• sleezer@lemmy.world
    271·
    2 days ago

    Just signed up here. I had my account flagged for upvoting on Reddit. Needless to say I was POed but so far I’m liking it here

      • Freefall@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        No, it is an open place where CCP shills and Nazis and good people can all say what they want, filter what they don’t, and communicate without shitty corporate overlords or trash mods having all the power.

        • TheTurner@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          If you’re going to be negative about people welcoming newcomers, you don’t have to comment. I thought I left all that behind on reddit.

      • DNSpapi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Honestly googled Reddit alternatives and the first search was from Reddit discussing Lemmy. Took a peek and now I’m here. I like Lemmy, just communities are a hit or miss due to inactivity.

  • CD34Runner@lemm.eeEnglish
    291·
    2 days ago

    Made my first Lemmy account after this bullshit! Took a split second to figure out, but Lemmy seems super rad so far!

  • dojiecat@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    Just commenting to say I deleted Reddit yesterday in favor of Lemmy! Happy to be here 🥰 #freeluigi

  • dumpsterac1d@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 days ago

    Quite literally signed up for lemmy just now cause of this. So many of the sites that helped make the internet boring are committing self harm, twitter, fb, and now reddit - the old “decentralization” arguments were kind of boring to me but now I ache for the old internet and gosh darn it if the billionaires are making the best case against themselves.

    • Literocola@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Idk if you are old enough to remember digg but that’s what Reddit replaced when Digg made some changes to their policies. And so the cycle continues.

      • dumpsterac1d@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        The funny part about digg coming back is that their main selling point (absolutely stupid and tone deaf in this environment) is that they’re using ai to moderate content so it “helps mods”. It’s going to crash quickly. Considering AI and making reddit go public are the reasons we hate the site now, it’s destined to fail. Unfortunately the future is going to be built upon huge corporations attacking usage of anything but their services and alternatives popping up that people flock to. I fully anticipate bluesky to become ruined within the next few years.

        I’m glad something is happening to cause this shift, but causing massive amounts of misery and distrust is not what I thought would spur it on. Good news for those of us who know what life was like before fb and google ate the internet is it’s actually really liberating seeing the internet as this wide open place again.

        • CherryBullets@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I’m so tired of AI and bots, man. The mainstream internet is run by bots for bots, at this point. Just looking at a YouTube comment section makes me realize 85% (at least) of the comments are political propaganda/disinformation bots and crypto/money scammers.

          Right now, you can tell who is a bot or not by AI generated or Pr0n looking profile pics, copy pasta tactics and the age of the accounts (with comment history and how many comments they typed or spammed), but eventually it’ll all blend together into a moshpit of bots posing as people, that all “think” and say the exact same thing about every topic imaginable so that the actual human beings reading won’t notice the rich are trying to influence them to think a certain way to influence politics. Fk that.

          I need alternatives to YouTube, btw, if anyone knows any that aren’t supported by Nazis and can tell me, I’d appreciate it a bunch!

  • CherryBullets@lemmy.caEnglish
    161·
    2 days ago

    Reddit is also banning and warning people for UPVOTING “violent” comments (or what they now consider violent and somehow right wing subs don’t get the same censorship applied; or we’d see them bitch about it). It’s now a dystopia.

  • SecularHumorist5@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    This happened to me for posting “Italian Plumbers Unite!” I got a PERMANENT BAN! I appealed and they denied it.

    What are they afraid of?

    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Advertisers, stock prices, inverstors and other stuff like that. As in “losing money”.

  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
    76·
    2 days ago

    The enshittification of Reddit started when they hid new features behind API in order to push their shitty official app. Every next move just made the slippery slope steeper.

    • kava@lemmy.world
      191·
      2 days ago

      Started a much longer time ago in my opinion. I’d say around the time they threatened to ban the kratom sub and did ban the ketamine & steroids one

      Reddit was much cooler 15 years ago. You could find anything on there

  • KC_Rhino@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    That sent me here as well. What a great way for them to advertise for a decentralized information exchange!

