Lemmy has advanced leaps and bounds since the Reddit exodus, and has not devolved into a nazi shithole like most Reddit clones. It still lacks many niche communities, but hopefully this will improve over time.
We have blackjack?! And hookers?!
It’s pronounced jackblacks and boogers
I feel like this post is about me…
Leaving reddit has helped me substantially. That website is full of bots and trolls. The admins are power hungry and really angry for some reason.
I started reading again, doing more art and not doomscrolling as much. I could waste 3 or 4 hours easily scrolling through the reddit shithole and learn nothing.
I do miss the modding subreddits and the mechanics subreddits cause i like working on stuff and most of the post here are program/linux based. But as time goes on, this site will get better with more people and posts.
I’m happy to be here and grow in the wind.
should be “…with communists, and gay linux nerds”
And Star Trek!!!
How could I forget.
Not to mention PumpkinSkinks.
My brother once forgot the word “Lemmy” and said “reddit for comunism”
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Fuck, that dude’s face is haunting. Like the ghost of a victorian era orphan
Came to lemmy for a bit when they killed 3rd party apps in July '23. But I switched back once I learned how to make Boost (my favourite reddit app) usable again.
Now I’m back here, hopefully permanently. Was calling out a troll on a local subreddit and found out users are now able to hide their post and comment history… Unless you keep a folder of screenshots of bots, trolls etc., it is hard to call them out now.
Boost is also on lemmy now, so that lessens the pain a little bit. But the communities that I used to frequent on reddit is close to dead here, especially my local community lol. So I’ve just been browsing active but most of these are irrelevant to me. So I turned back to spending my time on other things like reading, games, etc.!
I left reddit when I realized that probably 50% or more of the users are actually bots. Literally debating with robots.
Yeah, the move to hide users’ post history and comments serves more to hide advertisers, scammers, trolls, bots, etc… User privacy? People got it before by having multiple accounts that were used for different purposes. It has worked for years lmfao.
Lemmy is exactly like Reddit was in the early days. Long before the enshitification started.
Back in those days niche forums still existed and search engines worked.
I’m happy here. I love it in fact.
I got Permabanned from Reddit (17 year old account btw) for “ threatening violence” because I said we should pop tires of iCE agents illegally kidnapping people.
So yeah, screw them and bring on the blackjack and hookers
Sounds terrible, in fact, I don’t conserve for many years the accounts I have created on mainstream social media, but reddit feels different, if I were you I wpuld feel very angry and sad, 17 years of your stories!!!, unfortunately we know how this comanies works and does not allow users to appeal, feel free to express your ideas on the fediverse, I would like to see your account and mine on the 20 anniversary, good luck.
Ya. We used to be able to have a voice there. Now the minority conservatives are pushing out the majority liberals. Piece by piece.
I got permananned for violence for saying a fictional character “got what they deserved.” It was 100% a non-sequiter as the character did nothing wrong and survived the movie just fine.
You’l probably get banned or at least have your comment deleted from .world if you say stuff like that, and jordanlund is still the ubermod.
Shoulda suggested just keying the cars instead.
we should pop tires of iCE agents illegally kidnapping people.
{lemmysilver}
I got shadow banned my 10 year old ACC there for no reason in particular. The moderators there are out of touch. Was on 555 days streak too. After 3 more weeks just being there, deleted my banned account and moved here. Hi, I am new here.
Welcome!
Welcome to 🐭
Whoever had the idea on Reddit to get permabanned and have a shitty appeal system that never gets checked by human beings literally wasn’t the smartest guy.
I reported a post and was then reported by mods for “report abuse”. There’s no explanation what this even is. An admin said “when you know, you know”is the whole definition. So I received a few days suspension. But the mods removed the post. Appeal was ignored.
Now mods and admins are gaslighting everyone into thinking that there’s no problem. Despite there being complaints by multiple people (including some mods) for years now.
Damn, what an insult, if anyone ever says I’m slightly less than the top 0.00008% of humanity I would loose it.
literally wasn’t the smartest guy.
Statistically it is a safe bet to say the literal smartest guy is not nor ever has worked at Reddit.
I mean, Steven Hawking didn’t work at reddit, but he did an AMA once.
Sorry also wasn’t the smartest guy, really smart, but mostly a good writer
I am banned from reddit because subreddit mod did not like my comment ( it didnt break rules or anything) in facebook related sub , than got my account permanently banned and found my other accounts than reported those for ban evasions
I never got banned just left. Welcome
It’s nice to have a place that feels like early Reddit, but I can’t help but wonder if a large percentage of the people who got banned and came here were banned for valid non-political reasons.
