I won’t be editing it, because I’m still of the same personal opinion that I offered. I can have my own personal opinion, without receipts, even if you don’t agree with my opinions.

I didn’t start the thread, I’m not a subject of OP’s complaint, and again, the mere fact that OP had to come here in the first place, backs up my personal opinion.

You don’t agree. Ok, cool. I haven’t changed my mind. Let’s move on.

Everyone complains that Lemmy doesn’t have enough content. So you’re mad when people post content?

IMHO, the more posts, the better as long as it’s not advertising.

Follow the rules of the community. YDI

I’m glad the ban got reverted. But it wasn’t reversed until it was posted here. I don’t have to give receipts on my personal opinions since I didn’t start the thread.

Let’s move on to other things since the ban was reversed.

This worked, I found a local club. :)

thank you! This is SUPER helpful!

Yep, I’m US-based, so I’ll do that. I live in a mid-sized city, so we should have some radio clubs.

Good points. I should do that first rather than way. I’ll look on amazon today for a smaller one so I just get on air right now!

Thanks. There is so much stuff to know. Just jumping into this today, I’ve been down so many rabbit holes!

And as for my radio shack, actually I do want it to be stand alone structure in my backyard. So it’ll be my mancave since my gf already hates how much stuff I have around everywhere.

I just wish it wasn’t so expensive to get in. Hopefully I can find everything decently priced as I find my way.

IDK, maybe it gets boring if you have the mod controls and it’s a little exciting event whenever you get to jump up and start using them, I don’t really know.

Dude, you had your own instance, I think you have a pretty good idea of what it’s like. lol

I see lemmy.world and I just say “PTB!” and I skip the details. :)

PTB!

I actually ran my own crooked little pirate station back when acne and hormones were still my main drama. My command center was my grandfather’s “radio shack,” and yes, that’s what people called HAM radio set-ups.

It smelled like dust, old wires, and pipe tobacco. I’d sneak in, crank up punk records, and talk all kinds of shit about my high school like I was Wolfman Jack! lmao

There was some some movie that came out about that time, about a teen running a pirate radio station that his high school listened to, and I thought it was awesome. Christian Slater was in it. “Pump Up The Volume.”

For six glorious months, I broadcasted into the void as a one-man revolution pumping static and anger into the uni. Then my gramps got a letter that threatened a fine so monstrous it could have bought ten lifetimes of gas station burritos. Ten thousand motherfuckin dollars or some shit!! He was pissed.

My audience was basically one guy, and that one guy never helped me get laid. So that was the end of my pirate radio empire.

I miss that shack tho, so I’m looking to get back into it. Building a radio shack in my backyard. Getting equipment locally sourced and from eBay.

Legal this time, cuz I’m gonna take my radio operators test and get certified. Only preppers really care about shortwave radio these days. But those are my peeps, so…

Wish I’d inherited my gramps’ radio equipment. Shit’s expensive now.

Thanks for the update. Glad you stood up for yourself and glad that the people involved did the right thing. That’s what’s so awesome about this community!

The primary reason we decided you weren’t a good fit for SLRPNK wasn’t your ideas, but your chronic pattern of toxic behavior in advocating them.

Ok, that makes more sense. Obviously I, and the admin of this instance and other instances I’m on, don’t feel I’m toxic, but you are certainly welcome to think that.

online bullying can make people disengage from a conversation in spite of arguing good points.

Agreed. And people bullied me a lot and told me to leave Lemmy. I stood up to them and didn’t back down. So yeah, as a result, I can totally agree that I’m not great at de-escalating arguments. I give as much as I get. Which I feel has me wrongly labeled as a troll, but meh, if someone starts something with me, I don’t back off. But you have a valid point.

you stand from the rightward-sliding political median.

Just to be clear: I’m not rightward politics. I’m a socialist. Voted socialist. (Which by the way is what caused all the controversy, because I voted 3rd party in the election) I also created and I mod socialist communities, and I’ve the majority of my posts are pro-socialist and pro third-party articles.

especially since you were transparent about your identity in your application, which I respect and appreciate.

Thank you. My “alts” aren’t really alts as for ban evasion. I use my same name on all my instances. So ban evasion isn’t really a goal since I don’t hide my identity. If I truly wanted to ban evade and have an alt, I’d just come up with a different user name and sign up wherever I wanted.

But there have been multiple times when someone signed up in bad faith, using my name to create drama, and I’ve written to plenty of admins to let them know it wasn’t me and asked them to delete those accounts. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. I have no control over that.

But I DO appreciate your explanation, so thank you for going into details. Even tho I don’t agree with some of your points, at least now I understand where you are coming from.

I respect you for not ignoring my questions or my gripes.

So thank you and best of luck to your instance. I still love the idea of your instance, even tho I’m no longer a part of it.

How? I said I think that slrpnk has lost it’s way. That was my personal opinion.

Want a quick receipt? This very thread. Most people agreed with OP and felt it was PTB against a slrpnk mod.

I meant, no issues as in no issues causing trouble for my instance. The admins of the instances I’m on had no issues with me.

Also, I didn’t even post in most of those subs that were banning me. Please point out something that you thought was troubling and ban-worthy.

I loved the reason was: known zero-sum narcisstic troll/spam user. I added that to my user profile description. I’m not smart enough to know what it means, but it sounds badass!! LMAO

Lemmy is still way pissed that I voted for third party in the election. :)

PTB!

As for me not having receipts right now, I wasn’t trying to prove anything. Just saying that it seems I have read things about slpnk not being as cool as it used to be. I mean, we are here talking about them in this comm because of it.

Others in this thread are saying that OP’s situation was PTB as well, and based on the upvotes of my comments, I’m not the only one who thinks the slrpnk vibe seems to have changed lately.

I’m not a mod or admin who banned anyone in this thread, so no reason for me to have any receipts. I was just giving my personal opinion.

I’m glad OP’s comment was restored.

I just find it strange, though. I fit your demographic pretty well (solar power, off-grid living, anti-authority, anti-capitalist, punk, etc.) and never broke any rules on your instance, yet it still became an issue to be “associated with” me. I even had a cool-ass banner solarpunk graphic for my banner that I made just for that instance!! lol

What about my behavior caused problems for you? I’ve been on dbzer0 (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk
) and sh.itjust.works (https://sh.itjust.works/u/UniversalMonk
) for almost a year with no issues. I haven’t changed anything about how I act, what I post, or my attitude, and they’ve had no problems with me at all.

Even the stuff I became “infamous” for on .world was mostly election related, because I voted 3rd party (Socialist). If I made those exact posts today, they probably wouldn’t cause any stir at all.

So I’m honestly curious: why can I be fine on these two big instances with no issues, yet yours had a problem with me?

I don’t want you to think I’m grilling you or taking anything away from OP.

But I just find the whole thing curious, especially since I fall into what seems like one of your core demographics. No biggie tho, I found my forever home with my dbzer0 crew here.

Good points, but the reality is it’s still tiny compared to mainstream platforms. The communities are smaller, the reach is limited, and a lot of the conversations I care about still happen on places like Reddit or even mainstream social media.

I enjoy the Fediverse for what it is and support the idea behind it, but I can’t fully leave the bigger platforms yet because that’s still where most of the people and content are.