i have seen american being used to refer to someone living in either South or Nord America enough to need to figure out if someone is talking about the 2 continents or about a single country when they are using the term
US? US what? United States of Mexico? United States of Matsya? If we're being difficult and aloof just to be difficult and aloof, lets really lean into it. When you say "US" it could be a number of places.
That's the case in the English language, where "Usian" is usually interpreted as a derogative adjective, but how else would you translate "[IT] statunitense" as opposed to "[IT] americano"?
I'm pretty sure the Spanish language has something similar to the Italian word, and I suspect that's true for some other romance languages.
I myself use "American" instead of "Usian", because the latter feels... artificial, but at the same time insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.
insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.
I suppose I wouldn't know because I'm not American, I'm American.
EDIT: I mean honestly, no one living in the greater North or South Americas would say the above while speaking English. This whole thing ironically smacks of a first world problem a (perhaps self-hating) American (or at very least Westerner) came up with. All the rest of us surrounding their country know our identities.
This is the problem with these greentext communities, the people in them have never actually posted on 4chan and lack the ability to comment without filtering themselves.
I mean, if I’m being perfectly honest, I’d prefer not to associate with people who frequent any of the toxic chans. A middle ground where people are capable of reading or writing something peculiar without going slack-jawed would be nice, though. The line where the community suddenly turns homophobic is incredibly thin.
I feel bad when Reddit mods get the brunt for stuff like this; in my opinion, it's usually not their fault. It's the fault of Reddit which relies on unpaid labor to make its entire website work literally at all. Maybe that was "fine" back in the early days when Reddit was smaller, but Reddit nowadays is one of the largest websites on Earth and represents the lowest common denominator of Internet users.
I mod a couple communities here and don't mind because this whole sphere is non-profit, the people on average are pretty cool, and vastly fewer people makes it so I can usually recognize people and resolve problems by talking. But the idea of working pro bono pseudononymously for a corporation with a market cap of 26.5 billion USD to keep their millions of (on average) stupid fucking users in line is one of the most soul-crushing things I can imagine. You really do have to take actions like this because, without stern moderation, communities will inevitably go to shit. They'll return to the LCD, and your community will just melt into the rest of the front page with tenuously related, zero-effort posts.
All things considered, I think most of Reddit's mods are doing a good job (and well more than what they owe Reddit or even the random end user, which is fucking nothing and next to fucking nothing, respectively). Yeah, the mods could quit at any time, and they probably should at least on ethical grounds, but I also understand sunk cost and wanting to continue fostering a community about a subject you like that hundreds of thousands of people can enjoy.
Completely ineffectual, though. There are too many people who cannot tolerate the absence of Reddit. The last Reddit mod strikes proved as much, as people simply let the admins dictate how, when, and why the strikes finished
Shitty mods are shitty mods and reddit neither invented nor cornered the shitty mod market.
I disagree that it takes an obsession to get annoyed by moderator actions you don't agree with, especially when it happens to something you are actively engaging with. Double especially when you know via that participation that no rules were broken and that it was likely the subject matter itself being censored (or just one side of it) rather than anything that the community was better off not seeing.
My last reddit account was locked due to a potential password leak, so they said. Odd that I had 2FA enabled from day one, and the password was 64 characters generated from noise. It's almost as if they lied to me to just ban my account.
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 201d
"If you hate Reddit this much, just stop using it"
🤣😂😡ðŸ˜ðŸ¤§ "No"
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 199d
Its your life, go do what you want.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 2 pts · 201d
mech@feddit.org · 47 pts · 201d
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 199d
Shadowbanned actually
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 34 pts · 200d
>Make a post on lemmy
>It gets 300 updoots
>Banned for rules 1,2
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 199d
>Make a post on lemmy.
>I dont know how many up/downvotes it gets because I turned them off.
>Continue shitposting.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 200d
90% chance it's lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net or mabye even lemmy.dbzer0.net (i s that their domain?)
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d
99% it is blahaj.zone
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 200d
I didn't know blahaj.zone banned many
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 199d
Blahaj is peak Liberalism. Anything slightly to the left (or right) of it gets banned.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 199d
Lemmy calls anything left of Communism liberal.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
Do you mean right of Communism?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 200d
The duality of Lemmy
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 200d
Why tf would lemmy.dbzer0 ban something?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 201d
Fake: Annon has popular ideas
G*y: Annon was on Reddit
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 61 pts · 201d
Just say
GAY
atro_city@fedia.io · 9 pts · 201d
Is that a new USAian law? Just say gay?
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 3 pts · 201d
Void, I wish
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 200d
I've heard them called "Americans" before.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 200d
"American" can refer to anyone in the western hemisphere
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 200d
Yet it is virtually never used that way in modern times, and if someone said "American" you'd know exactly what they meant.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 200d
i have seen american being used to refer to someone living in either South or Nord America enough to need to figure out if someone is talking about the 2 continents or about a single country when they are using the term
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 200d
Maybe in the US. But that's "USian defaultism."
