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  • I hope you realize that I have been genuine with you.

    I don’t realize that at all. I’ve presented you with comprehensive discussion points and you’ve responded with snide passive aggressive snipes. You responded to my detailed argument with an intentional misunderstanding to imply that I was islamophobic, and then continued to passive aggressively fuck with me for kicks. Your talent for gaslighting is exceptional though, I begrudgingly commend you for that.


  • It’s hard for me to know whether I am dealing with people who are genuinely misunderstanding my arguments, or if they are simply trying to cast doubt on my conclusions by pretending to misunderstand how I arrived at them. Given the length of my comments and the relative brevity of yours, I am leaning towards you belonging to the latter group. If you were genuine, you would explain what you mean without being ambiguous and respond to at least a portion of the points I have already made, as a demonstration of good faith. Please make better use of your time.




  • In my experience, every crosspost should have the link on the top. That’s the actual crosspost link. The one in the body of the text is kinda a bonus one that can be deleted according to the poster’s preference. But you’re right, the one in the body is also a hard link (goes to home instance of post) while the one in the top is a relative link (goes to your home instance). So I guess if your instance doesn’t federate the community that the crosspost was originally from, then the top link might not show up? I don’t remember encountering that but I guess I wouldn’t necessarily have noticed.

    Can you provide an example of a crosspost that doesn’t show the link in the top part?



  • The people who left reddit to join Lemmy aren’t representative of the average reddit user. They consisted of a fraction of a percent of the userbase and generally were the type to be calling out bad information hygiene. It might surprise you, but everyone who ever used reddit doesn’t behave in the exact same way or value the same exact things. Tbh, I think the information hygiene was much better here shortly after the API exodus, and it has slowly degraded again over the past few years.

    Btw I never heard information hygiene before but I’m going to keep using that, it’s a great term.




  • But if the comment was removed, it usually has the transcribed comment directly above the ban reason in the modlog.

    However, you are right that the modlog is still very limited and could be much more functional. There are ways to remove posts and comments without them appearing in the modlog, usually by banning the account entirely with the content removal box checked. Then it will show the ban, but all of the removed content is simply gone. It’s a thorny problem to solve to be fair, because people have also used the modlog in an abusive manner, so it’s kinda important to have the ability to actually nuke really bad stuff without it reappearing in the modlog.

    Also if you try simply scrolling through the modlog it’s obvious that a bunch of stuff is randomly omitted and completely unclear why. It’s only really useful to check the histories of specific users or mods, because you can sort that way and everything for that particular user seems to come up properly.


  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.workstoFediverse@lemmy.world•Some thoughts after 3 years on Lemmy
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    You seem to be confused about how my two arms point relates to the rest of my comment. It is somewhat confusing tbf, especially if you have a reason to misinterpret it in a specific way.

    The point about humans having two arms is a point about making broad claims in general, and the way that people such as PoVoq tend to willfully misinterpret them in order to attack others and gain a sense of moral superiority. Neither OP nor myself ever made the claim that Muslims in general are problematic or violent or whatever else. That would be totally islamophobic and also probably racist.

    The claim is that there is a cultural element that creates an increased likelihood of religious radicalization resulting in indiscriminate violence, and that cultural element is particular to contemporary manifestations of Islamic culture. People make these types of claims every single day about a wide variety of groups, whether they be cops, soldiers, politicians, lawyers, bankers, Christians, Hindus, straight people, gay people, old people, young people, Republicans, Democrats, Americans, Europeans, Argentinians, Australians, Chinese, and so on and so forth. We describe what we think about groups of people based on the behavior that we witness and read about. And oftentimes (nearly always), what we think is wrong, or at least grossly oversimplified.

    People say cops beat their wives, that they’re power tripping sociopaths, that they’re racist, and everything else in the book. And each of these claims is somewhat true, and also somewhat untrue, because there are a lot of cops on this planet, and each claim only applies to a certain percentage of them. To the extent that cops statistically commit domestic violence at a higher rate than the general population, one could argue that the claim is true. However, there might also be subgroups of cops among whom that claim is demonstrably untrue.

    Similarly, with the claim about Islamic culture and the likelihood of violence, one could say that the claim is true to the extent that Muslims and/or Islamic immigrants commit violent/terrorist acts at a greater statistical rate than the general population. And I believe that the statistical data we have on that question does in fact support the claim, at least in certain contexts. It has nothing to do with making sweeping claims about all 1.5 billion Muslims on this planet, it has to do with probability and risk, and I think deep down you probably already knew that.