I’m all for it, but what kicked it off?

  • EntropyPure@lemmy.world
    2611·
    23 天前

    Somebody was banned for posting the GIF of the Nazi Guy getting knocked out (you know the one).

    The community is not having it.

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
      1041·
      23 天前

      Every time I walk past that stretch near Pike and 3rd in Seattle, right over that bit of concrete where the nazi got laid the fuck out, I punch the air. Every time.

        • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          16·
          23 天前

          I know it is, technically. I just never group Imgur into social media. Its always been just an image host in my mind.

          • [object Object]@lemmy.world
            4·
            22 天前

            When I last used Imgur about ten years ago, they communicated exclusively in gifs and meme phrases. It’s a bit odd.

            But, when those browsing /new on Imgur had a mini-uprising and upvoted just anything for a day, weirdest and most outlandish stuff actually made it to the front page. That was the most fun I’ve ever had on a social-media site.

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      17·
      23 天前

      No wonder. Some rich guy must have got very upset. Strange though, plenty of people get punched all the time, and there are plenty more GIFs people getting punched. Banning specifically the Nazi guy getting punched isn’t good PR I think…

    • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      23 天前

      It just amazes me how to doing the Nazi salute, uniforms and speech’s are entirely okay now. However, being against it gets you banned.

      The world has gone a full circle and we are back to the days were fascism, hatred and all that is okay. Unfortunately.

      • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        22 天前

        we need socialism. we need to organize a lot more than ever. we need to be revolutionary optimists, and NOT give in to counterrevolutionary doom and gloom and defeatism. seriously!

    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      111·
      23 天前

      Yeah and the community does not understand what it means to protect your audience from certain content. Violence is violence. At this point it does not matter who is who. But the community just had too much lead in the water and is unable to form their own thoughts, thus just follow the other sheep.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      476·
      23 天前

      That video always makes me uncomfortable because I dont know the actual context. Maybe he was in Halloween fancy dress?

      Yes fuck nazis, but I dont know in my bones the person deserved it.

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
          25·
          23 天前

          Yeah, I think you should cosplay as a nazi the same way we wear fake guns. You better make it abundantly clear that it’s a toy/costume.

        • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          12·
          23 天前

          Also, in the one scenario where I would find dressing up as a nazi acceptable, which is if they’re an actor for a movie/show/play that requires nazi characters, they are not going to just put an armband on their everyday modern clothing.

          They’ll wear a proper reconstruction of an actual nazi uniform, and they’re not going to just walk around in that costume, they’re going to be on or around a set, which also gives any possible passerbys the context clues needed to understand that they’re just an actor, thus saving themselves from being punched.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          23 天前

          Fun fact I have a swedish tankers trench coat from 1940 and a Swiss helmet from 1942 when I wear them together it basically looks like legally distinct werhmacht. I can pull the samething with an American armor school long coat and a Yugoslav helmet for the Soviet equivalent.

          It’s technically not Nazi apparel. It annoys my friends though.

        • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
          416·
          23 天前

          I think it more reminds me how easily influenced we can be. “Go find out” is great, but its not possible to research everything you see. Even if I did I’d only find other people talking about the video and would have no real way of discerning who actually knows what theyre talking about and who’s just making credible sounding shit up.

          Do you guys not feel that worry somewhere in your mind when you see things like this?

          • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            23 天前

            I mean, it’s not like me enjoying the video is going to affect the guy who got punched. I think it’s good that as a society we support videos that appear to show Nazi cosplayers being punched and don’t give them the benefit of the doubt. If I were actually there IRL and able to affect the outcome, I would also be able to ask for the necessary information to determine what to do.

      • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
        512·
        23 天前

        Yeah, his hand coming up in a way that could be “this isn’t what you think” doesn’t help. The description makes the situation sound very different though and there’s not much of an excuse for the armband right now. But yeah, not a fan of the gif now I’ve seen it

  • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    531·
    23 天前

    The only reason any of these people have power is because we, as a society, continue to use their shit… Get the fuck off Twitter, get the fuck off Reddit, get the fuck off Facebook. Make those companies worthless by not using them it’s literally so easy. I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here but God damn it’s literally so easy, just read a book. Touch some grass. We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.

    • FridaySteve@lemmy.world
      251·
      23 天前

      I’m really waiting for this idea to catch on. I got online in the late 80s to get away from normies and their boring, repetitive normie mind-viruses. Back then it was just nerds talking to other nerds. Nowadays you can’t even talk to your friends here. This whole thing is for people to get angry about politics and buy products. The sooner all these people leave, the sooner we can get back to what originally brought us here.

