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TheBananaKing , to Technology in Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows

How about a law stating that the terms of all contracts with corporations be listed in a public registry?

You want the state to enforce the terms of your agreement, you put that agreement out in the open. No secret laws, and no secret laws-by-proxy.

gibmiser ,

Now that is an idea. Me like. Of course, that means business will fight against it sooo

Seleni ,

Then you’d just have the police knocking whenever you used an aftermarket part. They’ll just force everyone to agree to them enforcing those contracts when they buy the product. After all, the EULA is given to everyone, has terrible shit in it, but people sign it anyways because if you don’t, you don’t get to use the product.

conciselyverbose ,

This is already illegal, though.

Using third party parts/repairs is not cause to void a warranty in the US (Magnuson Moss), and most of Europe and Australia are stricter than the US is.

CluelessLemmyng , to Technology in Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows

For almost 20 years, Google's phones have been pretty friendly to ROM flashing. I suspect that so long as Apple and Samsung have such a large market share, that will continue.

EDIT: 15, not 20

DudeImMacGyver , to Technology in Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows
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Glad I ditched that shitty company years ago! Sony and Google phones are both way better to use anyways.

0x0 OP ,

I wouldn't gasp in surprise if both Sony and Google have similar shady deals. Apple seems to.

Google is evil, although Pixels seem to be tolerable, especially for custom ROMs, ironically.

Sony phones are good but expensive.

Tetsuo , (edited )

Apple definitely has that kind of practices too.

Louis Rossman probably has a 40+ MN long rant on this somewhere on his channel.

Edit: Only a 20+ Mn long rant...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4_mLw2BGM&t=1

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

Louis Rossman probably has a 40+ MN long rant on this somewhere on his channel.

What doesn't he have a 40+ minute long rant on?

DudeImMacGyver , (edited )
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At least with Google's Pixel phones you can flash your own OS like Graphene and totally de-Google it. I just hate that they don't support SD cards, that's absolute bullshit/greed on Google's part. Same with Apple.

turbowafflz ,

I really like my oneplus 9, after owning samsung, motorola, and sony devices it's definitely my favorite by far

flicker , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned

Sure, they take years to ban things like r/jailbait and all those fascist subs, but people with rooms to jerk off in a step too far.

I have zero interest one way or another in people who have the resources to devote a space to this, or the ego to want to share that space. It's a completely foreign interest to me. But to ban people on the internet for being sexual in a way you don't understand is equally beyond me.

Fedizen , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned

I can't imagine anyone wanted to mod that sub, so they probably banned it because it was undermoderated

snownyte , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned
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Lol, nothing of value was lost.

I miss r/Coomer though, it existed to mock and insult people who have a very unhealthy habit of masturbating and sexual addiction (particularly to lolicon). Like, fuck, sex and masturbating isn't bad on it's own but it shouldn't be your god damn identity.

DarkThoughts , (edited )

@snownyte
Lol, nothing of value was lost.

I miss r/Coomer though, it existed to mock and insult people who have a very unhealthy habit of masturbating and sexual addiction (particularly to lolicon). Like, fuck, sex and masturbating isn't bad on it's own but it shouldn't be your god damn identity.

You missing a community dedicated to mock & harass people who probably need actual help with coping really says a lot about you.

snownyte ,
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Ooooo, I'm so not impressed that your only breathing existence is to dig through people's post history to connect something insulting. Get a life, dude.

DarkThoughts ,

@snownyte
Ooooo, I'm so not impressed that your only breathing existence is to dig through people's post history to connect something insulting. Get a life, dude.

The only thing I dug through was the comment I replied to.
But thanks for proving my point! lmao

Crampon ,

Sure it has no value. But what ban it though? The beauty of the site was always its niche communities. Now r/all is Facebook with Strangers.

NateNate60 , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned

For those who don't know, a "goon cave" is "an area or room dedicated to long masturbation sessions", or "gooning"

MxM111 ,
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Why would you ban that???

BrokenGlepnir ,

Stock prices?

Beaver ,
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Republican investors have staying away until this key moment

formergijoe ,

Probably affects the ability for AI to recommend glue in pizza cheese.

ekky ,

Makes sense, I thought it was about goons (crime) or gooning (evil goon voice "what up, boss?", "Yes boss").

NateNate60 ,

There are multiple meanings. "Hired thug" is also one of them.

pro_grammer ,

fuckin hell. Why are so many weirdos on reddit?

TORFdot0 ,

There are a lot of people on Reddit and Reddit makes it easy to organize by whatever degenerate interests someone may have, such as sharing their goon cave

I_Miss_Daniel , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned
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Thought it might have been related to Goon Bags - cask wine in Austraila.

lvxferre , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned
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I had to websearch the term to know what they were talking about. Pfft, internet oddities.

Case in point. At least some side is lying here; either the people from r/gooncaves or the Reddit administration. And given their modus operandi I'm placing my bets on the admins lying.

