More Oauth options and maybe bitcoin signature sign-in coming next. Not that the site is crypto related. It's not in any significant way. It's just the obvious zero-trust thing that should have happened 10 years ago as an option beyond passwords.

Screenshots of what I was able to get:
https://img.gvid.tv/i/2bGKfgkc.png
https://img.gvid.tv/i/GWcp5bJQ.png
https://img.gvid.tv/i/3n17xVBi.png

Links:
Removed comment: https://lemmy.world/post/52986725/26296295
Callout thread: https://lemmy.world/post/53079627
Initial mirror thread: https://lemmy.world/post/53079683

This may be a conspiracy theory, but it's just a bit of reasonable logic, and it has some probability of being potentially true. Is the Ukraine sub run as a military op? Ukraine has a pretty big stake obviously. It has military value to them to shape opinion. They would have the resources and man power to have a few people man some mod positions. It's almost irrational to think they wouldn't try that, and could probably succeed.

The problem though is if that's the case, they wouldn't see broad anti-war views as useful, even if it does present Russia's actions as a major blunder. But if your anti-war views are more universal that's not what they want for their manufactured consensus farm.

My view is speech on a relatively free-speech platform shouldn't be subject to the censorship that militaries would prefer to have. Our speech shouldn't be subject to military operations. If that is what's happening there then they need to not be moderators.

And what other explanation could there be for a Ukraine sub blocking comments that say that invasion is bad when the sub's only rule is "don't side with invaders"? Maybe they are so ban happy they don't even really read the comments and they are just shotgunning near random removals? Like my first screenshot shows, I was not the only comment to be removed. And there was nothing in that sub that was provocative or unsupportive of Ukraine. But a significant number of comments were removed anyway, not just mine.

Something about saying that both Russia and the US have shown us multiple times that people who invade usually end up with buyer's remorse is somehow a problem for them. It's a reasonable comment. But not the comment you want if your sub is a military op. Because sub is targetted at Americans (English speaking sub), and pointing out the miscalculated costs of war doesn't fit the operation.

At the time of my posting this, they haven't had time yet to respond. This post is the backup thread so if they remove the call out people will be able to observe it.

Let's see what they say before we freak out too much. But we'll make another thread that will really take off if they really stick their foot in their mouth.

Content of the thread posted to their sub:

Title: Comment removed even though it was generally liked and didn't violate any rules

https://img.gvid.tv/img/2bGKfgkc.png
https://lemmy.world/post/52986725/26296295

The comment basically said that militaries generally find out that invasion ends up being more expensive than their initial estimates. And that the nature of defense industry having political connections in most countries means that there is an incentive to not learn the lesson.

I also noticed that the "new comments" count is -6. We likely need to consider the offset of actual new comments. So the moderator went on a comment removal spree of any comment they saw as inconvenient.

The question is why he would see a comment about invasion being a frequent blunder as inconvenient or undesirable? Why is that so triggering for the moderator?

I wonder what other absurd removals exist in this mass censorship.

Do yourself a favor. Don't be a reddit mod.

I'm going to post this to at least one other place. So if you remove this discussion it will be observed and discussed at significantly more scale.

This thread functions as the secondary thread.

I pre-wrote this thread ahead of posting that one so that I could be fast at getting a second thread up immediately after. So I'm just now getting the link to the main thread.

Main thread: https://lemmy.world/post/53079627
First screenshot of main thread: https://img.gvid.tv/i/GWcp5bJQ.png

Edit:

Second screenshot. Banned: https://img.gvid.tv/i/3n17xVBi.png

Edit 2: I had to remove a section because I realized I inadvertently broke a rule here, explaining my estimate of their motivation. Apparently I shouldn't do that so I removed it.

While this is just wireframe for demo purposes, I already have image reshaping working ahead of this. So a little voxel / billboarding demo shouldn’t be too far off. I'm trying to do this with as little AI as possible. I'm at about 90% for my working sessions being zero AI for this project.

While this is just wireframe for demo purposes, I already have image reshaping working ahead of this. So a little voxel / billboarding demo shouldn't be too far off.

Quite a bit more has happened since I wrote that. This has been a fruitful project. I've learned a lot.

I wrote in there that it was largely vibe-coded. It was to that point. But now I'm down to 10% AI. C is very fruitful in always being able to do the next step. C is known for making every problem kind of hard. But it makes no problem impossible.

I wonder if it's why C projects have so much long term momentum compared to others. At no point are you ever stuck. Even in an environment where you don't have lib-c, an OS, any syscalls, floating point math, you just never truly feel stuck and so projects just keep churning to the next improvement for 30+ years when it's C. You just write the next alg and keep moving even if it's slower. Other languages make you regret an architecture decision and throw away or re-write after enough time.