this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.


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At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I could see a strong argument for personal safety around such a question (potential for self-incrimination and going through windows) but bigotry is a head scratcher.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Serious question.. how?

Is everything on Lemmy traceable back to the source?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it's networked, it's traceable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm using a VPN. How would that work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

VPNs didn't make things untraceable at all. That's not what they are for. They are just a method for encrypting traffic between two networks that have connectivity to the public Internet. Traffic from your machine to the VPN entrypoint gets routed just like any other network traffic. A relatively passive MitM can readily see where packets are going to/arriving from based upon the headers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

ips are probably logged somewhere between here and there