Confiscations? I’m unfamiliar with the term

Well that’s what I mean by “good faith participation” — usually that includes showing off what you are doing/creating to a community you are a part of.

The problem, that you acknowledge, is that some businesses (in reality a majority) do purely advertisements. It is indeed a slippery slope.

However, I’ve seen small businesses/individuals post content that gets praised by the general population of a community and then people start asking “Hey, where’d you get that? Where can I get that?” And then the OP is like “Well I actually make it myself, I sell them as a business but also engage in the hobby myself”. THAT is the most successful way I have seen a business interact in an online forum.

I shouldn’t be required to take extra steps to mute advertisements I didn’t ask for, consent to, or otherwise search for.

If small businesses want their own instances, that’s in their power to do so, willing participation in those instances will be difficult to accumulate I suspect.

They should leave it alone. I don’t want to see ads everywhere or worse, ads disguised as content. Reddit has been going to shit due to, in part, the rampant commercialization of the platform.

If a post puts out a call asking for a product that your SB can provide, feel free to post that you have the answer. Beyond that, don’t inundate us with attempts to see your product.

Edit: That said, I do agree with the other commenter who says be an easy-to-contact support account.

You work with model train products it seems, so good-faith, non-advertising participation in such communities is the best way to engage. That’ll do more for your branding, reputation, and business profits that shoehorning ads in.

I’m a sane leftist (idek how to label myself anymore in light of current politics and global divides), so also pro-2A.

It feels like there’s a billion false flag attacks within left-leaning online spaces that have completely fractured it. I get that that’s not new, but it feels like we are accelerating in a very negative way lol. I personally think that the abuse of the doctrine of intersectionality and use of identity politics by my peers have destroyed any hope for a strong progressive front.

Fully agree, especially with your list. Tragically that frequently leads to nuanced opinions, and those can cause social friction since it appears strict conformity to one of two “sides” is required to participate in (at least online) society.

Don’t even need a slur.

“Steve I’m gonna say… ‘unemployed leeches upon society with an apparent allergy to proper social skills and hygiene?’”

“Let’s see what the survey says… give me an unemployed leeches!”

DING

crowd goes wild

If the subs have banned you, then the site-wide suspensions will come soon.

I pissed off a “super”-mod and got banned from like 10 subs at once and then I got banned or blocked far more often. Then I got perma-banned sitewide for criticizing the concept of the average Redditor.

Try bringing up luigi mangione or criticizing Islam in any of the major subs and you will get perma-d pretty quick.

“They carved out a path of stupidity…”

Beautifully put. Great phrase.

I’m so glad to see other’s possess this opinion. The mental gymnastics they do to try to justify their insane positions and rhetoric dumbfounds me. Made the mistake of making my first account on that instance and was getting downvoted left and right for pushing back on Pro-“USSR” (they don’t even bother calling it Russia) and Pro-“DPRK” or “Korean” (because they act like North Korea is not a separate state run by dictator at the suffering of their people) content.

I thought I was taking crazy pills until another kind user said I’m not crazy, just in the wrong instance lol. Life-saver.

No real commentary on what you said, but excuse my recovering-Redditor-pedantry. In my experience/opinion .ml is EXTREMELY far left (to the point of almost horseshoeing back to being far right) but in reality they’re simply just far left and EXTREMELY authoritarian. So Auth-Left if you’re looking at the political compass (not a perfect compass or representation of the political ecosystem but I’ve not seen one that’s better).

Yea one of the admins/founders of this platform, I think his username is Davel(?) is SUPER pro-censorship of whatever he doesn’t like and will just remove non-violative stuff that doesn’t conform to his myopic worldview. There’s definitely still tyrannical mods/admins here, but credit where it’s due to the founders — it’s easy enough to just make a new account or find a new instance lol.

I’ll always say fuuuuuck Spez with my wholllle chest. He’s such a little cretin.

Lol at that point ya may as well get an electric moped!

Can corroborate lmao. They’ve saved me so much time that I usually spent correcting misinfo, but I guess that’s what they want on their platform. Anyways Lemmy’s been an okay replacement.

The drivers for sure. I live in a major metropolitan area on the east coast and at the intersection of three jurisdictions.

My home state’s drivers are slow as molasses and geriatric or are obviously foreign and didn’t take U.S. driver’s ed.

Across the river is a bunch of sheltered drivers who I normally pity. Their city is usually walkable or transit-able so driving is not something you could even expect them to be good at.

And then there’s the adjacent state which is notoriously home to some of the worst drivers in the US who genuinely, routinely make me fear for my life when they’re in my proximity on the road lol. Hate those drivers.

Other than that, I think the culture of my home state is much warmer and friendly while the adjacent state is nice but the people are also a bit more standoffish and cold. Home state is a barren wasteland of awful roads and data centers, adjacent state has so much green space and well-developed communities.