• NOT_RICK_SANCHEZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      39·
      23 days ago

      Reddit has become very strange.

      Shadowbanning sucks when your on the other side of it.

      Forever mods that have hundreds of default subreddits act like dictators. Banning people from all their collections of subreddits without anyone knowing.

      Removing the ability for users to see actual number of votes up/down.

      And now with the whole “don’t upvotes certain content or you will get a strike”. Never mind that isn’t how the site works at all.

      They haven’t come out with a feature that people have wanted in the last couple of years.

      • GreatDong3000@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        23 days ago

        Getting rid of coins/rewards just to empty everyone’s stock and then bringing them back again without 1:1 compensation and forgetting everyone who gave their coins away before they would vanish

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      18·
      23 days ago

      Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      I’ll still check sometimes on Reddit when I’m at my desk if I feel like it and I’ve got time, so like barely anymore.

      When 3rd party apps died I moved here.

      After them saying that if you upvote enough banned content you’ll get banned, I’m just waiting to catch ban over there.

      • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        22 days ago

        i still lurk a lot. i have a rule against posting there though… which admittedly i did break recently, but only to plug lemmy. otherwise no posts/comments there in two years

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          22 days ago

          I think since coming over here I’ve done like 2 dozen comments and a handful of posts (on Reddit), but considering I used to post and comment as much as I do here but over there I’d say that’s a lot of progress.

          I’ve done over 3k comments and over 3 hundred posts here since joining in June of 2023.

          • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
            5·
            22 days ago

            Thank you for your service 🫡

            I’m the same as the other guy, my rule is that I only post/comment about Lemmy when I use my reddit acount.

            I used to only comment a few times per month when I used reddit but as soon as I started using Lemmy I started making hundreds of comments per month. Especially in the first few months, I got to 1k comments super fast. Since then I’ve slowed down a bit but still way more active than I was on reddit. This is my alt account btw.

            It’s so much more rewarding to participate on Lemmy for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because it feels like people actually care enough to read my comments and respond. On reddit it often seemed like shouting into the void. Plus, it’s a great feeling to be a part of something that’s community based and not just soulless corporate slop. Every time I check reddit, it feels so miserable and I wonder how I ever tolerated that site for so long.

            • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              22 days ago

              It feels more human over here (if that makes sense lol)

              And yeah after my initial break from Reddit it definitely feels more insufferable over there.

              This is also one of my alts, I’ve a few but none are used as much as this one by a long shot.

      • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        23 days ago

        Use Reddit Enhancement Suite. You’ll thank me later.

        makes red it much more usable and easy on the eyes.

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          I used it for awhile (I’ve been on Reddit for about 13 years)

          Honestly though pulling more away from social media is good for my mental health. And making the experience more abrasive so it’s less of a passive thing is good.

  • Zenodyne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    23 days ago

    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

    • AloneYogurt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      23 days ago

      The more people that transition over here the better it’ll be (outside of some of some subs). I’m hopeful to see more community engagement.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        the more and more reddit increasing thier filters to ban or remove comments we will see more. it going to take permabans for people to come here in large numbers. sooner or later reddit is just a clone of FACEBOOK.

  • Justnotoverthink@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    521·
    22 days ago

    A lot of folks here are talking about Reddit being shitty but I switched because I’m in Europe and I don’t want to enrich especially US Companies off of my personal data.

    • Darkmoon_UK@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      Same here: Deleted my 13y Reddit account along with every other US tech account except Google, as I need that for my livelihood.

      Censorship wasn’t the motivation, I rather want to permanently remove my support for the US economy in any way possible, given the shocking geopolitical events of this year and the way they are treating Ukraine.

      Besides, the Federverse feels like going back to the internet’s roots and I’m here for it!

  • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    22 days ago

    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.

    • Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      31·
      22 days ago

      This was me during the APIcalypse. Since joining Lemmy, I have:

      • Realized I’m trans
      • Procured a Steam Deck
      • Started pirating again
      • Been on HRT for over a year and counting
      • Developed a chronic dependency on Yuri manga
      • Lost 50-60 lbs

      I hope you have a good time here as well!

      • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        22 days ago

        Sounds like some very positive changes in your life. Glad to hear that you’ve been improving yourself.

        My wife and I recently had to make a difficult but necessary change in our own lives, fleeing from the US to live in France while we wait to see what shakes out of the chaotic situation there over the course of the next year. Been starting in on the language learning, but it’s been slow going.

          • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            22 days ago

            It was not as big a deal as you might think. In order to get a visa that we can renew each year, we basically had to prove these things:

            -We have valid passports and identities -We are not going to take a French person’s job -We have health insurance (so that we don’t end up stiffing the French healthcare system) -We won’t be homeless on arrival in France -We have enough savings to support ourselves for the time of our Visa’s validity (because we’re not allowed to work for a French based company while we’re here, see second point)

            I’ve been saving 50+% of my gross pay for the whole time I was working, and my wife is doing the same, so we had plenty of money available to buy plane tickets, pay lawyers to advise us, buy health insurance, and get help with the application process. Honestly, the lawyers were not needed and we’re very expensive I would not use lawyer again. I used them because we needed to get out fast and I wanted to make sure that the first application would be successful. The instructions on the website for the French government were clear and straightforward and we could have done the application ourselves without major difficulty. There were even versions of the application forms available in English with checklists of documents to bring.

            My wife is not French, but my mother, my stepfather, and my three step-siblings are. Unfortunately my mother naturalized here after I could have gotten French citizenship through her (I was 23 when she became a French citizen).

      • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        22 days ago

        If you’re not daily driving Arch, btw, did you even join Lemmy?

        I know you’re not daily driving Arch because you didn’t mention it.

        (Jokes, obvs. Congrats on the self-discovery!)

    • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      22 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.

      • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.alEnglish
        5·
        22 days ago

        Yep and when you’re perma banned you’re fucked. They don’t look at the reasons, they don’t engage with people… it’s ridiculous

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        i heard about that situation, some people were getting temp banned, and then when the ban was lifted, they were permabanned. I think some mods mentioned reddit, or the sub does not reset thier filters once the bans was lifted so the filters automatically assume you are EVADING A ban.

        • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          22 days ago

          The message about my perma-ban was actually 11 hours older than the message about my temp-ban being lifted, so they perma-banned me and then un-temp-banned me, which is… kinda fucky.

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            22 days ago

            thier filters are so haphazardly banning people, not even verify a violation, thats what im seeing. i just deleted all my perma-banned accts, its pretty hard to repeal once they give a permaban that doesnt state where and what the violation was.

            • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              22 days ago

              What’s hilarious is that my perma-ban got lifted on appeal, I can post and shit now, but the message they sent me said it was denied and would stay in place. They are so goddamnned confused over there.

      • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        22 days ago

        Thanks, glad to be here. This place seems way more welcoming than I remember reddit ever being. But I was a little late to the party on Reddit, I joined in 2016.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          21 days ago

          Reddit turned toxic AF, enough for me to decide to leave it regardless of whether I came here or not.

          Here, people are sometimes kind. Not always, but not never either.

          You still have to unplug every so often bc social media in general is addictive, but this place is so great while Reddit is so trash, there’s barely any comparison.:-)

      • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        22 days ago

        For sure. There can also be a problem of too little moderation, though. There is a balance to be struck between censorship of opposing views and getting rid of off-topic spam.

        For instance, there were a few regional subreddits that were obviously intended to be for thing like “Which restaurants are worth a 30 minute drive to go to” and “Come to my band’s concert at the waterfront this weekend”, but had turned into basically nothing but off-topic spam wars about national level political topics.

        The mods refused to do anything about it, so I just left because 90+% of the content was stuff I didn’t come to that subreddit to read. Keep that shit on r/politics.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        Uh…

        (unfortunately, that’s just human nature, but there are a variety of ways in which things can become better here - e.g. the ability to create a new community on another instance, and then certain apps and PieFed, though not Lemmy yet, offers the ability to combine all of those communities into a single Topic, called a “Feed”, see recent post about this)

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        19·
        23 days ago

        The entire fedi is going up with new users. We keep having wins.

