The mods at r/popculture pointed it out. And then the screenshot above.
The subreddit drama
So sad and happy at the same time. I enjoyed reddit for awhile so its sad to see it go further downhill but kinda happy cause fuck all of that shit they are trying to do.
man we went from spacedicks hitting the front page to this
That’s why I’m here. Reddit started getting super censored so I was looking for an alternative and was directed here. It’s fucking ridiculous.
Same. I originally came here after they killed off 3rd party apps, then I figured out how to patch RiF again and didn’t spend as much time here.
The propaganda and misinformation have gotten to be too much. Advice subs are all fake AI stories. Admins are making a fuss about people breaking the rules, but refuse to disclose what the rules actually are.
I really enjoy Lemmy. The downside is that it’s not as easy to organize (and find) niche spaces like on reddit. I’m hoping the small communities have grown more since the first mass migration.
theres some niche subs that likely wont be replicated here anytime soon.
I’ve been over here for a year off and on, Lemmy ain’t bad at all, could use some more resistance joining for sure.
When I first joined lemmy was ass. But it has passed the threshold for content to be useable now. I like it.
Yeah the early days weren’t so great but it’s getting there. Still wish some of the game communities I’m interested in would migrate already but it’s not bad
Well I’m happy to be that.
the immense amount of bans they came last month, ongoing since nov 5th is just made some of us come here. they are going to keep banning, or make it easier to ban until only right propaganda is left, also the increased amount of on the ability to ban people that “report other people” has also increased. you can get banned for reporting someone or reporting “too much” apparently.
Welcome, sibling! I came over in the rush after the reddit API debacle. Some things I’ve learned in the last year:
We may not have Sprog here yet, but get to know the environment, including colorful fauna such as:
- Cephalopods that have Colonized the Skies.
- The embodiment of the habitual movements of a space captain.
- People that are kind-of like ossified remains.
- People whose entire self identities revolve around draconic coitus (and all the controversy this brings).
The vast majority of posts are made by, like, ten people, and I’m pretty sure they never sleep. I’m currently unconvinced that Flying Squid isn’t just a full colony of Humboldt Squid, constantly ramming into a giant submerged keyboard.
As far as controversies: Avoid the “tankies”. You will find them on Hexbear, Lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad. They will not be going away, since the original creator of Lemmy is, apparently, one of them, and seems kind of mad with power. They treat with no man, and are willing to do anything to convince you that authoritarianism is good, as long as it calls itself “socialism”. One would think they would have learned their lesson from “National Socialism”… They apparently have not. Not everyone from those servers is a tankie, but most tankies are on those servers. Think of Tankies as the lemmy subspecies of those trolls you shouldn’t be feeding.
Contribute to discussions! Especially on a place as small as Lemmy, lurking actively harms the community! Unlike most places, it’s generally fairly easy to figure out who’s being disingenuous and arguing in bad faith, and most people are very reasonable! (As long as you never say anything bad about Linux. Be forewarned. Do not engage unless your autonomic nervous system runs Arch)
Welcome!
Welcome to Lemmy, bud!
We have lots of Linux and Star Trek memes.
I highly recommend that when you update “all” or your “front page” - be sure to set youe filter for “Hot” results. Gets you the fresh, interesting shit.
Reddit has gone full fascist. Wow. Never thought I’d see the day.
spez does love musk and trump
The cuck CEO loves Elon and is an enthusiastic meat rider.
Nothing wrong with being meat rider mate, catch on with the times.
I believe it is the fact that it’s Elon’s meat that makes it’s an issue. No one should do that.
I did. I left more than a year ago after I was permabanned for asking a question about whether someone would be banned if they asked certain things. Fuck those guys. I hear Digg is coming back though.
oh, reddit doesnt allow discussion of reddit ban in most cases.
My ten year old Reddit account got banned for a single snarky comment about Luigi, so here I am!
i commented on R/technology and got “temp suspend for reporting too much” and that somehow triggered reddits AI to ban all my other accs.
You can now get in trouble for upvoting something. How absurd.
You can do that on Daily Kos too. I am permanently banned from commenting due to it. Those fuckers are too DNC oriented any way.
Come to Lemmy, we got cookies
Reddit’s strategy is to replace all users with AI bots rented from Elon.
they saw how the META android zuckerberg did, use AI harvest “Dead accounts” Facebook and drive the engagement.
Reddit became a clownshow 2 years ago, how are people even still enjoying the place?
