I just got a ban for “encouraging violence”. Someone asked “what will you do to celebrate when he dies?” Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they’d put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians’ careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.
So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.
And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It’ll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.
My final straw with Reddit was a year ago, with an r/askreddit question, “Now that the Supreme Court has given Presidents immunity, what’s the funniest thing Biden could do?” I answered, “Shoot Donald Trump.” I caught a strike for inciting violence, appealed it, and got a clearly automated reply upholding the strike. Made a Lemmy account that day and never looked back.
“Shoot Donald Trump” is the funniest thing Biden could have done.
It certainly would have helped him turn the debate around.
I’ve been here since reddit backstabbed its 3rd party app devs, and even just since then, Lemmy has grown a LOT while reddit continues to enshittify.
Welcome aboard!
I tried to leave them, but didn’t know about Lemmy. I’m here now! After 13 years!
I feel like today is my first day but I made a serious attempt to move here when that happened. I just couldn’t get the apps to work on my android – I kept having to make new accounts when the one I’d set up would suddenly no longer log in.
But today things seem to be working beautifully!
Jerboa works pretty well. No premiums, no ads. It’s nice.
There are quite a few mobile apps to choose from now. I’m using Sync with no complaints, but I haven’t done a comparison since I joined.
My main complaint with sync is that the premium version is just too damn expensive. At least give me a discount since I bought premium for Reddit sync ! Then again, it usually fails to serve me the ads these days, so I guess it’s alright.
The main complaint I have is that lemmy spoiler tags are incorrectly implemented by sync, so you can’t reveal what they say.
I still use it out of habit from Reddit days, but it’s annoying that something so easy to fix is getting ignored by the dev. The app is pretty much abandoned at this point despite still selling the premium subscription
Yeah it’s definitely way too expensive for an abandoned app.
Yep, went cold turkey as soon as that happened, been here every day since and it’s so much better!
I hope lemmy’s hostility to nazis continues unabated.
Hostility? That’s a weird way to spell “completely reasonable and desirable response”
It’s justified hostility.
I haven’t been banned from many reddit communities yet, but I’ve seen the news about them banning upvotes for comments about italian plumbers and I decided it was time to look elsewhere.
Hi! I started reading about Lemmy over the weekend and made my account today.
You can say “Luigi” here.
Welcome.
forgot my old login to here so made a new one, but my reddit got banned for 3 days for “violent threats” after talking about Luigi in r/europe.
reddit chose their side. goodbye reddit and twitter, hello Lemmy and Bluesky.
It’s important to recognize that these changes to reddit, like inserting more ads, banning subreddits, shutting down the public API and excessive restriction of expression around Luigi, are partly a result of pressure from the people who own reddit, the financial backers, who are the kind of owning-class mega-rich who are threatened by the idea of Luigi.
BlueSky is also ultimately beholden to venture capitalists, it’s only a matter of time before they must start making back that money by appeasing the owner class and following their demands. So, like others have recommended, I recommend trying to find a good Mastodon site if there’s one that suits you. Just like Lemmy, it’s a federated group of sites which can share content with each other.
Bluesky isn’t much better. May I suggest Mastodon.
I’ve already given mastodon a shot, functionally it felt more like Tumblr. aside from that, Mastodon did not get picked up by the artist community that used to inhabit Twitter. the UI and layout is much the same, things are about where we expect them to be, and it’s not a complete format change in the way that Mastodon is.
what a lot of people wanted was the old Twitter back, with no more AI or Elon, and a functional block system. that’s why Bluesky started to take off where Mastodon and Hive didn’t.
maybe this guy will turn out the same way Twitter did, there’s no way to know for sure. for now though, it’s what people wanted, and it’s certainly what I wanted. small artists and creators don’t use Mastodon because it’s much harder to get outreach on there, you have to specifically join communities and follow server groups on their to expand your feed, and it’s just overall a different layout that doesn’t make it inviting to transfer from Twitter.
most people that were on old Twitter don’t want an alternative social media to Twitter, they just want old Twitter.
HOA’s are communism for libertarians. I think the comparison is apt.
…I don’t see how that makes sense. What’s communist or socialist about an HOA? If anything, HOAs are capitalists trying to force property values to increase by using crappy anti-social laws.
Incidentally, communism for libertarians might be libertarian socialism or anarcho-communism, which both predate the US right-wing Libertarian ideology and instead actually focus on everyone’s liberty.
