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I had a post about dishwashers (from the Technology Connections guy) removed from the Technology community because it wasn't "on topic." I'm sorry if I missed that dishwashers have been around since the Bronze Age.

Absolutely, and I really, really hate that. Admittedly I'm also autistic, so I probably take rules a bit more serious than many people. But still I am heavily confused by the concept that we live by laws every day which most of us never heard or read about. Especially in Germany, where I live, we have a lot of laws for everything, and 90% of them aren't really enforced, but it still is theoretically expected of me to abide by them.

Just a strange concept overall.

Yup.

I remember in late 2003, when I read the legalese bumf that came with Windows XP... very long, and painful, drudgesome, cryptic, hiding "deal with the devil clauses" (they can change the agreement after you agree), and very restrictive.

Then I read the GNU GPL v1, and other Free Software licenses.

Never went back to the abuse of proprietary licensed operating systems.

The freedom, the upfront honesty, the brevity, the simplicity, ... I thought for sure "The Year of the GNU+Linux Desktop" was sure to be the next year. ... Everybody else reads the terms and conditions... right?

My favourite is when the privacy policy is behind a "do you accept our privacy policy, yes or yes" popup

Dude, I swear I still have PTSD from that shithole lol

Everytime I post a meme I stare at New for almost 10 minutes waiting for it to get removed, before I remember "Oh wait, this is Lemmy"

Seen posts with -50 downvotes that still stay at the top of Hot lol, it's glorious

Lemme guess, that mod's username starts with j and ends with d? Cuz that sure sounds familiar.

Reddit and Discord.

On Reddit almost every post from before 2024 has been removed (except if its porn or gore then it has been reposed 10 times, properly archived, protected from link rot and mod approved).

On Discord most servers dont keep records of who gets banned/have no appeal process.

Some could argue that you weren't civil with Trump.

But that is far fetched and Trump isn't civil in any conversation

Reddit is in the end stages of an online forum. It's too big to be good now. That's why we are here. It's way better

I remember getting inspired by the "Polandball" comics, so I drew one myself. Even followed all the stylistic rules laid out on the sub and everything. But instead of just being allowed to post it you have to submit it to a mod first. And the mod rejected it because he didn't get the joke. So explained the joke to them but they still thought it didn't make sense, so I didn't get a licence to post in the end.

I understand that there are rules for the kind of stuff you want to allow but come on man...

Wrong. You're banned because you called the mods autistic in a way that implies autism is something to be looked down upon, hence using it as a slur. So not only you tried to insult the mods, you were ableistic in doing so.

Also, it was not the firsf time you went against that sub's rules.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

I'm permabanned from !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world because I got provoked into complaining about the rules in the pinned thread for discussing the rules. I never said I didn't intend to follow them anyway! Absolute bullshit power-tripping.

Oh weirdly enough I think I saw somebody replying to your comment! Was it quite recent? The impression they had was that you were banned for ban evasion I think, i.e. that you'd been banned before, then had come back on a new account to call the mods snowflakes.

Not sure tho, don't quote me, and I don't honestly care all that much - just saying that might be a reason, rather than what you actually said.

"1984"

~1984, George Orwell

This is what some not-very-good police do in some places. Arrest someone they don't like and then dig up some ancient law still on the books that they broke on a technicality. Usually if such a thing goes to court the court strikes it down, if the justice system is remotely functional. But where's Lemmy's courts?

This would be a good way to censor or ban anyone. Then when asked for a justification, retroactively, dig through all that and find buried somewhere some small applicable clause.

this is what the cops were accused of doing in the US in 1980 (and probably before that). stop a car with a black driver, then find any bullshit excuse to fine them. it's racism. it's called selective enforcement of law, i.e. the law is only sometimes enforced, and only when it suits the cops.