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submitted 1 month ago by loitering@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Couple weeks ago someone ransacked my van and stole my laptop. Fast forward a fortnight or so and some nice soul I met in an FB "Buy Nothing" group (the "Buy Nothing Movement" or whatever it's called is a bit problematic, but a source of free shit is a source of free shit ayy) has bought me a laptop that is a thousand times nicer than the one that was stolen.

So I thought I had lost the password for this account and gotten locked out, not even two months after I created this account for that same very reason. So I made a new account, /u/shoplifting.

Aaaaand I lost the password for that account. I have it written down on a piece of paper in this shithole. I don't wanna look for it right now though.

So uh as it turns out, I had the password for this account saved on Microsoft Edge. ＼（〇_ｏ）／

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[–] Sabbo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is it problematic?

[–] loitering@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They've copyrighted "Buy Nothing" and issue takedowns to other Facebook community groups that use the phrase "Buy Nothing" in their name.

They have these stupid rigid nonsense rules that pointlessly atomize people. Like you can only be in one group and one group only, and the admins are such fucking dweebs about it, like they think they're working some kind of paid job; and each group's membership is based on a rigidly defined geographic area for each "neighborhood." If you live on the cusp of two groups they will seriously ask you which side of the street you live on to determine which group you're allowed to join.

I feel like, at least in my city, they've displaced a lot of the old groups that used to fill that niche here. Now instead of these vibrant groups where you could easily find all kinds of sick kickdowns, you're extremely atomized.

[–] Sabbo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Those are standard op tactics. Makes sense, buy nothing is dual power structures. Doesn't even have to be feds, capitalism rewards this sort of behavior because if it didn't it would crumble away.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is what dual power looks like

[–] Sabbo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Dual power wouldn't restrict alternative systems. This is cointel