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Welcome! I came over during the api shutdown, I mained lemmy for a year, waffled back and forth the last few months. Reddit is such garbage, I dont even recognize it anymore. Its just those few niche subs that got me back but its not worth it.
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same here.
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This is what brought me to lemmy after getting threatened to be banned for up voting anti trump and musk post. Fuck trump, fuck musk and fuck spez. Fucking goofs.
This is what brought me to lemmy
Samsies. Reddit is bending the knee to big money
Yeah I refuse to support nazi supporters. Spez has done some dumb shit over the years but this was the final straw. I've only been here about a week but it already seems like a much better environment.
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Welcome! Lemmy is a breath of fresh air. 💕
Thanks, I've really been enjoying it. I was on redd it for about 12 years and it won't be missed.
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So Mr Free Speech just forced a 3rd party to restrict free speech like he does on his free speech platform. Fucking hypocrite.
AND here's proof /u/spez is a fucking pussy.
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Reddit, or at least the subs I frequented, is a cesspool of russian trolls and bots. I made the apparent mistake of calling a couple of trolls out in the r/Europe sub and asked why they weren't in Kursk, and pffft...permanent ban from all of reddit for "inciting violence". I think my blood pressure has improved since then, tbh.
That sounds like the_donald applied to the whole site.
I never actually visited that sub, but I heard it alluded to enough to loathe it...
It was legitimately funny, when it was still a joke. The memes were good. There was no way that idiot was going to be a serious contender. It was all in good fun.
At least until someone would say, "you know this is just a joke, right?" Any kind of self-awareness was banned within seconds. Now I don't know if you're familiar with volunteer moderators, but it's pretty rare that they catch that kind of volume 24 hours a day within seconds.
I fully believe there were state-level troll farms operated by a hostile foreign government moderating that subreddit.
... and now they're applying that to the entire site.
I know the UK sub took a hard right turn shortly before the election and it was almost an overnight change
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Imagine being literally the richest man on earth and using your influence to delete mean comments that people wrote about you on the internet.
It's not about money, it's about power and control.
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It's shameful. Reddit is a shell of its former self.
Banning 3rd party apps was the tipping point for me. Their official app is shit.
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I use to go around talking shit on reddit. Not trolling, just being completely blunt to stupid people. I found myself doing this more and more. It wasn't until they banned me that I realized... it's not me. The people on reddit are getting more and more dumb and annoying every day because reddit is going down. A lot of good people left with the API change and more are leaving now. Reddit is dead. Time for Lemmy.
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Musk is, in fact, a giant baby.
Yep got a temp 3 day ban on reddit just saying that let's hope the masked police don't mess up with someone who has conceal carry license.. that is all I said, then boom temp ban.
Reddit is compromised.
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Last time I signed up for Reddit it asked me to pick some of my top interests. One of the options was Elon Musk.
Not at all surprizing. Spez thinks he's an upcoming Elon-like genius and wants to surround himself with like-minded techbros, but he's actually a massive Musk bootlicker.
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Reddit is dead!
Has been for a long time.
Of course he did. Come on over people! Haven’t gone on Reddit since I got lemmy.
US Tech need to start relocating. I emailed Warp Shell creators advising I'd reluctantly cancelled my subscription to their actually excellent product; because funding the US economy had become 'morally incompatible with my workflow'. Hope others can do similar.
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Reddit is a publicaly traded company, and fElon has more money that countries. So, he could literally just buy Reddit and turn it into a propaganda machine. Glad I left. There are some UI stuff that I will miss (like having sub-reddits as a fast-access at the top of the page, or that replies to a posting on Reddit would be indented, or /r/place), but I'll survive here.
I have a bit of a pet peeve when people use petty terms like fElon or Elmo. It just seems a bit childish and communicates that you're only interested ad hominem.
But that was before I heard the moniker "Phony Stark". I think we should always use this to refer to Elon because I think it's hilarious.
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What I hate about Lemmy is the lack of content in semi-specific communities.
What I love about Lemmy is that there's so much less content overall. I run out of content and I log off. Reddit was a bottomless pit.
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One thing Musk knows how to do well is run and moderate a social media platform.
Oh wait. Stop. Reverse that.
Unfortunately for the rest of us he's running it perfectly well. Problem is it's not a social media platform, it's a nazi social media platform.
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This dude is the CEO of Tesla and is also the head of DOGE, busy cutting critical services for millions of Americans so more billionaires can get richer... He really has nothing better to do than to pressure other companies to restrict user content!?
Controlling what people say equals controlling what people think
Spez is a soft bitch
Guys if you haven’t already, I suggest doing what I did a few weeks ago and actually delete your Reddit account, not just stop using it. They need to see their registered account number plummet.
Plummet? Never gonna happen bro, every day there's thousands of bot accounts being registered on reddit.
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This is why we need more competitors and especially federated platforms like this
I’m glad I escaped the cracking glass dildo that reddit has become
People are prefacing their comments on reddit with "I'm not advocating violence" just to avoid getting banned. The climate there has shifted dramatically recently.
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