Comment by Red_Comet_88
4 months ago
They also block Brave browsers entirely. I tried reading into it, but it appears to be one of those "programmer personality quirks". The fellow that runs the site appears to think Brave is a scam of some sort, and just decided to block the entire browser.
Oh well, I'll stick to HN.
This is why Brave was blocked [1.]. I'd have felt the same way, and people are entitled to their grudges. I think the grudge is reasonable.
[1.] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45#issue...
There's millions of much stronger reasons to hold grudges against Google and Microsoft, yet their browsers are somehow fine? It's incredibly arbitrary. For what it's worth I think crypto has been a scourge on society so I'm not making this point for any crypto shilling reasons.
Not only is not "incredibly arbitrary" for lobsters to respond in kind to Brave's specific, targeted action against lobsters -- it's not arbitrary whatsoever.
You can scroll through the lobste.rs moderation log to get in impression of how moderation on lobste.rs works:
https://lobste.rs/moderations
Also incidents like this:
https://lobste.rs/s/zp4ofg/lobster_burntsushi_has_left_site
This kind of stuff gives me hugbox vibes, i would not feel safe there. I'm somewhat sure some of the moderators use the website as personal political leverage.
I used to have an account on that site as well and left for the same reason: repeated messages telling me I had been flagged and I needed to reconsider when I dared to venture too far outside the desired narrative. There will be many others who have made or will make the same decision which leaves sites like this with a population which is mostly ideologically cohesive. Maybe that is a good thing for those sites and maybe the participants feel 'safe' in such an environment but it surely is lacking in stimulating curiosity and widening one's intellectual horizon.
Sounds familiar, except here there's no notification when you get flagged/deaded/shadowbanned.
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What does 14 88 refer to in your username?
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Is it me, or is brave more of a cryptocurrency platform that pretends to be a browser?
A lot of people don't really like the toxic discussions that crypto usually tends to devolve in. So it makes sense to block the browser if you don't want those people on your server.
I am no fan of Brave, but where is the logic here? Just because someone uses Brave, they will engage in toxic discussions on crypto? Am I missing something?
It's probably more of a "I don't like Brendan Eich" thing, but the maintainer can't really say that without sounding unhinged.
Then again, I actively go out of my way to be toxic on the internet, so maybe they have a point
The crypto world is full of toxic.
I use Brave for YouTube and other streaming, and I've never encountered any crypto stuff. They have/had their own BAT token that dealt with paid advertising but I've not seen it mentioned in quite some time.
As far as I can tell it's just another browser that blocks a lot of internet crap.
It’s my impression that it’s mostly a browser. But I don’t use it, because who needs another WebKit clone.
It's you.
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