I read the article

From the shitshow that’s the comments, you’re the only one

No, that’s not the game

What game are you looking at? That screenshot isn’t dune, it’s some other game.

No, that’s an entirely different game screenshot, no idea what parent comment is smoking.

Pfft. It’s not like you can buy a house from Sears or something.

Edit: Guessing I got downvoted by somebody too young to understand the reference

Discord is too big at this point for people to leave it.

Never seen a ‘too big to fail’ platform fail, huh? It happens more frequently than you’d think

Well now I want a poison ring

Tldw?

Do a lot of countries have a problem with the colonial past? Speaking for Asia, it’s not really a thing that I’ve noticed there.

The Uyghur genocide situation has been confirmed by multiple countries, please don’t start a genocide denial debate here.

You could perhaps even all caps the start of your sentences like normal people do

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486920/Tempest_Rising/

Since the article doesn’t even link to it for some reason.

That the world isn’t black and white, and both sides can be awful at the same time.

I gathered, but (people like) you’re like 0.0001% of the population. Discord doesn’t care about your demographic.

Pretty much any adult has a smartphone capable of running discord and with a camera. You only have to verify once on any device.

Also couldn’t you just hold up a video of an older person

Based on my experience with similar things in the past, it activates the camera for a few seconds and you have to pan to give it a 3d image of your face.

Edit: Not sure why I’m getting downvoted for explaining how the system works. I’m not even taking any sides here.

I suppose it depends very much on what your definition of PTB is. Firstly, I’ll say this is based on the info in that post, and it may be one-sided since he didn’t defend himself.

The fact that he declares his intentions does help, but IMO it’s a large overstep. Banning anybody who so much as downvotes you is going to ensure you have an absolute echo chamber very soon. Which I’m guessing is probably the point, since otherwise he could have gone the Beehaw way of disabling downvotes for his instance.

Huh, I just checked the modlogs and yep, I’m banned from his instance. I suppose if you’re a user on his instance and unaware of what’s happening, you’ll just see the fediverse slowly shrink and shrink. I’m a reasonably prolific contributor, I’m fairly moderate, and if I’m getting banned for my views, so is a significant portion of the fediverse.

calls for murder shouldn’t be appearing in “memes” or “shitpost” communities that are made for fun

I agree with that. Comms should have full control over the type of content (including comments) they want appearing within them. But that’s not what’s happening with dubvee.

I agree with you that we need more content. I’ve blocked most of the meme comms b/c they’re not my thing, and most of the remaining content falls into a very few lonely groups. Building niche comms is a lot of work.

Here you go: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29502571

There are comments by others in there that they’ve been banned for downvoting him but otherwise never interacting with him or the instance.

Thanks for the additional info and context!

Thanks for the really detailed response!

1. Yeah, I noticed the missing thumbnails and I agree it is cause for concern.
2. The dubvee admin has been mentioned several times in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com as a PTB, banning anybody who downvotes him. Not the best situation to expose newcomers to either.
3. I can try that out. The single point of failure and long registration time looks like a concern.

Do you have any opinion about infosec.pub which somebody else recommended?