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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.
They took down my bitcoin JPEGs that where viewed by millions on Twitter (saylor was sharing them) and told me it was low value content. I tried 3 times. Haven’t been part of the group for 2 years now. Feel for the poor souls still stuck there.
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.
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.
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.