Maybe I was getting too used to Redditors telling me I’m absolutely right.
There are not many of us here. Although I have had bans in the past I just made new accounts and ignored them.
Newbie here who is in Reddit jail, I got banned for posting something that wasn’t into Reddit’s filters (It was an NSFW meme but it wasn’t offensive) My account literally got sniped by a bot the second I posted the meme, I’m glad there’s neither here. I’ll wait 100 days until my IP gets unblocked I guess and then move there for now this is my new home.
I had an account with almost 100k karma and I posted good stuff I had friends I talked to, Thanks reddit for having bullshit filters and for having a nonsense repeal system that doesn’t work.
I was on Reddit for 12 years, with nearly a million Karma, but they permabanned me in the February bloodbath for posting an opinion I’d posted many times without a warning of any kind.
I’ve never heard of a 100 days ban, that’s new. I suspect they’re hoping you’ll forget about Reddit and go away, but if you go back, my prediction is that now that you are on their radar, they’ll target you, and find excuses to keep suspending you until they feel justified in permabanning you.
Reddit mostly ban IPs for 100 days 105 for safety and I’ve been there before really, Now I’ve got a new connection so different IP and I’m not shy about formatting my devices, It’s something I will do, though for now I also don’t care.
Why not just move here permanently and kill your Reddit since they clearly demonstrated they don’t want you there?
I mean, I wasn’t ever banned from Reddit, but I left on my own before that would’ve inevitably happened since I had some comments sniped for BS before they started ramping up the censorship there, and I don’t plan on ever going back.
Because reddit had more niche communities that I was into and it’s way more populated which is to be expected, but I also love how open this website seems so far, my main gripe with Reddit is that if you are a new account you are pretty much fucked, I’m not against moderation but Reddit overdoes it.
There are some subreddits that I miss but there’s also usually a lot less bullshit here. The giant “fuck you” to third party app developers was the last straw for me. I wasn’t even in that group but that pretty much told me where reddit was heading and I wasn’t willing to go along with it. But, there’s probably quite a few people here who still use Reddit. Either way, welcome!
Why not start your own niche community and then share it here?
I’m not against it, It’s just I used reddit for everything regarding news and I overral liked engaging with posts but it’s always like I had this fear that if I say something wrong I would get banned by a moderator or something.
Also the permament ban thing is really harsh for me it should exist for posting REALLY FUCKED UP stuff, not because you posted something and a bot happened to snipe it.
Your real concern should be that Spez gets to censor what you’re reading in a real way.
Not only does he get to remove stuff that counters his narrative, he also can allow certain types of narratives to flood the site.
Editorial control is huge, and giving that to Spez seems insane to me. That, along with Facebook, 4chan, and every other social media is certainly how we got a shitty president who was basically nobody relevant until 2015.
I can’t stress this enough.
Before the api changes killed transparency tools, you could look at the censorship that reddit was doing. Literally 97% of posts that reached the front page were deleted.
There isn’t enough of a population to get a good small niche community going. Also it can be difficult to find the community in the first place. The fight stick community on Reddit is very active. On Lemmy it has been around for a while and remains completely dead.
Sounds like stockholm syndrome to me
I feel like we’re slowly growing here, lots of very rich communities have been built now.
But yes, my city and hobby communities are still a ghost town. We don’t have critical mass on lots of stuff yet.
Give it time. If there is as much a problem at Reddit as it seems, its only a matter of time before more and more folks make their way here.
One of my co-workers that plays No Man’s Sky was looking for help on the NMS sub and was shocked to find as many deleted posts as he did.
Something is DEFINITELY up there…
The video game subs are 100% cesspools of negativity now.
Reddit has a huge whiner bias problem.
Ehhhh… NMS ia a different animal.
Honestly, it’s got one of the coolest player communities - like NO one grouses at other people over game play, simply because it’s got such varied options. (I’ve been in creative mode for years just building bases and survival shelters with resources left available for others to use if they need help) There’s really no one that is streaming their games and getting into flame wars over this, that or the other…
I mean there’s griefers, but they do shit things like build on other people’s bases or make trap bases that kill players or break into the online space (the Anomaly) and kill newbies that have their game PVP settings on. (I had some jackass strafe at me as I was base building and as I was in creative, the shots did nothing, so I just let him figure it out and he eventually landed and checked my base out - dude must’ve been on Ultra Hard as a cloud of sentinel robots swarmed in with him and left as soon as he did… THAT was surreal as hell, as they’re super rare to see in Creative) but everyone agrees, the griefers are assholes and they get slapped down fast enough and the newbies will be sorted by other players and gifted resources they’d lost.
