the mod said they will unban him if he remove the post in /r/viking
No one is stoning anyone until I blow this whistle, even if they do say Jehovah
Reddit and Islamophobia name a better combo
Denim and beans
Reddit sucks
Centralized, corporate information sources suck
Fedi FTW
You speak the true-true
Reddit has always been a fascist shithole… At least since the state murdered aaron…
state murdered aaron
I want a President do declare Aaron Swartz Day a day of national mourning and shame, with hopeful reflection on the immense value of open source & creative commons. Maybe with a public investment in open source commons like browser or mobile OS.
Yes this is my hobby horse and I am riding it
I mean, that’s the standard of moderation for any online space. Lemmy isn’t any better it’s just more benevolent.
Lemmy is better because there are open standards and alternate servers.
Humans are mostly all the same; incentives pervert or ennoble us.
Centralized power and monetary incentive tend to the former
This made me realize that, throughout basically all of Viking history, Islam was already a thing. Curious.
“Allah” is also simply the Arabic word for God, and was actually also used there before Islam.
Although there could be further clues that link these rings to Islam, of course.
Yeah, “Allah” is what Lebanese, Syrian, and other Arab Christians have called their Christian God as well.
Most likely they raided Spain when it was Al-Andalus.
Tho vikings did have a phase where they served as bodyguards in Byzantine empire. They definetely bought stuff from a muslim merchant.
Second point is more interesting because not one history teacher I had went over how focused mediveal muslims were when topic came to merchants. Last prophet in Islam was a regular merchant until he was past 40.
You can imagine trading becoming a core part of religious culture over time. To this day you can negotiate prices when buying anything from any religious muslim by saying “The Prophet used to bargain.”
Possible, but they also just straight up had trade relations. Viking weapons were sometimes made with Arab iron, for example, because they had the best in the world at the time.
The only surviving account of a “Viking funeral” we have is from a Muslim traveler named ibn Fadlan traveling among the Volga Vikings.
“Viking history” is pretty late. While Norse culture is much older, the (written) history about it only started when christian or muslim scholars started to write it down. And they only did that once the vikings started raiding and trading with the christian and muslim world at around 800 CE. They established trade networks and colonies along the big rivers of eastern Europe and reached the black sea and Caspian sea, which is most likely the origin of the ring the post is about.
Islam was founded 600 CE so yes, you are right.
These cancerous fuckers from another sub perma banned my 10 year old account. Because I only asked any content creators like Joey Swoll that comment on bad gym etiquettes. No explanation, no response, just nothing… Reddit is even worse than X, Facebook. I hope it dies off completely as it’s a tumor growing on the internet.
reddit sucks. But it is not worse then Facebook.
which cancer is worse
all of them, esp when we have a cure (Fedi/OpenSource)
Mod didn’t even hesitate to go full mask off there. Bloody hell
Yeah, it’s actually kind of rare to see a traitor lunatic just straight up admit to their bigotry so openly.
A shitty mod that should lose their mod status and/or have the sub suspended temporarily.
- Doesn’t give a warning, just goes straight to a ban. Lazy mod.
- Says the words “for allah” promotes terrorism. I’m critical of Islam but even I wouldn’t make such an obviously bigoted claim.
Its not even Islamic, arab-speaking Christians say they worship Allah too, its literally just a translation.
Some of us Atheists unironically wear religious stuff because it looks stylish, because the words sound cool, or because we like and appreciate the fandom of a particular story, even if we realize people made it all up. I can wear Dr Who swag for the same reasons.
It is like why people get Chinese character tattoos and “engrish” packaging and tshirts are popular in east Asia.
And similarly why you find a lot of Caucasians with Mandarin script tattooed on their skin. It’s cool, they like the meaning, and they don’t have to be Confucian or whatever
What are the odds that a Viking raider wore this ring ironically?
More likely it was because the Vikings worked as mercenaries around Europe and for the Byzantines. There is a railing in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul with runes carved into it by bored Vikings. They would’ve picked up items from all over the world in the process. They’ve also found Islamic coins in hoards found in Scandinavia.
The owner of this ring probably didn’t even know what was carved on it, it just looked nice.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/europe/sweden-viking-arabic-ring
Dios! Gott! Kami!
but can’t say Allah… go figures…
Doesnt it need to be Kami-sama?
God only said to honor thy father-san and thy mother-san, didn’t really have clear instructions on himself.
Ty :)
So anyone else saying Kami-sama is by their own wish to honor kami, yes?
I don’t think reddit would actually stand for this. We’re not that far down the road…yet.
The most incredible thing was that the guy got a reply from a mod. That never happened to me when I got banned from subs.
One thing I learned from reddit is that if you breathe wrong, you will get permabanned and accused of racism and if you try and argue your case, you will be ignored.
