If you're still on Lemmy...

If you're still on Earth...

I don't want to be part of a problem. I want to be the whole problem

Apparently if you want to do that you have to buy Twitter

There are many communities still on reddit for which there are no alternatives on lemmy as of yet and if you want it to surpass reddit you need to stop with the toxic attitude and the false sense of superiority especially since a lot of the content on this platform is just reposts from 4chan, x, reddit. If curious folk come here and all they see is toxic threads and reposts why would they stay here? This is mostly in response to the comments I've seen on here not the thread itself.

Lemmy’s biggest problem is how aggressive and uncompromising the people can be.
- Really? I've seen Lemmings are much more competent, way higher debate ability, far less disinformation. Also I've seen this 10x so far in a month: "sorry, you're right". Almost never saw that on Reddit. And I've had to say it many times too.
- Lol yeah we haven't heard that before
- especially the anti-toxicity people
Where's the aggression? You want to talk online respectfully, you can do that here apparently, but not there. I haven't seen it yet... There is a paucity of communities though, NGL. I'll practice patience.

I dropped Reddit when it was announced that you could be banned for upvoting something.
- Can you catch me up on the lore here
Dude im so tired of bans and creepy tracking that ensures you cant engage on the site... I do enjoy the reddit user friendly platform but im so sick of the overreach from the mods.. i have had an account up for a while that just got permanently banned because I accidentally engaged with a sub i forgot had banned my og account.. and because of that old account that had an IP ban it was somehow tied to my new account made a whole year later! Even though i use duckduckgo with full protection and cleared all my data.. but Im done.. its not worth the headache..and trying to use lemmy world now feels better. Still getting used to it here
- your comment has been automatically removed because you didn't choose the right flair.
  your comment has been automatically removed because it doesn't adhere to "fuckshitstack" guidelines
  your comment has been automatically removed because it didn't kiss the mods' asses enough
  your comment has been automatically removed, to become verified, take a photo of your driver's license, your social security card, and yourself holding both of them, in each arm. SUBMISSIONS WITH BOTH CARDS IN ONE HAND WILL BE DELETED! PLEASE, READ THE STICKY.
  I fucking hate Reddit.
- DuckDuckGo doesn't hide your IP. Your IP is a fundamental networking number used to route traffic to your computer. It can also change for many home internet service providers over time, so it's a bit stupid of Reddit to use them, though they might be using more advanced fingerprinting mechanisms and merely saying IP.
I once said on /r/nintendo in the context of Nintendo increasing the price of games that even if you enjoy their products, there’s no excuse to defend their anti consumer practices and that there was way too much “corporate boot licking” among Nintendo fans. It wasn’t a statement directed at anyone specifically, but I got a temporary ban for “derogatory name calling.”
Like…I fully understand it’s going to be a sub of Nintendo fans, and I also consider myself a fan of a lot of their games, but if you aren’t allowed to be critical…then banning me for that post kinda proved my point, lol.
Their threshold for "calls to violence" is ridiculous. Got a ban for commenting I'd slap someone just like the person who got pranked slapped the person who jump scared them.
- My ban. A bloke purposely ran over a 12 year old boy that was riding his bike. Seems a group of youths had verbally hassled this bloke so this was his reaction. Thankfully it was caught on film. This happened about 50 miles from me here in Australia.
  Well anyway my comment was that if he had run over one of my two boys he might have ended up in hospital, there might be broken bones and I might end up in prison. I mean it was an angry knee jerk reaction to a horrible situation.
  Well I got a site wide ban for threatening violence. I didn't actually threaten anybody. No warning, no temp ban, not just banned from that one sub. Appealed but it fell in deaf ears.
I got an instant permanent auto ban for joking about pushing someone down the stairs. It was 'supporting violence'. I appealed and it was auto rejected. It's become absurd.
- i got a ban for reporting a sub too often where people sold CSAM
Not even censoring, also outright stealing for karma farming. I've had perfectly normal photos being criticized as not within the rules for bullshit reasons. An alcoholic drink aggressively marketed in two "variations" for men in women in pointlessly gendered was taken down with the bullshit excuse, that men and women have different metabolisms so it wasn't pointless. A week later there was a post about this drink with a lot of upvotes and my exact photo from our local supermarket. It was posted by one of the very active accounts. Mods are taking down promising content in some subs just to post it themselves.
Mods censor EVERYTHING
This is not a Reddit issue, this is a "subreddit I'm subscribed to" issue. I'm not seeing that problem.
The problem I AM seeing, though, that's ACTUALLY making it unusable is how they fucked up the latest UI redesign. Ctrl+Enter no longer works, spellcheck is force-disabled when using the Markdown editor, posts no longer open in a panel, you have to open each one in a separate tab or reload the main feed every single time, everything is slow and clunky... It's just badly written, badly optimised and badly designed overall.
- old.reddit.com is still the best client.

