Sealioning is when someone pretends to be interested but acts in bad faith to wear out and exhaust whoever they’re responding to. Discuss

  • lyth@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    10 months ago

    I’ve interacted with a lot of manipulative people online and offline, and nothing I could find in wildginger’s public comments was suggestive of manipulation. No Motte & Bailey defense, no coercive use of ambiguous phrasing, absolutely no sealioning, and not much of anything else. The worst thing they did was show an understandable amount of anger at your insistence that Christian Selig open-source his highly expensive software.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      01·
      10 months ago

      Because he deletes them. Or the moderator removes them. You’re right that the comments he doesn’t delete or that aren’t Removed by moderator are probably fine but on the basis of the points I made, its incredibly curated at that point, voluntarily or otherwise

      Also, I paid for platinum/lifetime and also have no issue with paying a monthly subscription for the requisite monthly API fee that he woulf just need to negotiate with Reddit and implement

      Christian is annoyed about Voyager but he doesn’t realize what a huge compliment it is to him and nobody would have bothered if he had switchef to Lemmy. Its just that people relied on Apollo and thats unacceptable for us. I personally use Memmy for the most part but I still disagree in principle with all the naysayers

      • lyth@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        10 months ago

        The entire thread is visible to me on Voyager and Chromium with no deletions, I don’t see any deletions under this post either

        • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
          01·
          10 months ago

          So if he deleted one from this thread and I can prove it by producing it, what think you then?

          Like, why would he delete the thing I have unless there was some negative inference or issue with it?

                • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
                  01·
                  10 months ago

                  Yeah I did, thats very strange. But what I said about Removed by Moderator is true. If I had a way to share a screenshot for many of his replies, it would show that. He was much more combattive to the point he was moderated