While Reddit is pulling a Digg, Lemmy is pulling a Reddit.
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Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
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#52Whoaaaa, myself got permanent suspension on multiple reddit accounts few hours ago. Not related to this topic though. What's happening in reddit?!
Three obvious bot accounts followed an account I don't even use anymore all at once, something fucky is happening.
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#53The funny thing is that the reaction of these platforms when someone advocates for communications elsewhere is to ban those people rather than try to improve their system so that people don't want to leave (reddit is hardly the only platform to act this way). Personally, I'd rather try to build something so excellent that if someone proposes an alternative, most people wouldn't want to leave because I am meeting their needs so well. If the platform is so sclerotic that it can't be meaningfully improved and people are clamoring to leave, there is little they can do prevent an inevitable mass exodus anyway.
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#54IMO the FTC and courts (supreme?) should be stepping in here, and more generally, stating that communications platforms must not censor freedom of speech, nor censor in an anticompettive way. If I want to talk about Hondas on Twitter, Elon should be barred from censoring that. If I want to talk about Bitchute on Youtube, Alphabet must allow that. If I want to use my macbook pro to write windows software, Apple must n…
Free speech is only protected from government censorship, not private party censorship.
Further, communications platforms are not public forums in the legal sense.
Unless, of course, you're advocating for the government to nationalize Twitter et al. That's a whole 'nother conversation.
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#56Does Lemmy allows the same behaviour of moderators if they want to be such? I am searching a Reddit alternative with no ability to delete anything. The only acceptible for me censoureship is having a special forum branch with spam, trolls, nsfw and any other unwanting behaviour with no rights to write anywhere else for those who get banhammered.
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#57Does Lemmy allows the same behaviour of moderators if they want to be such? I am searching a Reddit alternative with no ability to delete anything. The only acceptible for me censoureship is having a special forum branch with spam, trolls, nsfw and any other unwanting behaviour with no rights to write anywhere else for those who get banhammered.
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#58I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…
do a lot of people even want more social media and internet communities? i wasted an embarrassing amount of time on reddit in hind sight. this all reminds me of when i finally burnt out on wow. i quit, sold my account (at the end of wotlk, i think wow declined after that too?) and didn't play video games for years after. personally i feel the same way about reddit, do i really want this all again in my life? idk, im not searching for an alternative though.
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#59This has been fun to watch. Reddits been working to deteriorate its quality for a long time. The major disappointment is that they aren't a publicly traded company so there is no way to make money on their downfall.
I thought the whole idea of locking down the API, heavily promoting reddit awards + avatars and pushing of the official app is done to have growth and a better valuation when they go public?
You can have/ believe anything you like. If you think those things increase their value, and want them to go public, I want them to go public too. I just don't agree/ have the same thesis about their value and where it is derived that you do.
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#60Does Lemmy allows the same behaviour of moderators if they want to be such? I am searching a Reddit alternative with no ability to delete anything. The only acceptible for me censoureship is having a special forum branch with spam, trolls, nsfw and any other unwanting behaviour with no rights to write anywhere else for those who get banhammered.
If you don't want to post porn, Gab allows all legal speech otherwise. > We strive to ensure that the First Amendment remains the Website’s standard for content moderation. We will make best efforts to ensure that all content moderation decisions and enforcement of these terms of service does not punish users for exercising their God-given right to speak freely. > As a general rule, written expression that is protect…
Since Elon is turning Twitter into Gab does Gab have any reason to exist?