refugee : brisbane

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

aye, the former mod of r/jailbait can have his cardboard castle and paper crown - let's build something better

and the mods of r/australia can sit in the hole that they dug too

SALUT, KANGA !!!!!! nice to meet ya

[–] coaxil 6 points 1 year ago

Fuck spez! :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fuck spez and I won't be going back to r/Brisbane or any other subreddit from now on

So it will either be this community or whatever other one manages some sort of 'critical mass' that will get my participation in chat about Brisbane going forward

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This whole drama has really killed my enjoyment of Reddit as a whole ....spazs attitude towards mods being pretty much disposable is disgusting.

[–] ageingrockstar 1 points 1 year ago

Yep.

I've had my run-ins with mods but I've always respected the 'janitorial' work they do on reddit and usually remember to thank them for that even when I'm arguing against some decision they made. Mods are critical to reddit, that should be obvious, and that it isn't obvious to spez, one of reddit's two co-founders, shows just how stupid and arrogant he is. He's going to end up killing the whole site because, while the majority of users may not be revolting, I believe the majority of mods are or will soon be, as this crisis deepens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, same. I used to mod /r/brisbane, but my reddit account is now history! There is no going back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And a friendly fuck spez to you too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fuck Spaz!!!

[–] dekekun 3 points 1 year ago

Anyone from Brisbane should have a healthy intolerance of bullshit, its in our DNA, so fuck spez.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/r/Brisbane was surprisingly one of my favourite subs and in reflection I spent more time there than I thought. Hoping the community can take off here the same way it has for Melbourne.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would actually navigate to /r/brisbane/new and avoid my feed, very rarely ventured out but I’m excited for this place

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

hope so ....bit basic from a first glance but if the userbase gets behind it it'd be fairly solid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi Kanga! cyronius here :)

Fuck spez!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

<3 Cy!!! hi friend!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is where I've been hiding for the last 6 months :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

also refugee here, decided to ditch the old username so it’s a nice, fresh start.

keen to drop reddit altogether even though I literally only visit /r/brisbane

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeh /r/brisbane was 90% of why i stuck around.....the discord is doing a good job of scratching the itch at least :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I try my best to not use apps purely because of how readily accessible they are.

because I have to use safari to view this, it limits me somewhat otherwise I spend way too much time on socials

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Another refugee checking in!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can't fuck spez, I haven't been jailbait for like 25 years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ayy, Kanga's here! I know you are but what am I...

I guess our daily threads are dead now without an automod. How am I supposed to gripe about my elbow fracture issues now? ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

we'll be looking swanky over here thats for sure mate ;) come join us in the discord if you're not already ...amazed by the response was expecting 20-30 at most we've almost got 150! in 24 hours!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The journey was horrible, the destination uncertain but I made it here, I don't know if I'll survive.

[+] ageingrockstar -7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude you were an obvious troll. You got banned because you were being an obvious troll, got called out for it, and made it clear you were going to continue trolling.

[–] ageingrockstar -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I saw your other comment calling me a troll Zagorath and was disappointed. I'm quite clearly not trolling in that thread, I am expressing my viewpiont (and one that is shared by the majority of the world, as I directly addressed in that comment).

I've been aware of some of your, as I see it, immature political takes for some time on reddit. That's fine and in other contexts I've enjoyed interacting with you (we even did a bit of that here today under a submission of yours). Everyone can have their own views and their right to have those political views should be respected. But calling people whose views you don't agree with 'trolls' is highly immature. And banning them (or calling for them to be banned) for those views is much worse. Again, I was expressing my viewpoint in that thread, not trolling, and it is quite clear that I genuinely hold that viewpoint, as any review of my comment history on reddit will show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretending a country waging a war of aggression on another sovereign country is the good guy is troll behaviour.

Pretending a country threatening the security of another sovereign country through aggressive posturing and illegally sending jets into their airspace without permission is doing nothing wrong (to say nothing of the ridiculous maritime claims that infringe on the EEZs of no fewer than 6 other countries) is troll behaviour.

