

==please incorporate the word rule in your post titles==
Here are the things that get you banned:
-saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad or hexbear account
-tankie behaviour
-nazi behaviour
-authoritarian behaviour
-genocide denial
-prejudice of any kind
-anything else that is clearly bad

Things that get your post/comment removed:
-AI generated content
-anything in the banlist
-posts that are so off topic that they don't fit on 196 at all
-moldy memes (old memes, crusty memes, irrelevant memes. The type of things you'd see on your aunt's Facebook page or Elon musk's Twitter account with a laughing emoji as the caption)
-corpoposting

Ban length varies, and is mostly based off of whether or not I think you will change your behavior. I have baned certain people for upwards of 2000 days.

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NSFW Content is now fully permitted BUT it must be tagged. Any NSFW content that has not been tagged and blurred will be removed. Content warnings should also be added to the title in brackets. Example: [penis] or: [explicit description of sex].
Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged. Yes, even female breasts.

IRL GORE IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CONDITION.

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Please leave any suggested edits in the comments.

JAN 2025 UPDATE: One Hundred Ninety Six
Following our mishandling of the lemmy.world migration, a group of dissenting users founded onehundredninteysix, here on lemmy.blahaj.zone. We are not affiliated with this group. Please direct any complaints related to that community to their mod team and/or Ada.

If you have any issues, please reach us at [email protected]. PLEASE do not dm me, as I am not consistently available and tend to step away from the mantle for weeks to months at a time.

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Literally the only thing on this entire account, posts about how a Nazi bar would love this, and then nothing else. I wonder which of the many alts from MWoG this was.

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Just checking, saying iffy things to a lemmygrad account or from a lemmygrad account? (Sorry, English may be my first language, but I'm not always the best at it)

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lemmy.ca

You deleted your comment, but I can still answer. Basically, both home servers tend to revolve around alt-left fascism, so we're extremely wary of what these users have to say.

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Toes♀reply
ani.social

I'm a bit dumb when it comes to politics, what is alt-left fascism?

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lemm.ee

"why do you want communism?"

"because I want to tell people I disagree with to shut up, at gunpoint. also I love uniforms and the general aesthetics of the USSR. also some economist from 200 years ago said it's what's next, so we gotta"

so not to do with any actual communism, egalitarianism, etc, or any actual left stuff, or people not dying on the streets anymore, or liberation of thd human spirit; just red star brand reactionary bullshit. I prefer their yeast.

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Serinusreply
lemmy.world

And if you question them, they'll whine that you haven't read their list of a dozen, esoteric books, so clearly you don't know anything.

But if you ask them to make a coherent point from one of those books, they can't. Apparently the only way to understand their concept is to read a million words on it.

In reality it's just anti-West, pro Russia and China.

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As someone who used to be in those circles, it wasn't always like that but quickly devolved into it. And I went along with it not even really because I believed everything that was there but because that was where all my friends were, and I tried questioning some of the principles but was then met with cold responses like "why are you questioning us?" And so I kind of just went along with everything. It took me a long time to get de-radicalized, but it's something to keep in mind that a lot of what keeps communities bound like that has nothing to do with the politics and everything to do with maintaining social connections. Which isn't to excuse any of it, but just provide a succinct explanation for how and why they proliferate.

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lemmy.ca

I should actually be using the term "far left", as after research, as far as I can tell "alt left" is a term used by alt rights (i.e. neo Nazis, white supremacists and the likes) as a knee jerk reaction to whoever calls them alt right. My bad on that.

Examples of far left governments are China and the USSR, with policies that concentrate power at the government and makes it difficult for people to hold power and have a voice.

As for fascism, it was historically considered inherent to far right governments, but some argue that far left governments that fit most of the characteristics of fascism should also be described as such, hence far left fascism, but it could also be described as far left authoritarianism.

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I wouldn't call those far left at all personally. authoritarianism and fascism are blanketly not leftist systems of government

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

The concept of a tankie is a person with the cognitive dissonance necessary to both have majority leftist ideology yet still believe in and support authoritarian governments

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In my country, we simply call them "authoritarian communists" or, still today, "stals", for "stalinists".

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lemmy.ca

Right, my above comment was a bit disjointed. The vocabulary gets a bit vague when it comes to putting a political spectrum on a 1D axis.

My concern with my comment is that I wouldn't know where to put, e.g., the Chinese government on the political axis. It's both communist-like yet authoritarian.