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      97·
      2 days ago

      That’s a great point. Even if it’s used as a verb, it could mean throwing a banana peel behind you while driving.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      302·
      2 days ago

      Nintendo doesn’t want to raise the specter of association with Luigi Mangione. Heck, I bet they’d advocate for this, and would rename Mario’s brother if they could.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        121·
        2 days ago

        You are drastically underestimating how much Nintendo loves to sue.

        Also, Nintendo’s late CEO Satoru Iwata famously took a massive (50%) pay cut during a tough time for Nintendo, instead of laying off employees. So…

  • DooshDoosh408@lemmy.world
    56·
    2 days ago

    I knew Reddit was dying after they went public and immediately purged all the mods who didn’t fall in line. It was disheartening to see so many users continue to shill for such decisions. Maybe it was a lot of bots, who knows. But watching this site explode in popularity after these new changes is encouraging. Everyone here should do their part to inform people of this place and continue to stay connected. Good luck everyone!

    • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      so many users continue to shill for such decisions

      I think that something that a lot of people need to be reminded of here, especially ex Reddit moderators, is that the users have NEVER particularly been fans of the moderators. In fact the moderators on Reddit helped the admins bring Reddit to the point where it is now in the first place. Setting up automoderator to catch buzzwords out of context and make people’s comments disappear without notice or a trace is just as fucking dodgy as the admins flagging the word “Luigi”.

      So no, it’s not a surprise that moderators getting into trouble for not falling in line with the admins doesn’t cause a mass exodus. Because most people don’t give a fuck about the moderators and would be glad to see them gone. With the way they have been abusing automoderator over the years, it wouldn’t make much of a difference if they were replaced by an automated system anyway.

      So if you want people to come to Lemmy, stop acting like they give a shit about the moderator that treats them like dirt. Because that’ll probably have the opposite effect. I know that it did on me when all the mods were crying about the API and their modding tools. Start offering more reasons for why USERS should come here.

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        The mods here can also be equally ridiculous. That’s just a problem with internet mods in general. It’s a role that attracts petty tyrants.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      AFTER censoring luigi related news, and promoting trump, is a death knell, and reddit thought it was clever to “ban” a bunch of subs after musk complained about whitepeople twitter, they only backed off when the mods said they wernt inactive.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      The worst thing about the API changes wasn’t even that most people didn’t care or weren’t on board. It was that they were actively against the people protesting. In real life when this happens I always give some leeway because everyone has their own problems and they might be a bit annoyed by the protest action (which is part of the protest). But on Reddit?? People lost their fucking minds because they couldn’t have access to some subreddits for like 24h.

      Sooooo many people failed to realize that even if you didn’t use third party apps that it would still affect you even if indirectly. They didn’t even have to do anything other than literally do nothing/something other that browsing reddit for a day. And they couldn’t. They vilified and downvoted the protesters and took the side of the billionaire trying to take advantage of everyone ruining Reddit in the process

      That fiasco in pretty meaningless in todays world events, but fuck, I still find it a great insight into how much we can suck as a species

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum. Apparently I was the “landed gentry”. Haven’t been back in almost 2 years now. Fuck spez.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      484·
      2 days ago

      Nahh deff upvote and then never log back in…

      Welcome to the fedi verse, we got our own neo lib acolyte mods on Lemmy.world and you will get some bans from them.

      Rest of fedi is a decently safe space for proper discourse.

      And remember folks, deny the parasite profit and engagement

      Luigi did nothing wrong

        • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          Not really. Lemmy.world is alright as long as you have two functioning braincells to read community guidelines and understand you can’t just say whatever you want in a large fairly moderated public space.

          You can get away with being an anarchist edgelord in a small instance but on Lemmy.world calls to violence are a no-no. When you get as large and stable as .world you need stricter rules to cover ass legally which is understandable.

          The people who complain about being instance banned usually leave out key information that makes them look bad or just plain lie about why they were banned ,cwhich you can check if you go into modlogs.

          Besides that, theres always going to be power mod fuckery any internet fourm you go. At least you can at least post it to c/yepoweryrippingbastard to vent.