you should have seen lemmy ml when Russia invaded Ukraine. It was almost the death of the entire platform.

your tantrum is much more cringe than any complain post I’ve ever seen lmao

it’s 100% that they count mobile games as “gaming” so grandma and grandpa playing candy crush and wordle are “gamers” now. They list 11% on console but even that seems high. 23% on PC probably includes wordle too.

I was just having issues with your opener which sounds whole lot like justification.

Cloudflare is a business. Businesses protect their profits

You say that like it’s ok to do shitty things as long as “you’re a business protecting profits”

Surprise surprise. Peaceful protests yet again did nothing against totalitarians.

Are we allowed to celebrate someones death in this lemmy community? If so color me celebrated!

The west is legit afraid of Russia’s collapse because once again someone will have to bail Russia out and it’ll either be another 1988 mess or a new toy for China.

What will happen to Russia once it’s fully in “war economy” and loses the war?

Eh the article makes it sound like its a more serious attack than a retirement home scuffle

Ok watching the video and where’s the assault? What a clickbait dude

It’s unrelated to the current topic but yes. Terms of service should be both ways. We already do that for user data through GDPR and similar laws and inevitably all users will have more rights including right to transparency.

I find it kinda funny that you argue against this on a platform that was founded because reddit was extremely opaque. We even have a transparent mod log here. So you really need more examples that transparency is good?

Nah man it’s completely different when society regulates itself through transparent rules vs opaque ones. It’s more organized and self balancing.

I never said it was a singular cause just a contributor

You have real stats to back that claim? Because leaving this up to benevolent dictators is kinda silly.

You don’t see how opaque manipulation fuels conspiracies and paranoia? Come on dude.

The rise of alt-right and conspiracies would be a one obvious one.

It’s definitely morally bankrupt imo and we can agree to disagree here as I don’t think this topic can be expanded further.

Effectiveness is irrelevant here. Breaking troll’s kneecaps would be very effective too.

This mental manipulation and gaslighting has no place in our society. We’re literally suffering the consequences of this right now.

Shadow banning is definitely too much imo. It’s simply unethical no matter how you look at it.

First, it doesn’t do anything to prevent bots. It takes less than a second for a bot to check whether they are shadow banned. It’s simply a tool to bully and gaslight people - just block them. Why these abusive games?

yeah but you don’t get to choose that. You give away that right as soon as you participate in public discourse. It’s a zero sum game - either it’s a public for everyone or no one.

Don’t get me wrong, Reddit is a bitch but I think people want to cut their noses off to spite their faces here. It’s much more important to have free information flow than to fuck reddit.

My fear is that people will vote in some really dumb rules to spite AI and restrict free information flow accidentally.