They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours
Man he’s such a little fucking snowflake isn’t he?
Which one, (fuck) spez or the Nazi saluting trust fund baby?
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¿Porque los dos?
Yes
That is a very good question.
I guess even r/whitepeopletwitter wasn’t white enough for Musk.
So much so that he’s a goddamn puddle at this point
Reddit died June 2023
I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse
I agree and haven’t returned but lemmy hasn’t hit critical mass yet… Like I don’t recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.
How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.
This is often overlooked. The conversations are great on the niche or smaller communities available on reddit and the experience is great. But for the most part, frontpage and every other sub has been taken over by repost bots or repeated jokes or politics.
It is worse, I was convinced I was having discussions with AI multiple times. It seemed to me that they were using some subs for AI to post content and then interact with human and AI. It is another laboratory to train their AI.
I used to help out in r/Botdefense
The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to us (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greedy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww
Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good posts drowning in spam.
Won’t the same happen to Lemmy when it gains enough traction?
I think the lack of profile-wide “karma” is one benefit, so there’s not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.
There are apps do display the user karma though.
I’ve never considered that a limitation.
You only need one other person in addition to yourself, for a good discussion.
If anything, here I’m finding I actually get replies, because my comment didn’t drown among a hundred others.
You only need one other person in addition to yourself for a good discussion
I never really thought of it like this despite it being obvious. Very well said
Literally the next post under this one, sorting by 1d top posts, has 147 comments
You obviously weren’t here for the guy who didn’t want to poop for days. There were a LOT of replies on that one.
Link?
I wish i could, but this was 2 years ago, and once the post blew up huge, OP deleted it. Some Lemmy historian may have a copy, but alas, i do not.
Basically, OP posted a question where they said they didn’t want to poop during the upcoming weekend, and then asked how they could keep from pooping for three days. This was shortly after the Reddit API exodus.
The comments were very helpful, reasoned, and…Nah, im just kidding, they pretty much went the way you would expect, with lots of wild speculation about why OP didn’t want to poop for three days, and lots of “helpful” suggestions about how to not poop for three days.
Strangely though, i think the post did a lot of good, as it showed a lot of ex-redditors that Lemmy could work as a reddit replacement, and be just as goofy as the original.
Tbh I’ve decided I can live with less and less of this. I’ll never go back to the giant ad covered spaces. But if this doesn’t pickup or even dies, meh
Like 6 good ones and a bunch of the same tired comments about poop knives, broken arms, same, this.
Here, at least most of the answers are real human beings trying to contribute to a conversation.
Might be your settings. When I flip the front page to “Active” most of the posts have hundreds of comments (though I prefer setting it to “Top Six Hours”).
I like “Hot” and “Top Six Hours” myself. “Scaled” and “New” aren’t bad if you’re looking for more content.
Same, once they violated certain principles, it was clear the site was dead. We need to do our best to build lemmy into something. It’ll take years.
Some people are just into that kind of thing.
I feel like as an A’s fan. The same thing happened to Reddit. Owners turned it into a shit hole.
As a fellow A’s fan I completely agree this analogy.
IMO, as much as I dislike Reddit, moderation is terrible here and there’s some niche subs that cannot exist here because of the lack of moderation.
Luigi
One more reason to use Lemmy.
This story compelled me to finally commit to using Lemmy.
Hell yeah. Welcome!
Thank you, I’m glad to be here! 😁
Thank you for not immediately going to “world”, just because it has the most users.
Grab some beans, make yourself at home.
Beans?
It’s kinda lemmy lore I guess.
Beans was a wave of shitposts from about 16 months ago where poeple kept posting a bunch of beans in various forms and the whole feed was mostly beans.You’ll also stumble upon the “3 days no poop” thing where someone asked a question in asklemmy I think about how to avoid shitting for 3 days.
I think they later deleted their account, but they were very mysterious about why and people genuinely came with ideas for them and it snowballed into its own thing.Unrelated, but similar to the poop knife, if only in the inside joke / lore kinda thing.
Been on lemmy for two years and didnt see any of that
Now you have.
Oooh these. Yeah no now i remember
I got banned from r/comics for calling out US imperialism. Got called a Russian propagandist 😵 And now here I am :)
That’s more or less why I left reddit came to lemmy.
