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Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by silisili »

DANmode wrote: post #97
rjh29 wrote: post #34

I 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…

> We just want reddit without the bullshit. Rhetorically: What are you willing to do for it? How are you willing to change? The way reddit was offered in its early days was a bait and switch. It wasn't real .

I mean, Voat was exactly that. The problem was they did nothing to moderate at all, so every sub was basically stormfront.

I'm ok with those people existing and even having their own lil sub, but not so much that if I'm just looking for news I get peppered with memes about jews being evil.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by bobsmooth »

willcipriano wrote: post #94
skyyler wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first post I got when I opened that link was from a user going by "Kitler" (based on the profile picture, it's a kitten version of Adolf Hitler) Kitler's post was culture war stuff about homosexuals. Clicking on his profile, I get taken to a bunch of racist and anti-semetic posts. Gab is for a certain kind of person .

You know how people in California claim that the homeless problem there is due to them having programs to support the homeless, and that if other states did a better job their state would have less of a problem? Well if you are basically the only website that allows all legal speech, you are going to see a lot of stuff that was censored elsewhere. I'd love to see a version of this created by a more left wing group of…

This is a great explanation as to why "free speech" websites always have the worst people. The people that believe you should be able to say whatever you want have to rub elbows with the people that believe you must say the n-word in every comment.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by weaksauce »

2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #64
RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #5

This 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.

The reddit redesign is still a marvel of technology, in a negative way. I can not comprehend how it is even possible to make a piece of software, be it online or offline, that mainly just has to display text (and the occasional video, thumbnail or image), so incredibly slow and bug ridden. It's truly baffling. The editor for comments is buggy, regularly posts comments twice, can't handle copy/paste properly, "there w…

i'm baffled too. it's so slow and unusable in almost every way. old reddit is so much snapier and usable. It feels like reddit devs are "innovating" to justify their salaries imo.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by skinnymuch »

super256 wrote: post #78
RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Elon had kept the company public, any one with two neurons able to fire would have been shorting it and would have cleaned up. With his leadership and decision making, Twitter would have gone to 0 by now.

Looking at the most recent cases of Doge, Twitter and Tesla a while ago, I'd say that Musk is skilled in accumulating goodwill and capital. Honestly, I think going public again with Twitter could be a smart thing. Not now, but later when more ppl dropped their grudge. Retails would probably be more inclined to buy Twitter stock rather than banks. There are also rumours that Twitter will be cash flow positive by the e…

They aren’t rumors. They are what Elon Musk says. He’s always saying stuff.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by goda90 »

2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #64
RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #5

This 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.

The reddit redesign is still a marvel of technology, in a negative way. I can not comprehend how it is even possible to make a piece of software, be it online or offline, that mainly just has to display text (and the occasional video, thumbnail or image), so incredibly slow and bug ridden. It's truly baffling. The editor for comments is buggy, regularly posts comments twice, can't handle copy/paste properly, "there w…

I was checking the schedule for a local event. The website was designed so that the schedule items would appear as you scrolled. On desktop there were photos and stuff alongside it, but on mobile it was literally just text with some styling. The performance was sad for such a simple website. All jittery. If it had been plain text, CSS and images, it would've loaded and rendered just fine.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by anoonmoose »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #119
feyes wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not how freedom of speech works at all. These are not publicly funded platforms. They are businesses and as such need to censor speech in order to maintain relationships with businesses. Twitter is a great example. They start to loosen up on the hate speech and advertisers flee while simultaneously clamping down on anti government speech. I do not support free speech absolutism for private businesses because o…

Multiple people saying the same thing so I guess I'll reply to yours. However these are communications platforms. So is it clear that if AT&T wanted it could say I cannot talk about my silly hats only club, they could intervene to block my communications? Or if my landlord felt I shouldn't have a specific sign (not signs in general), or even to just say words they dont agree with, they could bar that from their prope…

> AT&T

Kind of fuzzy. Iirc, land lines no, cell phones yes, Internet yes.

> landlord

Probably extremely specific to state/county/town

> democrat shorts

Political affiliation is only a protected class in an extremely small number of areas, so most likely, yes

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by sudosysgen »

rjh29 wrote: post #34

I 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…

Lemmy really isn't slow (though this instance is definitely underspecced for a hug of death), and it isn't difficult to use either.

The ease of use point is almost true. For the average user, you're not supposed to be manually subscribing to remote communities. You'd be expected to be exposed to communities you're already federated with and then just click subscribe.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by causi »

RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #91
b8 wrote: post #75

Aaron Swartz would be disappointed in Reddit's actions such as this.

We can carry on his spirit through our work. Lemmy is a great example of that spirit.

Do you know a good writeup about him? Everyone in the know feels very differently about him than I do so clearly my opinion is wrong, but I haven't been able to find out why and change my mind.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by srslack »

They've been permanently banning for bullshit for the last few years or so. Reddit is just a Tiktok sewer at this point. My 15 year old, probably would've been 16 closing on 17 year old account right now, account was permanently banned for "harassment" for asking a moderator which rule I'd broken in their subreddit. Of course, only one message was sent to them, and I was muted with no response. My post in question was contradicting another poster (or was it the mod themselves? who knows) and asking for sources for their assertions.

The administration sees niche communities as just an annoyance. They're currently exploiting non-English Language oriented communities and sockpuppeting accounts with poor machine translations to build language-specific communities around the Tiktok sewer subreddits.

Congrats to kn0thing, spez, et al. on your "community" "engagement" and good luck on the exit!

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