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My final post in r/shadowban because that is the only place I can post. Backstory: 2 years of post, 2 weeks ago I figured out I was shadowbanned from account creation. Several posts in r/shadowban.

I've done the appeals and the rest which as far as I can tell is just another level of shadowban. More illusion to make someone think there is hope, tricks and pacification. Has anyone ever had an appeal work? The system is a ban is for life by their rules. I have no interest in fighting an obviously losing battle to be able to post. I don't wish to be dodge around the rules like some child sneaking cookies. There is a fundamental fail here. Go to Jail But what did I do? Can't tell you just go to Jail. Sure there are bad actors that may deserve this but I am not one of them. As long as people accept it, then it will continue.

So this is it. As the only place I can actually post or be seen I put my final opinion here. They do lock my post now in a MUCH shorter time. From 5 days to hours. Don't let comments build. Last one is over 3k views. I'm curious how quick this will be locked or deleted. Maybe I'll graduate from shadow to full ban, I think I would feel more complete. In all honesty I hope I don't bring grief to r/shadowban unless they are just another layer of illusion.

The summary of my experience: It is important to note this is all after reddit was bought by Conde Nast and I have no idea what reddit was like before. Acquired for 10-20 million, then IPO publicly traded, they made 1.4 Billion. Pretty good profit. I have to wonder if they care at all what happens after that. And as a company how do they make money to justify that IPO? It can only be through advertising and information. So once again we are the product. With 1.4 billion I think I could hire come people to look at the bans and see if they are warranted. Kinda tells the tale that there aren't. Keep the sheep in line, get rid of anything that might cause any issue, after all we have more than enough sheep that behave (although I still don't know what I did). We make enough from them so scrape the rest into the Ban pit, after all we aren't really a forum anymore but a means of making profit.

So Adu reddit. I am tired and done. There are other options. Trying Lemmy at the moment. It's a peer server fediverse thing so seems like that should be hard to sell. Oh, they got their sub banned for some reason or other. Bad sheep. I prefer to live with the bad sheep. Whoever in singular or group creates these outcomes in reddit may your karma rise from the dark depths it must live in and chew your fanny(s) into shreds.

P.S. This is easily, by orders of magnitude, the most pointed post I have ever made here. Not that anyone can see any of the others of course. Best of luck fellow sheep I have jumped the fence.

P.P.S Am I still shadowbanned? muuuuhahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA! (I really thought the ending was pretty funny)

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This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).

Website: https://solar.chrisco.me/

Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest.

Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see.

More info in the link. I couldn't get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.

This new text strengthens political dialogue between Brussels and Tashkent. But it also consolidates many areas such as trade, investment, research, sustainable development and intellectual property.

Trade between the EU and Tashkent reached €4.8 billion last year, a figure that has almost doubled since 2020. The EU is Uzbekistan's third largest trading partner, accounting for 10.4% of the country's trade in 2024. Tashkent exports 7.2% of its goods to Member States, making the bloc Uzbekistan's second largest export partner

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Hello, lemmy.world! First time posting here, hope you'll find it somewhat useful.

In an attempt to protect my personal info from data-hungry cloud-infested madness that comes from app stores of various kinds, I decided to establish a routine of scraping health metrics from... myself. This particular example requires manual input, however it proved to be working reliably and much more precise than any other mood journaling app.

More details you may find here, in my personal blog.

Feel free to ask other details, I can share my termux scripts, Tasker workflows, Grafana dashboard JSONs, and other infrastructure around it.