Don't we still have a few years before lemmy somehow enshittifies?

It's impossible by design. If an instance enshittifies people will just leave the instance.
- The protocol itself could surely start its journey if enshittification? In which case different, possibly incompatible, branches would spawn fragmenting the Lemmy space. Still miles better than the whole thing burning to the ground. But with no shareholders looming around (yet) we can hope it won't come to that.
- Isn't that the exact same argument for Twitter? If Twitter gets shitty, people will just leave? Because I feel like we're not really seeing that.
- if .world says being a minor is bannable suddenly there's no minors anywhere on Lemmy. A minor example that is understandable, sure, but it's just to show that a single large instance can cause a lot of change if they decide to.
The fact that this is being upvoted so much I think demonstrates a big misunderstanding of how the fediverse works.
Nobody owns Lemmy and if a instance does something shitty it costs hardly anything to change instances. Nobody owns the lemmy software, and other softwares like mbin/piefed exist too with the same content.
Not really. It's not a centralized platform by design - unless you're talking about the flagship instances, which are a common problem with federated projects
It'd be pretty difficult, any instances that start that shit would be defederated with a quickness, but I don't want to be too optimistic lol

The only thing Twitter has over something like Bluesky is the fact that Bluesky is so milquetoast and nice that you don't really get any of the drama you get on Twitter. Like, I never see comic fans going "Black Bolt would DESTROY Saitama in a fight!" and anime fans going "Nu uh! ONE PUNCH!" on Bluesky.

Same with Lemmy tbh. Lemmy is 80% politics, 5% memes about politics, 5% memes about Lemmy being better than Reddit, and 10% Linux.

- fuck off
I came here to discuss niche hobbies and technical stuff. What I wanted to use reddit for but I strongly disagree with their business practices since this whole API blocking crap from last year.

Its true. I have friends still using it and they can't seem to break free. I used Reddit since its inception, but left it immediately during the api-pocolypse and never looked back. I did the same with Proton when the CEO praised the GOP. I have no loyalties to tech companies.

I will die on this hill - the Proton CEO was right when he praised GOP in the context of the time, and situation.
The situation was: GOP accidentally* going against Big Tech and pro-citizens, while Democrats were defending Big Tech (just to be in opposition-by-default to GOP). Specifically, the CEO's tweet was about how Trump nominating a fairly loudly outspoken anti-Big Tech person to a very high position in the DOJ was a good thing.
The time was: just before Trump 2 took office and showed what a shit-show his admin, and GOP have become.
The guy was ONLY talking about Big Tech and anti-trust policies nothing else. He never said "GOP is good for the US" or "GOP is good for the world", he said "GOP are doing a bunch of anti-trust and anti-Big Tech moves right now and it's good".
People dropping Proton for this reason are the epitome of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
it was because Trump was throwing a hissy fit at Meta and Twitter for allowing people to express anti-Trump opinions.
- The problem with this, is if he was paying attention AT ALL, it'd be clear that the republican stance "against big tech" was always a lie. The fact he just bought their BS is enough for me to not trust the company.
I've been trying to break free from Reddit ever since the api-pocalypse and subsequent ai-pocalypse. I mostly found my home on Tumblr for a while but it's taken a long time to find replacements for some things.
That's why i left too though I only did it recently bc the app i used only stopped working like a month or two ago.

