So yesterday I received a 7-day ban for ‘encouraging violence’, for saying that Luigi Mangione did not deserve to go to jail. It was obviously bullshit, somebody got a little hair-trigger on the new directive from Der Fuhrer spez or something, so I appealed. That appeal was reviewed and the temp ban lifted and the ‘offending’ comment restored, but 11 hours prior to that I got another message that I had been perma-banned for violating Reddit’s rules with my ‘other account(s)’. Well that’s also bullshit because I’ve had exactly one (1) account in the 14 years I’ve been on reddit, so I appealed that too, and thus we get to the cherry on top: I am no longer banned, I can post and such again, but they sent me the above message saying that my appeal had been denied and that the perma-ban was staying in place. But rather than linger in reddit limbo, I think I’m gonna switch permanently to lemmy. 14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
Welcome to the Fediverse! If you’ve been on Reddit for 14 years, you were attracted to what it once was. Lemmy is that, but a whole lot better, and your skills as a moderator will be highly valued here. In fact, if you are looking to start up any new communities hmu and I’ll see about giving you a hand.
Also, here’s your obligatory Saint Luigi blessing for the banned:
remember kids:
A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power
I have no skills as a moderator, sadly, I avoid responsibility as a lifestyle. Thanks for the warm welcome tho. :)
In a Yogscast TTT video some years back, Rythian used ‘Green Mario’ as a joking name for Bouphe, who was using the Luigi player model at the time.
For those who want to undermine reddit’s power trip, I propose Green Mario as the first stick in their knee-bending attitude.
Classic Rythian.
bring your subs, bring your friends!
Welcome to the Lemmy BDSM convention!
Welcome, glad to have you aboard!
Thanks, glad to be here!
Your not the only one, I heard others were reddit banned soon after their temp ban ended
I was perma-banned 11 hours before my temp-ban appeal was lifted. Then I was unbanned, but they sent a message saying my ban would stay. I think they’re just falling over themselves in their headlong rush to embrace fascism.
I’ve basically abandoned Reddit as well. I’ve been on for so long, but this bullshit makes me feel unsafe. If the platform is going to so blatantly side with those who would happily let me die for a few dollars (health insurance companies), then I don’t need to give them my attention or data anymore.
Welcome to Lemmy. Outside of niche subjects and local content I think this place has everything reddit does but with less bullshit. If people keep making the switch in large numbers we’ll build all those communities too and be better off for it.
I used the tool where I could import my Reddit subs to find similar communities here, and it surprised me how many communities I was a part of that the Reddit algorithm never let me see posts from. Also, it highlighted how much more infrastructure there is to build here. It’s exciting! Like the creative energy of expanding the Wild West but without the decimation of entire indigenous communities and the murder of innocent people and animal species.
It was liberating for me. Haven’t gone back.
I haven’t and I won’t. Lemmy is a far more positive atmosphere with less content, but better quality content. There’s less overt manipulation and not everything is politicised. I just don’t trust reddit
The slower pace of content is a huge plus to me.
Same. Funny all those douches who said we’d be back in a week lol
Same man, I’ve been on Reddit pretty much since 2005.
It seems like such a waste of 20 years of doom scrolling, imagine if I’d put that time into learning a trade, or another language…
That’s not how brains work, they need time to unwind, so you would’ve just found some other method to do that.
You’re doom scrolling right now on lemmy.
If Reddit didn’t turn to shit I don’t see how your doom scrolling wasn’t already a waste of time.
But wasting time is the point right? You can’t spent every single minute of your day being productive.
It’s like people complaining that playing video games and watching moves is a huge waste of time. Like, durrrr, that’s the point.
Aye, it’s just escapism one way or another.
But no, we must be active 100% of the time.
We don’t have to do that wank “/s” here do we??
Not really no. But some ppl still edit and /s if some took it seriously and gave them a lot of ‘downvotes’. Guess it’s just an old reflex for fear of having less ‘karma’, which isn’t a thing here.
Funny thing about that is nobody at work looks twice if I’m leaning back and obviously doomscrolling on my phone, but spend fifteen minutes on Codewars and every person who walks by my desk is all suspicious…
Welcome! There are dozens of us
Dozens now, hundreds tomorrow, thousands next week.
52K / 12 = 4.3K dozens to be exact
Didn’t I see you at the convention in Munich last year?
Cadby, from the consulate right? This is so weird!
This same thing happened to me twice in one week. I haven’t had a ban on my account in 14 years. I’ve given up on Reddit and just deleted my account. Fuck them if they want to treat us like we’re children. I won’t use their platform again.
Paranoid me says they’re trying to ban all of the older accounts with clear liberal bias. 14 years for me too and my permaban was for saying I’d “take a couple with me” if Nazis ever came for me. Appealed and upheld.
Crazy to think defending yourself is something worthy of a ban, but here we are. Fuck 'em I guess. They won’t make money off of me and I won’t post to their communities. Sounds like a lose/lose situation for them.
Leftist self-defense is aggression. Fascist aggression is self-defense.
Yeah it’s been getting increasingly fashy over there. They’ve blocked topics before, but to my knowledge they’ve never banned people for upvoting something. It’s crazy. Next they’re going to start banning any anti-Israel content as antisemitic, or anything pro-Palestine as promoting terrorism or whatever. It’s gotten MUCH worse since the IPO, too, so it’s clearly being done for the benefit of the advertisers.
