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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Without you I wouldn’t be here, you did a good job!

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I joined Lemmy because of that post. So thanks to OP and whoever recommended the app Voyager

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

reddit mods' authoritative feel is something you can't dare to snatch lol, those neckbeards would run (for the first time ever in their life) to give you the ban hammer /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Damn, feels like I'm the one who told you, lol, I love Voyager and Lemm.ee.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We've known this for actual years now. Reddit has made it crystal clear, talking about competition is absolutely not allowed. But they aren't controlled by China dammit, you'd be crazy to think that!

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

Without context, maybe, but if you start connecting all the dots over the years, it's not far-fetched nor off topic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure I get your first few sentences and even agree there that reddit doesn't want positive talk of competition, but what I'm failing to see is where China comes in to play here beyond the fact they have some ownership stake in reddit. Do you think they're driving this policy, if so what makes you think it's them and not any of the other 100 rich assholes with ownership stakes?

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

The people who have held board positions over the last decade or so, the particular bias toward preventing Chinese dissent getting too big on any sub when others are allowed to get massive, even violent hate groups like white supremacists have better luck with administration, and the ever more identical content policies of Reddit and the CCP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Hi, I don't think it's crazy to think the CCP owns (or rather controls) it, but I don't think it even matters. They've clearly chosen to operate a certain way.

Big tech companies (fuck you Reddit) and governments will shout about the CCP and how nobody can trust that their privacy is respected on Chinese platforms (not disputing this), or how they censor dissenting speech, but then you see how those same invasive measures are implemented in a more subtle way on non-Chinese platforms.

I have an easier time imagining that it's just lessons learned from the CCP and others regardless of the organization's (fuck you Reddit) nationality. It's a matter of money, or power, or both, because they (fuck you Reddit) have no values and will bend the knee to authoritarians so that they can operate in those countries and feed off of their people too.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems like the mods from r/buyfromeu on reddit don't really want european alternatives to win when it means them leaving their subreddit in favor of something actually european

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Hum, interesting 🤔

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

17948

Another one. I don't know why, but I think the comments were too much about lemmy/fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Well, seems quite relevant as answers to that question

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

You can use https://old.reddit.com/r/Buy_European instead, the mods there are chilled.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That was my post, I'm having a chat with the mods now, hoping they can reinstate the post. a warning would have been nice before removing the post and banning me, but let's see what comes of this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The mods haven't responded to me in 17 hours, they also seem to have a problem with this community:

There is also beef between them and the other reddit r/Buy_European sub

https://old.reddit.com/r/Buy_European/comments/1j6jeg3/the_other_buyeuropean_sub_is_apparently_now/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is the claim that a corporation runs this community to do self-promotion actually based on anything substantial or are they just being weird on Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems to be a reddit mod moment. @[email protected] is a mod of the community, but https://buy-european.net/ is a small side project. Ironically, the /r/buyfromEU mods seem to be involved about https://www.goeuropean.org/ , which is more bloated due to using Softr. They also have third-party cookies: https://www.goeuropean.org/cookie-policy

Could maybe be the reason why they want to keep people using that last website, and prevent people hearing from https://buy-european.net/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

but didn't they yesterday say that [email protected] is run by a company? i'm not even mod there afaik. as the europeans-alternatives site is the only one serving ads and having affiliate links, i would assume it's more about them than it is about our ad-free site tbh. but they promote that commercial site explicitly. not sure why they seemingly hate us with a passion... damn it, forgot i didn't want to partake in drama anymore :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know, the screen above seems to target [email protected] 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

guess then i'm clueless what the reasoning behind it is. i will just ignore it from now on. really counterproductive pastime

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

From what I can see, it's just a reddit mod moment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Trust me, nothing will come of this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

God, the number of confidently incorrect comments there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reddit is the new Twitter. Change my mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

its a censorious shithole, atleast on lemmy i only get downvoted if i write my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I saw this post and hey at least from what I've seen in the comments some people were corrected and decided to give it a try so it did have impact.

Too bad the r/BuyFromEU team removed it tho

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Does anyone know who the subreddit’s moderators are

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Wtf… that’s so wrong