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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
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I never interacted with any of those communities or the mod. Nothing was explained to me either.
And I don't trust VPN's, I trust TOR
Buddy, I’ve got some bad news for you about TOR…
You mean fud?
Go for it, im rather into cryptography.
Tell me about how giving my credit card to a corporation that says "trust me bro" is more trustworthy than Tor... Go ahead
or you could know get a free vpn or a crypto one that isnt owned by a corporation?
if the vpn is free then you are the product they’re selling to other people
only if its created by a corporation
why do you assume that a vpn MUST be owned by a capitalist corporation?
im sorry you are unable to do ANY research on the vpns you use
that is just a generalization fallacy
if you are using corposlop, you are the problem
bye troll
how much does the NSA pay you?
stop trying to cry "troll" everytime you are faced with logic
you dont need to use a cc to pay for a vpn and tor is slow as fuck. maybe using tor is part of why you got banned even, like "suspicious" ips as htey do with vpn ips sometimes.
edit - why am i being downvoted?
the fbi uses the same servers they use for their tor nodes to mass downvote all the people who dont use tor
i never even said i dont use it, i was just trying to help the OP that seemed to not understand how or why the mass ban thing happened to them. many sites and services do not allow vpn or tor ips, and that sucks, but it could have something to do with OP's experience.
edit - clarity
Oh VPNs are crap no doubt, but TOR is not helping you either.
LoL straight up lies
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they arent
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I love fed nodes or atleast use a proxy or your own wireguard vps vpn