This is in fact my very first post here. :)
Same. Just created my account
I think we chose well.
Welcome fellow former redditor!
I’ve been here for about a month, switching bettween this and Reddit, while still mostly using Reddit. This made me leave Reddit completely. This and getting banned for 3 days for upvoting a comment was the final straw.
In over 2 decades of internet, i can safely say banning users for upvoting things is the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever seen a discussion board ever do. Just remove upvotes at this point and have the feed curated by Lord Muskrat.
Similar final straw for me.
I had wrote an anti putin thing under a post of Selenskyj where he stated putin will soon die, I confirmed that I hope so too and got like 400 upvotes and a hour or two later got deleted and a 3 day ban.
I’m surprised that the loss of 3rd party apps almost 2 years ago wasn’t the final straw for y’all, but either way I’m glad you finally made it here.
That’s when I made the switch. I can’t believe it’s been that long already.
Yeah that was when I finally left too. I just didn’t think it was worth it if I had to use the website or their crappy app
I’ve been using an unofficial Infinity For Reddit version since then, so it didn’t really make a difference for me.
Since democracy is literally built on murdering fascists and monarchs (or just authoritarians in generel), it seems pretty wild to me that it’s seen as a radical belief that they should die. If we’re forced to tolerate leaders whose claim to power is based on supressing and murdering dissidents in an effort to quash democratic thought, what in the actual fuck are we supposed to do to?
Unlike others, i didn’t get banned from Reddit, i just wanted to get a head-start learning this site, because Reddit is on the way to become X2.
Welcome, fellow ex redditor.
Thanks :)
Welcome, I am a former redditor myself.
I got here because they killed Apollo 🫶🏻 never forget
I use Voyager now for lemmy
Welcome here!
I’m brand new as well and hopeful but wow the smaller forums here need some love. The topic variety is small to the point where maybe straight up bot cloning subreddits here where posts on Reddit just get reposted to their Lemmy equivalent to kick start refugees feeling at home. Plus if there’s basically cross platform discussion posts it gives ground for users of existing subreddits to migrate.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Think of it of getting in at the ground floor, where we’ll create topics and in-jokes that will be repeated ad nauseum for decades!
Beans!
🔝⬆️THIS⬆️🔝 To the top with you!
Somebody gild this!
I tip my
fedorahat to you kind gentlesir! Updoots to the left!
I have yet to come across a repost community here that actually gets any comments on the posts. I wound up unsubscribing from all of them because they just clog up my feed.
I definitely have wanted to but wasn’t sure if I should since no one else had. I should have just done it.
Welcome to the party!
same!
I got a lifetime IP ban on Reddit for saying “Fuck Elon Musk all the way to hell” - so fuck Reddit, fuck DOGE, and especially fuck Elon.
I got mine for hoping Elon’s penis pump would explode and burn him to death from the dick up.
You paint a beautiful picture 😂
Hmm, sounds like your freedom of speech was suppressed, at least according to the standard Elon espouses. I wonder why he now feels so strongly about doing the opposite thing from what he wanted before. 🤔
I truly can’t imagine what that could be, he’s always been so stable and trustworthy before.
To Hell, you say?
How’s an IP ban even supposed to work when you get a new IP regularly?
I actually pay extra to my internet provider for a fixed ip so that I may have a privilege of being permabanned
This is a myth. We’re out of addresses and now most DHCP rules are locked.
lol I got actually hwid banned for refusal to stop Luigi posting
Yeah, they seem super sensitive about anything Luigi
Is this the “free speech” everyone in 'Murica is talking 'bout?
Musk bought twitter because he wanted free speech…
Ironic huh
Nah, he wanted to modify what was being said. He blocked and oppressed views he didn’t like. It was never free speech. It was always oppression.
I don’t even think he new the possibilities of what he can do with Twitter before he bought it. He bought it and after that he needed something to do with this shit pile and found the solution in manipulation and illegal election donation
Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around trying to manipulate the stock price and accidentally made an agreement he couldn’t back out of. He tried. He failed. He was forced to buy it according to the terms he previously specified.
I hate my conspiricy theory minded family but if someone told me they had proof Musk expressly bought Twitter to get right wing power in America and used the buyer’s remorse stock price manipulation attempt gone south as a cover story?
