Microblog Memes

Just to say, I massively prefer the name 'microblogmemes' over 'whitepeopletwitter'. That was always a weird one - posts didn't always involve white people, didn't always come from Twitter (which - technically - doesn't even exist anymore) and seemed based on a petty misunderstanding of what Black People Twitter was.

FWIW, I agree with you about the Denny's post. I'm also the moderator of a community that Stamets has quit, so I know that losing him is a blow, because he posts a lot of content. But I also know that he's a complicated human.

That Banksy quote really is just utterly and thoroughly fantastic.

There should be no small number of people here who escaped Reddit because they didn’t want ads in their face. I appreciate the blanket statement calling them out and banning them.

We did a bunch of research into alternative toilet paper when we leaned about how it's usually cut from old-growth trees. Looked at a bunch of brands, compared recycled benefits to bamboo, and price compared to find one that was actually cheaper than the Charmin at Walmart if bought in bulk.

I posted my resulting find in TIL on Lemmy.world, and it was deleted as an ad. I only ask you be careful with this one.

I don't think you did anything wrong, and I probably would have done the same thing, but in retrospect (of reading those DMs), it might have been better to let that one post naturally fade away and apply the rule to future posts after publically setting the rule.

I dunno, maybe not... I'm pretty against seeing ads on here too. I'm more of a commenter than a poster, so maybe it's nothing to do with me.

Appreciate your taking the time to do all this work out in the open! I don't think you're running a fiefdom.

Good policy. That's me subscribed.

What constitutes advertising in your view should be further clarified in the community rules, or perhaps you should include brand promotion in that rule as well. If this said 'Advertisement' or 'Sponsored' I'd call it an ad for sure, but this is just a post, which qualifies as brand promotion, but most people wouldn't call it an advertisement. Regardless, I agree with your decision to remove it as it is certainly the kind of low-effort content we should strive to avoid.

Your stance is great. I'm very glad you're taking the liberty to remove posts, moderated spaces who are strict about what kinda content is allowed are just more pleasant. Hackernews, lobste.rs and me_irl come to mind. Unsure why the poster in the picture reacted so dramatically lol

I fully support your position.

Just noticed that said user had posted numerous memes here, and now they added a post description complaining about this to each and every one of them

That makes sense to me, thank you for putting in the time. A lot of ads these days are more "you know it when you see it", so it's good that you're taking the time to check for it

That Dennys ad was pretty aggressive as far as marketting goes. Im curious where you draw the line, are all corporate accounts out, or only if they are doing very obvious "Checkout the new McFatty"?

In fairness, i cant find any good examples of less aggressive marketting, once you start looking at them for more than 2 seconds the subtlety wears off pretty quick :/

Nah fuck that guy, the new rule belongs.

This is one of my favorite communities on Lemmy. Thank you!

Hey I left reddit because of arbitrary moderation too, and for being targeted for harassment based on who I am.

Just want to say your moderation decision here seems perfectly fine to me.

Stamets asked if you’d please add the rule, implying he was gonna be an adult about it.

But I guess that was a premature implication on his part because he was a lot more worked up than he originally let in.

Oh well. I appreciate the new rule. No ads is pretty straightforward.

This is a good decision, thanks for making it and for sharing your reasoning here.