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A memorial for the front page of the internet. If you have left reddit or is considering leaving then this community is for you.

There’s also a blog documenting the rise and fall of reddit as well as news and thoughts on the whole issue.

It serves as an archive for posts and topics in case reddit decides to delete anti-reddit posts within its platform.

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Well, I assume a lot more people are gonna be showing up any minute now. (retrolemmy.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Syun@retrolemmy.com to c/byereddit@lemmy.world

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I just got a ban for "encouraging violence". Someone asked "what will you do to celebrate when he dies?" Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they'd put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians' careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.

So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.

And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It'll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 80 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

I came here when all the API drama happened, and I didn't even use third party apps, I just decided that I didn't want to help make that greedy little pig boy any money. Even still, I'm actually shocked that they've cracked down this hard. It's hard to take serious, because it seems like they would destroy their userbase with this, but they're doing it.

[–] tbs9000@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I also came here when all the API drama happened. I also checked out Sqabblr, which had a different name at first. There wasn’t much here and I was confused by the fediverse. I went on Facebook and that was a hot mess of garbage.

I went back to Reddit recently and it’s noticeably worse - probably a combination of chasing away great mods and our world just being what it is makes for people being awful at each other rather than at problems.

I’ve just come back here this weekend and there seems to be more resources to help me understand the nature of the fediverse. Ideally I won’t be back to Reddit.

Sorry to ramble, hope you have a great week!

[–] SaraTonin@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Squabblr’s the one where the owner wuickly outed himself as a right-wing transphobe and caused a mass-exodus of early adopters, wasn’t it?

[–] tbs9000@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If that happened I missed it. There was never much traffic so I rarely checked it. The participants never came off as intolerant.

[–] SaraTonin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the vibe was definitely left-wing before, and it was a shock to many of the more prominent members. You started getting the appearance of subs which were “this is to discuss how Jews control all the money globally” and prominent members who avoided saying anything completely explicit on the site, but whose twitter accounts would reveal them to be prominent members of swastika-using Nazi groups.

The owner declared himself to be “a free speech absolutist” and that he wanted to promote conflict on the site and a lot of people, myself included, just went “yeah, I see where this is going” and left.

[–] tbs9000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s crazy. I haven’t been able to log in recently but it sounds like I’m still not missing anything worth experiencing.

[–] SaraTonin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I’ve no idea if they’ve changed course again. I went there out of curiosity after this post but it’s all hidden behind a log in screen and i couldn’t be arsed to sign up or try to remember or find my credentials.

But since you don’t really want to hide your content if you’re small and trying to grow, I’m going to assume that it’s insular and doesn’t want people to stumble on its content.

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