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Cake day: October 7th, 2025
  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are you a principled person?
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    7 days ago

    Indeed there is. Initially I tried to delete my account and I wrote in the “why are you leaving?” field when you close an account that “Hup-ho, it was time to go, good bye and good luck…” It was NOT a “please reconsider” appeal.

    The deletion would NOT go through, then a day later I got the “appeal rejected” letter claiming it was approved by a person. I did NOT appeal.

    So at that point I realized that something was definitely up with AI on the site beyond the comment bots and I pivoted to removing every bit of content I put in.

    Got all my posts, but the comments on other users posts - well you only get access to what you put up in the prior year - a change that dropped with the IPO. before that, you could tunnel down into your comment history all the way back to your first one.

    Also, as I was deleting, there was a weird resistance where I only got access to three pages worth of comments before the browser would get locked out and I’d get the account banned page with nothing else. I had - at the time - multiple junker laptops with active logins - so I’d switch up to those devices and continue on. Took several hours over three evenings to clear out that full year of comments I’d made that I could still access. Everything before October 2024 however, is inaccessible… unless a bot (it HAS to be a bot being trained, nothing else - certainly not another user - can access archived posts and unarchive and comment on them…) happens to reply on a comment.

    At that point I’m on it like a terrier on a rat.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are you a principled person?
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    7 days ago

    Alluded to that if he was going to act like a selfish spoiled child, maybe he needed to be treated like one and spanked. It was in a thread where everyone was making allusions, including the guy that started the thread off by calling his actions immature.

    I think it was more the tone of the whole thread, god knows I did not have the nastiest reply by a long shot. Would be interesting to see who else got turfed from that conversation. It happened within 30 seconds of me posting. So there was definitely some bot-involved housecleaning going on.

    I kept my account - did not delete it - and it’s weird that even though it’s a banned account, I am still getting replies to ancient posts now and again, that I think are bot training efforts. When I get those, I can actually get to the otherwise inaccessible threads - which are ostensibly archived - and I go through the post and look and see if I made other comments and delete them. There is definitely some shit going on with banned users data. If you delete your account, your comments become nameless and “lost property”.

    Naah… fuck that shit. I’ll hold onto my account, banned or not. At least I can rip out anything they open up and make accessible again.

    And I will… with a vengeance.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoNews@lemmy.world•More ‘No Kings’ protests targeting Trump are planned nationwide this weekend
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    8 days ago

    That’s amazing that you’re seeing a mix of ages! I haven’t seen a lot of kids but at the last protest I was talking to people my own age and the one constant I tell to EVERYONE is that starting to do something should begin with clearing your head and turn off the corporatist noise.

    I cut the cable TV service to my home and got rid of the television in 1999. It’s a hard sell, but I always bring up that streaming servies and public libraries exist to get media to watch.

    People just have to avoid the mainstream “news” and I explain that as with the current FCC chair interfering with broadcasters, right now, ALL TV news sources are subjec to Trumps whims and pandering by distorting or ignoring reality.

    Just turn it off and find the kids - literally the under 35’s - who are earnest, hungry and fearless and check out what they have to say. Get your info on moderate or left leaning blogs and read a lot of commentary and news from other countries. No facebook, twitter or tiktok… It’s owned media as untruthful as FoxNews…

    I’ve found that to get a long term effective change you need to start with cutting out the lies and noise. The rest falls into place so much easier. I’m starting with the noise.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoNews@lemmy.world•More ‘No Kings’ protests targeting Trump are planned nationwide this weekend
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    8 days ago

    Yup. People old enough to remember how shitty life is for everyone living under an authoritarian boot have been the majority of who’ve I’ve seen at the previous protests

    This is what is known as generational amnesia, where those who’ve had zero exposure to actual political horror have no clue what is about to drop on their heads, so they ignore it.

    It happens, and its not accidental that now almost every person that fought NAZIs during the Second World War is now dead, and their kids who grew up post-war witnessing the nightmares their fathers had afterwards, are all in their 80’s and dying as well, and the great grandkids have no interest to listen to “ancient history…”

    It’s not devoid of younger people, by any stretch, but I have been surprised by how many seniors I’ve seen at the protests.