Lol nothing says we are afraid of the working class like banning subreddits on suppressed news they don’t want us to see. I came here bc I got a warning on my account for liking a comment that said “Luigi”. My alt account got banned for sharing the DOGE email list that is public info. Fuck Reddit. I’m done.
I’m kind of surprised r/50501 hasn’t been banned yet for inciting violence…
Why would they? Ineffectual protests with disparate, unclear goals. More useful to keep them so there’s at least a harmless resistance to redirect energy toward.
What do you mean? Their goals are clear.
I couldn’t find that immediately on their site but Wikipedia told me it’s:
- Impeachment of Donald Trump and removal from office[1]
- Investigation into Elon Musk, DOGEand Trump appointees[1]
- Reinstatement of rescinded federal DEI initiatives[1]
- Protection of LGBTQ rights in the United States
- Protection of minorities and minority rights
- Reinstatement of Military aid to Ukraine[2]
- Lifting of tariffs against Canada and Mexico[2]
Which imo is an unrealistic bucket of goals, not a unified call to action
They may be unrealistic but that says more about this administration than it does about the protests. That’s pretty basic shit imo
Agreed. And I want groups like this to succeed. But we need a single, easily digestible message that can encompass all of these issues under one roof. That issue, imo, is wealth inequality. But now it all comes down to phrasing. It’s an issue that isn’t hard to get people on board with if, and only if, we are careful with messaging and branding. I wish I was joking, but that’s the world we live in. Not the one where I demand everything, get nothing, and keep being frustrated that it never changes. It’s time to adapt or continue the cycle of losing.
I don’t think phrasing is the problem. I think the problem is a lack of leaders willing to stand behind it. Democrats are trying to pander to rich people while simultaneously tapping into the anger at rich people and that just comes off as disingenuous at best. I think voters will turn out if we give them a reason to. I think Democrats know that too and that’s why they fight harder to stop progressives from gaining influence than they do to curb the existing influence of the rich.
It sounds like they are against the current administration. These are all of the things that were negative impacted by them.
Ok but this is the problem I think occupy wall street had. They were protesting the right people, getting attention, but consistently the messaging was vaguely gestures the system, Wall Street, bankers. We can speculate why that messaging wasn’t clear or didn’t get out, but we have an opportunity right now to correct that mistake.
So what do you suggest the correct message should be for 50501?
Income inequality in whatever the most palatable form is for the target audience who needs to hear it. That’s it. But I’m clearly not convincing you here - I’m just some rando idiot who sees a problem. I would gladly have an adult in the room give a better answer. In lieu of that, this is the best I’ve got for you. I’d love to have a space to discuss these things, I think actionable items like this are missing from current discourse here. Maybe it’s the format idk
Don’t worry, they’ll be on the chopping block. But the good thing is the group is everywhere. They are on Substack, as well as here on this app. But they are a very small group, and they are aware that they’ll be next so they posted on Reddit to everyone that they exist on Lemmy which is how I got introduced to this app.
they are probably flagged, on thin ice. but conservative probably wont even touch the sub, because the cons will just flood other subs and cry about it.
Suppressed_News is still around.
They have really unleashed the hounds recently it seems. I wonder how long before they start banning NSFW content.
They floated the idea of charging for access to certain subs a while back. They’re gonna paywall the porn.
Dude! How the FUCK aren’t you triggered by 19 unanswered messages? I would have flipped my shit after 2!
Its message requests that I just ignore
Can you just mark them as read then? I can’t just be here living my life while random people on the internet have unread messages /s
Every subreddit that is banned needs to be recreated on Lemmy out of principle. Unless it’s gonna get our guy sued.
I for sure don’t want another /The_Donald.
Idk c/conservative is pretty cool
I mean they can make it… don’t think anyone would federate with them, though.
Cries in all my favorite niche subs being ghost towns here… but it’s ok, general subs got it going on alright :-)
Blame Murica!
Time’s have changed And Trump is getting worse He won’t obey the judges He just wants to shart and curse
Should we blame the immigrants? Or blame society? Or should we blame the Billionaires like Thiel?
No! blame Murica, blame Murica With all their MAGA conspiracies And flippin’hats made overseas
Blame Murica, blame Murica We need to form a full boycott It’s Murica’s fault.
Lemmy is what reddit used to be.
It is afraid
People saw this coming from miles away since the rumors came out of reddit going for an IPO.
