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This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.

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Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

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A few rule changes on community's reaction: Elon Musk personal rants, overzealous advertisement posts, non-essential crypto news effectively disallowed | Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ad (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Non-essential crypto news covers crypto advertisement, insignificant news that does not affect legit users like XMR/ETH/BTC holders or darknet users, posts relating to garbage like Brave browser and its coin, and so on. Due to the multiple kinds of crypto posts that pop up, this rule will be applied subjectively on a case-by-case basis.

Community complaints about Elon Musk were raised here. https://lemmy.ml/post/7186058

A lot of ad and spam posts appear regularly, which need to be squashed. This will be enforced more heavily from now on.

Sometimes legitimate products are advertised, which should be allowed to post. This will be checked per case basis, and unless asked for permission, all such posts will be removed without notice.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My issue is that Brave Browser is the only non-cryptocurrency subject you explicitly disallow. Remember, the browser, not the coin. There's nothing about 4chan or Raid Shadow Legends in your list of prohibited topics. Your bias is clearly on display here.

To reiterate my question you dodged, how will you decide what is "good" and "bad" technology? As a community moderator, you should be impartial.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Impartiality against obnoxious trolling, crypto shilling and hating on "Mozilla politics" to hide their homophobia is not possible. Brave browser is the only major web browser to bundle a crypto coin and scheme with it, and it brings with itself all of the forementioned garbage which has no place in a moderated/civil community. You are basically saying to tolerate the intolerant and consider the inconsiderate. Go read Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance short comic.

Your bias is apparent here, when you say you can separate Brave browser from Brave coin. I already shared among the links how that has been false since years, yet you insist forcibly a wrong thing. Moderation is a biased thing, and this is not a freezepeach zone. 4chan /g/ might be more up your alley, but they also hate Brave, as do most privacy or tech communities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You still failed to answer my question.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I did, you failed to read. And I will now fail to entertain your Brave love affair requests any further, with silence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just drop Brave already and answer the question.

How will you determine what is "good" or "bad" technology?