Is this image from something?
- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mannequin-pointing-at-crying-mannequin-this-mf-paid-for-twitter

You left Reddit because you wanted to tell a message

I left because I was banned site wide cause of an unpopular opinion in a gaming subreddit

We are not the same

- That women don’t have to be hairless and ultra femme and muscles are cool :)
Ooh, what opinion?
- It was an opinion specifically selected from fresh produce and ingredients made with passion and dedication.
  I have served it to Star Citizen players and they started to behave very unfriendly towards me. I had to run for my dear life.
  When I tried to come back I was met with hammers and pitchforks so I decided to take my cuisine elsewhere.
  Unfortunately not everybody likes my cooking but… I have found plenty of enjoyers of my food on the web.
I keep on getting 3 day bans from these infantile mods with no reply and no reason behind it besides their pettiness and immaturity. Ahhhhhh! 😆
Uh.... What opinion?
- Special kind of opinion with extra sauce, served right into the Star Citizen subreddit.
  🤌 House specialty.
I got banned site wide for saying that democrats want to force everyone to get automatic transitions... In a car sub.
I guess I'm transphobic because I didn't put a /s at the end. 🤷

Wait, what's wrong with Lemmy?

If you know you know
I mean, I presume... I don't know, so I don't know
It insists upon itself. /s
People don't actually want to engage with different opinions
The main devs are tankies. That’s all I’m aware of.
- I mean even if they are, the software is open source and lemmy is made to work with ActivityPup, an open protocol. That is what matters at the end of the day.

Lmao well I found this place cause they won’t let me on Reddit anymore. They didn’t appreciate my colourful thoughts on Musk.

Honestly you could get banned for upvoting someone who stated someone seemed agitated and should try following dear leaders advice and take a shot of ivermecrin, a shot of bleach, and take a nap.
Watching reddits fall over the span of 12 years was certainly a thing.

Joke's on you, I'm on Mbin

How's mbin been so far, compared to lemmy
- I love it! Been using Interstellar on mobile.

If you're still

If you're
- If

Just deleted my reddit and joined Lemmy. Do I have to quit already?

Sweet, are Advice Animals back?

I'll just leave this here

Reddit is like CNN, which is Fox-lite, while xitter is ( oan and newsmax)

your're

inb4 a bunch of ~~junkies~~ redditors justify their ~~addiction~~ continuing usage because [reason]

Muh niche topics
What else am I going to do with my time, read a book? I can't even read an article!
They won't come here, and they're on reddit because
Actually good algorithms
More people and content

Neither of these are true lol. Someone has to tell the right wingers they deserve the death penalty for treason.

Keeping away from X is more of a health thing honestly,
I know at least for me, it leaves me worse off reading through posts on there even if I've tried to fight them
- That’s legit. If this post were a call for good self care and mental health, I wouldn’t have commented. I tire quite easily of individualistic solutions to social and institutional problems.

If you're still using the Internet in any capacity...

What if I'm on drugs?

That's fine, you're supported by a problem

I'm doing my part!

I ditched Reddit because the writing's on the wall for them becoming a complete hellscape with their ramping up of censorship recently, and I jumped ship before that Titanic of a platform sinks.

You don't like AI bots replying to other AI bots ad nauseum?

If you’re still on my mom…

Muscle Man, is that you?

Well other than politics reddit is quite good. It's the best for asking stuff about unis, degrees and jobs

- I think OP means "the mediocre, least bad intersection between critical mass and topical discussion."
  Like, you can probably find users/subs about universities/fields and actually find people in them to respond. Lemmy is great, but good luck finding a mass of discussion around a niche location/field.
  Reddit is horrible and deteriorating, yes, but still.
- Being banned for saying your opinion is the worst part
  I was banned for saying my country needs gender neutral laws
Which part is your favourite? The ads every few posts, the lack of meaningful discussion, or the constant barrage of notifications with no purpose?
- Well I used to have good posts on my feed because I built my algo that way
  I have reddit turned shit in the recent years. And they even banned for saying my country needs gender neutral laws. so yeah I guess overall it's bad

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It's me, I'm the problem... (Sorry I'm old and couldn't help it)

Sorry I’m old
Anti-hero was only 3 years ago...
- But old people like me quote cliches with wreckless abandoned. And don't feel guilty about at all.

Bluesky is far far too left.

- No. It's a social media site with an agenda. Just like Twitter. It's a private company.
Would rather be too left than whatever the fuck is happening on twitter.
how is it any less to the left than Lemmy?
- Lemmy is very left as well yes. But I'm new here.

So what’s the alternative to Lemmy? IRC? It seems like every social media platform has problems.

I'm a big fan of IRL, personally.
- Literally dangerous for targeted groups to do that...
- I didn’t think about that one, I’ll have to check it out later

Oh no!

I'm still on Lemmy!

/s

they are here now