I’m not an admin, so I can’t stop you from doing that. I’m not sure why you’re asking for my permission.

You should read this on why seemingly arbitrary, but nuanced moderation is needed to have a friendly space online.

There exist instances that have more of a free-speech “focus”, but despite that most instances cannot tolerate intolerance, harassment, trolling, illegal or borderline illegal stuff. There is generally more tolerance for disagreement on Lemmy than other forums, where unpopular takes are heavily downvoted instead of removed.

A common sequence of events that happens with trolls or flamebaiters:

• Troll says something unpopular, but not rule breaking (comment downvoted but not removed by mods)
• Several other people respond/rebut
• Troll continues a long back-and-forth argument that gets nowhere, or resorts to ad hominems, slurs or personal attacks (rule-breaking)
• comments get reported
• Mods remove the entire thread including the initial comment, and give out a community ban
• Troll decries censorship of the initial not rule-breaking comment, when it was the follow up that was the problem.

So yeah, it’s to keep out the jerks. Behave well, think of others as you speak, then you will find yourself able to say more than in places with professed free-speech absolutism. If you don’t like that, start your own instance so that no one can moderate you in your own space, and watch the jerks, trolls and spammers roll in after a while.

The “next year” promise of the year…

For administration, you have Group Policy, Active Directory, SAM, and various other things to read up on. Like others have said you can do everything in PowerShell but commands are super verbose. Microsoft does keep thorough documentation on it at least.

In terms of helping people with issues, you have the Windows Registry (kind of like dconf for GNOME), Backup Restore, Updates (most IT spend most of the time after fixing not working stuff, is convincing people to update their computers). If you can think on your feet, you’ll be able to solve 90% of most workers’ issues with some digging even if you didn’t know Windows more than your average computer guy.

In terms of app development, tweaking and troubleshooting, there are a myriad of frameworks, like MFC, .NET, Electron, Microsoft Access databases somehow turned into a vital business application, etc.

Most app developers learn one of the various systems, then end up sticking with it causing Microsoft to support a hodge podge of 20+ year old native frameworks, while others import whatever newfangled crossplatform wrapper of the day is popular. So good luck if learning this is your goal.

Trump and Lutnick will be turning the American economy into a Lootbox/Skinner Box economy… let the FOMO purchasing flow through you, buy buy buy before the tariffs go on again!

It’s going to be “become Truth Social 2 or else we’ll break your company’s legs” from the Trump admin now.

Stop non-antidisenshittification.

Hello there.

[email protected] discussion, you are a bold one.

Avis: Vous avez été exilé de [email protected]

Notice: You have been exiled from [email protected]

I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there… I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.

Lemmy is just so much better quality.

Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.

From the article.

Not sure if the same thing but in Japan the Pre-purchase reservation lottery has already opened.

For the US only, lol

Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts. He seems to be failing at that and DOGE has only made it harder in for Congress (in a budgetary sense) for them to do it.

What do you want? To be private or avoid censorship?

You haven’t been censored in the sense that it’s plain for me to see from your post history you’ve been on a crusade against “them” in the past couple weeks. Some of your posts were unpopular but they haven’t been removed. I am “watching you” in the sense that I can see that post history, but I know nothing of you aside from that.

On people “telling you what you can say”, it’s just as much a right for people to express what they do and don’t want to listen to as much as it’s your right to express yourself. (And as a sidenote: the Canadian standard of application of your rights has been within “reasonable limits” since the adoption of the Charter in the 80s).

The design of lemmy is that there is not one set of rules to do or not do unlike Reddit. If you are not happy with how you are treated on one server, leave and join local communities on another, or start your own.

I’ve found my fellow lemmings to be pleasant, but I also believe that that is due to trying to be helpful and polite myself and being willing to apologize when warranted.

Thank you for your part in bringing healthy, helpful and constructive discussion to Lemmy.

I try to be more constructive and positive… you get what you give for the most part. There are trolls abound like any online platform but ignore, report and/or block them and move on with your day.

There is no one I seen here who even had expressed any passion towards anything really.

All/Top is mostly general posts, news and memes. There are a lot of smaller communities on Lemmy that are about people’s passions.

Is technology your passion (judging by your posts)? If so check out more specific communities on stuff like Android, Apple, retro computing, homeassistant, linux, windows, etc. If it’s something else chances are there’s a community for that (albeit it could be relatively inactive). The technology subs attract general discussion, so go for the niches.

If you want the source of any future “technical glitches”, it’s this wilfully negligent act. Courts, take note.

Glad you are here!

There are instances of heavy-handed mod and admin actions here, but they are often held to account, generally on [email protected]. Moderation disputes often end up discussed from a third party perspective on [email protected].

It is an echo chamber here too, but I have seen more often that opinions against the “narrative” getting -10 or lower but not censored. Some double down, are flamebaiting or downvote farming for unknown reasons, but there are times when you can see a genuine attempt at understanding and discussion from both parties. Over 7 years on Reddit (2016-2023), I can count how many times that happened on one hand, while on Lemmy, it’s infrequent but it happens a lot more than that.

Any illegal and unethical stuff that goes on and gets found out is always a “glitch” too.

Step 1: Discord CEO thinks about taking Discord public

Step 2: ADS 🤑🤑🤑