Scala programming, has a scummiest community and grifters. ffs

For context, they took someone's livelihood away by cancelling him and accusing him of sexual harassment by lying and after 3 years he sued them for libel and won. xD

Truth prevails.

My first experience with Minecraft modding was asking for help in the Forge IRC. Someone there immediately started attacking me because I was asking how to mod for some older version of Minecraft. I left and never went back. They don't deserve my time if they are abusive.

@Demolishun why are people that way? Isn’t the first time some dev community starting getting hostile to the point of violence

@TeachMeCode I am getting to the point of leaving many communities that put unhealthy choices at a higher class of importance to everyone else. If you say anything you get banned. I see this a lot on discord. As a result I won't let me kids use discord. Sure some channels are fine, but these elevated privileges are written into their terms of service. I think it is a matter of time before I leave discord. I see a little bit of this on reddit, but not as blatant. The effect of woke policies is a polarization of the communities that embrace it. I think it is intentional. This will eventually split the internet into two groups I think. I won't use Facebook or Twitter (and many other websites) because of garbage like this. Plus they are just data collection sites for personal information. This is bleeding into the developer communities as well. The more this happens the less tolerant I become.

yooo society just increasingly getting this crazy

the hell is wrong with people

I guess as long as it works it will keep being used more and more as an advantage over others

what pisses me off is that people buy this shit -- like they buy in to the lies. learn to discern and not listen to rumour, learn to realize who the people who lie to gain advantage are? punish them for lying to gain advantage? =-=

we just let this shit fall to the wayside, and take slander like as if it's truth. gross. if you're wrong when you follow the crowd it has consequences, and that never occurs to them which I think is kind of messed up

@Demolishun reddit is worse than discord

you get shadow banned or banned for made up reasons, and the mods auto block you from messaging them

I was banned from far more subreddits than ever discord servers

also the people on Reddit, if it's popular subreddit, can have creepy hive-mind opinions because the mods ban people out of specific opinions they posted, so then you get skewed perceptions because people think there's no rebuttal to certain stances

it's actually kind of scary because it works very well to manipulate public perception. it's very cult-like and it starts from the top

on discord you can see when a mod does this stuff, on Reddit you can't so people think the culture is "authentic" when it is psychological manipulation
on discord because people see it happening the users know a certain topic is off limits so you can detect it being false
on Reddit people don't know they're only allowed one opinion. they become confident in their ignorance as a result

@jestdotty I guess I can see some of that. I avoid a lot of subreddits that engage in politics. Mostly I go there for specific purposes like games and theories about the world power structure (this actually sometimes turns into political vitriol though). Places where alternate views are actually endorsed.

One place I love to go in the Skyrim subreddit. The in game politics is a cesspool of hate and disagreeing opinion. I love poking fun at people who side with the oppressive Imperials. The opposing side accuses me of racism. I tell them I am racist, I hate the piss elves (I have come to dislike most elves in game, which is hilarious. Video game fomenting in game racism.). In a way it allows people to vent frustration with real world politics in a fictional setting.

@jestdotty something also to consider. Ghislaine Maxwell was a top moderator of Reddit. I think she had millions of karma. So I think Reddit was being used for a lot of dark things, and may still be being used for that.

@jestdotty another issue I have with Discord. Servers on there keep asking for my phone number. No Discord, I am not going to give you my phone number. I use Discord as a web app on my computer. I don't put shit like that on my phone

@Demolishun venting about in-game politics instead of real world politics is dooming yourself to meaninglessness and actually a tactic written about in old timey books

conscience evidently is the voice of God or something. I've been mulling over about that. cuz otherwise life is quite boring

I enjoy logical puzzles and experiences as much as the next person but I can't commit to them because it's meaningless to me

@Demolishun lmao I didn't know Maxwell was a reddit mod

damn that's creepy

@jestdotty if I talk about nationalism in the positive sense in Reddit I can get banned. If I talk about Stormcloak nationalism in a Skryim sub I will only get downvoted.

@Demolishun it asks for phone only if the person who setup the server said people must use phone

to be fair since discord changed their mobile app to be slow and gay I went on matrix

before some servers asked for phone and I just didn't enter them, but it was rare that occurred for me. the server owner set it to that tho
other servers have used bots for similar purposes, like there's a bot that makes you go to a website to press a captcha, and on the website it reads your browser and IP and cross references it with previously banned folks
which is why servers ask for phone. because if they banned someone before they don't want them entering again

@jestdotty I realize the utility of phone number in reddit. I have asked server owners to turn off that option. They either don't know about it or are incentivized not to. I assume when creating a server it is a default option that is on if server owners don't know about it.

@Demolishun instead I got people on Reddit calling me for president 😝

because I had thrown out some redesigns of laws to make economics work better once

but then subreddits that aren't crypto people downvote me like -100 for a true statement of a cool consequence of crypto no one's mentioned before LOL

there was a Canadian sub where people were asking about a political candidate's plans for a claim they made, so I had replied with links where he detailed his plans... I got banned. for providing literal information. this candidate is now beating the incumbent on all polls 2 years later

also during COVID if you posted any health info whatsoever, automatically banned

nationalism isn't even that bad
I was on r/latestagecapitalism and they called me a liberal then banned me LOL. I didn't know they were communists, it wasn't obvious that's what the subreddit was about

@Demolishun oh maybe discord made it default... it wasn't default when I was making servers

in which case that sucks

discord is shit anyway

they had a serious pedo problem, probably still do. I was in a bunch of servers that were more criminal and people in there were friends with people working at discord and would just get the rules bent for themselves all the time
there was a group of people quite upset about all the pedo shit. it was exceedingly difficult to get pedo servers taken down, and it's impossible to take a doxx down. discord just doesn't care

@jestdotty

Go to r/flatearth

You will thank me later.

@jestdotty I think the pedo thing is rampant on most big socials. Protected by the system. Twitter had (has?) a similar issue. Literal secret channels and shit. What is telling is the mainstream news never talks about this. Why?

@Demolishun I would only browse reddit on an app and their API pricing made the app shut down so I actually don't go there anymore

@Demolishun because it's a great way to get blackmail on people so then you can control them later if necessary

@Demolishun reddit explained: https://rumble.com/v4rrcxt-the-bord...

well, she doesn't talk about reddit specific but mentions Twitter and some... planning docs

and also how fucked everyone is in murica, maybe!

see at least on discord it's just normal people instead of a manipulative hive-mind 😝

Good thing wokester movement is dying. I can sense it now.

Thing is every now and then massive number of people latch onto/enchanted an ideology, get blindly sold to the idea thinking as a means to an end for all their problems. It's too hard to convince them to see their illogical thinking.

Eventually they realize it is just a fad, and things are either worse off or stay the same for them, cause the weight of it just comes crushing down. Rinse, rise and repeat with any other movement.

@jassole they need a proper religion that keeps them out of everybody else's business methinks

@Demolishun dude... wanna sign an NDA so I can tell you what im building? Literally everything you mentioned there, discord, shitty data collection policies, etc., is inherently on the chopping block, to be pwned by our future systems. Also, i think i may have been creating the terminator version (rather the good intent one) of discord bots. Seriously though, idk if there's a more overpowered and connected discord bot than the one's ive been creating.

@awesomeest it sounds like more work. I got to much going on right now. I will be a cheer leader and cheer you on though.