Technology

Lemmy won’t.

At this point being banned might be a good thing to drive home the point that also my favorite of the old corporate internet platforms should be avoided. I'm doing quite okay on staying away from Meta and have long deleted my Twitter account. I can't get myself do drop Reddit somehow. Seems like they're only helping me get off my addiction

I register on reddit 17 years ago. Before the great migration from digg. I remember /r/programming being the first sub to reach 100k subscribers.

I got banned for saying in the /r/europe sub that russia banning youtube in russia was a good thing because then we in the west would get less russian propaganda. Got banned for a couple days. Left and never looked back.

/r/programming is dead already since around a decade. All the good discussions moved to hackernews and lobsters.

EDIT: never forget that spez admitted to silently edit user comments that criticized him

Reminds me of back in 2013 when Reddit admins accidentally revealed that Eglin Air Force Base, a location often cited as the source of government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs, was the most Reddit addicted city in the world.

Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?

So how do I go about finding some of these soon-to-be-banned posts? I want my old Reddit account to be part of the statistics 😁

Everybody upvote Luigi content! Get banned! Leave reddit! Reddit crumbles! Fuck reddit! Go Luigi! Lemmy grows! Centralized social media dies! I eat a burrito. That last one wasn't really on topic, but it's happening anyways! I'm hungry.

Haha aaaaand that’s how I got here

Citizen, you have been found guilty of wrong think!

can someone explain to me the difference between corporate and government censorship, when corporations and the government are definitely fucking?

Nah not for that. That's how I get banned from Lemmy instances. As cool as federation is without terms of service you can see it's more fragmented as people block instances and people. I doubt Lemmy NSFW would let me make my communites and really, I don't want to deal with it.

I don't want to deal with people being shitty about my tastes in fiction.

"Shithole website continues circling toilet."

Yeah I got signaled on reddit for saying something about Trump, Elon and Vance regarding to Ukraine. Nothing that hasn't been said, but I said they can fuck off and stop propping Russian imperialism and kidnapping children while commiting warcrimes. Guess Reddit is against that as they removed my comment and gave me a warning.

Basically declaring that they don't allow free speech.

"Hey, you have been liking things we disagree with and we need an echo chamber here, align with us or fuck off. Sincerely, the money hungry bitches of the internet! Also heil daddy musk!"

Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.

One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.

Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.

So let's not pretend that it's only big bad reddit doing this.

I love lemmy but it doesn't have my brands of smut. Reddit still does.

“reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote calls for a violent revolution against the billionaire class and the fascist neo feudalist militarized police state enforced wage slavery and rent till death economics they have created to benefit their endless growth driven profits while ignoring upvotes of content that praise violence against leftists, women and other marginalized leftist aligning groups and ideologies”

There, FTFY

Feels like how reddit was when I first used it 12 years ago. Bye bye reddit.

My link for this was deleted. Huh. I didn't see this earier.

Anyways I think this is a dangerous chilling effect and reddit has a terrible track record for not using this as intended, so I can only expect Reddit Admins to use this beyond warning, I expect bans and this used in warrants/NSLs quickly.

Stop using reddit, stop going to reddit. And bring everyone you can to Lemmy. I want to be able to cut out my city subreddits like /r/Denver like a clean shit.

Conform, citizen.

I'm workin on switching over. My third party work-around just croaked yesterday, so I'm here now. Where the party at?

Perma banned because I wished c-ncer on a pro-Israel troll. Is that an earned ban you guys think?

Well that's just straight up fucking bonkers.

I once got banned for "vote brigading" on Reddit because I upvoted a crosspost that was deleted later, so this comes as no surprise. They have been monitoring upvotes and downvotes since forever.

Fuck Trump and Musk. US should get invaded Iraq 2003 style.

Reddit; hear no evil, see no evil, upvote no evil