I’d believe it.
Once you are there, start wondering if Trump is really that mad or if they are implementing an old Nixon plan.
He did. Free speech for bigots that is.
Well, wanted to own a mechanism of free speech so he could control it.
Just goes to show how easy it is to get these people upset.
Just call them out
Call them often
Call them out every day
Never stop calling them out … you’ll know they’re listening when someone either tells you or forces you to stop.
Nazis and authoritarians every single one of them.
I got banned from reddit for saying that netenyahu should be put on trial and hanged for war crimes.
After their censorship of me for saying a reasonable thing (a war criminal made to face justice) I will say I have altered my opinion. He should be tied up, simply read his charges and then unceremoniously shot in the head.
I was banned for saying traitors to our nation should be publicly executed. Which is our actual law. So that’s confusing
Trump committed treason on jan 6th, 2021. That is enough reason to hang him, and yet he still breathes.
You can’t just cite established law without thinking about what Musk/Trump think. What do you think this is, a democracy?
I said justice would’ve seen Trump tried on January 7th and hung on January 8th. That got me a soft ban. Then I said kill all Nazis but six and save them for pallbearers. That got me a permaban. Tearing the bandaid off on 12 years of comments and posts hurt but so far I like the attitude of Lemmy a lot better. It feels like real conversation instead of just shitposting and trolling.
Fun Fact: you should be wiping all comments and posts on every socmed platform at LEAST once a month.
Which reminds me that I am overdue on THIS one.
Why? So the Nazis don’t find us? I feel like the only possible conclusion to this is a civil war because most of us don’t want to live in moronville
“Free speech absolutist” 🤣🤣🤣
Personally I couldn‘t care less about moderator outrage. Just read the room already and leave. No amount of kicking and screaming will take the platform off the hands of technofascists. You‘re clearly not valued there so why would they care if you cry about their decisions? Just grow a spine already.
Exactly, use the power of creation and make it all together in one day
Ah the “free speech absolutist” strikes again.
Any time I hear someone say they are “free speech” I am going to pause because what it means is: “My speech > your speech”
True free speech means you know when you’re wrong and when you need to change, or as I like to call it: EMPATHY
Shadow banned for making a very popular post about how to make DIY Luigi Mangione prayer candles using dollar tree candles, printer and a glue stick on witches vs patriarchy
I need this on the Fediverse. Where’s the step-by-step
I love everything about this 🤣
Let us see [email protected]
Fuck Patriarchy! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
ha! that sounds like an amazing post!
Reddit is becoming such a shit hole anyway, the site barely functions on mobile browser now, half the time it has API errors or fails to load.
I can vouch for this as well
So surprised! /s
I’ve been seeing the steady increase in posts and complaints about Reddit banning folks for political speech for the last couple of months and I finally have had enough so here I am. Been on there for 14 years… Byeeeee.
Was about 17 years.
The Russians are astroturfing hard, doing everything to justify their invasion and banning anyone who disagrees.
No point anymore.
That’s not even recent. Russia has been astroturfing Reddit since at least 2015.
I remember reading /r/politics pretty often back then. All of a sudden, half the posts were from RT talking about Hillary and the DNC. Yes, what they did to Bernie was bullshit but the point was clearly to either get people to vote for Trump instead or to encourage people not to vote.
Now, like you said, it’s about the war. All of a sudden, every single post about the invasion has dozens of people who are totes Ukrainian and think that Zelenskyy is a monster who refuses to end the war. Yet they either have a rather bare post/comment history or never mentioned the war before.
And, if you go to the profile for any user who identified themselves as Ukrainian years ago, it’s crazy but they’re still in favor of the war and protecting Ukraine.
This is what propaganda is. It’s not just the government putting up posters saying you should listen to them; it’s convincing you that your views are extreme and unpopular.
That’s the terrifying thing about it… we’re being horribly influenced
No, the terrifying part is that we’re letting it happen without getting angry, much less fighting back.
Haven’t gotten banned yet but it’s definitely gotten to the point on Reddit where you are aware that you can’t discuss some topics.
Like mentioning Luigi could get you shadow-banned. Redditors acted like they were going to stand up against this and yet there’s nothing. So the censorship is working - either all the comments are getting removed or people are too afraid to talk about it.
