But you don't need consent to record someone in public. If you want to have a private conversation, then have a private conversation. Having a conversation in public and expecting it to remain private is over entitlement in my opinion. You have absolutely no expectation to privacy in a public space, nor should you.
somedaysoon
joined 1 year ago
I had two 15 year old accounts... nuked both of them. Reddit has been dogshit for the last 8 years anyway and has just been getting progressively worse year after year. It has very little of what initially drew me to it 15 years ago, and I've just been going there out of habit the last few years.
Deleting it felt freeing, honestly wish I had done so sooner.
harborfreight
Elitism aside, having a barrier to entry is better in my opinion.
I don't know how old you are but there was a time from the mid-90s to the mid-2000s where in my opinion the Internet, in its infancy, was at its greatest... and these federated services remind me of those times.
This time before corporations ran the Internet and every moron had access to it at their fingertips. It was a time when it took real effort to get online, and so the entirety of the Internet consisted of enthusiasts and small fragmented communities. It was beautiful looking back at what it once was and how organic it was, and sad to see what it has become now.
Now the Internet is ruled by corporations mining data, and every moron under the sun happily giving it away for the next dopamine hit engineered to keep them online longer. Companies using this data to manipulate specific demographics and eventually larger swathes of society to do whatever they want... no thanks, I'd rather not be a part of that circus.
I'd rather the barrier to entry be higher, in my opinion, it increases the signal to noise ratio... which is at an all time low on most other social media sites.
I mean, I've been banned from pretty much every single conservative sub for simply giving a reasoned debate too, or showing contradictory evidence to another statement or commenter. If you are going to complain about censorship, might want to hold your own party accountable first, otherwise it looks really hypocritical to me.
Manjaro XFCE on all my desktop and laptops. Debian on my servers.
Looks like ahegeo or whatever that's called and I personally hate it, sorry.
And if that continues long enough, and it does begin to effect their revenue, they will intervene and replace mods and re-open them. The only real solution is to leave and move on from it.