I just got a 3 day ban. Here I am allowed to say that CEO assassination is basically self defense, right?
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.
Free 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.
Meanwhile conspiracy and conservative subreddits still exist…
Just commenting to say I deleted Reddit yesterday in favor of Lemmy! Happy to be here 🥰 #freeluigi
It’s official folks, Reddit admins have actually lost their fucking minds.
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.
And like the cycle of the seasons, the cycle
of the Avatarbegins anew.
i also joined a forum for people who fled reddit for ban evasion and getting banned out of nowhere too.
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?
I literally just deleted my reddit account. I will still go to reddit, but I will do so without logging in. Fuck them.
lol
I hope the next guy who Luigi’s a CEO legally changes his/her name to John Smith or Jane Johnson or something extremely common.
