Warning: Elon Musk now has Huffman bending the knee. Whitepeopletwitter, iselondeadyet and loads of other Elon critical subs have been banned or suspended.
Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
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Fuck…ppl still use that dumb pigs trash site? Huffman can do one. 🖕
I finally made the jump to here today. I have no idea what federated means but I had have it with Reddit. It’s all bots and reposts.
Welcome!
There is a bunch of different servers and anyone can start their own server if they want to.
Server admins can decide with which servers they exchange information or which they block.
So if one server goes down or the admins there go rogue powertripping, the rest can remain unaffected.
For the most part your user experience is pretty much the same like on reddit, with a better culture here. But if something really rubs you the wrong way, you can switch your home server, or make your own instead of only being able to leave.
I see, that makes sense. So If blue sky is not that way, does that mean it will essentially reach a point of saturation and monetization like everything else? In other words, enshittify? Thank you for your reply by the way.
Welcome new lemming! Glad you made the jump over!
Glad you’re here, hope you stick around and help make it better and better.
Thank you, I have shared it with my friends already who are looking for alternatives. I am a pretty typical low information Reddit user so it should be encouraging to see someone like me show up.
I’m gonna have to check on fuckcara and cyberstuck
Jesus, and I thought notorious piss baby Steve Huffman could not possibly get any more pathetic.
Here from reddit also. Guilty of leveling criticism against the dominant culture in my state. If you want to be my friend please reach out 🙏
Welcome!
Make sure to try the All section too find new communities! You can block instances or communities you don’t like to moderate your own feed, it’s a lot less algorithmic than reddit is these days. Hot is what Reddit used to sort by.
Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
I think that happened a long time ago
i was gonna ask if op was new to the internet.
like, what does he think we’re all doing here in the first place
The simple fact that there is an unnecessary amount of control given to a single person over the information and communication you share and consume automatically makes the environment this person controls an unsafe environment for free speech. Yes, there should be moderation, but it should by moderation by the community, not the person on the top of the unnecessary hierarchy. Centralized social media only serves its owners, it exists for no other reason.
Was it really ever a safe place for free speech?
Back before they went “independent,” kind of. When Sears sent legal threats to take down a post exploiting an xss bug to make a joke about grilling babies, reddit had a big public discussion on it, and ultimately left the post up
How do people not expect this of Reddit by now
Reddit has been Facebook since like 2019-2020. Any social media service that gets too big just becomes a complete shit hole, hence my joining the fediverse.
Do you think the up and coming bluesky might end up like that
Reddit was on its way out a couple years ago. i got banned for life for asking a question about violence. Eefff them.
Sorry to post a reddit thread, but supposedly this was because of death threats to Elon bootlickers. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1ihq6ht/whats_going_on_with_whitepeopletwitter_that_got/
Which is ironic because Elon notoriously promoted project veritas literally catfishing his own employees at Twitter, and also brought back accounts like libsoftiktok that existed to target private individuals. But to be fair to Spez, maybe he would ban those things too.
In November he straight up posted names of federal employees that he decided he didn’t like. But now doing the same thing to his little rat fucks has him calling it ‘illegal’
How is advocating violence any better than being fascist? I don’t get it. It’s weird there’s this flood of violent threats and people treat it like it’s okay. But it’s not, it’s not any better than fascists threatening violence.
Well, historically the only way to deal with fascists is through the use of violence.
There’s other ways too. You realise violence isn’t the only option right?
But to be fair to Spez, maybe he would ban those things too.
The only consistent rule for the past decade or so at reddit has been “don’t sass the nazis.”
My 13 year old Reddit account with 250k comment karma was permabanned without warning for saying “It’s OK to punch Nazis”.
Reddit is, and has always been, run by Nazi sympathizers.
Spez lied about a phone call with one of the third party app devs back in 2023. He’s not fair with us, don’t be fair with him.
Yup. Dude lied to the 3rd party app dev, affecting his livelihood, and the 3rd party app dev showed up on Reddit with receipts proving it.
Spez is fucking trash.
Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised
Lol.
Lmao even.
Reddit has never been a safe place for free speech.
yes it has, but it was like 15 years ago and absolutely wild
Try 18 years ago, when Aaron Swartz left.
where does the time go
Into the corners of your eyes and your lower back
The time didn’t go anywhere, we did.
It was until they had to delete the canary.
That was over a decade ago though.
What’s that?
Maybe good for us
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100% done with reddit, the place is now propaganda central and censorship is out of control.
The propaganda is leaking into Lemmy
Left during the API fiasco, never looked back. Happier for it.
99% same but there’s some subs Lemmy hasn’t been able to replace for me yet. like cptsdmemes. in general mental health communities are very lacking on here, if not completely absent
Yeah, I miss a lot of the smaller music communities. Different specific genres or even just artist based communities.
Yeah, there are some things lacking here, but it’s only gotten better and better since I joined.
Not to be that guy, but be the change you want to see in the world.
I’ve had some troubles getting soulslikes communities going on here and have gone from three separate communities at most cracking around 100 monthly users, I think, to more than a 1000. It takes some time and effort, but you’ll get there if you’re consistent and passionate about it. Plus there might already be existing communities that you can build off of.
Just some unsolicited “advice”, I guess
Yeah for normal and safe stuff like favorite book series it’s easy. For mental health where you need to moderate suicide topics and disinformation that’s whole another challange. Those spaces should be made top down not bottom up. The moderator should really be an experts on that not some random basement dwellers. (My view is enteirely based on r/HealthyGamerGG@reddit.com)
For sure! Just putting it out there, that’s all
you know what. I’ve actually been thinking about starting a couple. might be a good thing to try
The censorship on Reddit is insane. And I’m the opposite of a right wing conspiracy theorist nutjob posting wild misinformation. Like, regular posting is censored HARD.
Any platform that starts policing with bots is a platform no one should be on and is doomed to fail.
Me too buddy. And it’s definitely not because I was permabanned because I said we should wipe out the 1%.
Every scandal is a cut where some people bleed over.
This one came out of the blue. the API blackout had notice and time to organize. People were talking about reddit alternatives and protesting for weeks before the API blackout happened
I’m back, and my mass got significantly bigger than when I got here before.
Well I’m here
Welcome back! Lemmy’s a decent amount better than it was a year and a half ago :)
Well, we’re a lot angrier because of
The world
Eventually, someone will Luigi Elon. Absolutely no one will care.
Hey now… for about 10 minutes a bunch of people with names like Groyper1488, IdFuckMyTeslaIfItHadATailpipe and BitcoinKing will be very upset.
They won’t care that he has been luigied, they will care about their shytocurrency.
Hence why the period of mourning would only be 10 minutes.
I’d care! I’d throw a massive fucking party.
