That's a great point. Even if it's used as a verb, it could mean throwing a banana peel behind you while driving.

Nintendo doesn’t want to raise the specter of association with Luigi Mangione. Heck, I bet they'd advocate for this, and would rename Mario's brother if they could.

>Be user

>Use website's features as designed

>Banned

Even better just don’t go on Reddit.

We have that here, it's called "crazy admins" but has a cure called distro instance hopping.

Upvote and get banned and leave.

Meh, I'm not so sure. We need to get used to the fact that reddit's fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023. That was a one-off thing that drove out all the OG users. The people left on reddit are the types that refer to it as an "app" and probably don't even know old.reddit exists. Those kinds of people will grumble but they aren't going anywhere. And frankly, that's fine by me.

Edit: lmao okay, okay, Lemmy got 6 new users today. I get it. My point that we're never going to see another user influx on the scale of the summer 2023 API changes has been proven wrong. Congrats everyone. Let's hope half of them actually stick around.

I just joined Lemmy after lurking on the Fediverse subreddit for the past few weeks. I'm always open to joining new platforms, and I'm a quick learner. I don't think my wife is willing to leave Reddit for Lemmy though... But I do suspect we'll see some more people joining after this and possibly after they start locking content behind a paywall too.

I'm glad I found this, Canadian owned!

reddit is this: and I don't think enough Canadians know.

this is 2014. 50million raised. led by Sam Altman

https://blog.samaltman.com/trump 2016.

"Trump is right about some big things." "Trump is right about the problem" "I take some risk by writing this" "this is not an ordinary election"

in a way reddit helped facilitate and validate Donald Trump as a mainstream candidate helping him gain popularity and credibility with /r/the_donald

Marc Andressan - "Marc Andreessen says half of his time goes to helping Trump at Mar-a-Lago" 2024

Snoop Dogg - “I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.” 2024

Donald Trump Was Peter Thiel’s Most Successful Investment. “Thiel is one of the conservative mega donors that has the ability to shore up candidates that might need additional support. His spending is targeted, and his ability to spend millions can be impactful,” Reddit was targeted, to be impactful.

Ron Conway - says "Crypto Economy" Is the Next Multitrillion Dollar Opportunity - 2021

yesterday, - "President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile"

Jared Leto - “We want to see your America in all its imperfect glory.”

now reddit is valued at $6 billion, off the data & memes of unsuspecting Canadians supporting their own threat to their sovereignty.

Took me a min to figure out this place but yeah been a long time redditor. I got an email warning me I upvoted something they didn't like so I joined up here.

That’s why I’m here at least.

all you need to do is criticize musk and trump.

Fr

reddit is just following facebook and YOUTUBES lead. reddit is just basically a reposting site for X and truth social.

Not really, the community mod gets to say yes or no to the post. As long as Luigi Mangione coverage doesn't incite violence, it too can be greenlit.

That moment when I'd be behind a Nintendo suit lol

Started a much longer time ago in my opinion. I'd say around the time they threatened to ban the kratom sub and did ban the ketamine & steroids one

Reddit was much cooler 15 years ago. You could find anything on there

It's in free fall now.

the app is so ugly and cumbersome, i use the browser but reddit purposely slows the browser down, use a ton of memor and heats up yuor phone.

Reddit is a group of internet users with the vision of free speech, but directed by shareholder and policy makers.

So glad I ditched Reddit.

he does look like an alien? what does have to be scared about, he can just ressurect from a pod.

so many users continue to shill for such decisions

I think that something that a lot of people need to be reminded of here, especially ex Reddit moderators, is that the users have NEVER particularly been fans of the moderators. In fact the moderators on Reddit helped the admins bring Reddit to the point where it is now in the first place. Setting up automoderator to catch buzzwords out of context and make people's comments disappear without notice or a trace is just as fucking dodgy as the admins flagging the word "Luigi".

So no, it's not a surprise that moderators getting into trouble for not falling in line with the admins doesn't cause a mass exodus. Because most people don't give a fuck about the moderators and would be glad to see them gone. With the way they have been abusing automoderator over the years, it wouldn't make much of a difference if they were replaced by an automated system anyway.

So if you want people to come to Lemmy, stop acting like they give a shit about the moderator that treats them like dirt. Because that'll probably have the opposite effect. I know that it did on me when all the mods were crying about the API and their modding tools. Start offering more reasons for why USERS should come here.

AFTER censoring luigi related news, and promoting trump, is a death knell, and reddit thought it was clever to "ban" a bunch of subs after musk complained about whitepeople twitter, they only backed off when the mods said they wernt inactive.

The worst thing about the API changes wasn’t even that most people didn’t care or weren’t on board. It was that they were actively against the people protesting. In real life when this happens I always give some leeway because everyone has their own problems and they might be a bit annoyed by the protest action (which is part of the protest). But on Reddit?? People lost their fucking minds because they couldn’t have access to some subreddits for like 24h.

