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What’s the background here? Do they censor stuff?

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Mention VPNs are forbidden due to spam and stuff, GrapheneOS mention forbidden because of drama

Defeats the whole purpose of the subreddit, it’s like saying you’re not allowed to talk about yellow in a community about colours…

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11 points

Now that’s a rule I can get behind.

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2 points

Community about colours?

More like a community about the color orange and it’s related hues.

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4 points

Whats the story on GrapheneOS drama?

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At least one of the devs is an arrogant, condescending prick. Remember Nick the Computer Guy from SNL? He’s like 3 times worse than that. I’ve experienced it first hand - as in his second reply to me was to blame me: “you’re doing it wrong”. He’s exactly like some people I worked with 30 years ago. Smh.

There’s far more than that, though. In general, the Graphene team says everyone else is wrong. Classic idealist attitude.

I run DivestOS now because of that interaction, I will never use Graphene. That dev can go fuck himself with a pineapple - had enough of his kind of childishness decades ago.

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61 points

Nerdy communities always seem to attract some very opinionated people, which is a turn off for people just trying to do better.

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As an older hobbyist, exactly.

I’m as guilty as anyone, but I promise I’m trying to be better.

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I’m trying to be better.

Unlike those dang noobs

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I think we’re all guilty of that regardless of the subject

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I will go one step further and say 1. most strong opinions are not based on deep knowledge, and 2. a lot of this drama is legitimate mental illness… a niche of a niche that by design is run by extremely paranoid people, often aren’t all there in the head, or you could say they have simply crossed over the fine line of genius.

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22 points

It was a terrible sub for years much before the apicalypse. It was full of apple fanboys who believed every marketing bullshit.

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Tbh I am done with reddit as a whole, back then a lot of mods were power tripping, but now most of them are. You can’t say anything, do anything, it would be better for them if no one would even visit their communities.

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This is completely unsurprising tbh. A lot of the old mods were enthusiasts who grew a community from scratch due to their love for the subject. In the reddit API shutdown, a lot of those mods left in disgust, or were replaced by the reddit admins, or were driven off by the leftover toxic userbase calling them “entitled jannies” or whatever. A lot of the mods who took over their place were just power-hungry users who were chomping at the bit to get the chance to run a big community as their personal fiefdom because they were too toxic to grow one themselves.

This is the inevitable culmination of these events.

Anyway, welcome to lemmy. We become more powerful from every user who writes off reddit forever.

PS: if you see power-trippin’ behaviour around these parts, you can always post about it in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I use a repost bot to keep up with the Monero reddit but most of the time I find that I’m not interested enough to actually click the link to go to the original post on reddit and so most of the time I just stay here. I deleted my account during the API issues back in June of 2023 and have not had an account since then and do not plan on going back as I really enjoy it here.

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I don’t even think you need even a bot for that. Just grab the relevant RSS

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Yeah, that sounds right. Well at least I am happy that I was checking lemmy year ago and now I decided to finally try it.

Also thanks for advice :D

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To be fair there’s lots of power-tripping mods on lemmy as well, often using their colorful interpretations of subjective rules/terms to suppress opinions they don’t like.

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Oh I remember r/privacy, this comment is spot on. You expect something like the Linux communities where it is okay what ever you prefer. But privacy-nerds sometimes goes the spying government/tech-firms rabbit-hole to deep.

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Can’t Linux communities be just as bad? There’s constant bickering over systemd, snaps, canonical, red hat.

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Yeah, but at least here on lemmy a lot of that doesn’t seem to be very serious and everyone is mostly ok with whatever you use. Don’t know how it was on reddit.

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