Frankly, at this rate someone might end suing Reddit for libel in those ban messages. I think that it deserves it.

idiomaddict ,

I just love that you found out what gooners were today and they seem more trustworthy than reddit admins

PRUSSIA_x86 ,

Look man, gooners just wanna jack it in peace.

Obonga , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned

It is sooo Reddit to ban without any explanation. Not like i care about any community over there. Reddit can fuck itself.

tourist ,
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Reddit can fuck itself.

I thought that's what they banned

aport , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned

You fools it's supposed to contain them, now they are on the loose.

camr_on ,
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They're out of their caves, god help us

pro_grammer ,

they're already gooning in my house! 😡

DemBoSain ,
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Quick! Call the goon squad!

Dirk , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned
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Oh no. Anyways ...

Zeppo , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned
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arranging gooning meetups

What?

“Gooning is a flow state: an extended edging session marked by mindlessness, loss of control, and total surrender,”

I had to stop reading this shit. I can’t believe there’s an article about it. I guess 404 can go ahead and go bankrupt, fuck off.

Arbiter ,

Just some gooning with the bois.

Excrubulent ,
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I wouldn't be surprised if the ban was a pretext and the sub was just something admins found objectionable for their own reasons. Like as long as mods remove material and users when an issue is brought to their attention then the sub should be fine.

The fact they don't know why it happened is telling that they weren't given a real chance to correct the issue. Just centralised social media things I guess.

alternative_factor ,
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I feel like the real reason would be that Reddit suits know that Reddit is stereotyped as a gooner website and don't want people to think redditors are gooners, which is very wishful thinking as everyone already knows they are some of the biggest gooners out there online.

Excrubulent ,
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Being a gooner is a significantly more worthwhile investment of your limited time on this earth than being a reddit admin imho.

Alexstarfire ,

But they get pai.... ohh, right.

Excrubulent ,
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I believe the admins do get paid. It's the mods that were fucked over here that don't get paid. I was really talking about your overall contribution to humanity.

Alexstarfire ,

My friend's kids are in high school and their generation looks down on Reddit. They associate it with millennials.

emmanuel_car ,

As a millennial, I agree

Five OP , (edited )
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Reddit is notorious to responding to financial incentives. In the past they would ban communities only when they became toxic to advertisers due to overwhelming negative publicity. During those purges, they would often throw in some leftist subs to prevent the user-base political average from shifting leftward, but the purges were never proactive.

I think we've entered a new era where Reddit is no longer as concerned about which subs may scare advertisers, and are more concerned about which subs generate the kind of content that is valuable to LLM training. If I were training the next version of ChatGPT, I would be alarmed if a text prompt spontaneously invited me to masturbate with it, or prompts for images of a "battle station" resulted in walls of women having sex.

Kedly , (edited ) to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Ah yes, more bait articles rising to the top of Lemmy. The guy was arrested for grooming, he was sending these images to a minor. Outside of Digg, anyone have any suggestions for an alternative to Lemmy and Reddit? Lemmy's moderation quality is shit, I think I'm starting to figure out where I lean on the success of my experimental stay with Lemmy

Edit: Oh god, I actually checked digg out after posting this and the site design makes it look like you're actually scrolling through all of the ads at the bottom of a bulshit clickbait article

far_university1990 ,

Go to instance that moderate like you like it.

FiniteBanjo , (edited )

Lemmy as a whole does not have moderation. Moderators on Lemmy.today cannot moderate Lemmy.world or Lemmy ml, they can only remove problematic posts as they come and as they see fit or block entire instances which is rare.

If you want stricter content rules than any of the available federated instances then you'll have to either:

  1. Use a centralized platform like Reddit but they're going to sell you out for data profits and you'll still have to occasionally deal with shit like "The Donald."

  2. Start your own instance with a self hosted server and create your own code of conduct and hire moderators to enforce it.

Kedly ,

Yeah, I know, thats why I'm finding lemmy not for me. This new rage bait every week is tiring and not adding anything to my life except stress, and once I started looking at who the moderaters were when Lemmy'd find a new thing to rave about, I found that often there was 1-3 actual moderators, which, fuck that. With reddit, the shit subs were the exception, here it feels like they ALL (FEEL being a key word here) have a tendency to dive face first into rage bait

Edit: Most of the reddit migration happened because Reddit fucked over their moderators, a lot of us were happy with well moderated discussions, and if we didnt care to have moderators, we could have just stayed with reddit after the moderators were pushed away

moon ,

You can go to an instance that follows your views closer and start blocking instances that post low quality content to you. Lemmy is a protocol, it's not a single community. So the moderation and post quality is going to be determined by the instance you're on and the community you're with.

ArmokGoB ,

This is throwing a blanket over the problem. When the mods of a news community allow bait articles to stay up because they (presumably) further their views, it should be called out as a problem.

nutsack ,

you are too optimistic about the internet

Kedly , (edited )

I fail to see what part of my comment is optimistic? xD

BugKilla ,
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That anywhere else is better.

StaySquared , to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

I wonder if cartoonized animals in CSAM theme is also illegal.. guess I can contact my local FBI office and provide them the web addresses of such content. Let them decide what is best.

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