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haha You're all right. I think something like the Chinese government is definitely one of the more difficult ones. It has its roots in communism, but at this point it's very much a capitalist autocracy with high social investment and surveillance. authoritarian for aure

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China is right wing. In the extreme. They have centralized authority with strong top-down hierarchies. There is nothing leftist about them in the least.

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Titoureply
sh.itjust.works

in fact, left stand for equality and right stand for liberty. That's all.

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This makes no sense. Those are the same thing. You do not have one without the other. The right is about neither. The right is purely “do what we say”. Nothing more and nothing less.

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lemm.ee

nobody would call them far left. it's not particularly far left. its authoritarian, even the political compass has more nuance here, cmon man.

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I've seem many people from Europe refer to communist parties and Russia as far left because they do embody certain socialist ideas that are leftist but take it well beyond the point of being a good thing, so in this regard yes they are far left. Thing is you absolutely can go way too far with any philosophy. I do agree that what they did with the political compass is good though because it reflects the actual nature of being an extremist socially while also representing the economic value, though in these situations they are still very far to the left of countries with economies that aren't exclusively controlled by state (North Korea is a great example).

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There is no such thing. It’s just fascism. That they try to call themselves leftist makes no difference to the objective facts or fundamental definitions of the political spectrum.

It’s like when rightists try to claim they are all about freedom, while advocating for fascist policies. If you advocate for fascist policies, you are right wing and a fascist. The labels you are attempting to appropriate are inconsequential.

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lemmy.world

how tankies are still surprised that fascist apologia gets them banned in an antifascist community is beyond me

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Blahaj.zone isn't run by the Devs of Lemmy, they could easily block both Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml if they wanted. They just choose not to for some reason.

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lemmy.ca

Probably because banning people based purely on political ideology is kind of facist 😝

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lasandrareply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Reminds me exactly on the wise words of Sir Karl Popper about the 'paradox of tolerance':

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force;"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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IriYanreply
lemmy.world

That's Popper's and Milt.Friedman's way of laundering fascism as a legitimate ideology, a useful tool for capitalist domination and anti-communism.

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Pazuzureply
lemmy.ca

Can you expand on what you were saying here? Are you saying the paradox of tolerance is itself promoting fascist ideology? Can you please explain?

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Being against humans can't possibly be a human ideology, so fascists don''t count under this protectionist umbrella, I hope.

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why does this comment dance between ultra-naive to ultra-troll in my mind?

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An authoritarian communist that is supportive of Russia, China or other repressive eegimes.

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TFW the other leftists wont let you try to subvert the movement into “the people’s fascism”

they are ruining leftist unity

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Lol no I know kiwi personally. In order to appoint someone to be a mod, they need to have commented somewhere in the community.

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hehe I know that, I am just being silly <33

Have a nice day! UwU positivityyyyy

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anonymousreply
lemmy.world

I will upvote literally anything that has "fuck" and "spez" in the same sentence.

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anonymousreply
lemmy.world

Upvoted but 🤨📸

Edit: do you have a thing for idiots in power? I have some suggestions for you...

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lemmy.world

Because of the Reddit migration, 196 is coming up in my Lemmy feed a lot, I have no idea what it is (because you haven't made a description).

This could be your chance to gain more community members if you update your description

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Well sort of the point of 196 is that you can post almost anything, the only rule is that you have to post each time before leaving. This rule isn't enforced for obvious reasons, unlike the ban against tankies.

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before leaving as in before switching to another community while browsing? or as in when you unsubscribe? and what if I never leave

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

I have no idea, I think it means whatever you want it to mean. Usually folks interpret it as visiting the sub and then going to a different one but you could also interpret it as leaving permanently, like I said it isn't actually enforced. It's just meant to encourage lots of irreverent posting.

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I'll ban you for one day because you didn't do anything against the rules

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Ah yes, some good news today as well

Happy to see this community is starting off on the right foot

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

I've got a slight suggested edit

Basically the first item to get banned adding Hexbear to the list with Lemmygrad

I've been seeing a huge influx of tankie takes from hexbear accounts all over (and here) since they federated

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

My team is on it, and I will personally pitch in in dealing with it once auditions are over for the thing I'm working on

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lemmy.world

You have a link near the bottom of the channel's description at the right, which in English it's likely called 'Moderation history' or 'Moderation log'. It isn't only a ban list, but general information on mod activity.

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Also, on every instance, there is a link called 'instance'. It contains information about which lemmy instance is federated and banned by your instance.

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Does the mod log only log activities from a specific instance visited, your instance, or all federated instances.

