People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.
They’ve basically banned anonymous accounts. Their whole thing was anonymity.
They seem to be blocking access from certain IPs and VPNs (if not logged in?) Which is funny because some of these VPNs are not really hiding anything. Like my work VPN which I would think makes it pretty obvious which company I work for. Annoying when search results link to reddit content.
Wait first I’m hearing of this one. What happened now?
Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol
Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday
Welcome!
It was a “alternatives to American apps/sites” on Reddit that got me here
Don’t worry about the other posters trying to dissuade you from lemmy.ml. It’s a very chill instance. It gets flack because it is run by and has a majority leftist base, but that shouldn’t be an issue if you consider yourself a progressive. The “tankie” slurs are frankly b.s. and disingenuous. I wouldn’t call the sub “pro-Russia/China” by any means, the users are anti-imperialist and realistic in the nature of US propaganda depicting other states as bogeymen. Just because you question the mainstream US-centric narrative doesn’t mean you’re shilling for China/Russia etc. There’s a lot of liberals and centrists, that despite their progressive sentiments they may hold, are still very beholden to the narrative of American exceptionalism in a lot of ways.
Guessing it’s coming from shitjustworks people. Politics mod over there doesn’t like anyone pointing out the Dems weak ass “resistance” even if you are lauding another Dem(Rep Green) at the same time lol.
Wherever it stems from it’s getting annoying to deal with the influx of “enlightened centrists” that have the idea that anyone left of Biden/Harris is a secret Russian/Chinese disinfo agent :/
I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won’t put money in spez’s pocket, arrived a few days ago.
I just arrived today myself, after being temp-banned for 7 days for some bullshit reasons that the appeal team agreed were bullshit so they unbanned me, but not before someone else perma-banned me for violating the rules on ‘my other accounts’ – I’ve had a single reddit account for the entire 14 years I’ve been there, I don’t even make throwaways, so, even more bullshit. I appealed that one too, but even if it’s overturned I’m not sure I’m going back. They’ve gotten real fucking fashy all of a sudden with the censorship, banning people for upvoting shit and calling it ‘inciting violence.’ Fuck 'em.
Subjectively, Lemmy’s communities are much more robust and have a lot more content than they did during the Reddit API exodus. I imagine there will be more people who choose to stay this time around.
Woo more people to join our cult. Everyone will get their robes in the mail
Wait, I’ve been here almost 2 years, where’s my robes‽
You know what you did
My guess is robe crimes
Namely disrobing at inopportune times.
He is a chronic feudposter and tankies live rent free in his basement.
So… he is a good landlord?
>:( you know too much now
I cut the sleeves off of mine, that was probably my crime. Sleeves are like pants; the fewer you wear the better your day is.
You and I will be considered the early adaptors. People will guess as to why we migrated so early.
What’s the password?
Tap for spoiler
Fidelio gets the Pianist into trouble
The real robes were the Caroline’s we got DMed by along the way.
Is Caroline like the new Nicole? The site’s moving too fast already, I can’t keep up!
No, I’m just terrible with names… blew it again…
Well at least Nicole from Toronto in their inbox.
I gotta say, I respect what Lemmy does and hope it succeeds, and I think it’s a good place for discussions and such (and I will remain), but good god if this place isn’t unfunny as hell. I’m struggling real hard to find some place with actually funny content on here, which leads to me getting exceedingly riled up by politics.
good god if this place isn’t unfunny as hell
I think c/lemmyshitpost quite funny, at least the posts itself, not sure about the comment-section…
leads to me getting exceedingly riled up by politics
Fair enough I think it’s also way to overloaded with the depressing evolution of american politics…
It’s better than it was a year ago so hopefully with more ex-Redditors it’ll diversify even more
One of the problems with the way federation currently works is if I block US politics on one instance, I still get it en masse from other instances.
Before activity pub, all that duplication of threads would’ve been handled by moderators merging them together. Actually, it wouldn’t even have been so necessary since userscan see the existing thread and just post underneath that.
When blocking a community, we really need a check box to allow us to block the same community on all instances.
Aye People, recommend me some funny communities!
I mean, there are communities for funny stuff, but at least speaking of the ones I stumble upon on my main feed, a significant portion of the funny posts is rather old/recycled. Could be just my feed, though.
Unless there are communities I’ve missed, all the bigger communities post stuff one degree removed from advice animals. Maybe I need to look for the smaller communities
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THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!
But seriously this is good news and I’m glad to have you all here. Lemmy is in a pretty good position right now in terms of having a critical mass of users and decent traction within popular communities. At the very least it feels self-sustaining here.
If you are here and want lemmy to succeed, please consider donating. The devs used to get by mostly on nlnet foundation grants but are trying to shift to a more sustainable donation based model. You can see how they are doing on the join-lemmy website when you scroll down to the bottom, there are also links to their liberapay (preferred option) paetreon, etc.
I donated monthly for almost 2 years, and they never even added me on the donator page. Petty reason, but at this point I don’t even know how much they care.
I care! Thank you, you rock internet stranger. I would have never looked at a donator page but I saw this. Please keep donating, looks like Lemmy is very underfunded. I did a one time for 124.24 today!
Thanks for the reminder! I just donated $124.24. (12/4/24), advise you all to do the same if you’re able! Every $124.24 donation counts.
This is my first time here. I do not abide thought policing. Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.
don’t worry, you have that here too. A lot less but still.
Me too, fck reddit, it’s no longer a board for broad discussions from all view points but instead an echo chamber of moderators curating their own narrative.
Where have you been the last DECADE?
The regime intervened from the time Reddit exploded and it became a too important medium to let exist uncontrolled.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/
Same as they did before:
https://mronline.org/2022/07/14/meet-the-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebooks-content-policy/
Looks like lot of people are mad bcs now also their other side of the US regime is being targeted.
Not a peep from them when Reddit furiously removed and banned mild criticism of the Palestinian genocide, same for other topics.
I have a lot of questions about the f people complaining now.
What happened 2/12?
Hey everybody! This guy doesn’t know about 2/12! Let’s all laugh at him! Ha ha ha ha ha!
…I have no idea. Does ANYONE know what happened?
hexbear lost its domain and went offline
Holy shit, what was a month ago??? Feels like last week.
Didn’t they start back up on another domain?
The admins managed to get Hexbear.net back and the sale of the domain was stopped.
Hey that’s great news! Thanks for letting me know.
No problem! Federation should resume by the end of the month.
Hey everybody! This guy KNOWS things! Let’s all laugh at the NERD!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
looks around
But seriously, thank you for that knowledge. I learned something today! But, I got this whole comedy bit going here…and the number one rule of comedy is that you have to COMMIT!!!
Hey everybody! Such a mockery this person is within our vicinity! Ha ha ha ha ha! Such comedy to be had at ones expense!
Lemmy was for while like 50% bots, which is why you see random shifts generally.
Could be something else though
And I am glad I am one of them. Not because of an anti-US sentiment (as in: towards American citizens) but as more pro-Europe move.
as if that’s not the same
It’s not the same
right, Europe only does the same as vasals
I will shitpost harder.
I’m doing my part!
Same. Someone’s gotta help feed the modlog.
I love how the mod log is so accessible for all to see.
Yeah. Too bad it hasn’t led to power mods behaving. Still plenty of bullshit bans.
Speaking of users, whatever happened to Flyingsquid?
Idk I was just thinking that last night, hasn’t been active in like 2 weeks. I hope they’re ok
Just noticed that it shows how many days ago I joined. The babies are taking over this thread. This is a baby-thread now.
