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I always think of the flanking Fascii of the congressional chamber of the United States when I hear the word fascist. It's all over the United States symbols which means we are either incorrectly using the term or we are fascist not liking other fascist. To me a bundle of sticks around an axe is about as useless a thing you can find. Maybe it means that the weapon of justice ( two sided axe or gavel ) is only to be handled by the many. Abraham Lincoln memorial had this embedded into his chair or throne.
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↩ replying to Dave Nicholls
I remember in middle school, it was a small group of the β€œcool” β€œbad” boys who’d look for any small opportunity to use it to insult other boys … like β€œthat’s gay” or β€œyou’re gay”. They were also the group that really strictly imitated Kid Rock and Eminem. I think Reddit has basically the same rule for each sub to keep things inclusive and respectful … so people are quick to downvote any comment that has an abusive language tone, or to report it to the moderators.
↩ replying to Neigsendoig Cocules
Lemmy is small, but more or less a clone of the old Reddit (as far as I understand it). As an old school Reddit user I am pretty disgusted by what it’s become. I remember moving away from Digg to Reddit after Digg was ruined by commercialism, now I feel the same way about Reddit - but it’s much harder to find alternatives these days because of the sheer scale/user base of these platforms.
↩ replying to Neigsendoig Cocules
I don’t know too much about it to be honest… but isn’t Reddit also super centralized, but also monetized/corporatized? I guess I’m just interested in supporting any sort of non-monetized version. I would love something decentralized, but that doesn’t seem to exist (in any way that is accessible to the amount of people that would also make it useful).
r/bitcoin got weird. It was my go-to back in the 20-teens when there wasn't much bitcoin news around. I don't think I'm banned as in kicked out, but that last handful of things I've tried to post (been years literally) has gotten auto-moderated and never posted. Got to the point where I didn't understand half of the nonsense that rose to the top anyway.
Also got shadow-banned on r/bitcoin, didn't allow to post AI-generated Bitcoin art without properly stating it as a rule. Think in general subreddit mods and reddit admins have too much power over users' content, plus shadow-banning, posts don't appear under New, meaning nobody sees them. Algo what is displayed under New and Hot.