Cause I've seen way more activities in the modlist than possible on my small instance, not to mention almost all the removes are from communities outside of my instance.

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lemmygrad.ml

I was wondering when someone would start discriminating based on what instance you made your account on...

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

You can use 196 on a lemmygrad account, but because it's by definition a tankie Lemmy site, you're basically on probation.

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IriYanreply
lemmy.world

Now this is a wider issue, the Red Army did liberate the largest part of Europe from Nazi rule, the US basically tried to liberate France but the Red Army was in Germany before the US crossed the border. In Yalta the three, US/UK/USSR divided the pie, Spain and Greece went on the other half and remained fascist till the 70s (meaning anticapitalists were executed, prisoned, exiled, etc). Yugoslavia went its own way. The US UK handed Hung/CZ over to them, but unlike other places the USSR had to use force to take over what was given to them in the pe cutting.

This is not defense of tankie-ism it is pretty much what happened. Now between 90 and 2024 the 90/1 agreement was no Nato expansion beyond its current borders, and that was severely violated by NATO, to the last ring around the chain being Ukr and Belarus. So the not so red not so hot army anymore had to either react or accept total defeat and submission to NATO. There was no alternative for Russia other than to turn history back which in 30y proved impossible.

I am not passing judgement on which dictator is better, I hate Biden as much as the next guy, but the narrative of recent history appears to have left out all petitions to the UN filed by Russia for the violation of the agreement. The UN's excuse, NATO is not a UN member, and you can't blame any particular state member of NATO for what NATO does. Unfortunately a state (Russia) which wasn't part of the Yalta agreement the SU was, signed an agreement with NATO, not with any particular country. They should have had a better lawyer and not a drunk for a president.

So Russia will evolve to yet another oil-rich country that is blockaded and cut-off from world markets like Iran and Venezuela. Unlike Iranians and Venzuelans Russians get really nasty when they get pissed, hungry, or out of vodka. So this is not going to go well too far too long. We shall see. Oil production and distribution, held by a handful of US based multinationals, will increase their profits in a further restricted oil market. So Iran, Russia, and Venezuela's isolation does serve a profitable industry's interests.

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And nothing else you said about this supposed memory hole of UN claims makes sense.

"The UN’s excuse, NATO is not a UN member"

Wouldn't Russia, a permanent member of the UNSC since its inception, know how the UN works and that NATO is not a UN member?

"a state (Russia) which wasn’t part of the Yalta agreement the SU"

Didn't Russia inherit all treaty agreements of the USSR? I'm pretty sure they did.

The problem isn't the UN covering up petitions, the problem is the agreement never existed.

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Regarding the "90/1 agreement".... maybe not.

Was there a signed treaty to that effect?

https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/40/4/7/12126/Deal-or-No-Deal-The-End-of-the-Cold-War-and-the-U

Even if we accept that such a deal existed, in what way would invading legally neutral countries (uh, again) be an appropriate response to its violation? State aren't forced to join NATO, in fact, it's pretty difficult unless NATO wants you in.

So Russia should have instead invited countries to join CSTO to offset NATO.

Unfortunately Russia can't compete, so it has to use force.

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Big_Fartoreply
lemmygrad.ml

I mean I don't really see myself as a tankie, I did get temporarily banned from lemmygrad for saying that ACAB means all cops, so there's that I suppose.

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vd1nreply

I might be lost, but what does 196 mean?

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Wispyreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Thinking communism is a good system and sucking of dictators is a bit of a difference isn't it lol.

I literally today saw a post celebrating and congratulating Xi for being a leader for so long, you know, while forcing that no one else could take power.

Also associating communism with authoritarianism is very saying.

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Communism has never been implemented. We had "really existing socialism" which then drifted off into state-capitalist tyranny, capitalist tyranny, or straight tyranny. Cuba and Vietnam fare better, they're drifting towards democratic socialism.

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MLs be like "the state will wither away bro, I swear it will work this time" and then create an authoritarian nightmare society again.

Although at least you're not getting anywhere with your stupid military fetishism, because you cannot topple an existing power through force of arms unless the state military is in tatters, and with the threat of nuclear war preventing any kind of large-scale engagement between major powers, good luck waiting for an opportunity.

The only way to topple a major developed government now is through the Union of Unions, striking with enough of the population to break the economy in half, and bring the establishment to the bargaining table with two options: give us what we want, worker democracy, or we take away your access to food, water and power. And if that worked, and then you authoritarian fuckers tried to pull your usual shit on us in the aftermath, we'd just strike again until it was your turn to choose between worker democracy or dying of thirst with no food and no power to make your demise any more comfortable.

