To be fair, you also struggle telling the difference between things that are down and things scheduled to be down.

If you want deleted posts to have accessible comment sections after they’ve been deleted… Talk to the Lemmy developers!

Bringing back nostalgia for one even the bad versions of Windows weren’t as bad as they are now.

Anti-intellectualism is he law of the land

This is why you don’t fuck with WinRar

As hyperbolic as this title sounds… This will basically make Google into even more of a monopolistic power than it has been. It’s the zero-click web: you Google a question, you read the Google AI result, then you remain on Google.

For the average boomer with a computer, this is basically 50% of the internet. The other 50% is Facebook and maybe ESPN. The most popular computers run like molasses, chugging at every click. And any website that doesn’t fit within this tightly walled garden has either been choked out of existence or is so laden with advertisements that it forces the average user to run back to the relatively comfortable walled garden.

(I’m summarizing that last paragraph - using what’s left of my human Intelligence - from a section of a much better Ed Zitron article.)

And miss this?

But you see, it was I who was unclear…

I think if you tap on your comment and attempt to edit it, some clients let you access what you wrote before it got removed.

Can’t you edit your removed comment to see what the contents were?

You claim to hate the carnivore community, and yet you’re here posting your beef… Curious

This is interesting, how do you see these?

Some acronyms you might see.

• PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.

• YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.

• YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.

• BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.

• CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn’t understand how their software works.

I was about to say the same thing for people who end words with “-oid”

Is this an AI-generated news article? At that point, it might as well link to the original source. Thankfully, it looks like it was resolved:

Issue was fixed 7 months ago but raised concerns about developer expertise

I realize that hackers don’t differentiate between incompetent and malicious backdoors, but I personally think the Zen developers are doing their best to make a good and private browser.

You’ll find most of those in the sidebar (except AI, but I figure you’re good with that one)

Do you mean the Privacy community on lemmy.ml?

I got temporarily banned there after criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a moderator proceeded to remove most of my comments from the thread. Only the ones with >0 upvotes, interestingly. I give the ML mods brownie points for technique, at least.

(Regarding if “off topic” is PTB: I’m not sure if AI generation specifically regarding Tianmen square is on-topic for privacy, but I imagine it would be at home in communities discussing technology, AI, even free speech. But let’s be fair, it’s definitely pretense for an unwarranted instance-wide ban. Far more PTB than BPR.)

I added a couple hopefully helpful links elsewhere in this thread, but this one is probably the most relevant

Firefox is definitely a better browser than Brave (which has a history that’s riddled with controversy), but there are a couple forks of it that intentionally make it more private too.

But for practical purposes, installing Firefox and disabling Telemetry is more than acceptable for the average person!

From a non-deleted comment on that thread:

Yup, Brave is financed in part by Peter Thiel’s founders fund (and a bunch of other shady venture capitalists) which has funded Palantir and others.

Others also link to a couple videos about Thiel to what I presume was somebody asking about him.

The comments that have been removed here – and in several other places – are generally focused around billionaires or other people endorsed by the Trump regime. The pattern is pretty obvious in the removed comments, but there’s no such pattern in the ones that are still up, because they often address the same billionaires.

(I’ve also noticed that several posts regarding Flock cameras have been deleted for similar suspicious reasons, but larger ones have been allowed to stay up.)

Bonus:

Bonus 2: This whole “you can’t talk about stuff because of astroturfing” rule is sure inconsistent. You can talk about Apple, Cryptomator, Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal, Meta, Sky, Telegram again, Wickr, and Oniux. But you cannot talk about Brave.

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