There’s really no point in continuing this, but again, I use Reddit. I see these posts all the time. I’m not saying no one ever gets their posts removed or banned from communities or whatever, but they’re insanely popular to the point someone like me who uses the platforms every few days sees it all the time.
I use Reddit. This joke is still insanely popular even on the generic default subs. No one cares enough about this to shut down /r/gaming or /r/funny. Reddit is already pretty bad in reality, there’s no need to fantasize about it being even worse.
This has the same vibe as the hundreds of posts that appear on there every single year around the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary saying stuff like “Reddit is owned by Tencent!!!1! and they’re banning everyone who mentions Tiananmen Square!!!11!!!” despite there being literal thousands of posts about the massacre on the platform.
What are you even on about? The guillotine joke is probably one of the most common reaction posts to any corporate news on Reddit. On any major sub it would get thousands of upvotes and there would be dozens of comment replies with the same overused jokes people post every single time like “Ah, back to the classics”, “Time to dust off the old guillotine”, “Eat the rich 🍽️”, “When’s the revolution starting? I’ll bring snacks.”. Pretending anyone at Reddit HQ cares about this kind of thing is peak Redditor behaviour.
It’s amazing that people criticize Windows security with .exe’s and then install packages from external repositories with the security of “trust in the repository”.
As with almost every case of these sorts of comparisons, these are likely separate groups of people holding separate groups of opinions.
I don’t use Arch anymore, but when I did I found that the AUR was really useful to quickly install niche applications that would take ages to be approved on to an official repository. Often those would be made by the application developers themselves or members of the community. I would personally vet the packaging script myself, but I’m sure many wouldn’t - and that’s fine. As with most software, there’s some trust involved and often you assume that if you’re installing from a reputable repository it’s going to be fine. If people aren’t vetting the installation scripts and are installing from random repositories, that’s really their problem. I’m glad the possibility existed and it’s the one thing I’ve missed in distros I’ve used since then.
I also feel like it “breaking all the time” was part of the stereotype itself. I stopped using Arch because it was stable for almost 3 years and part of the point of using it in the first place was learning Linux by fixing stuff that broke - except that stuff never broke so I grew bored of it.
This isn’t anything new. There’s a whole lot of people on the Fediverse who throw the word Fascist around willy nilly but who will happily make use of Fascist rethoric in regards to those who they see as political enemies.
They seem to think that the bad thing about Fascism isn’t the authoritarianism, political violence, censorship, etc, but the fact it’s a “right wing” government behind those - those would all be perfectly justifiable means to an end in the name of a left wing movement.
I see this happening more in american politics than over here, and I think it’s in part a lack of knowledge of history, but also never having had an actual fascist regime in the country’s recent history. My parents were tortured by the political police. I have a bunch of family who lived under an actual Fascist regime, and colleagues from other countries with a recent history similar to mine, and I notice that people in general, even in the far left, are way more careful about how they use the word Fascist. American internet “leftists” - which I put in quotes because many don’t seem to actually hold any left wing views - love LARPing about living under fascism and that somehow excusing every thing they claim Fascism is bad for - against their political enemies.
Why do I do this to myself.
This implies every post of this kind gets the user banned on Reddit. That is verifiably false. If that were true or even common enough, these posts wouldn’t be as incredibly popular on Reddit as they are. Shifting your argument so you can pretend we agree is insane behaviour.
And no, I had never called you a liar until this point. I don’t assume people are liars - extreme world views often lead people to have biased interpretations of reality, but that doesn’t make them inherently evil or liars. Now you are lying, though.