Go and start, or join, a fucking union, and try to make things marginally better for your fellow workers, instead of doing nothing but sucking Stalin's necrotised dick over the internet.

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Go and start, or join, a fucking union, and try to make things marginally better for your fellow workers, instead of doing nothing but sucking Stalin’s necrotised dick over the internet.

I just need you to know this made me let out the loudest damned snort. Perfect description, 10/10 no notes.

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No, i don't consider it succeeding if there's a dictator in power. Is that a hot take? Again, I'm fairly anti-capitalist too. I am also anti-authoritarian, and thus also against dictators. Hence i do not consider Xi's CCP
Successful.

Edit: what barsoap said is also true. China utilizes a capitalist system as economy. Do you really think those factory workers own their factory themselves? If so, how are there so many Chinese billionaires? Billionaires shouldn't exist in a communist society.

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

A Tankie is anyone who's an apologist for the Chinese, soviet, North Korean, or other more minor fascist/opressive States. The are the Communists who yearn to lick the boot of Big brother, rather than truly empower the people

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Those states were state capitalism under authoritarianism. But I think a small portion of people on these communist actually support what has been done under these regimes but rather want to support communism where some chance had been given (by Lenin at early years for example)

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midwest.social

How does one get flair here?

Also, because I'm bad at image-memeing, blåhaj sounds like what you do when you've had a few and a cop pulls you over.

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lemm.ee

Hi! I don't want to break any rules so I'd like to ask first, what are the rules on self promotion? I was thinking of making a post about a 20-30 minute queer fishing game I made for this year's pride (this one to be specific) and thought it could be nice to share here but don't want to break a rule to do so.

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

It's allowed for now. If self promo becomes A problem, I'll hold another poll.

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Thank you, sounds good! I'll only do one post so I can make sure it's not spammy.

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lemmy.world

Question is Lemmy.world affiliated with the tankies that made lemmygrad or is it separate? I didn't know about any of this prior so now I'm worried a bit

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Gorillanreply
lemmy.world

I may be stupid but did you mean not affiliated or not separate?

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lemm.ee

Hi, may I please repost this as a reply within this comment section but with slightly different formatting for the sake of readability?

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Yeah, the post is missing its newlines. If the post correctly used newlines, new paragraphs, and better markdown overall, it would probably look like: ::: spoiler The post, but correctly marked down.

please incorporate the word rule in your post titles


Here are the things that get you banned:

  • saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad account
  • tankie behaviour
  • nazi behaviour
  • authoritarian behaviour
  • genocide denial
  • prejudice of any kind
  • anything else that is clearly bad

Things that get your post/comment removed:

  • anything in the banlist
  • posts that are so off topic/moldy that they don't fit on 196 at all (very rare, not usually enforced)

Ban length varies, and is mostly based off of whether or not I think you will change your behavior. I have baned certain people for upwards of 200 days.


EDIT: NSFW RULES

  • NSFW Content is now fully permitted BUT it must be tagged.
  • Any NSFW content that has not been tagged and blurred will be removed.
  • Content warnings should also be added to the title in brackets. Example: [penis] or: [explicit description of sex].
  • Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged. Yes, even female breasts.
  • IRL GORE IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CONDITION.

Please leave any suggested edits in the comments. :::

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lemmy.one

Why are downvotes disabled in this instance?

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Finally. I am returned.

I was very randomly banned from the "real" 196 and never got unbanned, even after notifying the admins 3 times without response.

Also: Fuck Reddits CEOs.

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I got banned because I accepted a free NFT thing without realising what it was. Lmao. Was during that time Gobby started power tripping with his autobans

Later I got banned from reddit entirely for saying "Men will blame everything before ever admitting that toxic masculinity might be the source of their misery"

So I switched to Lemmy 🩵🩵🩵

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Hey I just wanna say it's good to be back! I've been having 196 withdrawals.

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I'm not sure but my guess is it's posts that support corporations, like advertising or memes that could be ads if that makes sense

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posting memes/general posts that are pro-corp. I.E. mcdonalds sprite hits different, or wendys twitter, or whatever

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IM TRYING TO POST TO FOLLOW THE RULE BEFORE LEAVING BUT I KEEP GETTING AN ERROR THATI MUST SPECIFY WHAT COMMUNITY HELP PLEASE

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lemmy.ml

I’m curious to know more context abt the statement revolving around hexbear & lemmygrad? I’m very new to the fediverse so i don’t know much about these instances

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Tankie pro-mao/stalin cesspools that ferment people in a powerful echo chamber. Basically hyper-reactionist toxic "leftists" looking for any excuse to stir up trouble

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lemmygrad.ml

iffy is not a common international english word and hard to understand for non-native English speakers

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I've been seeing more posts featuring companies, like this one.