It’s a great game and a really chill community.
Why not make those niche communities here?
Have you been told there’s a 100 day cool down? I was told my account was banned (with zero info/explanation) forever and even when I use VPNs I get Shadow banned until I open up Reddit without a VPN so I assume it’s really forever
The rules say that Reddit keeps track of your IP and fingerprints for 100 days.
Well thank you for the explanation! From a bit of googling it seems that other redditors also experienced being “suddenly unbanned,” which chalks up with what you said.
Does that mean i should completely avoid viewing reddit and then 100 days on from my last viewing they’ll forget my IP and i can join again? (Assuming of course that it’s a new email address)
Or do they ‘hold’ the IP from when you did the first infraction rather than whem you did the latest visit?
I odn’t think you can get “unbanned” without trying an appeal, though if you do try an appeal it will get rejected as it gets checked by bots somehow.
I had two instances of this, I don’t remember what I did last time. I did download Brave which doesn’t track fingerprints but now funnily enough I was banned on a Brave browser so I guess I would clear cookies, but I remember singing up after 100 days and took it real slow like posting every few weeks and I was in the clear, until I got sniped by a bot.
Wait 100 days, clear your cookies, IP, Browser, Email, even format your PC if you have to.
Is the 100 days cooldown a thing? I just recently deleted my shadow banned 10 years account because I’m pretty sure it’s done and dusted once you get the shadow ban. Especially as you don’t even know what you are banned for.
Your account is done and dusted, you can make a new one though.
Welcome. If your all page seems stale, I suggest you switch to different sort types. Active is the least active, but worth checking. Hot is great. If I still want content, I’ll go to 1 hour, 6 hour and scaled.
Worth noting there are descriptions here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
But basically Hot is highest score (upvotes minus downvotes) with a decay based on how old the post is (down to 0 after I think 2 days)
Active is the same thing but with the decay based on when the last comment was posted rather than the post itself (use to find conversations).
Top is just the highest score (upvoted minus downvotes) only counting the votes in the period you select (hour, 6 hours, day, etc).
If you have a way to contact your friends, let them know where to meet you.😉
What was the meme? Post it here…
It had nudity so I’ll avoid posting it here because I still like to follow the rules.
The point being it was a perfectly legal meme which got sniped by a bot and I didn’t even bother appealing the ban because I know it would probably get blocked without even them looking at it, and now I don’t want to sign in to my account with my new IP because it would probably reset the days.
I know some people like to be sctrictly anti-moderation and anti-rules because they like to post offensive or innapropriate stuff, I think there SHOULD be moderation, It’s just Reddit’s moderation is so forced
I mean, you are already on the only instance dedicated to porn, if they have a comm for nsfw/xxx memes, you could post it there.
We have communities for that if it’s too nude: !nsfwmemes@lemmynsfw.com But general meme communities also allow nsfw posts.
You don’t have to self censor yourself, post whatever you want, just find the fitting comunity
I see, I mean I’m finding this community to be more chill like I don’t have to hide myself with reddit I felt like I had to hide my profile because I was into NSFW stuff.
That was at least one good thing with reddit you could hide your profile history because of stalkers or too judgy people.
You can’t hide here anything, everything you do is public. Your instance’s admin can even see your pms.
You can have a lot of profiles, most apps allow quickly switching between them, so while you cannot hide your history you can separate it so stalkers can hardly find anything about you.
I hadn’t been to reddit for over a year, but recently picked it up again. They’ve got things that we don’t have, because they’re bigger. Their community isn’t all bad, but you have to look hard.
I make sure not to post anything though. No comments or upvotes either. I would still rather see them die, but sunce they’re here, I might as well use them.
Definitely yeah, I mean they’ve got over 110M daily active users while Lemmy has 40k daily users it’s not even comparable, if Lemmy had users in the Millions I think it would be much better.
I always looked for a reddit altenative, even though Reddit has all the things you’d ever want, and people from all around the world that you’l probably never meet but still, I would change so many things.
…if Lemmy had users in the Millions I think it would be much better.
At least until a certain threshold is reached. I think part of Lemmy’s charm comes from it being a small community. Though maybe this can be sustained by having more active sublemmys forming smaller groups again.
I love how you can always expect elaborate answers to your questions here. Also there seem to be less trolls and unfriendly comments in general. Pleasant culture.
Never been banned. Their stupid “contributor quality score” makes it impossible to cycle through accounts once a year and not get shadow banned by the site itself.
Reddit basically teaches people to be pandering self conscious kiss-asses with a penchant for bullying the underdog + general groupthink.
Hookers? Where?
Lemmynsfw
