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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by lazide »

hypercube33 wrote: post #72
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #58

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I have an esim on my phone which has its own number. I only turn it on if some services asks for a phone number so I don't have to give my main number. Its on a cheap yearly plan, very low data and calls included but I won't be using these.

I'd like to know more. My partner and I were discussing how online bans are unjust and permanent now everywhere. Just feels weird when the Internet we grew up with basically anything went and bans were maybe hours. I get the motivation for it but also feels like the world didn't learn lessons thousands of years old as well.

It’s not that they couldn’t learn those lessons, it’s that the system makes learning those lessons a bad idea (in the short term).

It’s the same thing that happened with ‘08, etc. The market can stay irrational far longer than you can stay solvent, so in most cases it makes (short term) sense to just be irrational with everyone else.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by lazide »

zo1 wrote: post #94
3ln00b wrote: post #44

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Already happened with me, my Amazon account is essentially locked. I changed my phone number and don't have access to my old number anymore and the existing number is apparently associated with some other Amazon account so they can't do anything about it. I stopped using Amazon altogether, I just request my brother to order stuff I want.

I know it's small, but want to point out another thing Amazon bait and switched (not exactly related to your comment, but I guess it needs to be shared). We ordered Amazon Kids tablets few years back (they're actually awesome and super well-priced for 3rd-world regions) and had them shipped overseas, linked to my Amazon account, etc, all working fine. Then after some update to the "Amazon Family Parents Centre" App,…

VPNs (if not detected by their system) are also very helpful for this.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by lazide »

alexey-salmin wrote: post #67
ketzo wrote: post #43

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The NYT published a very well-reported case (two cases, actually) of Google doing this more than two years ago. This is not a hypothetical -- this is already happening. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

A possibility of loosing access to a 20 years old Google account is quite disturbing. I know it's possible to setup a sync of Google drive to a local NAS, I wonder if the same can be done with Gmail archives. Then there's a problem of loosing access to all linked accounts on other services. What can be done about those, switching them to Proton mail.preemptively? Life without SSO is annoying.

Google.com/takeout

It will dump your Gmail data into a mbox file, which is reasonably well supported.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by p-e-w »

bitcharmer wrote: post #101
lvncelot wrote: post #83

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I won't disagree about the state of LinkedIn, but doesn't the content just come with the territory? In my experience, people who "network" for networking's sake the most are exactly the type of people who self-congratulate and humble brag, so you're bound to get exactly this type of content on a platform that's entirely networking-focused.

But LinkedIn wasn't like that 10 years ago. It was what it was meant to be. To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media. At this point LI is beyond saving but a serious competitor would have to be heavily moderated to stay clean which we all know won't happen.

> To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media.

Social media is and always has been a mirror of the real world. Today's dominant real-world culture consists of virtue signaling, vague pseudo-philosophy, toxic positivity, and a hyper-focus on group identity. You can see this every time you read the news, but you can also hear it when you just talk to random people.

The trend towards that culture started a few years before social media became a thing. I can't even imagine having a conversation with a friend anymore the way I used to in the 1990s and early 2000s. Everything I see online, I recognize from real-world interactions. Those who think social media has "corrupted" society are barking up the wrong tree.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by beAbU »

baq wrote: post #96
estebarb wrote: post #46

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But Edge is a browser by Microsoft! Imagine getting banned for working there.

Cancel culture taken to the dystopian limit. Can’t say anything - if you do, one of the million bots will ban you for it from somewhere.

You are now banned from r/pyongyang

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by bbor »

mandmandam wrote: post #100
bbor wrote: post #52

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It's shockingly frustrating and disheartening. I recently (like, yesterday) got permanently banned from Reddit for "report abuse", for some random semi-nonsense comment I reported a month ago on a meme subreddit. Regardless of how justified that is or isn't -- I only have one side of the story to share of course, and I think I just got caught in some labor-saving measures for their underpaid+overworked admin staff --…

If it helps, Reddit outside of the niche or rare well-moderated subs is detestable; a wasteland of bots and ads and partisan nonsense. Even on the science subs, no one cares about your older comments or the age of your account, except to pull things out of it to try and doxx you or invalidate your opinions. You can make another account on a VPN and still get the same upvotes, still reach the same eyeballs, get the sa…

Thanks for the kind words! Yeah I've sorta taken it for granted that I'm going to comply with their "no ban evasion" rule, but I guess I should give it some thought if I find the urge some day. Given that my old account was publicly linked to my real name (and I'd like to do the same for any new one), that could get a little tricky... But that's obviously a self-imposed hurdle.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by lazide »

makeitdouble wrote: post #18
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #7

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People send each other porn on LinkedIn?

Actually, why wouldn't people working in porn and porn adjacent industries send porn related content to each other in DMs, totally in a professional context ?

Porn is bad, and clearly they should feel bad. (/s, but that is the way these things tend to go longer term!)

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by janalsncm »

ulfw wrote: post #109
rnts08 wrote: post #75

We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that's not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some "inspirational" social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.

We never 'needed' a damn feed on Linkedin in the first place I get updates from daughters fights with cancer of people I don't know. I don't need to see this on a 'professional' network. Not sure why people post such intimate private things.

You’re being downvoted but you’re right. The feed is really just a vehicle to deliver ads. The content I see there is almost entirely garbage. I only use my profile and the ability to DM with recruiters and maybe the jobs board.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by janalsncm »

rnts08 wrote: post #75

We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that's not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some "inspirational" social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.

The issue isn’t just LinkedIn, it happens on all social networks I’m aware of. Take your account down for vague “violations” and make it nearly impossible to speak with anyone with common sense. Franz Kafka would be proud.
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