I don’t miss that site.
Your friend’s rings look really nice btw.
he’s a very talented jewelcrafter. im not sure you can promote on lemmy but you can google his name and see his website
Your friend is very talented! Got a little chuckle out of the wolf head eating putin’s head xD The little punk duck pendant 🤌 I love how he does so many different things and you can clearly see he’s just having fun with his craft and challenging himself. His recreations of old jewelry is super fascinating. I hope he never stops making these little works of art 🤗
Lemmy is pretty much there now. Been banned from a few and you either get back a hostile explanation or none at all. Hurt feelings gets you banned. IMO Lemmy shouldn’t have a ban option for mods, let the downvotes do the talking
I mean with Lemmy you always have the option to invoke the Bender protocol.
They did that!
I thought piefed was its own separate software?
it is, their own new one with blackjack and hookers and more Python, less Rust
So it’s not actually part of Lemmy? I did get that right?
I’ve never heard it called that before, but I like it.
Mods should be allowed to ban bot accounts, though.
A protocol that could never be routinely abused right?
Check out my handle people. I was permabanned because a mod form one of the subs had a personal vendetta against me, he or she ended up reporting me to Reddit HQ citing racism when I had a civil and celebrated comment on the sub. The topic was regarding poverty as an identity amongst young people in my country, obviously I got permabanned so I decided to leave Reddit as a whole, since the Reddit mods do not want to establish any kind of conversation so I could explain the situation in a better way. I was a 17 year active user as well, I am sure the mod who banned me was not even there when I signed up.
I started a new account a few months back and had to start building karma, so I was commenting a lot in the subs for new users. Every other day there was a post about “why can’t I post?” “Am I banned already?” etc. becasue reddit is trash, and I would respond explaining about karma thresholds and bots, and how reddit mostly doesn’t care about new people all that much.
I got a 3-day ban for “pushing an agenda” - which is backed by plenty of evidence that any mod of any community can see. But if you have an opinion that doesn’t work with a mod, out you go.
I’d ban you for that damn arrow that tricked me into trying to swipe to the next picture… twice… ok thrice ffs
Glad I’m not the only one! :D
The most absurd about this imo. is that Arabic is considered promoting terrorism, but Vikings are not.
Don’t you know, all us Arabs are terrorists, and anything in Arabic is immediately illegal!! FFS
Us Arabs? You’re one of them! I’m terrified you’re going to bomb me now on account of you being Muslim. Neo-nazi would be fine OBVIOUSLY
Doh! I gave away my cover, blast you meddling Butterfly!! *angry fist shaking
Sorry I can’t understand you cos of your accent (as you’re muslim you must be foreign, obviously). I’m just going to assume it was a jihad.
Wolowolowolowolowo. (In as much as a UK educated Muslim Arab accent as possible)
Mate I lolled fucking brilliant.
Excellent! My Job is here is done, this world needs a few more giggles.
To be fair, only one of your examples exist in real life, why would media constantly try and ruin the image of Vikings? Ie. Roman republic and empire, loved by western culture, were basically ancient nazis.
Roman republic and empire, loved by western culture, were basically ancient nazis.
This is one of the hardest things to realize after a lifetime of indoctrination, but it explains sooo much about white-supremacist (aka western) “culture”.
The Moderators of a viking themed subreddit being racists? No way!
they weren´t banned from r/viking, only from imadethis, if i read correctly.
thats correct. they will unban him from /r/somethingimade if they remove it from /r/viking
How does this make any fucking sense?
It’s a tacit admission of wrong-doing from the user. In other words, the mods will unban him as long as he agrees that they didn’t make a mistake banning him, because all mods are vain, petty tyrants.
let me guess, the viking post is complaining about the mods on somethingImade?
Oi. I’m taking that personal!
Are you a Moderator on reddit /viking?
Seems that I cant read anyways and completely missed that they werent banned from r/viking but from the crosposted sub.
Nah I left reddit 2 years ago, and never moderated anything.
I regularly write my God’s name on things. It’s an ancient Polynesian God, Fu’Ksa’Kes
It’s important to be respectful for fu’ksa’kes
I love that band
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Allah
Etymologically, the name Allah is probably a contraction of the Arabic al-Ilāh, “the God.” The name’s origin can be traced to the earliest Semitic writings in which the word for god was il, el, or eloah, the latter two used in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Allah is the standard Arabic word for God and is used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews as well as by Muslims. The association of the word specifically with Islam comes from the special status of Arabic as the language of Islam’s holy scripture, the Qurʾān: since the Qurʾān in its original language is considered to be the literal word of God, it is believed that God described himself in the Arabic language as Allāh (which is written as الله). The Arabic word thus holds special significance for Muslims, regardless of their native tongue, because the Arabic word was spoken by God himself.
