i left reddit for good today with their obvious attempt at controlling the narrative like the rest of big social media. long live the lemmy federation

    • @dejpivo@lemmings.world
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      Not sure. I’m still surprised things are so calm, considering the widespread availability of guns in the population.

  • @illi@lemm.ee
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    01 month ago

    Welcome, hope you will enjoy your stay as much as I did. Water is just fine over here

        • SmokeyDope
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          Theres still lots of moderation on Lemmy*.world* go to a smaller instance more aligned with anarchist free speech and you can say all the no-no edgelord things.

        • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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          I havent seen a lot happen if a mod goes off the deep end though. If a system can be broken in a way, its inevitable it will be. This place wil be captured by the same special interests reddit has, I’d bet money on it. But, I’ll enjoy it till then.

      • folkrav
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        Oh, I mean, power tripping moderators has always been a thing, even in my phpBB forum days when I was a teenager. I’m sure some of us older than I will have similar stories about it happening on certain BBSes. But the user base and therefore impact of that moderation going to shit was much more limited in most cases.

  • @kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    Oh don’t worry - Lemmy will soon have people posting child porn, gore, or other things en-masse before reporting the site/domain. I’ve seen it on almost every Reddit alternative since Digg shut down.

    They’ll run hit pieces against this place for being extremist, they’ll do all sorts of nasty shit.

    So first they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.

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      reddit did have problems with that in medical subs. i dont think most of them are heavily moderated(i think there is more moderation now) because minors were being contacted by perverts to show them more. and some users were shocked that there was a part-time teenager modding that NSFW sub, also theres significant amount of self-harm glorifying posts too. the 2 subs i know that are very restrictive is askdoc and dental on what you can even comment or post.

    • @Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
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      I wonder how resistant to that Lemmy will be, with the whole federation thing. Harder to ban it when it’s not just one domain.

      • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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        Yeah, I mean I barely understand this federated stuff. To my understanding, each instance has their own rules. I can’t post nudes on my Lemmy.ca to my understanding. I think if there’s an instance that is running “afoul” then the instance I connect with can block the entire instance?

        • Atelopus-zeteki
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          Yep, that’s how we roll. Others can tell you the details. I’m just an end user. On my end I can block nazi’s, or anyone I don’t like. u/universalmonk was one, acted so surprised when I blocked and didn’t want to explain why. Funny thing, if you can block someone for being an asshat, suddenly they are less encouraged to do that, and have to find a more socially acceptable way to be. Cheers.

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            u/universalmonk was one, acted so surprised when I blocked and didn’t want to explain why.

            Links to that? Because I’ve never seen Universal Monk act surprised when someone blocked him/her.

            In fact, he/she often recommended blocking them if you didn’t agree with what they said.

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                  All I did was ask for a link showing that UM was surprised or upset that you blocked her/him, because I’ve never seem them question that before. I always seem to remember them suggesting blocking them, not being upset by it.

                  I didn’t say you were incorrect; i was just asking for proof cuz I’ve never seen it. It’s not like I am super concerned about it or anything. But I don’t live on lemmy and have no investment between your feud–or whatever it is–with that person. not a big deal to me either way

            • KillingTimeItself
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              daily reminder that you can just use they/them in place of he/her she/him pronouns because that’s literally a designed feature of the english language.

    • @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      Reddit has CSAM on it. Reddit has a subreddit selling porn that is now known to feature CSAM. I along with a few others tried to kill it. We’re all here now.

      Lemmy has already had CSAM instances.

  • @ghostrider2112@lemmy.world
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    I think that it was more the fear in that he was the closest thing to bring so many of us together since, i don’t know, maybe ever? We can’t agree on who controls the price of eggs, but we all get fucked by healthcare and rich people!

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      waking people up to a class war issue which is the real ISSUE, isntead of the CULTURE WAR bs, that trump news is being pushed reddit, and i pointed this out and it was met with deaf ears.

  • Nemean_lion
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    Just proves we need more luigis in the world. But reddit has been shit for a while.

  • @Asmodeus77@lemmy.world
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    This was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I remember seeing something a while back on r/coolguides about alternatives for various sites, including Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Today, I saw the writing on the wall and decided it was time.

    The worst isn’t just the Luigi thing, it’s that in the future, they will most likely expand it to include any topic that the administration disapproves of.

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      Absolutely. Actually it’s already here. I got a permanent ban last week. I suggested that Luigi had the right idea, and that we needed more like him.

    • my sentiment exactly. this is just the start of it. once they became a publicly traded company, it was no longer a social media for the people. may free speech live on ✊

      • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        Butt fuck pastries for elfs!!!

        See, that sentence may not make sense, but we have free speech here, so I can say it as much as I want!

        BUTT FUCK PASTRIES FOR ELFS!!!

        • KingJalopy
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          Ooh ooh I wanna try one…

          Billionaires should be shot in the street for fun like carnival games. 3 shots for a dollar!

          Also, I just anally fucked a pastry for elf’s. Creampied a Danish.