They more or less shadow banning people in huge numbers compared to a full site wideban, this way trick people thinking they are still using reddit
Reddit already heavily censors anything pro-Palestinian.
I have said some pretty aggressively and unambiguously pro-Palestine things over there and never been dinged once for it, so I haven’t seen it. shrug
Although I did notice that certain of my comments would act like they posted only to not actually post, to the point that I’ve taken to writing longer posts in notepad and pasting them over, and the ones that fail all seem to have something to do with Israel or Palestine. But usually a couple of attempts at posting them gets through, so… shrug
My main concern is that Luigi isn’t even confirmed to be the one to have pulled the trigger, right?
But even if he was, I still don’t think he should go to jail for it.
Luigi didn’t do it but he did do it, Brian Thompson deserved it!
Nah, he didn’t do it, but someone definitely should’ve. Not Luigi tho, he was chillin’ at my house that whole week.
welcome home!
Should’ve left the shit hole before it booted you, but at least you made it here!
Probably, but 14 years is a whole lot of inertia to overcome.
I was a mod for a 2mill person sub with an account made in 2009 when I left 2 summers ago 😅
Not trying to one up you, honestly I get what you mean. It sounds silly but it does feel like you kind of have this energy and emotion invested in it that’s hard to give up. I’m glad you’re here now!
Unsolicited advice: Try not to fall into the trap of comparing everything to Reddit. Most of the things here are better, some things (few) are worse. You just need to find good communities.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions! People are very happy to explain how things work around here in my experience. What’s critical is finding an instance that you like and blocking communities/instances that you don’t. If you browse /all you’ll get what you expect a lot of the time lol
Beehaw and blahaj are pretty great (not everyone agrees with me on blahaj)
Yeah, so far I have no complaints. Honestly I’ve been pretty unhappy with reddit’s design since they disabled new.reddit to use the old-new design. I don’t mind how the new-new design looks, but it’s just functionally worse in practically every way. The notification menu is shit now, my comments don’t get posted half the time so I have to write them in notepad first, etc, collapsing threads is fiddly and inconsistent (sometimes there’s a line on the left I can click, sometimes I just have to click in the empty space by the poster’s name and hope for the best), etc, so I’ve no love lost for Reddit’s shit. I spent about an hour fiddling with UIs and settled on Alexandrite and I’m pretty happy with it. I love that we have options, too, and aren’t just crammed into one shit UI and told to cope.
My only real concern so far has been that there aren’t a lot of active subs in some of the areas I’m interested in. I’ve spent a lot of time the last 5 years or so on subs like r/askaliberal, r/politicaldebate, r/debatereligion, r/debatecommunism, r/anarchism, etc, and I’ve looked around a bit and haven’t really seen any good debate subs for either politics or religion. I’ve no interest in creating one myself and dealing with that headache tho, so. shrug
As for instance, I just joined lemmy.world since it seemed large and official, but then, yeah, I’ve been browsing /all and having to block sub after sub that I’m not interested in to clean my feed up. Not sure if there’s a better way to go about that.
Honestly it’s as good a way as any
14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).
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You can appoint other people to mod, but if a community remains without moderation for a significant amount of time, someone else might ask admin to take it over. You can also create “copies” on each individual federated host which allows for competing subs without having to snipe for community names at creation time.
Not perfect but much better than any of the alternatives.
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Instead of one central server divided in subreddits, we have dozens/hundreds of “instances” of Lemmy, which are almost all federated with each other. This means that posts, comments,… propagate between all the federated ones, not just the one you’re on. This serves to eliminate the need for one central authority (which can be hacked/bribed/changed/…). The largest instance right now is lemmy.world. If you were to create a new community there, it would federate to all other connected servers and people can interact with the content freely. If someone else wanted to start the same community, they would be able to do this, including the same name, if they create it on another origin instance (for example lemm.ee). From that point onwards, both communities will be live and be able to “live” next to each other without crossing boundaries or running into any technical issues.
This also means it’s almost impossible to get truly banned on Lemmy since you can simply create a new account on another instance. Since (shadow)banning is being massively misused by Reddit right now, this will eventually be the biggest reason for the growth of Lemmy. Reddit has become a staunchly anti-consumer/anti-user platform where trying to contribute is actively being resisted by power users/mods - and then they want to monetize your contributions through ads as well. No thank you.
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If I come across something I can’t find here I will certainly do that.
I’m using Voyager and you can copy the link for all of your subscribed subreddits (if you haven’t deleted your account yet) and enter it into the app. It will search Lemmy for similar communities.
The adjustment can be a little awkward at first but there’s plenty to do on Lemmy if you take some time to learn how things work and how to get the most out of it.
If you’re the type of person that enjoys posting and guiding topics there’s no shortage of people hungry for content on Lemmy. There are lots of active communities but even more that are still trying to get off the ground or need someone interested to adopt them.
Whatever your interests, https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great way to find communities for the topics you care about if you aren’t finding them on lemmy.world.
I hope your time here is more enjoyable than where you’re coming from.
Thanks! Honestly it’s been less of an adjustment than I expected. Took a couple hours to read about it and figure out how it works, picked a server, and jumped right in. The big thing is that I’m losing that whole curated sub list that I’m going to have to replicate, but I’m sure it’ll take care of itself.
If you happen to use or try the Voyager app they have a migration tool that is supposed to work well.
Interesting, I’ll take a look at that, thanks!
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