Dude again I know what it means to say someone or something or someplace is “third world.” It’s the very specific “first worlder” term I’ve never encountered.

@[email protected] i can see your deleted comment just fyi. Next time don’t write that shit if you don’t want it read.

I can assure you I am as steeped in the online right as you are, and this was simply not a common term (until now apparently).

Not knowing how to install F Droid/to look for open source projects for sensitive data is not the same as voting for Trump or supporting Russia over Ukraine. The latter are taking bad information/prejudices and acting on them. The other people simply are not aware of the issue, or how serious of an issue personal privacy has become more broadly. Comparing them to MAGA and calling them stupid is not going to help them.

I bet if I looked at your smart phone or computer I would see plenty of services you use that compromise your privacy. Should I call you an ignorant hypocrite and berate you as well?

Everybody’s a bad ass talking about Darwin awards when that’s something they understand, but suddenly you will expect sympathy when it’s something you don’t. Maybe try havinga little more empathy for the people of the world who are not as aware of how bad privacy has gotten. Believe it or not, we are of a minority perspective. A very small one at that.

I’m more inclined to believe it’s partially a failure on our part to educate people, but mostly the issue is that it’s not a fair fight. You are expecting the average person to successfully overcome the resources and influence of sometimes decades old, billion dollar, multinational companies and governments. But I guess it’s a lot easier to just call everybody who doesn’t take this as seriously as we do a dumbass. Certainly allowed you to wipe your hands of it and act smug that’s for sure.

I get what you’re trying to say, but this is basically just roundabout victim blaming. Women shouldn’t have to worry about whether or not someone is going to weaponize data on their menstrual cycle against them. Yes it is good to lock your door at night, but ultimately you don’t blame somebody for getting robbed just because they didn’t lock it. You blame the thief.

Not everybody is as aware of privacy issues as the rest of us. We have to help them, not berate them.

I think you know exactly what I am saying and probably don’t even object, but you consider yourself too deep in the hole now to admit it. So I’m going to do the polite thing and give you an offramp here by ending the conversation before you make an even bigger ass of yourself.

Yes I know third world. I’m saying “third worlders.” This specific term. I’ve never heard someone called a “third worlder.”

lol yes thank you. Dumb flip there

I’ve never seen “third worlders”

We don’t need this karma farming comment every single thread about this administration. Yes they lie a lot. Yes we still need to document and report on it.

First World: “the west”

Second World: countries contested by the first and third that routinely had/have their sovereignty violated. Integral to “domino theory.”

Third World: socialist/communist nations

Edit: lmao don’t whiskey and lemmy yall. Flipped second and third

third worlders

I see they’ve found their new N-word after DEI-hire

Tsk tsk hrumph

Dude this just gets so reductionist at some point and we have had this debate over and over again around here. No you cannot donate to lemmy without lining the pockets of tankies. If that is a red line for you, then leave and find another project that better fits your values. No harm no foul, totally get it.

Ok so admittedly your post had all the trademark signs of an “i got recently banned” post, but you didn’t technically get banned I guess? So if that’s the case, I need you to explain to me what led you to making this post lol. You just woke up one day and did it for no reason? Did something specific occur? I feel like we are missing part of the story.

Anyway now that I fully acknowledge that part of things, I hope that does not keep you from seeing a larger point I am making. Surely you can see the relevance extends beyond whether or not you banned lol

You present this as a binary choice, as if that’s a given. It is not. If you want to assert that it is, show us your homework.

You sound like a frothing at the mouth warhawk. People who have already decided that the only path forward is war. Revolution should be the absolute last resort, not something people eagerly cheer for.

I want to preface this by saying I am not a fan of how .ml is run either. Tankies run rampant. Their ethical framework to me is wild.

But:

You don’t have to go there. They are their own instance with their own rules, just like tons of other instances with their own rules. You can’t show up and wipe your muddy shoes on their couch just because you don’t like their rules. You know what their rules are, you know you don’t agree philosophically, so don’t fucking go there. You don’t have to. You chose to go there looking for a fight, then you were shown the door, because that kind of behavior is not welcome.

You are not entitled to their consideration, you are not entitled to their time, and you are not entitled to posting on their instance. You seem to be under the (incorrect) impression that they are accountable to you. They are not.

TL;DR: They made their feelings clear to you with a ban, and you are now here throwing a hissy fit.

And before you start going off about how you think I’m a tankie or whatever, I gave this exact same lecture to someone a week ago because they were mad that an instance was hostile to the concept of ownership. An instance that was specifically centered around piracy. They felt entitled to express their option there without consequences but they were not so they acted like a petulant child.

Don’t be that user.

Kind of twisted to wish for a situation that will inevitably kill countless people

I built a PC with an AMD processor/GPU and only have bazzite installed on it, so trust me I am very well aware of it lol

I really like how to set it and forget it steamOS is. Bazzite is very close and very impressive, but I use steamOS on my steamdeck and I just prefer it overall.

Every time I say I want SteamOS, people come tell me to do bazzite - I know what it is, what I want is SteamOS.