I think there should be some rule about advertisement. We probably shouldn't ban all mentions of companies, but some limits should be in place.

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I have made a poll to see whether or not I should start removing posts like these

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I'm here to post before I leave. Or do I need to post content? Hell I dunno, Im just itching for the sub

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IRL GORE IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CONDITION.

Finally an internet community of people that don't think it's funny if people die in horrible ways.

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That's good

I was on Raddle and they treat those words like they're equivalent to the r-slur, so it's good to have a Reddit alternative with at least a shred of sanity

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Lmao i thought I was the only one that remembered Raddle

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SamFlowersreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

There are some communities that consider them to be slurs against neurodivergent people. There's definitely an argument to be made there but at the same time they're so commonly used to refer to neurotypical people as well that it's also easy to argue that they don't do enough harm to be considered slurs.

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

bruh idiot hasn't been a slur since the 1800s what are those mods from fucking bloodborne or smth

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Fylkirreply
lemmy.sdf.org

Methinks perchance they've been imbibing the 40-rod.

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well you could follow the rule "if it's reported or someone comments that they're offended by a slur like retard, remove it". Or would that be too little moderation in your opinion?

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Helix 🧬reply
feddit.de

punk-ass bitch? sexy fuccboi? plant? bratwurst? nword when used by a PoC? Any of those?

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Well I only know what some of those mean, but pretty much any normal swear is allowed, including bitch as long as it's not being used in a derogatory sense towards women. The n-word is blanket banned not because I have any problem with black people using it, but rather because I don't have any way of verifying that the people using it are actually black. Same goes for other slurs that have been reclaimed.

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maybe consider (temporarily? permanently?) hiding vote-count on posts, to make it seem less dead in here. it doesn't matter how many votes a post has; it just matters whether it's higher or lower than others. for functional reasons, at least.

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I don't think that's a good idea. Also, it isn't dead in here by any measure

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

i'm seeing nine posts in the last hour, and top rated post of all time at 680 upvotes, both figures being below 1/10th of what appear(ed) on the sub.

that's by reddit measure, which is "a" measure, the only one most of us have for reference. i suggested upvote hiding because the reduced count may be discouraging.

they are not bad in themselves, however: if i were, say, moderating this place, I'd say these numbers are too damn high because scary x3. and yes, they're high as hell for general lemmy standards; from everywhere I've looked, that's obvious.

but the "Reddit perspective" is my reasoning for my suggestion, and i think those reasons will fade away anyway as people acclimate to these new figures, much like someone gets used to big numbers being normal on Japanese restaurant menus.

thanks for running this place; i think you're doing a great job of saving some of this culture

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I understand where you're coming from, and really appreciate the input but I think people will find it stranger to have no upvotes vs the community just feelig like it's in a budding phase

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Personally it would make the community feel more dead if anything. I like to see some engagement over none

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two_wheel2reply
lemm.ee

I've got vote counts hidden in my UI so things don't feel dead for me, it also helps me resist group think to a varying extent

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Just the web (and mobile by extension as I’m using the browser on mobile)

I’m not sure it’s in every instance, but it is on lemm.ee

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feddit.de

or we could just all stop caring about the vote count instead! why even pay attention to that? I'd honestly rather have two good comments on a post than 300 upvotes, or view counts, or whatever. couldn't care less about any of those.

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I know it’s really hard not to notice the votes on a post or comment, even though I’m not actually looking for it. I do agree with the person you’re replying to that it does make everything feel dead. I just have to regularly remind myself that this isn’t Reddit and the site is growing. Just startling tbh. Going to look at someone’s suggestion for UI that let’s you remove vote counts to see if that helps

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lemmy.world

posts that are so off topic that they don't fit on 196 at all

What is the topic? Is this like a de-facto meme community? I often used the subreddit to post things like media reccomendations and talk about random stuff without any images. Would that be allowed here? thanks in advance :]

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if there were to be a post that was, for example, "Chicago bulls pull dylan gongsworth from the minnesota rufflers, leading to widening predicted point gap" and it was like a photo of football, or a link to an article, we'd remove it.

