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
Welcome friend. Lemmy is a nice place.
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.
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.
How did you find Lemmy, out of curiosity? Seems like there aren’t a lot of Reddit recs for it yet.
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.
I actually heard about it a while back after the whole API block but never made the transition over till now
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!
Welcome to Lemmy!
It’s a familiar enough looking place, with some good discussions. But what’s super cool - at least to me - is that “Lemmy” isn’t just Lemmy. There are people here using websites running all sorts of engines. Mbin is a different reddit-like platform that cross-communicates with Lemmy. Friendica is a Facebook-like engine that can talk with Lemmy. NodeBB is a traditional forum. Mastodon, Misskey, and Akkoma are Twitter-like platforms that can show up here, too.
It’s a mesh network, with each node having different strengths and weaknesses, different UIs and UXes, and different rules and goals.
It’s both familiar, and also something totally different, both at the same time.
Welcome to the wilderness!
Lemmy tell you, you made the right choice.
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.
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?
Advertisers, stock prices, inverstors and other stuff like that. As in “losing money”.
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 went straight to a perma commenting on what was going to happen with those inmates being moved despite the judge blocking it. It’s not a huge loss since that is the second account perma’d in the last 30 days. And I’ve been using revanced Reddit so no ads. But they’ve become pretty insane about what is “hate, or violence”
it’s about the panopticon; getting you to do the censorship. building a better cop in your head.
letting libs like reddit admins read foucault was like letting silicon valley billionaires read ‘snow crash’.
I literally just deleted my reddit account. I will still go to reddit, but I will do so without logging in. Fuck them.
LUIGI LUIGI LUIGI
So I had an account under a similar name to this one, but it got perma-banned a few months back. Not even Luigi related. Remember when that Nazi incel Nick Fuentes got doxxed? I made a comment that basically said “he should be happy now that women know where he lives so they can come share a cocktail with him”, with a gif of a Molotov cocktail. I thought it was pretty funny. Banned for glorifying/promoting violence. Against a Nazi.
More recently, my other account got perma-banned from r/insanepeoplefacebook for “hate speech” because of this comment:
So yeah. Fuck Reddit. Fuck Spez. Free Luigi.
It’s a funny meme, rooted in reality for some communities, due to their conservatism or beliefs.
You can’t even be a centrist on Reddit anymore and point stuff out about left and right policies and attitudes. You can be a full on Nazi or full on Communist, though. It’s quite tragic.
I’m not even a centrist. I’m a full blown Leftist. It’s just a historical fact that religious assholes have spent the last thousands or so years going around the world trying to make everyone as miserable as them. I wasn’t even talking about the average religious person. There are plenty of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists who don’t go around trying to make everyone live the same as them. I was specifically talking about the whacko zealots, and I thought that was pretty clear in my comment. Apparently, talking about crazy religious people is a no-no on… [checks notes]… INSANE PEOPLE FACEBOOK.