        Kinda easy when traditional keeps hitting itself over and over.

        • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          23 days ago

          I suspect the fediverse is stickier than mainstream social media, since there’s no incentive to be anti-consumer, and anyone can make their own frontend.

          It’s only a matter of time until these companies keep making unforced errors and people join us.

    • RoamingWanderer@mander.xyzEnglish
      10·
      22 days ago

      Same. My boost app finally stopped working so I had to switch over. Seems basically the same here just less comments

    • cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      73·
      22 days ago

      Welcome! We’ve got memes on deck at [email protected] and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got [email protected] to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at [email protected] or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful [email protected] or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like [email protected] and [email protected] . [email protected] is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.

      We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian “communists” who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the “gold standard”), but here they’re mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check [email protected]

        • OpheliaAzure@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11·
          22 days ago

          calling an instance with a large amount of trans people an “insane asylum” is such a telling thing. Go back to reddit you abelist transphobe

          • 5redie8@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            21 days ago

            Yeah because there’s absolutely no other reason that place would give off that impression, nosiree

            • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              21 days ago

              It’s strange that we can’t judge people based off of their words, we have to somehow know their gender ideology through some miracle of long distance mind reading instead of just analyzing the content itself, regardless of anything else. Seems like people have lost the plot these days.

          • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            22 days ago

            I’ve been in an insane asylum before, we didn’t have gender identity as part of the program there… everyone was shacked up together regardless of gender or identity, no doors allowed on any rooms or showers or anything. No contact with the outside world, no internet, no TV, no movies, no music, no books, nothing allowed. I was just noticing similar behavior to all of us at the asylum, that is all, it had nothing to do with gender or trans people whatsoever as we never talked about any of that in the asylum either. But okay, friend, I hope you have a great day.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        22 days ago

        Let’s just leave it 😅 I’m happy pretending Boost doesn’t work so that I have no reason to go back to Reddit.

  • maplebar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    22 days ago

    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.

  • mimavox@lemm.eeEnglish
    261·
    22 days ago

    Reddit’s auto moderation has gone haywire. You can’t say anything bad about nazis now.

    • cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      53·
      22 days ago

      Welcome! We’ve got memes on deck at [email protected] and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got [email protected] to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at [email protected] or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful [email protected] or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like [email protected] and [email protected] . [email protected] is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.

      We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian “communists” who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the “gold standard”), but here they’re mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check [email protected]

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      22 days ago

      got permaban on 5+accts because reddit did what similar pornhub did, sanatize the site and only corporate content was left. it was getting increasingly hard to comment as anything other than right wing comments.

      • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
        44·
        22 days ago

        That’s what I think happened to me, seems weird that so many of us are getting banned at the same time. It’s different for me though, I get banned or downvoted to oblivion if I express any right wing ideas. It’s 98% leftist there now it seems. Wouldn’t surprise me if they ban r/conservative entirely this year.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          21 days ago

          FYI Lemmy is more like 99.98% leftist. There are next to no conservatives here at all, and centrists as usual mostly seem more quiet than extremists, leading to a more apparent leftwing swing.

          • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            21 days ago

            That’s unfortunate, hopefully more instances with more centrist views pop up eventually, I might have to make the first of many. The irony is that the extreme lefties online think that centrists are extreme-right-wing somehow. Boggles the mind.

            • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              21 days ago

              That would be great! Avoidance of not just leftists but extremists of any persuasion is the chief reason cited by so very many people for refusing to come over to Lemmy. Which by turning away content creators, leaves Lemmy stagnanting.

              Nobody wants this place to turn into a safe haven for the Alt-Right, yet for some reason so many people do not bat an eye at what I’ve started calling the Alt-Left here.

              It really would be great though to be able to check in on politics as needed, but then for one brief period even if only for ten damn minutes be able to turn all of that OFF!:-) Which I can on PieFed, but I see so many people on Lemmy begging for that, not knowing how to accomplish that (bc on Lemmy, you can’t, and even on PieFed - well… look at this very post here, no separator is ever going to be perfect:-).

