I’ve tried to warn people about them. I got a 10 pack early on while learning and it almost made me give up the hobby. Classic n00b mistakes? Some, but after I set that filament aside in a drybox, I had almost no problems. The only mistakes I made with those other brands were due to strategies I developed to rescue prints from IIIDMax’s garbage. I must have used 10-20 other brands over the next year, revisiting the cursed spools occasionally.
I thought I could relegate the leftovers to my 3D pen. Somehow that satan-spawned plastic jammed it up. The pen is basically a soldering iron, a motor, and 2 gears. I’ve fed strips of PETG bottles cut by hand through it. The filament wasn’t precise enough for my no precision 3D pen.
I almost thought I had written your comment and completely forgot about it. No, I just almost made the exact comment and want that hour of my life back.
If there was some over the top racist rant, I sure didn’t see it. And the admin pushing for the defederation sounds so bizarre. Bizarre is the best word I could come up with because “petty” makes me think it was like high school politics. This is closer to a grade school sandbox argument.
The worst I saw was “defedfags” and it was used in a way that was meant to highlight how they never said anything offensive. Like saying, “If you thought what I said before was offensive, let’s see how you respond to something intended to be negative.”
The crazy thing is that the decision is being made because the admin just liked a post. It’s not even because of the post content - which has nothing controversial and appeared maybe 8 times in my Lemmy/kbin feed yesterday.
Editing to add that this is the article: https://kbin.social/search?q=wakeup+call