The closest I ever found to love was a result of me being unapologetically myself. I was a terrible person but it turns out that someone was into that. By the end I was involved with someone else’s life by no effort of my own; exemplified by the fact that my first memory of them is a few years after their first memory of me. Sadly as I grew as a person we fell off and this time i’m finding it a lot harder to find someone who likes me.
You can make all the vague guesses you want, I’ve lived the experience and can say flat out the instance uses respectability politics to shut out criticism. Like it’s clear as day to anyone on the receiving end of that what they’re about.
All i’m trying to say is them defederating from lemmygrad tells you everything about that instance that you need to know. Hexbear I get, but grad holds themselves up to a way higher standard of comment quality and there was zero reason to defederate outside political. They literally only blocked the instance because they were communists who aren’t afraid to calmly debunk fascist propaganda with sources, and that’s an experience corroborated by literally anyone who has had the displeasure of interacting with their polite-fascist administration.
EDIT: the example you provided is not only completely useless as it guts the original intent of the message but is STILL too offensive for them, as bringing up fascism is already “killing the mood” more than enough for them to remove. Not only that they would accuse you of calling the OP a Nazi which is another way they can shut you down. Believe me I’ve dealt with liberal fascists my whole life i’ve heard it all.
How do you respectfully say “this is nazi propaganda?” You can’t. That’s the point. That’s why they do it.
Because you’re seeing them as an idealized object of desire, not as a person.
How to break out of this: think of a bunch of flaws they could have that would be challenging but not deal-breakers.
Kind of shares the same problem I had with Mobilizon in that none of the current instances are in my region, or my language for that matter.
I quote it nearly every day
There is no problem that can’t be solved by getting off Twitter
Hmm wonder why people would quit a circlejerk platform that bans people who call out when someone posts literal fascist propaganda.
It’s because beehaw mandates its positivity. I once called out one of their posts as being fascist and they banned me for being rude about it.
I feel like any place that forces people to be positive in a world where there’s so much injustice is always going to passively side with evil.
Yeah it’s absolutely gone to shit. I remember learning lua playing back then, pretty good language.
Why shouldn’t children use gmod?
You press the server list and the first thing you see is just a massive list of Nazi Germany RP going by as many names as you can think of. You keep scrolling down looking for a normal sever and learn every possible way to code “you play as the Nazis in this server” as you go.
Make lemonade. - Get mad!! Make life take the lemons back!!
When life gives you lemons…
Well it’s time for the broken clock to be right for once. Gmod is not a safe place for kids and it absolutely should not have kids content on it.
Use a script obfuscator. I’ve been using one for about a decade now and it’s extremely easy to tell when companies are doing illegal spying. Looking at YOU ebay. My full name is not GKDSLGFJDS ZKGWKDSF, you fucking assholes. Enjoy the cement shoes when the advertisers you sold “my information” to find out that it’s nothing but strings of randomly long random characters, kinda like what happened to twitter when they started lying and saying everyone who used their platform was SUPER into crypto (Yes, this was pre-Elon. All Musk did was bring the nazism of the platform to the surface. For an example of what twitter was really like you need look no further than BlueSky where you need to go out of your want to “disable nazis” because the CEO is convinced the average person wants to see hitler apologia)
It’s all good as long as you’re always on the better side of the coin flip.
Any reason to quit reddit is a good reason.
Seriously?? I guess… It makes sense, DDG stopped being good like 2 or 3 years ago.
Has there ever been a time in human history where pickup artistry has every lead to anything other than less-than-consensual sex?
Fake, that’s way too coherent and competent to have come from a CEO.