What makes them more important than the regular hostages?

I can’t wait to react to another inflammatory thing on the internet with no information.

It’s perfectly reasonable to assume you do not understand what you are reading, but please do excuse yourself.

I have no idea what you are saying. I have little doubt you had no idea what you read. End of story.

Still stupid to repeat a word over and over without knowing what it means. Words are important.

If you agree with the article, use war crimes instead. That makes sense. Don’t feed the stupid people.

FYI, the next version of Nexcloud AIO will come with the external transcoder.

The Nation version is click bait garbage. The original was denied both for safety concerns and it simply wasn’t good enough.

What is genocide?

Cool story. What are ads?

There are too many dimwits who think Lemmy was made so that they can build their echo chambers. So, there is no discourse, just stupid people encouraging stupid people. Anyone that comments otherwise is immediately removed.

Most mods are dumdums. Most are obviously politically and ideologically motivated. It’s their job to prune anything they disagree with, which means they can’t help themselves and ban everyone. Most of the time it’s a complete waste of time to comment in smaller subs. The dumdums have taken hold either by making the subs and controlling them, or by volunteering as mods with no oversight.

So random people can be mods? That’s bananas!

People that get off having mod powers or people that want to push a particular message… 😕

Exactly. You can’t do anything. You are at the mercy of the mods. If they have massive bias for something, the entire sub has massive bias.

It’s more like content steering, yes. But from the perspective of someone that frequents a thread, it’s shadowy. All the content vanishes and remembering the usernames that commented, so I can look up what was removed, is just not practical.

It’s really bizarre and sadly dystopian.

That’s the thing, you have to frequent particular threads to notice, but for your own posts, you can see the mod reasoning, if they are given. Most of the time there is no reason given, but every now and then there’s a one word response that is clearly them not understanding words or pushing their own political ideas. And by doing that they’ve created echo chambers for entire subs. It’s disgusting.

In Reddit at least there is a big notice posted in the comment if they are removed. In Lemmy, they just prune everything so it looks like everyone agrees with the mod.