Question is why people keep getting outraged?
We were pissed then and we’re pissed now. The only difference is there’s a real alternative. Lemmy is a lot more polished these days.
It’s okay to be outraged by outrageous things even if they are obvious.
people are getting banned sitewide left and right for very little reason, or even if its a semi-legit reason they went after all my accounts(one temp ban was enough to trigger a sitewide ban on all my other accts that are completely seperate from each other), and i wasnt a serial ban evader like the people who have hundreds of accounts. im guessing thats why they are comming here.
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It’s a real shame. There is a treasure trove of information on there for niche topics, and years of researching problems and questions etc. It really sucks that it’s gotten to this point.
Since ~2014 I would search reddit before google for information. I’m sure as traffic picks up here it will become a better source.
I’ve only been here a couple weeks myself and the amount of new users has skyrocketed in the last week from what ive seen.
I do miss some of the niche subs over there , some of them are here too but not nearly as much engagement…yet
Fuck reddit
We gotta archive everything
the niche subs are going to suffer, im guessing they can still go to other forums. medical and military (joining) sitll have very established forums out there. not so much for other subs.
I got myself permabanned for saying even sharks don’t like Russians on a story about a shark attack. On that website since 2008, guess it was a good push in the right direction, it’s been getting shittier.
You must have missed the memo. Russia is fighting against sinful wokeness . Therfor you are in the wrong.
Time to leave reddit altogether
Reddit may actually be doing a lot of people a big favor.
Today Trump’s DHS went out and arrested a Palestinian student at Columbia for participating at a protest a year prior. Our federal agents are becoming like the KGB- hunting down political dissidents.
I believe that is just a start. I think people would be wise to be careful about the things they post online. If you do post content you believe the administration may not like, I suggest making an anonymous account with an email not linked to your personal name.
I have a hunch that people will be arrested in the near future for posting things online.
That may be true. Still, don’t let them make you afraid. That’s the goal. They can’t arrest all of us.
For posterity, fuck you Donald Trump and fuck you Elon Musk. Send the goons after me and prove you have thinner skin than an apple.
No, they’ll just arrest the most capable of organising, the people that fit their narrative, and so on.
They can’t arrest all of us should be rehashed to, they can’t unmask all of us.
Absolutely.
Be careful what I post? Fuck that shit, rock the fucking boat and cause a mess. The US right now is a fucking disgusting place and we need to not be obeying in fucking advance and bowing down
They project strength, because they’re weak, they fear the strength of the masses, so they convince the individual they are disconnected and weak.
Yes.
On Tyranny lesson 1 "Don’t obey in advance’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-democracy.html
Already happened bud, already happened.
My account there is 19 years old and I’m starting to spend more time on Lemmy than I am Reddit.
My forum timeline’s been webcomic/livejournal forums > ytmnd & digg > reddit > lemmy
(Social media’s been Chat clients > MySpace > FB > Instagram > BeReal & Pixelfed)
You already did, didn’t you?
Good. Welcome to the new home. It feels like Reddit 2009.
I came here with the API changes, but I knew there would be future waves. It’s so nice. I believe in Lemmy and the promise of federated media to help technology work for humans.
Lemmy has been my #1 discovery of 2025
Same. And I have reddit and their nonsense ban hammer to thank for it.
Me too.
Somehow the complexity of using Lemmy compared to other social media sites and the decentralized nature of it has really gotten rid of the trollfarms and bot spam to a pretty good extent. I realize now that Reddit has such an insane amount of bad-faith actors that cause the site to be so toxic, same with all other mainstream social media.
We definitely have our own bots and spam problems. Instance admins work diligently to keep the situation under control, and so far, they’ve been pretty successful. I’ve seen a few waves of it in my almost 2 years here.
I don’t think there’s a way to make the problem go away completely, but I think this model has proven more resilient so far. I believe in it.
I saw someone in a reddit thread about Lemmy earlier complaining that it wasn’t “user friendly” enough because someone posted an infograph on how the Fediverse works. Even though all the infograph was explaining was that you log into one instance and can freely interact with the rest from there…
I’ve always thought the internet should be more decentralized and being able to log in without seeing tons of bots, reposts and propaganda is literally the best aspect of Lemmy for me. This feels like what social media was meant to be. I wish there was an easier way to get people to understand that.
Getting banned by reddit for posting rather innocuous comment is probably a good thing. Its UI is garbage anyway.