      Hopefully soon, going on social media will be seen as a bad antisocial habit like smoking.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      23 天前

      Get the fuck off Twitter, get the fuck off Reddit, get the fuck off Facebook.

      I mean, way ahead of you. But we’re just jerking each other off if we think saying this downthread of a Lemmy post is changing anyone’s mind. This is the most Preaching To The Choir ass post you can make outside of an actual church.

      We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.

      eye-roll

      Listen, if you want to walk around downtown with a big sandwich board that says “Log The Fuck Off And Touch Grass”, I’ll cheer for you when I see you. But there’s a reason people flock to an easily accessible portal for social engagement. And its naive to keep shouting “Log the fuck off!” from within the medium you can’t seem to quit yourself.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      23 天前

      Idiots weren’t ready for the internet.

      If people would get out of walled garden bot ridden bullshit, the internet could be great.

      What non nerds use today is not internet. I like to call it Corpo-Net. Because these people never venture outside their billionaire facist websites.

        • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          22 天前

          Im not sure having laws policing the internet is a good idea. Educating the populous and defunding propaganda advertising would be a better move.

          Also I do agree with bizzle, people need to just turn it off more often (Go see Running Man if you haven’t. Exact parallels to our current state. )

    • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
      1·
      23 天前

      I mean they got to power using those things so I’m not sure just handing over that sphere of influence is the best strategy.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      23·
      23 天前

      We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.

      Did you write all that on the internet? Or did you scrawl it in ballpoint pen in the back of a book you’re reading?

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    564·
    22 天前

    Imgur has pissed me off long enough that I decided to roll my own this summer. When all I need is a place to store stuff for easy linking, building a web frontend is pretty trivial.

    Plus I’m not limited to whatever file type and size imgur decides.

    And guess what, my site condones punching Nazis:

    • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      301·
      22 天前

      And it all comes full circle

      (For those who don’t know, Imgur was invented by a user on reddit sick of the other image hosting sites until it eventually became what it was meant to replace)

      • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        22 天前

        Because I’m too old and crusty to use docker. Also, yet another hobby project because, apparently, I have too few unfinished ones.

        EDIT: Plus I want the ability to selectively publish via bittorrent as well. Forgot that part.

  • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    23 天前

    So I infrequently use Imgur and basically a user got banned for saying ‘kill all nazis’ and another user’s post got taken down that had anti-nazi rhetoric. This is the most recent of a few scenarios where the mods have been seen as incompetent or overall shitty and so the community revolts. Honestly kinda dig it, at least they can coordinate and show a unified front…granted it’s slacktivism to a point but it gets people’s attention? Idk how I feel about it honestly.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      91·
      22 天前

      People talk of Imgur being a leftist echo chamber. I have had more than enough neoliberal types on there argue about the benefits of capitalism to me or that we shouldn’t have worker solidarity. I feel when these events happen, it’s part legitimately pissed of users but a lot of people just riding the up vote wagon.

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
    40·
    23 天前

    Just because I have a Nazi tattoo and go to Nazi rallies and think ALL Jews and Minorities should die DOESNT make Me a NAZI! In FACT it makes YOU a Nazi!

    -Republicans!

  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    477·
    23 天前

    The amount of people making excuses for Nazis in this thread, is disgusting. Get fucked Nazi sympathizers. 🖕

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    36·
    23 天前

    It still surprises me that people use Imgur as a social media site. Imgur to me is a place that hosts image to be used on other social media sites. Using imgur as a social media site is like using a url shortener as a social media site. What’s next, Captcha becomes a social media hangout?

    • pedz@lemmy.ca
      11·
      22 天前

      Imgur has been pretty shit at hosting images for other sites for about a decade because it’s trying very hard to keep people captive on its site. They added ways to prevent hotlinking and if I paste an imgur link in a chat, starting with i., supposedly a direct link to the image, the preview will not work and the page the link sends to will always open their whole site around that image. They really really want people to stay on there, and interact, or watch ads. AFAIK they have made that change about a decade ago as they wanted to monetize.

    • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 天前

      My neighbor uses Imgur as his main social media. I take that with a grain of salt though since he’s a millenial who only used flip phones til 2022, there are dozens like him, dozens!

