Seems like reddit really wants to kill their IPO. People are getting banned left and right and I have a ton of bots flooding my friend requests. A part of me thinks it's all scripted to boost user numbers and engagement.
Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
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Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#62I 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…
I keep seeing that pattern ,"we don't aim to replace (google|gmail|imessage|twitter|fb|reddit)" yeah and they won't. Waste of time unless you have a lot of time to waste.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#63Well, considering I am getting this on clicking the link: 404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site ? reason: Unexpected token 'T', "Timeout oc"... is not valid JSON This site is clearly not prepared to handle any kind of migration from reddit.
you can read it using another instances, beauty of fediverse. https://lemmy.ca/post/580103 https://feddit.dk/post/19972
Interesting, thanks for the links. Does seem mysterious to me though that the id of the post is different on each of them.
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#64This 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 was a problem" and "you broke reddit" error messages on refresh are a common occurence, and just opening a thread takes more than 5 seconds on average. The video player does not work most of the time.
Then I saw the official reddit app, and it manages to be low quality in all kinds of places the website redesign managed to miss. Being on the mobile web version constantly nags you to download the official reddit app, and the nagging popup causes the position you were in the comments to be reset, for extra annoyance.
Without old.reddit or 3rd party clients I find Reddit unusable.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, everyone had similar views about twitter and it's still kicking around just fine.
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.
>With his leadership and decision making
He has other companies that you can short if you truly believe this.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#66They always try to say that it's the big bad guy vs the good little guy, but a lot of the time it's not true. One comment said the user posted a lot of spam that they didn't mention in their post.
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#67Does 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…
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.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#68IMO 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…
What you are asking for is a new law. There is nothing wrong with that! Just important to understand that the FTC and the courts don’t make laws. They only work with the existing laws. If you want new laws the legislature is the proper place to ask for it.
There is an other problem. What you are asking for is probably going to have issues with the first amendment. This might sound weird, and you probably will feel something is off about it but as it is most often interpreted Twitter or Alphabet censoring stuff on their own platform is their right to free speech. If there would be a law like what you are asking for that would constrain their right to free speech. As you can guess it becomes complicated from there.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#69Does 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.
Anything without the ability to delete user content becomes instantly unusable due to spam, pornbots and (if the site get big enough) CSAM.
Then CSAM point becomes kind of a religion for social networks. Either a social network is able to resist government's urge of terrorism prevention and child protection (I am referencing to some famous meme on censourship) or its moderator's ego is going to have an endless growing exposed in banning some users with some fancy excuses. Now try to convince me that Lemme is not a spam from Reddit's PoV.
Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Twitter doesn't take such a hard stance. For example when European countries ask Gab to censor content that is illegal there Gab declines.