That sent me here as well. What a great way for them to advertise for a decentralized information exchange!
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
Tipping point for me. Leaving Reddit for good.
Same here. I figured it was a matter of time before reddit was entirely ruined after the api change and IPO. I stuck around for the niche communities, but they’ve all been overrun by bots.
RIP in pizza, reddit.
same. first comment here.
You should have mentioned Luigi.
Made my first Lemmy account after this bullshit! Took a split second to figure out, but Lemmy seems super rad so far!
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.
Just commenting to say I deleted Reddit yesterday in favor of Lemmy! Happy to be here 🥰 #freeluigi
Woot! I was banned but I still stand with you
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.
I also left; I read about McCarthyism
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.
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.
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!
And like the cycle of the seasons, the cycle
of the Avatarbegins anew.
Free Luigi
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?
lol
😂 I’m stealing that lmao
Respectfully 😇
Meanwhile conspiracy and conservative subreddits still exist…
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.
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
It’s in free fall now.
It’s in free fall now.
Yoooo Nintendo should sue. Reddit is publicly traded.
That’s a great point. Even if it’s used as a verb, it could mean throwing a banana peel behind you while driving.
Everyone named Luigi should sue for discrimination
Italians are always getting shafted in the US tbh…
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.
Bring back Green Mario
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…
hes the DLC.
I just got a 3 day ban. Here I am allowed to say that CEO assassination is basically self defense, right?
I literally just deleted my reddit account. I will still go to reddit, but I will do so without logging in. Fuck them.