              Tbf, from the perspective of someone who is THAT far left, I’m sure it does sorta all blend in to look the same:-). Even so, that is no excuse to remain in willfull ignorance. I don’t have to agree with any particular position to understand it, nor to respect either it or the people who believe in it (especially if their set of facts differ from mine - not everyone has the luxury of sorting all of that out, at any age and social status and time period in their personal life).

              I’ve flat given up posting content such as Fareed Zakaria, and barely bother to post highly leftist but somehow still not leftist enough content such as Innuendo Studios’ The Alt Right Playbook.

              • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                21 days ago

                Seems like a safe haven for the extreme leftists who trespassed, vandalized, and stole various things off my neighbor’s yards this last election season. The left are 100% fully unhinged now and will commit assault, and many other crimes simultaneously like a child throwing a temper tantrum, except they are more dangerous than a child. It’s unfortunate to witness in my own community. But this is where the leftist extremists tend to huddle together it seems.

        • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.alEnglish
          32·
          22 days ago

          Yep I’m concerned they’ll do that too. They’ll find some posters in r/conservative that are inappropriate and use that as an excuse to ban. The sad thing is conservative is overall really open to other ideas and open discussion! Say anything not left on reddit and you get torn apart which is horrible.

          • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            22 days ago

            Would just be nice to be able to have open dialogue instead of all this tribalism and rage and arson and violence and assault and whatnot. Seems like a fair ask but everyone has lost their minds lately it seems.

            • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
              1·
              22 days ago

              Right wingers are being taught to believe all pushback against the beliefs fed to them are illegitimate and personal attacks, it’s cult like behavior to make it harder for them to learn and change.

            • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.alEnglish
              22·
              22 days ago

              I know I can’t fathom it. It honestly frightens me. The lefts behaviour is a big reason I swung right, tolerance and acceptance of difference is important to me and a chunk of left just aren’t like that anymore. If r/conservative were openly behaving like many left wingers on reddit they’d rightly be condemned. It’s so wrong

              • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
                1·
                22 days ago

                Insanity. You’re telling yourself that the groups which prides itself on hate are more receptive to you than groups which promotes cooperation and understanding? Maybe ask a psychiatrist what that says about you. You’re supposed to be tolerant to people who act in good faith, but nobody must be tolerant to hate.

                The right is full of infighting too, but it’s about who is the most devoted to the dear leader. Challenge their arguments openly and you’ll see them act far worse than any leftist you’ve ever seen.

              • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                22 days ago

                Sure, conservatives are allowed to criticize their godhead - that gives the appearance of a free speech zone. But they sure are the only ones that can without being banned, and it doesn’t matter if they do because they will never not vote for the traitor.

          • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            22 days ago

            Reddit admins are insanely biased towards right wingers. They talk about the same free speech bullshit while only allowing one side to speak freely.

            They tolerated brigades organized by them for years despite brigades being prohibited, they allowed T_D to absolutely dominate the front page by vote manipulation until a huge majority of the site got too outraged (that’s when the 2 post cap/day per sub was set, along with ignoring votes on pinned posts). T_D screamed and screamed and screamed about being censored when that happened (nothing was even removed), and everybody else was happy reddit FINALLY AFTER YEARS did something, anything, to make the site a bit more usable again. Tons of left leaning subs were banned long before they ever touched any far right extremism.

            The left wing bias you might have seen comes from moderators who actually have expertise on their subjects (like science subreddits), not from the admins

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          there was a massive uptick of shadowbanns, and permabans around the week of feb 12, i think reddit is purging as much as they can right now. reddit, huffman wants to sell off the site asap.

            • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              22 days ago

              Yes I ended up on a forum funny enough they all cooberated with their own experiences,. The thing is some of the bans don’t make sense at all. I attempted to appeal at least 3 accounts that received the vague site wide ban message, all denied. I think they only will consider the original banned account that triggered all the other ones. Before you could just use a new or different account and avoiding the banned sub, but they decided to ban it anyways