Lemmy needs a lot of publicity IMO. Users who are active on Reddit can do their part.
Reddit mods tend to remove Lemmy mentions
Yeah, the upvote thing got me. Crazy shit.
I got perma banned for saying I hoped Marjorie Taylor green trips and swallows her own head.
I got my perma ban from saying “only a matter of time before Elon gets united healthcare’d” was on there since 2006.
Damn, is there really that many people getting banned? I’ve heard a bit about what’s happening but didn’t think it was a widespread thing.
This was announced by admin so it’s definitely widespread. Turns out they hadn’t even considered that someone can edit a post or comment and that you could be banned for upvoting something which, at the time, had no “violent” content.
So, one could theoretically go into a conservative subreddit and use comment (or post content) editing to bait-and-switch them into upvoting a death threat against spez?
There’s definitely a change in the air. I’ve been downvoted to hell for the last week saying and doing the exact same things I’ve been saying and doing the entire time, making jokes at the expense of celebrities and being snarky in political subs. For some reason this week joking about how DJ Khalid doesn’t go down on women and offering non-destructive pro-tips for deflating tires is worth a bunch of downvotes.
I’ve recently seen people pretending that elon didn’t throw a nazi salute.
Yeah wtf. Then they won’t do it themselves on camera, they do some “my heart to yours” wave bullshit, not the hard point like he and Hitler did. Maga scum.
I tell them to try it at work in front of HR.
Joke’s on you, they work at the White House!
No question brigades will happen, but if lemmy can keep the bots out we’ll be way ahead.
There was r/YSK post that got me here. I’m not going back to reddit.
Me too! I’m old and a little lost and confused, but I’m enjoying doddering around here so far.
I bet all of the right wing subs aren’t effected at all
Welcome to Lemmy, be sure to build your own subscription and block list. The updoots dont tally on your account (which I think is one of the healthiest changes), speak your mind, each comment stands on its own, and bad takes are not forever (Ive had my own fair share). If you dont like your mods, change instances or make your own.
May the Lord Flying Spaghetti Monster keep you and protect you, good sir.
Yeah, I’ve gone through and did a bunch of subscribing and a little bit of blocking a handful of instances I know will flood my feed with stuff I find creepy. I actually spent a couple days deciding on the right instance to join. I’m looking forward to more people showing up, and it’s nice that everyone I’ve interacted with so far has been pretty chill.
I just joined a little while ago, there are blocklists here?
Also if you dont mind me asking, can you switch instances without creating a new account?
I use Jerboa as my app and in its UI you select the 3 dots icon and select “Block”, it then prompts if you want to block the instance or user who made the post.
As for switching instances, not at this time. Its a feature thats been requested, but is complicated to implement (stay tuned). On that topic, as stated above, there is no vote total, so other than moving your saved posts there is no reason to be sentimental about your account. Just abandon it and make one on an instance with admins you agree with.
Bad takes are forever here. It’s something I hate. Sometimes I’ll comment on something and then end up deleting it because I just don’t wanna get into it but it only deletes on your instance. I’ll still get replies from everyone who can still see it.
Also is it still stupidly complicated to delete pics here?
It does delete and propagate to other instances, but the process is not immediate. There can be some delay. I’ve had replies to deleted comments coming hours later if my instance was running behind.
Am I completely out of touch?
You’re federated when you post here. There are definitely instances that are a bunch of nazis, a bunch of instances that are really dumb, and more. It’s the internet. Everything you post is there forever. I like my instance, because it’s the best I’ve found. Finding and identifying your home instance is more important than blocking users and communities. That will be the next step. Welcome human!
I’m not sure I fully understand the instance thing. Example, I’m on Lemmy world now. What kind of thing should change if I change instances?
Hello, it’s me. Happy to be here! 😁
I understand that there are laws against violent speech online so the platforms have their hands tied in some ways, but they are completely fucking stupid. We need to get rid of them entirely. People are just going to say “luigi them,” instead of “kill them,” then “luigi” will become a banned keyword, it will get replaced with something else and so on forever. Especially when your country is at war, there is no way to talk about reality without talking about violence. And violence is justified in self defense. These laws are the product of some soy ass peace time virtue signalers and need to be immediately overturned so that people can begin organizing an insurgency for when the yanks invade.
As a yank, I approve this message.