    • FishFace@lemmy.world
      2·
      22 天前

      I used it that way for years. It’s better for memes than fediverse or Reddit, except for two things: 1 occasionally the user base freaks the fuck out and starts spamming the same thing, like this. I don’t like Nazis, but that also means I don’t want literally everything on my funny picture site to be about keeping them out. 2 increasingly all the popular stuff isn’t memes at all, but shitting on trump and musk. See point 1.

      Then they blocked the UK because they didn’t want to put an age field on their registration form (note this is not to do with age verification)

      • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 天前

        1 occasionally the user base freaks the fuck out and starts spamming the same thing, like this. I don’t like Nazis, but that also means I don’t want literally everything on my funny picture site to be about keeping them out. 2 increasingly all the popular stuff isn’t memes at all, but shitting on trump and musk.

        Doesnt sound all that different from here especially on #1, case in point beans, jeans and more recently corn for some reason

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        21 天前

        1 occasionally the user base freaks the fuck out and starts spamming the same thing, like this. I don’t like Nazis, but that also means I don’t want literally everything on my funny picture site to be about keeping them out

        Browse under certain tags. It wont be 100% gone but its better. I recommend starting with viewing the “Caturday” Tag.

        https://imgur.com/t/caturday

    • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
      1·
      21 天前

      Hosting is half of it, but the user-submitted section is a thriving social ecosystem. It’s a lot like reddit or Lemmy, but all submissions are image-based only with sizable comment sections attached like anywhere else. I was very involved there 12 years back and enjoyed it quite a lot. I tried really hard to earn my green (highest karma) badge, but I believe I got second or third highest before running out of steam. You had a profile full of badges and stuff, and users actually valued karma there, unlike on reddit or Lemmy.

      But the mood changed other time and it became a hub for bullshit, sob stories and very tired, very played-out jokes. Then the eventual UI changes drove the nail in the coffin and I found it unusable.

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    22 天前

    A lot of reddit users, especially those who have recently been permabanned due to the great censorship purge, are just hanging out there now. Not much censorship.

    It’s super antifa. I scroll there a lot when I’m in a meme mood.

    I’d say it started going hard political around the same time as everything else. February 2025.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      17·
      22 天前

      Yep I split my time between Lemmy and Imgur to fill the void after leaving reddit, cause Lemmy alone unfortunately isn’t enough to show you everything there was to see on reddit.

      That said, be warned that it’s corporate owners have no problems with collecting as much data as they can off your phone and selling it to anyone who’s buying. Just look at this shit:

      So if you do decide to go there, do yourself a favor and wear a condom. Install DuckDuckGo and enable “app tracking protection”, and get a DNS-level adblocker on your phone as well. AdGuard or NextDNS are both fine choices.

      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        101·
        22 天前

        I just gave up imgur myself for voicing an opinion of civil disobedience and then told why don’t I go there myself with a gun and start shooting. Nuance seems to be dead everywhere.

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        22 天前

        +1 for AdGuard DNS. Using apps without it is a damn nightmare. Almost thought my phone had some kind of virus the other day when I temporarily turned it off and then opened mapquest

      • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        22 天前

        Thanks that’s good info to have.

        I’m hearing they are starting to censor but that must be kinda new.

        Too bad.

        It was, as you say, a decent reddit alternative for images/memes.

    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
      9·
      23 天前

      I’d say it all started in the late 1960s with Nixon’s implementation of the southern strategy. What we’re seeing today is the resultant avalanche of American fascism, appropriately composed of fragile white snowflakes.

      • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        22 天前

        if only hubert humphrey was elected in 1968

        oh and this is my 300th comment here on this lemmy instance. seriously!

      • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 天前

        Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.

      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        31·
        22 天前

        For LGBT+ and PoC it’s been a violent, fascist state against them for a long time. Just now it’s affecting the white people to a point they’re uncomfortable with but make no mistake, they’ll just let it happen again in a few more years.

      • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
        5·
        22 天前

        That’s still going to take time. It is like their main symbol. Education on that in schools will go a long way. And it’s not just Buddhist either. Native Americans and Irish used to use them to.

        Before 1930s that symbol was in magazines and shit too.

            • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              22 天前

              I mean let’s count - boomers, gen x, millenials, gen z is only 4 generations later. Generation gamma or delta can decide if it’s a redeemable symbol and I cant imagine they’ll care all that much what their great (great) grandparents generation thought about it.

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
    18·
    22 天前

    You know what? I don’t care what kicked it off. I don’t care if it’s a billionaire paying for bots. I’m just glad that the kind of people that get programmed by social media to vote for horrible shit might finally get programmed to do some good for a change.