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  • Sorry for hurting your feelings. Votes and reactions are relevant when it is easily distinguishable what they really mean. When it is as easy as a few button presses for someome on Reddit or Lemmy to impersonate different people, and votes are anonymous, they lose all value for convincing people. Same goes for the obviously fake vote counts on Reddit’s front page. You’d have to be a fool to think those numbers are real.

    When manipulation is likely, getting downvoted a bunch means you’re doing something right. You can assume anyone who upvotes you when you are being critical of something has no reason to do so.

    Let’s say it is less likely for people to be manipulating stuff, if you know you’re pissing off people who have values opposed to yours, or for instance a Discord full of loser manchild liberals, it should be taken like I said as an angry emoji react.

    If you really want to upset me, you would have to refute something I am saying. Childish insults and pedantic nonsense and downvotes won’t work. And I know you desperately want to upset me. You got so worked up about what I said and you didn’t even know what I meant.




  • Okay whatever part of this reddit clone you operate then, the sub where you talked about being a mod was on there.

    You literally made it your job to care about internet points and bans and shit for free. I happen to enjoy talking about federation software including ActivityPub as well as FOSS and its political side.

    Internet moderators are universally understood to be the lowest humans on the chain of being, beneath even investment bankers.

    It is a natural criticism of this software to point out the way people import antifeatures like voting from corporate social media, the cargo cult effect essentially, as well as the failure of FOSS projects to enable people to avoid advertisements or reactionary political propaganda. Lemmy still gives a bullhorn to the views of the ruling class because it is primarily frequented by middle class tech workers, who are the most heavily saturated by US/EU/SK/Aus/Japan propaganda, the papers associated with the leaders of the world financial system. This is a valid criticism of open source projects. Open platforms with zero protection like this practically criticize themselves. Mocking people who take these sites seriously is enjoyable for its own sake, to answer your question.





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    1 year ago

    First off it is incredible people are using the downvote button as an “I disagree” button even here. Vile fucking people.

    Most efficient way to solve the issue of reparations to descendants of slaves and indians is poverty alleviation programs and land reform, they are disproportionately affected by these things. No more rich men owning forests, even if they do it through “conservation” nonprofits. No more wealth hoarding by white americans who inherited expensive housing from the era of redlining.

    Also minority groups need special political representation in a democracy otherwise it is just wolves voting to have the sheep for dinner.

    This is what they fight tooth and nail because they know who would win from evening the scales.

    White political power is based on hoarding property, money, gerrymandering and preventing campaign finance reform.



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    Blocked your instance for being annoying beyond words and I side with Hexbear in the trans people calling each other transphobic beef (lol), so can’t reply directly, but the republican propaganda part of it was saying he was actually dead because he was gone for so long LMAO, him frequently going missing had to become a meme first. I am not your aide and it is not my job to catch you up on the last 4 years.

    “Weeks at a time” is probably a stretch but showing up in public is not strenuous enough for most officials that they have gaps at all. Hell when this happens in China or the DPRK liberals become convinced people were executed.