Not sure how to get to it on the apps but on the Lemmy sites there’s a modlog button at the bottom, I went to Lemmy.ml on the modlog and searched your name and it says ban reason was “Orientalism/British Colonialism” which is their usual cop-out ban reason to silence any anti-Chinese government messages over there on .ml

Edit: you definitely stepped into the lions den on .ml lol, their admins are very pro-authoritarian, anti-civil rights over there. Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear are the lions dens, beehaw has lemmygrad and hexbear blocked, .ml isn’t though. Unsure of the reasoning but .ml is a bit more “tame” than the other two. There was likely many who posted similar to you, but they were all removed so it looks like it’s the popular view to think otherwise on the surface since all dissenting opinions were removed.

I have, I only use email for basic use and occasionally sending a file but it’s done great for me so far.

A lot of messages get stuck into spam on tuta but you can set spam filters to fix that

That’s fair, I appreciate the insight on it. It tends to be a complicated issue so I don’t think there’s really any right answer to it, all the ways of trying to solving it have huge pros and cons. Guess we do really just have to trust that all of our instance admins across the fediverse are on-top of this stuff at the end of the day

It’s been very good on Beehaw for avoiding them so far, they seem to just be straying out more and more to other communities lately.

I don’t think your characterization of Tankies as trolls trying to divide the Left is accurate, though, they’re just auth-Lefties

That’s fair, most of the times I’ve seen them has been from hexbear and spamming that pig image and just dogpiling people so I was under the impression that it was almost entirely trolls, that combined with not understanding how someone can unironically support authoritarian governments behavior or act fully oblivious to it

If there’s a real moderation issue to consider here, act on it, find the accounts, bring receipts and work together. But this thread/post just seems silly and inflammatory to me … my communities are doing just fine, I’d bet whatever trolls were seen were in the sorts of communities you’d expect.

People are allowed to point out issues in things, no offense intended. I’m not going to sit and pretend nothing is going on and let the equivalent of a nazi bar form silently.

The trolls are on very large instances, and have continued to have accounts, despite reports, as well as rules against that behavior in those large instances, some of them being community moderators on those instances. Not all of them are from the ones you’d expect, quite the opposite. I’m not pointing out names specifically for the reason of not stirring drama. Reports have already been made, to both those instances’ admins again, as well as Beehaw directly, with receipts to let them all figure it out how they feel best to do so for the community. Now is just discussion about the overall issue in a community that’s intended for discussion of topics that don’t fit anywhere else.

There isn’t any harm in not being silent on an issue that Lemmy notoriously has had very blatantly since its inception. This is a process that happens every time these groups stray outside of their usual areas.

Not intending this argumentatively, just giving info on the events leading up to this post.

They desperately want to divide the left

In fact the only comments ive ever had removed on lemmy was me pointing out this very fact. They are quite sensitive to it being said.

Funnily enough, this happening to me and others across an entire thread after pointing that out this morning is exactly what inspired this post

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Really wish they wouldn’t have clickbaited the title

I used to use clamtk occasionally when I was first getting into linux, nice little gui that made clam way simpler to use for me at the time, when I misunderstood what clamav was meant for (email scanning on gateways, not traditional antivirus)

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I tried to give Windows 11 another go recently just to see how it is, I pulled all my files over including my gog games files which had wineprefixes in the folders, with /appdata folders for each prefix.

Windows decided “you know what, screw c:\users\appdata, lets use the appdata folder in this random gamefolder on a different drive instead” and proceeded to cannibalize itself just breaking the majority of apps. No idea how it can’t recognize that the random wine “windows” files that aren’t in the correct locations aren’t the actual location for them. Couldn’t fix it because it thought the “c:” folder in the wine directory was my actual c: drive and refused to delete it

Sure it was an extremely niche issue a Windows user would never realistically run into, but it reminded me just how fragile it is for uncommon usecases

That’s a good point, I use my /home backup via borgbackup which I keep for a bit longer (store 7 days + last 2 weekly before it prunes them), and my /root btrfs snapshots were set to be kept for 7 days just out of habit. I’ll probably dial it back to 2-3 days instead. I do intend them as just rollbacks rather than actual backups but I tend to be too overly cautious for my own good sometimes

I like to keep a few more than the last day of snapshots as a minimum in case there was something silently breaking my system that I didn’t notice for a few days and is too advanced for me to fix normally

I back up the entirety of my /home directory except for cache, temp, trash (trash is stored at /home/$user/.local/share/Trash), Download folder, and a folder I named “NOBACKUP”.

It backs up a lot of stuff I probably don’t need, but I’d rather back up more than I need, than to be caught not backing up something that I did need.

edit: oh, I have a btrfs snapshot of /root too, but I don’t think that’s something the backup tool in Ubuntu can do since it defaults to ext4

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