The mods at r/popculture pointed it out. And then the screenshot above.
The subreddit drama
Just switched to Lemmy for this exact reason! Got banned for god knows why and immediately deleted Reddit.
Everybody log into your reddit accounts and post “Luigi” everywhere you can.
Hey everyone, there’s a lot of you. You ever think maybe you can just troll them by none stop posting to all their subreddits. Hell the mods are like the same 20 people in over 5000 sub reddits. That’s a weak point.
For a brief few years we had communication platforms that could topple dictatorships but now here we are.
Yeah, now we have platforms that can topple democracies
Just nuked my entire reddit account due to this blatant censorship. Hello Lemmy and lemm.ee it’s nice to be here
Me too.
Welcome I have been a reddit refugee for some time. And have been having a great time.
Welcome you two! We’ve got Star Trek, Linux and beans!
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Hopefully some other topics will become viable later.
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.
I received a permanent ban from Reddit last week, and I’m here for the same reason. And Reddit IS turning facist, as the rich close ranks. Fuck them. Any “spirited” criticism of Trump/Musk is characterized as encouraging violence and results in temporary bans, many of which I received, until recently when I apparently crossed a line which was too offensive (to the Mods). Therefore…
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Great tip! I’ll do just that! Thanks, pal!
Reddit’s strategy is to replace all users with AI bots rented from Elon.
Come to Lemmy, we got cookies
How about card games and sex workers?
Haven’t seen much of either, honestly
My ten year old Reddit account got banned for a single snarky comment about Luigi, so here I am!
are you able to share the offending comment here?
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.
Reddit has gone full fascist. Wow. Never thought I’d see the day.
spez does love musk and trump
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.
The cuck CEO loves Elon and is an enthusiastic meat rider.
Nothing wrong with being meat rider mate, catch on with the times.
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.
Spez getting a little nervous?
He’s getting a little power boner.
Reddit has been doing this shit for years. It’s a big reason why I left. Spez (little piggie) was only the catalyst.
A few ban-happy,power tripping moderators did come over here, though. I don’t have specifics on that, I just know I’ve seen them, and I’ve also been banned for some real dumb shit. I just stay away from those communities/instances.
This feels somewhat different because previously, generally speaking, the problematic subreddits (jailbait, fat people hate, etc) were pretty much isolated to that subreddit, so action could be taken to that subreddit without a big blast radius to the rest of the site. Also, for the most part, the issues were targeting marginalized people. Going after people in the comments of r/popculture for upvoting a comment about Luigi is nothing like previous controversies.
That is literally my name 🤦🏻♂️
You can go by Green Mario
How dare you exist!?!