One of three countries. I imagine it’s the one that created Sputnik. I have a couple of friends from there and have heard about the restrictions on the internet, but like the Great Firewall of China many people know how to bypass it.

Do you live in North Korea or something?

Banned from a sub Reddit, but you wouldn’t be banned from Reddit site wide - unless you off the scale heinous.

As much as I dislike Reddit’s direction and have had site wide temporary bans myself, i find it hard to believe you were properly banned for what you described. I was temporary banned because I was flaunting that I wasn’t abiding by Reddit’s rules, and even then, it was only a 2 week ban on a single account.

What you describe is the main reason that’s stopping me from 100% leaving Reddit. There isn’t enough variety and there isn’t enough activity in communities that isn’t in the few popular ones. At the moment it feels like +80% of current users fit into a specific demographic.

I think that says more about the channels you watch and your viewing habits. I enjoy STEM and STEM related channels; I don’t experience the same as what you’ve described.

I don’t know much about Mbin. I’ll have to look up what it’s about

I’ve not heard of Sopuli or .cafe before. Do they cater for a niche audience or something?

Yeah that’s the exact reason why I dislike the .zip TLD, and the same goes for .mov. The TLDs can be easily abused to look like something they’re not to trick people into visiting their website that downloads something malicious.

If you saw ChromeUpdate202506.zip, then what do you believe it is? A downloadable update for Chrome or a website?

What if a malicious person has purchased that domain and filled the website with something malicious, a virus, an info stealer, etc?

I block the .zip TLD because the domains can be used maliciously. Within the first few days there were hundreds/thousands of domains registered with names to look like zip files for updating software and the like.

I also block the .mov TLD for the exact same reason.

Sure on a good day you can spot the malicious intent from a mile away, but I like to protect for when I’m having a bad day. I also block the TLDs for the whole family as well because unfortunately they’re not as tech savvy or meticulous.

Bots submitting content on behalf of people? That sounds like spam does it not?

Good good. I hope that’s the case. I’d prefer to see the variety of instances that people enjoy. :)

I like the idea of self hosting; I’m just concerned about being defederated by an admin/mod that’s taken things the wrong way.

I’m not a spicy person, but I’m sure I’ve upset some people, some how. I say that, but I know I’ve upset at least one person online.

The person stated they do a thing, and me being curious, I asked them a question about it because I wanted to know more. They replied with a really angry message. It sounds preposterous but it really was as benign as that. I’ve seen the same person respond to others in the same unreasonable manner. It’s this type of person that I’m concerned about.

There are some instances far worst than others other. I think hex bear has been defederated by many for example.

And I agree with the crazies; I think it’s true for any group that’s large enough, regardless of platform or real world communities.

Which law is that?

Any website or service that utilizes the .zip TLD 🤮🤮

I’m sure there are great websites and services that utilize it, but I have a strong opinion that the TLD should have never been put out there for people to use. I block all .zip TLD domains with no exceptions; and so unfortunately, I cannot use lemmy.zip.

To be fair, I have no real opinions about lemm.ee. It was one of the instances that had the most users when I joined Lemmy, and as far as I’m aware it hasn’t received any real negative press.

I’m more bothered about seeing or being associated with spam and/or an instance full of toxic people. I’m not a spicy person - or so I’d like to think.

I think i might be ND just going off what your wrote as I can relate to most of it… sheet.

At least normal European people are locked into a platform that doesn’t care what device you’re using, unlike iMessage - so it’s not all bad

We just sent the code, provide the phone number we sent it to

I generally have already decided what to purchase before I load Amazon’s website. I also rarely purchase cheap white label products, and so Amazon’s reviews are mostly irrelevant to me. I’ve rarely needed to return items too and recently they were all my fault anyway, eg, not quite the dimensions I thought I needed.

I’ve never heard of anyone use a shop’s reviews to decide what product to purchase, so you’re literally the first to me.

If I want a product that I have no idea about then I’ll go to forums, YouTube channels, etc about that type of thing and see what they say about it all. They’ll be people who’ve done product reviews and comparisons. And so they’re the people with the knowledge and their the people that care.

So in your example of wanting a guitar pedal I’d be visiting music and electric guitar places on the internet to gather knowledge on the product range.

Once I hit the online store, I’ve already decided what I want to purchase. And so the store reviews are more about the seller themselves and whether the product is genuine/fake, or a good/bad version of the white label item.