Making claims that "the majority of the world" believes your ridiculous claims is trolling. I'll just go ask my Taiwanese and Vietnamese friends what they think, shall I?

[–] ageingrockstar -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your first two paragraphs are just the regurgitation of Western propaganda, so not worth addressing

Regarding this :

I’ll just go ask my Taiwanese and Vietnamese friends what they think, shall I?

I suggest you do actually go and ask some ordinary people in Vietnam what their opinion is. And you'd do well to ask people in Taiwan too. I've lived in Taiwan and know that many there see the US as (rightly in my opinion) an imperialist aggressor and whose sympathies lie much more with China. I suggest you also pay attention to the results of the upcoming election in Taiwan in 2024. The polling for Tsai Ing-Wen is going pretty badly right now. Seems the ppl of Taiwan are not terribly anxious to sign up to be the next proxy for the US and have their country destroyed, as Ukraine is sadly being destroyed now (the latest in a long list of countries that the US has taken control of and then sacrificed as pawns in their imperialist games).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The wording you used was trolling. If you were genuine in trying to change minds, you'd use less inflamatory language.

Bye again.

[–] ageingrockstar 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

less inflamatory language

Here's your note from the modlog on my banning :

Banned @[email protected]
reason: Uncivil tankie behaviour

Seems that calling someone a 'tankie' is civil and not inflammatory in the hypocritical world you exist in (and which I'm now gladly free of)

[–] ageingrockstar 1 points 1 year ago

Seems I'm still here

Which is interesting. You might be able to ban the visibility of my comments from other commenters logged in to Aussie Zone but it appears that anyone else may still be able to see them (at least, that's what I understand from @dekekun's comment). I'm still learning but it's good to see that immature tyrants such as yourself don't seem to have absolute power here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unironically claiming that because other countries state that Russia is in the right for their offensive war in Ukraine without critically assessing those supporting countries political manoeuvres is trolling

[–] ageingrockstar 0 points 1 year ago

The reality is that Russia has majority support amongst the world's population and in countries outside Europe. That is what I was stating and it's a reality. I don't need to argue why they support Russia over NATO and the USA (although I could, and in detail).

That fact is very relevant under a submission that details how Australia is treating Russia's Embassy in Australia in a highly prejudiced and disgraceful way. Such behaviour will certainly be noticed in other countries and it will reflect very poorly on Australia. That is the basis of my original comment. It's definitely not trolling and your comment accusing me of such (and those others who do likewise) only demonstrate a lack of intellectual rigour and, I would argue, a sizeable amount of immaturity.

[–] dekekun 2 points 1 year ago

Even if they do that, it will remain visible for any others in the fediverse.

[–] ageingrockstar 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm, accidentally hit the wrong button and deleted the whole comment (too easy to do).

Here's a copy :

Ok, I've just discovered that the admin of this Fediverse instance (Aussie Zone) is an immature tyrant and an absolutely terrible moderator. So this is where my participation here ends, and I will have to find a better refuge than this one.

If you want to see why I came to the above conclusion, you can review my participation in an Australia thread here :

https://aussie.zone/comment/134607

I'm fine with ppl who disagree with the viewpoint I was expressing in that thread, but this instance obviously isn't a place that allows any semblance of free speech.

(Note: I had to sign up to another instance to post this here, as the admin has banned my account in this instance. And with them being such a tyrant, this comment will probably be quickly disappeared too, if they have the power to do that. Just wanted to warn others for however long it gets to remain here.)

Late edit : So the tyrannical and immature admin of this instance (aussie.zone) has also banned this account. This makes further replies and contributions of mine invisible to people viewing this instance. But I've found that all my comments are still visible from another instance. For example, you can see them here :

https://lemmy.world/comment/240054

(includes replies to Zagorath and to the admin, showing up their hypocrisy)

I appreciate ppl may not be interested in the particular interaction I had with them. But I'm commenting to document how tyrannical this admin is and to warn people away from this instance (aussie.zone), which is looking to be even more overtly controlled than r/Australia ever was.