Me too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

The cuck CEO loves Elon and is an enthusiastic meat rider.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, now we have platforms that can topple democracies

they saw how the META android zuckerberg did, use AI harvest “Dead accounts” Facebook and drive the engagement.

I swear, there are some people that actively seek out parts of the internet to gain control of so they can push their agendas.

It’s like they get physically distressed at the idea of people discussing things they don’t want being discussed or holding views they don’t want held.

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.

They recently, meaning I don’t exactly know when it happened, gave mods the ability to report you for “Abuse of the report tool”. For the record, I’m a mod on some subreddits, and that’s an absurd thing to need. I’ve learned a few things about being a Reddit mod.

1. It’s not nearly as hard as some mods make you think it is.
2. If they actually experience difficulty, it’s probably cause they suck at being a mod.
3. Subs that experience issues, are typically cess pools like r/conservative.

I got permanently banned for pointing out that a popular sex advice subreddit was being run by a rapist…

And then they say “if a user is breaking the rules, don’t engage, use the report button.”

So much shady shit going on on reddit.

The modlog is a breath of fresh air for lemmy. Praise whoever came up with and supported it.

I got a warning for a similar thing. They can disagree with the report, but warning/banning users for it is insane

I got banned because I posted a comment on an anti vaxx sub (I was challenging one of their comments) and found out a lot of subs had ban bots that just watched who posted to subs they didn’t like. Whatever you do don’t put any thought into your mod work or look at the comment’s context.

It’s still the only major community hub for loads of hobbies and such. As an example: the Magic the Gathering community here has 1300 members and almost no activity.

It’s been limping for a while, but the momentum was huge to begin with. The niche subreddits still had good participation, not great, but good enough. These latest shenanigans might be the final tipping point, though.

there are niche subs there i vist that usually cant replicate somewhere else, and people are addicted to the news and political posts.