Sooooo many people failed to realize that even if you didn’t use third party apps that it would still affect you even if indirectly. They didn’t even have to do anything other than literally do nothing/something other that browsing reddit for a day. And they couldn’t. They vilified and downvoted the protesters and took the side of the billionaire trying to take advantage of everyone ruining Reddit in the process

That fiasco in pretty meaningless in todays world events, but fuck, I still find it a great insight into how much we can suck as a species

I modded about 30 sub's, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum. Apparently I was the "landed gentry". Haven't been back in almost 2 years now. Fuck spez.

this massive purge last month, is definitely revealing how dead reddit is without people using multiple accounts to comment in, wether to evade or to troll or to even use the site normally. for example after they had a big purge in december, we noticed how little activity there was in political subs , like there was very little engagement. after it the trolls came back everything went back to being "trump did this or that". making more than 1 accounts just risks you can ban, because thier filters are too stupid to discern if yuor ban evading or not.

They really expanded their banning too. My ten year old account got banned for telling a guy that was defending the third Nazi salute to "go to hell". Was banned and then had the appeal just confirm the ban.

New account basically uses your Internet footprint to ban any accounts you make. I could get around it but it just is not fucking worth it at that point.

If they want to keep Nazis on their platform and ban the people that tell them to go to hell Reddit will be like 4chan quickly.

Hell, I feel every website is becoming 4chan these days. Twitter and Facebook are cesspools. Fuck reddit.

its not the servers or the domain name that makes reddit valuable, its us the people. we are what bring value to their platform. may freedom of speech live on ✊

No for-real, just came from Reddit as well, and so far this app is pretty amazing.

Lemmy finally becomes active, reddit migration imminent

fr. I just wish there were more communities that were popular other than piracy. I guess the site just needs more users for that to happen.

Thanks! I think I will.

funny thing everytime the police and the courts try to make him look bad in the pics, hes just too photogenic.

An establishment threatening event that definitely never happened? Absolutely.

/s, viva green Mario!

great reference that actually might be what ends up happening here

I would. But first I have to figure out the controls

There are lurkers but many of the active commenters are frankly just more active in voting and commenting. Lemmy has much more engagement than Reddit for commenters because it's a small community and the way comments are default sorted. You don't need to make a comment early to end up on the top of the thread. You just need to get about two up votes and it'll put you at the top. If what you said is worthwhile then you'll get a lot more after that

Edit: one of the benefits of this is it encourages high quality late comments. On Reddit those would largely get ignored, but here engagement like that is encouraged.

quick, spin up some onlyfans bots

Aww but I like lurking

Probably because posting doesn't work often, or I'd be posting more than once weekly

Happy Anniversary

but not according to thier context though, which they means thier racist, bigoted comments are getting deleted, rightfully so.

im on another site where people use evasion methods to use mutltiple accounts, said upvotes are monitored by reddit and removed/ban the user quickly in some case like if you have multiple accts before doing the same thing and not commenting or whatever before. i think they just increased thier filtering of upvotes, its so sensitive that new accts wether your a real user or someone using of/advertising, that if you upvote too many times anyways, not just violence, it can get you shadowbanned.

Reminded me of this

Fuck Reddit. Censoring pieces of fascist conformist shit.

i highly object to the idea that you're shipping waluigi with anyone but luigi (the otp)

Reddit and Lemmy (almost typed Reddy and Lemmit!) are their own versions of awful. Me and the mods over at the politics community have beef because they're QUICK to squash posts from us calling people out for being shitty anybody-but-Harris 'lefties' and abject alt-right trolls, but they leave that shit up WAY too long despite it being clearly against the rules. But at least I can call 'em out on their bullshit. Reddit, they'll ban you then ghost you. That's the world over there. Pick your poison.

Exactly this! I am so glad I got introduced to lemme, which funny enough was recommended through Reddit. I am curious to how the mods are responding. “Hey you guys go to Lemmy which is an alternative to Reddit and way better.”

from what ive heard commenting as a new USER is very hard to do now, it only takes your comments to be removed(depending on the way you are commenting), or getting reported by an oversensitive user or a filter to get you banned. i had to literally self-censor some words so i wouldnt get reported.

yep, I knew going public would make reddit worse but it just has really been going down the shitter the last few years

or talk about LUGIA.

the game was actually called "Mario is Missing!"

The beautiful thing about the fediverse is that you can be the change you want to see in the world

Everything that matters - the people and the communities - still exist. Spez was never the best of us, it’s the people that make that platform great (or completely insufferable like r/TheDonald and r/conservative). If they’re going to let everyone shit in that sandbox, we’ll all find somewhere else to hang, at least until the world burns.

Crazy times we live in. Wolfenstein would have been banned.

political and news addiction, not possible. the only way is if they get banned, or shadowbanned site wide. i find my self sometimes endlessly scrolling for it, then it got annoying because my comments were getting misconstrued and deleted. i started filtering multiple subs over this.

the filters took it literally, i assume you meant figuratively. I was banned in some of my accts for similar misconstrued statements.

was banned early last month, because r/technology was filled with trump news and i was reporting obvious misinformation, the site said you cant report other people like that, and i was banned. depending on the sub, there is a very vague way of reporting people.