          • @Tencho@lemmy.world
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            Three shots for a dollar??? There’s going to be more lead than body after we shoot 3 billion+ times!!

        • @AizawaC47@lemm.ee
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          I am new here, and I actually like everything about it. It’s very simplified. But the fact that it’s decentralized is the key reason to why I moved here.

    • @nestle@lemm.ee
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      Fair, I’ve always been aware of Lemmy as a paranoid schizo, but I think that I won’t want the right to use Google before they become a tool of the government to find people who speak out.

    • mesa
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      Welcome to Lemmy, hope you have a great time.

  • Atelopus-zeteki
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    Welcome to Fedi! We’re building a new way to be socially. Dig in! If you can’t find a particular community that you want, build it, and others will add in, too. Cheers!

      • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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        If you’ve replaced the functionality of reddit in your life, and reddit itself is heading in a direction you don’t approve of, why continue discussing it?

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            Because why discuss something that’s not in your life anymore, why make/join a community dedicated to something you’re NOT doing anymore?

            • @JandroDelSol@lemmy.world
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              are you saying you never bitch about things in the past, like shitty jobs or school or something. And besides, back on reddit (new here so idk what kind have formed yet) there were plenty, like exmormom, stopdrinking, etc

              • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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                Bitch about things, sure, but I’m not gonna join c/KFC and participate in daily circlejerking about how much working at KFC sucked

                there were plenty, like exmormom, stopdrinking, etc

                Okay but you see how those are different, right? Comparing using reddit to a high-control religion or alcoholism isn’t a bit much?

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          For me, it’s because I invested 13 years into that website, as a mostly-apolitical, slightly left-of-center normie; and then one day they decided that saying “we need to be punching Nazis” or “fuck Elon” is somehow too extreme now, and something we don’t talk about anymore (even in hypotheticals or semi-jest - I mean most of us are just keyboard warriors ffs, and we ain’t out there punching anybody).

          Back in my day, saying “we should punch Nazis” was a good thing.

          So yeah, I harbor some resentment. I lost some connections with some nerdy, niche, non-political interests and hobbies of mine, just because I hate Fascism so, so very much, and I was willing to say so.

          So, fuck them.

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        funny thing is your not allowed to discuss reddit bans on reddit, which will result in you get banned down the line.

        • Photuris
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          Happened to me. I didn’t say anything too radical (something about punching Nazis), but discussing the temporary ban resulted in a permanent ban.

          They’re really clamping down on people saying not-very-radical anti-Fascist things.

          Good riddance.

      • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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        Why would you come to c/reddit just to ask why someone would talk about reddit

        That’s perfectly reasonable, no? See c/reddit on my frontpage, click and ask why

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                It’s really not, an article every now and then when there is something notable, sure, but an entire community with numerous posts a day with enough attention to get on my unrelated feed is not “worth”

                Which is fine, I’m not trying to yuck the yums of anyone, I’m just asking why. Why obsess over a website you used to use?

                • People just like to talk about things, especially things they may have some connection to.

                  It makes sense to have a place to do that. Otherwise, some wanker would come by and shit in the pool because people are talking about it elsewhere. Probably tell them to go create a sub for it or some shit while they huff their own.

    • @Gloria@sh.itjust.works
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      For the same reason we talked on reddit about twitter and facebook all the time. It were previous systems some of us spend the better part of a decade on. It is interesting to share the impression while watching together the Vesusvius erupting and sealing Pompeii and discussing its last chapter.

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        It is interesting to share the impression while watching together the Vesusvius erupting and sealing Pompeii and discussing its last chapter

        People said the same thing around the API changes, and it seems more like being bitterly obsessed with an ex. Would I love to see the downfall of any major social media site? Sure, but that’s different than being part of a community that is constantly discussing a website you used to go to.

        • @Gloria@sh.itjust.works
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          These things take time. I was a reddit user for 10+ years and left 3 years ago. Since then, reddit is in a downspiral. Whenever I visit Reddit (I still do, without an account) I can hardly recognize the place. There is no hourly changing Frontpage anymore. I sometimes see things that are 1-2 days old. Crazy worn down place.

          Why you click on this if you do not want to participate? I have no interest in this discussion with you. If you need the reddit falldown happen in the timespan of a tiktok video, this is up to you. Rome didnt burned down in a day. Those system erode, corrode and fall apart over long times.

          • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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            Why you click on this if you do not want to participate?

            Because I find it odd to find reddit on my frontpage multiple days a week when I was glad to leave it and associated behavior behind.

            If you need the reddit falldown happen in the timespan of a tiktok video, this is up to you

            You’re not understanding at all, I don’t know how you interpreted my words to mean that I am merely impatient.

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    Kill one rich guy - complete and utter censorship.

    Be a rich guy who is a twice impeached convicted felon presidential traitor making decisions resulting in casualties over the thousands - whoah, now, wouldn’t want their feelings to be hurt!

    State of the world in a nutshell.