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.

@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 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.

@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.

@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?

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.

@Demolishun nah... i just wanna brag and extra opinions (under ndas ofc) are better than gold, especially if they are logical faults i dont currently know of.