Mullvad is good though

I help friends and family with minor plumbing repairs and they will tell me:

oh I had "x" company come and they did that

" well it's all wrong "

They charged me a lot of money for that!

" why on earth would you have called them"

Because I saw their advertisement on TV. I thought they were good

" nah they're crooks"

It's worse than ever. Once you work your way up to being able to say anything - BAN! It's more of an echo chamber than ever before.

you have summoned me?

The fucking acronyms and in-jokes don't help, either.

reddit recently became hostile to new users, and inactive users(users that suddenly decide to use thier old accounts to comment) they just shadowban most of them now. the only people ive seen that succesful are the ones that are using other methods(not vpn) to hide thier device, fingerprinting, IP adress etc. even this is temporary, since reddit is also catching up to the other methods.

I don't know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on "Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you" chum all the time.

Are we any better though?

I don't use it for discussion, but for some information/support it is helpful to have a larger community to discuss with. I stay the fuck away from anything that has a hint of controversy though.

raises hand

Literally in the top 1% of karma users in 2023. Banned in 2024 for.....

checks notes

........posting a comment that my bike was stolen when I was 7.

Reddit claims the ban was done by a human. However I just cannot see a human looking at the post I got banned for, and saying "This guy deserves to get banned".

My best theory, based on the timeline, is that they offered me a presale enter IPO offering before it went public. At the time I was on cancer treatment, and had $0 income, with my two sisters and mom paying for my apartment.

I had no ability to buy an IPO.

3 days after it went public, I still didn't own stock, and was banned. Because I said my bike was stolen 30+ years earlier.

I got banned for saying we should have hanged every part of the Confederate leadership for treason.

They desperately need real users.

They have plenty of fake ones.

Yeah I hate reddit as much as the next guy, but come on.

I would say all of them are photoshopped.

Also in the third image you can see in the reflection there's a word that is not mirrored.

The second picture on the house seems suspicious as well.

By exception, advertising is forbidden at the following locations:

On the walls of buildings except when these walls are blind or have at least one opening with a unit area of less than 0,50 m²

Within 100 meters and in the field of visibility of buildings with an aesthetic, historic or picturesque character

Source: https://entreprendre.service-public.fr/vosdroits/F24356?lang=en

I have never noted anyone's username regularly on Reddit. Unless it's because they consistently had terrible comments, then they would stand out as either a troll or an idiot; honestly, it could go either way with many of them.

Lemmy is small enough that I see some of your names daily.

Y'all better stay off my lawn.