Hey, brother, you do you. Fight the power! I have no issues with ya, mate.

Then move on. Seems like that community wouldn't be a good fit for you anyway, so no loss. Basically you are missing out on reading articles that annoy you. Wear the ban as a badge of honor, not shame.

I've been banned--and I am not even kidding or exaggerating--for "it's Universal Monk!" Yes, banned because of my fucking reputation. Not because of anything I did in the community, never posted article, commented or even voted. Many communities I've never even heard of. But I've seen reasons of "UM," "Troll Universal Monk", etc.

And you know what horrible horrible thing I did? I proudly voted third party (socialist) in the election. Which is more accepted now, but a few months ago, I was called a traitor daily. Still called that regularly. lol

So yeah, some mods and posters are power-hungry babies. But for the most part if they are like that, then you don't wanna be part of that community anyway.

I hated Biden (before it was cool to do!). So I stayed out of communities that kissed his ass. I didn't read articles that kissed is ass. Why would I go to some pro-Biden community if I'm anti-Biden?

I think Furries are fucking crazy. So I don't go to Furry communities or get upset if I were somehow banned from one.

Why would you go to some pro-meat community, if you are anti-meat? You know every article is going to annoy you. You should have blocked it even before you got banned.

Which is why I'm all for votes being gone entirely. That way none of it matters...because none of it matters. :)

Sometimes the rollout can have avoidable harmful impacts though

I would say most times it's harmful in the beginning. But it happens and continue to happens. My rant is mostly about Lemmy's who are saying, "Ohhhh woe!!! Think of the artists!!! Oh Nooooooooo! My last Pokemon card looked like it has some AI on it! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"

I'm saying we should think of the millions of people who barely survive every fucking day because of inequality and classism. Not just some fucking artist who can't illustrate their fav DnD wizards for a living!

Sent my money in. Thanks for what you do with the software, brother.

And it also enables you to ban serial downvoters in communities you mod, without having to wait for them to post racist stuff. Lots of people would just downvote my posts, regardless of content. Now I can ban them if they are just downvote trolling (which they were doing). I love Tesseract!

I think you make GREAT points. I came here from Reddit, realized that it's becoming reddit, but not as popular.

Now I am on reddit as much as I am on here. And way more productive information on Reddit since it's so much better.

I just don't see Lemmy growing very much, because it's become a smaller Reddit. Especially .world. That instance is fucking toxic and full of tattletale babies that will legit follow you around if you disagree with them. lol

Your choice of words may trigger some people around here…

Can you explain what you mean by that?

Oh good catch!

Yeah, I was bummed to find out it's no longer updated. But there are so many articles that it's still helpful and great. And she still is holding the flame by keeping it up. I'm checking out libgen right now actually.

Agreed

Yep. I used to be able to buy an amazon kindle book. Download it, crack it, then read on any non-kindle device I had.

Now they don't let us download the books. So now I won't buy anymore kindle books. :)

Thank you for this!