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I wasn’t trying to be funny. I was merely trying to get ahead of the bullshit you spew. Seeing as you’ve become almost completely toothless, it seems to have worked.
Both your links worked fine, but they linked to feddit.uk’s version of hexbear communities. So you would’ve been logged out. If you’d typed it in the form /c/memes@feddit.uk it would’ve worked fine (at least, on the website, I’m not sure if apps have quite caught up with generating links from that text) and anyone from lemmy.world would see a link also - oh wait, maybe not, you’re in hexbear so I guess you’re restricted to lemmy.ml and a handful of others. Shame that, having to face the consequences of your behaviour.
Links in the form !memes@feddit.uk are more widely adopted, I think. I’m gonna check on a few apps in a sec. Edit: the /c/ one still doesn’t work in everything, but !community@instance does.
Also, I thought you had no desire to speak to me?
You came late to the party, and only upvoted after I pointed out the downvote. The scores are getting kind of meaningless now anyway - moreso than normal, at least.
But yeah, that’s a funky bug I’m quietly aware of. It works on Jerboa as well, and a few others (but maybe not the ones that are merely web wrappers). Seems like the back end API still gives you access to comments that a user has deleted. There’s apparently 3 levels of deletion - user delete, moderator delete, and purge. I found a comment earlier that was deleted, when I looked inside it said *permanently deleted*
They posted a wrong thing, got corrected by me and others, their post got downvoted and the corrections got upvoted. So they delete their comment
See, deleting a comment when it is wrong, either to limit the score or even just to stop the influx of replies of people telling you that you were wrong, is reasonable. The issue isn’t that they deleted the comment, the issue is that the deleted comment took out the rest of the thread.
I don’t think they were necessarily intentionally taking out the thread in your example (I dunno either way) but there certainly was scope for maliciousness. Now, the system seems to have swung too far the other way. Deleted comments don’t break things, but they are too easily accessed by others. A deleted comment should only be visible to admin, and there should be a simpler way of doing the ultimate purge deletion.
FYI, an admin here told me there are 3 levels of deletion: user delete, mod delete, and purge. Purge is the only one that actually removes it from the server, but only admin have that capability. Admin should honour any request to purge, but it’s still up to them to actually do it. Also, there’s nothing to say that a federated instance will honour that, however this is ultimately no different to web scrapers.
Personally, I find this whole situation quite entertaining. I want to see it sorted out fully, and I think it will be eventually, but it’s funny seeing the codebase walk serpentine towards its goal. Less than ideal, sure, but entertaining.
And this is all low stakes at the end of the day - there’s no overall score leaving a black mark on your account and no hidden comments or rate limiting.
They’re just a bunch of assholes, to be succinct.
To give more detail, they are tankies who claim a far-left ideology. It’s like lemmygrad but a bit more crazy. But what’s really weird is that they’re very pro LGBTQ+, but at the same time support Russia (who have outlawed being gay).
Hexbear mods are pretty unhinged, in my experience. They ban people for saying anything they disagree with, usually making extraordinary claims in the modlog to justify, which in no way relate to the comment they ban. Don’t you dare suggest that Hamas was wrong to kill Israelis on 7 October, that’s genocide apologia!!
I also wonder if there’s a strong astroturfed element there. Like, they’re trying to sucker people in to an extreme ideology.
Edit: Their modlog can be quite entertaining. It seems like they’ve toned down slightly, but I still didn’t have to go that far to find claims of genocide support.
It also almost seems like they’ve purged their modlogs somewhat, as you see less detail the further you go down - although I expect that’s actually a lemmy bug (I’ve seen similar looking at user profiles). If you look at the modlogs for individual communities you might see more. However, I’d warn you that spending time there simply isn’t good for your soul.
When you roll around with pigs, you’ll both get covered in shit. The difference is the pig likes it. /pig_shitting_png_they_always_post
Ooooo go on then, I’ll bite. Seeing as I’m in a safe space here, and don’t have to tread on eggshells to avoid an unhinged moderator carelessly spinning Thor’s banhammer.
US hegemony that’s currently committing a genocide
How is the US committing genocide right now?
Let’s start with some facts - numbered, for your easy reply:
- The US have not been killing Palestinians. Israel have. Israel is a separate country to the US, and they do what they like. If anything, it almost seems that the US bends to Israel’s will - so it should be “an Israeli hegemony”. However, in reality, the US is merely an ally of Israel and simply is fulfilling its obligation to protect it from wider conflict. This is their motive, alongside a general incentive to keep international trade flowing for the US’ own economic interests.
- The US did not cause the famine in Yemen. It was never a US blockade. The blockade was started by Saudia Arabia in 2015, the US provided assistance as an ally but then left in 2016. Saudia Arabia was always the driving force, and has been the only force since 2016. The famine in Yemen started in late 2016, after the US pulled out.
- The US does, of course, supply weapons to their allies. But so do all sorts of other countries - why do you single the US out, specifically? They’re the biggest dog, but the other countries aren’t doing it because the US is doing it, they’re doing it because money.
I’m willing to wager that you’re ready and willing to spin anything into being the US’ fault. The reality is far more nuanced. Your hyperbole does nothing to help the situation - however it does encourage war to keep going and maybe even escalate.
The only people who will benefit from this are those that manufacture and sell weapons. Wouldn’t you know it, most of those people are in the US. Your actions are serving American capitalist war mongerers.
As per the second half of the sentence in my parent comment, they deleted their original comment only to repost the same comment again without the replies, and did this at least 3 times (after which I’d lost interest).
Yay for my reading comprehension! Lol sorry about that.
As an aside, it’s worth noting that “right to be forgotten” laws apply here for any server based in the UK, the EU, and a fair few other jurisdictions.
Unfortunately, “the right to be forgotten” ultimately amounted to little more than granting the wealthy the opportunity to curate their presence on the internet. The British right to be forgotten laws were introduced before GDPR, by Theresa May, and since then it’s been harder and harder to find negative things about Tory politicians - at least the stuff they don’t want you to find.
Case in point, while May was still PM, I once Googled “Theresa May, something bad” and the first result was “Theresa May is bad, but other Tory MP’s are worse”. They don’t only spin what they say, they now spin your search results.