It’s still the only major community hub for loads of hobbies and such. As an example: the Magic the Gathering community here has 1300 members and almost no activity.
pokemon,yugioh, mtg are sitll all on Reddit. pokemon specifically the card game has direct line of communication(sort of) with the devs, it will be impossible/difficult to convince them to switch here. theres also certain companies that uses thier specific subs too.
Exactly this, compare Usenet reddit and Usenet lemmy. Lemmy has barely any activity.
there are niche subs there i vist that usually cant replicate somewhere else, and people are addicted to the news and political posts.
It’s been limping for a while, but the momentum was huge to begin with. The niche subreddits still had good participation, not great, but good enough. These latest shenanigans might be the final tipping point, though.
the only way is if reddit starts another massive ban purge again.
Well that means they’re afraid. We’re not calling for anything violent we’re just calling out what we see. It’s a shame that Reddit went red. #boycottreddit
Does anyone know how to reliably delete an entire reddit account, ideally editing over each comment as well? I did this before they closed off access to the API but upon checking months later, they had reverted all the changes so my account looks like it did before with everything visible.
Thank you so much.
you can use powersuite suite or shreddit to get rid of your posts, i used a different extension to do it. i find it sometimes even my old comments can get targeted by people too.
Pains me to say, but Reddit can eat my ass.
Pain in the ass?
I have a suspicion that I was followed by a mod who banned me and accused me of “throwing a tantrum” and muting me from contacting him again when I asked him to justify his ban for “promoting violence” when I very plainly hadn’t. I kept getting bans for the same thing across various other subs for similar non promotion of violence, rather laughing about the idea of a politician possessed by the ghost of GG Allin ruining their life with antics, and for harrassment for some post that wasn’t even deleted when I got my ban, so I have no idea what it even was.
No time for that kind of nonsense. The “you’re in trouble for liking the wrong comments” step is the final step into full mean girl pettiness. Reddit has become an HOA.
some large subs can crossban you, if the bots of a specific sub detects you went into a controversial sub they deemed as “brigrade threat”. i once commented in joe rogan was immediately banned from 2 subs. eventhough the people on that sub, criticises joe roegan more than it supports him.
Honestly, that sounds like a blessing in disguise.
Ive been on Reddit for 10 to 15 years. Its always been a strange place but ive never seen anything like what’s going on at the moment.
- weird rules (like ‘Luigi’) being applied system-wide without being communicated
- automated actions applied to individual users site-wide, like allowing them to engage but preventing them from creating posts anywhere
- over zealous mods. I’m assuming a lot of mods got sick of it and left over the last few years and those doing the work are under experienced. Or maybe just AI. Its possible.
- GPTs engaging in posts and comments for training
- agents from hostile governments agitating and spurring on political discussions that favour their agenda.
So yeah I’m giving up on it now, its just no fun anymore.
Yeah, this sure. But I think primarily Reddit doesn’t want its platform to be used to organize and protest. This is how they are setting the stage.
I am pretty sure a bunch of mods on big subreddits are actually Reddit employees cosplaying as normal users too.
Oh, and Reddit is now shadow banning your accounts when you evade a ban on a sub. So now I got all my accounts shadow banned because I ended up commenting on a sub I was banned on one account without noticing it, so I have zero reasons to go back to using reddit anymore. At least before I got a ban and was notified about how long it would take for my accounts to be usable again, now they are shadow banned without any notifications and I have no idea if they will ever go back to normal or not, so fuck it.
oh yea i know some admins can be the mods. there are 92 mods that own over 500 subs, so i would think they are part of this power group of mods. and then we got the lowly mods of the regular subs. i heard about the blanket shadowbans in another site, they still do that to people who had100s of accts, but it also hit regular people too, that dint even violate a policy, so im thinking its an AI doing all these bannings and so many innocents are just caught up, and they cant even repeal it.
I got banned three times in a month, and now I’m finally permanently banned. This is America.
5-6accts were simulatenouslly banned last month, because i was temp banned for reporting someone, so it triggered thier “AI to look for any account they can ban”. they also retroactively(i assume) applied the ban to any accts you made, if any of your accts even if deleted years ago participated in getting banned in a subreddit. allegedly i heard a ban/shadowban can last over a year, but im pretty sure its arbitrary and most likely switched to being permanent in most cases.
r/technology decided to ban me for reporting obvious misinformation, and conversation manipulation around a trump post.
its mostly the last bullet point, that resulted in all the above.
It’s a censorship hellhole.
Once the humanity is taken out of a company, there is nothing left but abuse.
It was the last straw for me too. Fuck Spez.
Removed by mod
The fuck are these links?