Also, in the US I find people who identify as "American" are laden with connotations of jingo-nationalism.
I'm a US citizen, but I don't identify as an "american." My loyalty is to the constitution, not some pseudo-patriotic flag fascism.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 200d
US? US what? United States of Mexico? United States of Matsya? If we're being difficult and aloof just to be difficult and aloof, lets really lean into it. When you say "US" it could be a number of places.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 200d
That's the case in the English language, where "Usian" is usually interpreted as a derogative adjective, but how else would you translate "[IT] statunitense" as opposed to "[IT] americano"?
I'm pretty sure the Spanish language has something similar to the Italian word, and I suspect that's true for some other romance languages.
I myself use "American" instead of "Usian", because the latter feels... artificial, but at the same time insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 200d
I suppose I wouldn't know because I'm not American, I'm American.
EDIT: I mean honestly, no one living in the greater North or South Americas would say the above while speaking English. This whole thing ironically smacks of a first world problem a (perhaps self-hating) American (or at very least Westerner) came up with. All the rest of us surrounding their country know our identities.
atro_city@fedia.io · 3 pts · 200d
That's cool. They are USAians, yanks, or seppos to me.
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
I think it's too close to USAsians myself. Everytime someone uses USAians I have to do a double or triple take to make sure I read it right.
three@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 201d
This is the problem with these greentext communities, the people in them have never actually posted on 4chan and lack the ability to comment without filtering themselves.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 201d
I mean, if I’m being perfectly honest, I’d prefer not to associate with people who frequent any of the toxic chans. A middle ground where people are capable of reading or writing something peculiar without going slack-jawed would be nice, though. The line where the community suddenly turns homophobic is incredibly thin.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 199d
Double reverse 720 mctwist bisexuality
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 201d
but this word is not present in the bible!
/s duh
bruhduh@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 201d
Anon just posted porn, that's all
atro_city@fedia.io · 6 pts · 201d
His mom is pretty popular.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 201d
I feel bad when Reddit mods get the brunt for stuff like this; in my opinion, it's usually not their fault. It's the fault of Reddit which relies on unpaid labor to make its entire website work literally at all. Maybe that was "fine" back in the early days when Reddit was smaller, but Reddit nowadays is one of the largest websites on Earth and represents the lowest common denominator of Internet users.
I mod a couple communities here and don't mind because this whole sphere is non-profit, the people on average are pretty cool, and vastly fewer people makes it so I can usually recognize people and resolve problems by talking. But the idea of working pro bono pseudononymously for a corporation with a market cap of 26.5 billion USD to keep their millions of (on average) stupid fucking users in line is one of the most soul-crushing things I can imagine. You really do have to take actions like this because, without stern moderation, communities will inevitably go to shit. They'll return to the LCD, and your community will just melt into the rest of the front page with tenuously related, zero-effort posts.
All things considered, I think most of Reddit's mods are doing a good job (and well more than what they owe Reddit or even the random end user, which is fucking nothing and next to fucking nothing, respectively). Yeah, the mods could quit at any time, and they probably should at least on ethical grounds, but I also understand sunk cost and wanting to continue fostering a community about a subject you like that hundreds of thousands of people can enjoy.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 201d
You have the best jokes
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 201d
Mod strike could be amusing.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 201d
Completely ineffectual, though. There are too many people who cannot tolerate the absence of Reddit. The last Reddit mod strikes proved as much, as people simply let the admins dictate how, when, and why the strikes finished
UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 200d
Also the reddit admins removed or threatened to remove moderators who tried to strike.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 199d
Isn't that kinda the point? Go ahead and remove them, now find someone else to do it.
Bonus if anyone that takes their place is in on it and intentionally does a really bad job.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 201d
Yeah, it was fair to complain about power tripping reddit mods 4 years ago. Now I just feel bad for them. But I also haven't used reddit in years.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 201d
nooooo not his karma
XaetaCore@lemmy.neondystopia.world · 12 pts · 200d
Karm*
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 200d
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d
Shitty mods are shitty mods and reddit neither invented nor cornered the shitty mod market.
I disagree that it takes an obsession to get annoyed by moderator actions you don't agree with, especially when it happens to something you are actively engaging with. Double especially when you know via that participation that no rules were broken and that it was likely the subject matter itself being censored (or just one side of it) rather than anything that the community was better off not seeing.
ferrule@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 199d
My last reddit account was locked due to a potential password leak, so they said. Odd that I had 2FA enabled from day one, and the password was 64 characters generated from noise. It's almost as if they lied to me to just ban my account.
trongod_requiem0432@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
The website shouldn't keep an overall karma record at all. It's just like habit-forming/addictive additives in cigarettes. Delete that shit.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
Yeah that's exactly how social media is designed to work.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 200d
Just wait till they come to Lemmy, reddit will look like a paradise
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 187d
:3c