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lemmy.ml

What's the situation with the lemmy community now that the subreddit is back open?

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lemm.ee

Sorry, I'm new here - "saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad account" - what does this mean? TIA

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Those with accounts created on lemmygrad (an instance created specifically for tankies) are basically on probation. If they misbehave even a little they get kicked out.

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voidf1shreply
lemm.ee

Ohh ok thanks, hadn't heard of lemmygrad

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Stupid question but; where can I find the banlist? I haven't seen a link to it in the sidebar, nor this list

I have a fuckton of stupid memes I collected over be years and I kinda wanna post those, but I have no idea which memes are banned rn lmao

Edit: wait I found an explanation; https://lemmy.world/comment/185002

So basically the banlist rule is "don't repeat anything people said in the modlog", or something to that degree?

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

How tf do you upload images on mobile? I’m on iOS, I’ve tried Firefox and chrome and get errors on both when trying to upload

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

The system is having serious issues right now, the website seems to be fully booked. I recommend just using the jerboa app on your phone for now.

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Did you remember to use lemmy.blahaj.zone instead of blahaj.zone? I screwed that up just this afternoon.

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sopuli.xyz

Do I have to post an image? Is the OP's image an example of what to do or what not to do?

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lemm.ee

real question. I'm assuming from the name that you can say trans rights are important. killing Nazis here is cool right? like opening up the physical rack, pulling out the backup drive, and bludgeoning them with it inside the housing? or would that be a violation of tos with your hosting company? is it only okay to suggest shooting them? do I have to be clear its only okay to do outside the data center where youre hosted?

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Mossreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

these rules have been our rules for over two years, with minimal changes. the request to add rule to your title has been there the whole time.

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samus12345reply
lemm.ee

Where? I only see a link to this recently made post.

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qazreply
lemmy.world

No AI generated content, so no Midjourney, ChatGPT, etc.

There are several reasons for this:

  1. It's low effort content that can drown out things people have put actual effort in (but that's not really a problem here since 99% is low effort shitposts anyway)
  2. Its training material is gathered without permission of the authors.
  3. It's wasteful in terms of energy and thus emissions
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slrpnk.net

Thanks. I couldn't wrap my head around it.

I don't really agree, with the viewpoint, but I'll continue to try and be mindful of the stuff I post.

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lemmy.ml

Could you elaborate how you disagree with 2 & 3?

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lemmy.ml

Oh man that post is a hot mess. Comparing energy used by a human to AI? Guess we don't need all those artists, better round em up and eliminate them because of some reddit math.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

that’s the argument OOP was making. I didn’t make it, I never said we should remove human artists. I think human creativity/creation will and should become even more valued in the coming years. You’re putting words in my mouth, that’s not very nice.

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You called the write up pretty good, idk man I was just responding to the information provided. Not really putting words in anyone's mouth but my own.

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slrpnk.net

I like the cut of your jib. Mod abuse Mondays need to make a return

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lemmy.ml

Not part of the community here just see you guys in All a lot, what is the reasoning behind having the word rule in all your posts? Just curious.

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lemmy.ml

Maybe I'm stupid but I still don't understand.

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You’re supposed to post before you leave (however you interpret that). I think they’re saying “Rule” in their posts to show they’re posting to follow that rule. That’s my interpretation anyway- only been here like a week and trying to figure out Lemmy

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

I don't understand what you're saying. Can you explain yourself so I know whether or not you are insulting me

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Test comment to see if still unable issues seems to have been worked out. Ignore.

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Why do you have mods who have advanced the claim that Jews deserved the Holocaust because "Communism is just as genocidal as Naziism" and it's really a tit-for-tat?

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Or that the crimes of communist countries were exaggerated to comical levels, including blood libel like "the enriched bread was made with the crushed bodies of aborted Christian fetuses" in order to justify arresting Jews, and like Falun Gong organ harvesting claims the exact details of the allegations are tastefully edited, filtering visible contaminants from the brackish filth of the right wing fever swamp and pouring it into the reservoir?

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

"Oh, our cult's qiqong is so good ChiNazi harvests our organs to sell to Jews for their rituals, and every cultivation group and traditional religious group approved by the government are all in on it." is the sort of freak show shit that HongKongers actually believe and this shit gets cleaned up and repeated by people who one would think should know better until you realize that many Holocaust collaborators were educated liberals who kept up with international news because that's how the brain worms got them.

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Sort of like how in Egypt it's the liberals who are transphobes and conservatives are supportive unless they're westernized Muslim Brotherhood regime change agents.

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