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[+] 166 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)
  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Can‘t even say Deny Defend Depose in that sub, and who knows what else can get you banned there. Saying BT deserved it, for sure would. Not blaming mods for that since they‘re just trying their best to keep it alive, but Reddit has been lost to any controversial discourse for a long time (it‘s why I signed up here originally).

    Like yeah, I‘d like to have a moral argument with someone who thinks political violence is always wrong, but we ain‘t ever going to have it on there in a real way, cause if I don‘t self-censor my side of it, it‘s going to get me banned.

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  • [+] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 82 points 2 years ago (32 children)

    Should someone try to point them to here?

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (25 children)

    Good luck... reddit admins/mods don't like lemmy references. Only attempt if you don't mind losing your account or permabans from whatever sub you post to.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's good to hear; so it's likely certain mods/subs rather than a site-admin restriction then (at least until perhaps lemmy becomes too much competition...)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Just depends how big it is imo, I left in the Reddit api exodus because I saw some posts talking about Lemmy, I'm already aligned to FOSS support so it was an obvious choice.

    Helped too that sync was made for Lemmy so quickly after :P

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I mean.....yes. eve if Luigi never existed, yes.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Reddit moderators doing a 31 billion dollar corporation's bitch work for free.

    Not only that but they're protecting the interests of people who make more money in a single year than they'll make in their entire lifetime.

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Reddit has long ago passed the tipping point between content and commercial interest. They're only interested in being profitable, safe, and inoffensive for marketing partners. The life has gone out of it, it's just a product now.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    I'll probably get downvoted for this but I feel like Lemmy is like the salty friend who can't get over their ex and gets off on the issues going on in their life without them.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    It's not weird or particularly unhealthy to look back at the person you were close to, but betrayed you, and realize that all of your interactions with them were actually them being an asshole, and the people who still support them are assholes too. Nor is it particularly unhealthy to have a bit of schadenfreude about the suffering of those who chose the asshole over you, while hopefully still having some sympathy and hope that they escape.

    It's how I feel about Taylor swift fans, at least.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I don't disagree with you. However, when I see a post like this every day it gets old to me. Though to be fair, Lemmy content doesn't come from a single person and everyone on here is at a different phase in their journey.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Ok, but there's also post from 4chan, Xitter, Facebook, and everywhere else on the internet. Reddit, and now Lemmy, grab information and memes from literally everywhere so you don't have to.

    There's always going to be a subject someone doesn't care for. Thankfully though, there's filters in most every app now. The ones further along in their Lemmy journey tend to use them instead of complaining about having to see things repeatedly.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Honestly I like these kinds of posts as it lets me know that I made a good choice to not go back to Reddit. Plus I can show these to people I know who still use Reddit which might push them away as well.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Brian Thompson was a mass murderer who deserved to die, as are his peers

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They could always try koalanging the name, i.e. r/GreenMario or similar

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Remind me who the CEO of Reddit is?

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Posting violent content? Aren't there literally gore subreddits over there where you can watch people get tortured?

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    MarioMangitwo?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Im surprised r/freeluigi and r/luigemangionejustice havent been banned they banned r/mariosbro and r/freeluigi2 as well as some others. Our corporate overlords are pissing their $5,000 pairs of designer slacks. And look at the loosers on r/fuckluigimangione it would be funny if it wasn't so sad https://imgur.com/gallery/rbqSckH

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Keep zooming to that grave Reddit

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I got banned permanently off Reddit just for supporting him, that's what pushed me to find an alternative

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    As much as I want to say that Reddit's rules against glorifying violence are cut & dry, I cannot blame anyone who sympathizes with Luigi Mangione especially when the system is outright crooked. I get the frustration when nearly every Reddit post about Luigi ends up getting locked because the mods are either overwhelmed with or are too fucking lazy to moderate comments (I theorize the latter.) Brian Thompson has been responsible for far more deaths due to him employing AI algorithms that have trebled UnitedHealthcare's rejection of insurance claims, but the difference is that the American people are expected to put up and shut up with his antics. You can't vote with your wallet because good luck suing a corporation that brings in twelve figures of annual revenues for a wrongly-denied claim. Nor can you literally vote with your ballot paper because both the Democrats and Republicans are corporate bootlickers that have enabled widespread anti-consumer behaviour in the first place.

    Not saying that Brian deserved what he got, but these are the actions of someone who had been brought to the end of their tether by the health insurance system.

    Things can go either way for Luigi. He faces the very real possibility of jury nullification, but also, maybe the justice system is going to mess with the legal process so much that he's gonna end up going through what is effectively a kangaroo court.

    On the subject of Reddit, throwing Ellen Pao under the bus and bringing back that Tintin-looking cuck as CEO is probably the worst thing Reddit's board has done. Spez has been nothing but poison for the site.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Good for him, he should spend some time also doing some other things.

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