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.
I came over to Lemmy a few days ago. I had still been using Boost for Reddit. Somehow my app was still working, but I finally got shut off a few days ago. I can’t handle the promoted posts on the reddit app. I’m at peace with advertisements but the promoted posts were too confusing/distracting for me to comfortably browse.
Don’t forget to leave a bad review on how bad the app features and performance is.
tadaaaa, here I am :)
There was r/YSK post that got me here. I’m not going back to reddit.
Hello, fellow redfugees
We should advertise lemmy more often on reddit. Lemmy and mastodon are the mother of all social media and we should all switch to it. Ditch the billionaires owned profit driven social media!
Welcome!
There are rules here, but you can say fuck and also post images in the comments, which is kind of neat:
You can’t post images in the comments on Reddit?
It depends on the subreddits settings, so it’s basically up to the mods (but only once the sub has a certain number of subscribers)
I think you can but only on the new UI. If you’re anything like me, no feature in the world could make me use that dumpster fire of an UI.
you can post links to images, but you can’t post actual images AFAIK.
Came here after the moderation tool censoring of ‘eat the rich’ and ‘Luigi’. That’s some billionaire protective bs.
Reddit Refugee here. Got my last “permanent” ban from that place. No idea why, don’t care. Greener pastures, I hope.
Keep in mind, a couple of instances including lemmy.world have removed what they consider calls to violence when it comes to Luigi. So general support will be fine, but if you ever end up crossing a line, remember that there are plenty of other instances which allow you to say: Brian Thompson had it coming, kill the billionaires, hang Musk in the town square, and the only thing wrong with doing a Luigi is that random acts of terror against the owner class just aren’t sustainable (see Propaganda of the Deed assassinations in the late 1800s/1900s), you need an organized movement to support this kind of action.
At this point I consider .world to be Reddit-lite
Came here from Reddit.
There’s dozens of us!
This supply closet is getting rather crowded!
Welcome!
Reddit has loved that asshole forever. We forget that back in 2016 Reddit allowed a huge subreddit full of upvoting bots and trolls to post the most atrocious lies and slander and bullshit (/r/the_d**ald) on the entire site and it got so bad that it was the ONLY SUBREDDIT ON THE FIRST PAGE OF /r/all FOR AT LEAST A WEEK.
They pulled back when they saw their profits declining and the massive backlash going on but now that we’re in full fascism mode, reddit is going all out again.
Fuck that place.
oh its been fun, yeah
i love seeing spez fuck himself into a corner
I don’t want to see that.
i turned myself into a corner, morty
I finally made the jump. Hi all.
Yoo!!
All the commenters sitting in the circle replying in a monotonous voice: Hi Blorps!
Don’t forget to offer them a can of beans on their way in!
Their can of beans, complimentary jeans, and guide on how to not poop for three days are in the mail.
I use Arch, btw
Hey, please stick around. Do not let the small number of subscribers demoralize you. The communities are small but active.
I tried coming over during the API drama, but seems like there are way way more users here now!
Yeah, that’s what caused me to switch. I’m pretty happy without reddit. I might open it once or twice a year or when Duck Duck go sends me there for my trouble shooting question.
Welcome!
Hello blorps!
I came here when all the API drama happened, and I didn’t even use third party apps, I just decided that I didn’t want to help make that greedy little pig boy any money. Even still, I’m actually shocked that they’ve cracked down this hard. It’s hard to take serious, because it seems like they would destroy their userbase with this, but they’re doing it.
I came when Apollo died. Found Voyager and stayed.
You did god’s work being here this whole time. Thanks.
I also came here when all the API drama happened. I also checked out Sqabblr, which had a different name at first. There wasn’t much here and I was confused by the fediverse. I went on Facebook and that was a hot mess of garbage.
I went back to Reddit recently and it’s noticeably worse - probably a combination of chasing away great mods and our world just being what it is makes for people being awful at each other rather than at problems.
I’ve just come back here this weekend and there seems to be more resources to help me understand the nature of the fediverse. Ideally I won’t be back to Reddit.
Sorry to ramble, hope you have a great week!
Finally jumped ship after I had a third account banned.
same same. tired of being banned for borderline comments.
Can confirm, have made the move. It was only a matter of time before that place went down the fascist watch list.
Facebook, gone. Amazon, gone. Reddit, gone.
Gotta get rid of my Google account next.
I’m working on getting rid of Google, but it is linked into so many things it’s going to take a lot of time to do it completely.
I’ve moved away from Chrome as a browser and Google as a search engine. I’m starting to disconnect other accounts I’ve logged into using Google as well.
I’m setting up new email accounts - I’m using my own domain name so I can move in future instead of feeling so tied to one provider.
At some point I need to look at Google drive/photos - I think there are a couple of things that synchronize through there still. The find my phone service is tied into Google. All my apps are downloaded from the Play store, and there are a few things tied into Google Wallet.
I can get rid of the main bits, but I think it’s going to take years to get rid of it all.
I’ve degoogled and life is sweet.
I lean right and they banned me. It’s not about being left leaning or right leaning. Either you’re far one way or another or you’re not welcome anymore.
They definitely don’t like the far left, they’re banning people for saying “eat the rich”. Amidst leftists that’s protected cultural speech, it’s our version of hello.
What they hate right now is mostly pretty random, but I think they’re going for a pro authoritarian schtick. It’s a bold move, cotton.
And meanwhile all the mods over there are doing everything in their power to show absolute loyalty to u/spez when he doesn’t even pay them lol. Fuck u/spez.
Good luck. Assuming you have a smart phone, it’s either Apple or Android. But I get the feeling that you are not an apple simp, and most Android devices require Google to even set up.
