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[–] 197 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Reddit took action faster about Lemmy than they did responding to the epidemic of CSAM subs.

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

    That sounds right for the company whose CEO was appointed moderator of r/jailbait. This was before you had to accept an invitation to be moderator, but fuck Spez regardless.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    Reddit currently has an active and massive beastiality sub. They don’t allow real images, but they have comment threads with discussion and advice. Just as with r/jailbait, people post fishing for the real stuff.

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  • [–] [S] 143 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    omg the top comment just got deleted with over 500 upvotes

    I think it was when it was edited to include specific links to Lemmy instances, instead of the join-lemmy.org website

    I still see the comment on Spaduf's profile, but it shows as deleted in the post

    I think maybe the link to lemmy.world is what triggered their filter? because that was edited in

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

    Gotta be. It was right after I made the edit.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    actually I think it was mander.xyz for some reason? and it doesn't seem to happen in r/fediverse

    no wait, something else is also doing it, midwest.social is also doing it, lemmy.world is clear, infosec.pub is clear, ttrpg.network is not allowed

    no idea how Reddit or r/technology chose which instances to ban lol

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    [–] 127 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It made me make an account here. I also convinced the group chat to move to signal last night.

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago

    Let's fucking go, this is great to see! Remember to be nice to the new users if you see them around.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (22 children)

    Was reading through the thread and holy shit I swear half the comments are anti fediverse propaganda.

    I wonder how long till the post gets removed.

    Edit: would it be immoral for me to mass bot the thread with AI powered pro fediverse propaganda?

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

    Aside from what Blaze mentioned, that's also not really the kind of publicity that we want. Better to just respond to individual users and encourage them to try Lemmy out.

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

    We should really avoid antromorphizing non-humans. Call them bots, like most of them probably are.

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

    In some spaces, that term is becoming really dehumanizing. People use “bot” to label anything they disagree with.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sure, but I was being literal. A non-negligible number of those comments are likely being automated.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm quite certain that reddit has millions of bot accounts that repost old content and leverage AI to make human sounding comments. They serve two purposes, to simulate activity and interaction, and to disrupt discussions that reddit doesn't approve of, such as those about Lemmy or certain political issues.

    Why wouldn't they? It's a very simple decision for them, they need to protect their money and the shareholders money, and they'll do whatever they have to in order to accomplish that objective.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    would it be immoral for me to mass bot the thread with AI powered pro fediverse propaganda?

    You can try, but you'll probably get flagged

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

    they got me with the propoganda forsure, it seemed complicated was actually super simple, every comment will act like its so hard to swap over or signup when once you do look it up you immediately see why its better at its core

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

    I never played WoW or anything like that, but aren't there several WoW servers and you have to decide which one to be on when you start the game? People managed that.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Yep, and it's not even fully federated. Different servers have also quite a bit different focus.

    I will steal from now on WoW comparison when talking about the fediverse!

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Was reading through the thread and holy shit I swear half the comments are anti fediverse propaganda.

    Some comments are suspiciously skeptical. If they were this skeptical before joining then they never would've joined Reddit lol. Someone just tried to tell me that the report button on Lemmy doesn't do anything.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/m8i99k6/?context=9

    And people talking about bots too lol Reddit will literally repost a 1 year old post with identical title and copy-paste the top 100 comments from the original too, talk about bots! And they aren't labeled as bots! At least bots here are labeled and you can hide them all instantly.

    And then they ask for extreme details on how everything works and try to become a master at it before even signing up. Is that how they signed up for Reddit and Discord? I doubt it.

    No way these people were that closed-minded and stubborn when they were signing up for Reddit.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Ah, a worthy reason to dust off the ol account

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

    Yep! I'm on there right now directing people to Lemmy

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

    Hey, can you go to /r/Cleveland, and convince them all to move to /c/Cleveland?

    And /r/ClevelandGuardians to move to !clevelandguardians@fanaticus.social?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Just threw in a link in both subs for anybody interested in getting off Reddit:)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    HAZZAH! Maybe soon we can talk baseball in the guardians community (and how Jose Rameriez is our baseball lord!), and talk about Tim Misney's eyebrows in the Cleveland community.

    You KNOW what I do! eyebrows

    And to anyone reading this NOT from Cleveland, and have no idea what I'm talking about....

    eyebrows intensify

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I bet the fediverse wouldn't censor a post about reddit because the fediverse isn't a bitch.

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

    Would if I could but I deleted my account and Reddit has been blocking my connection for months anyway.

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

    @spaduf@slrpnk.net , could you maybe edit your comment to something like

    "Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

    Feel free if you have any questions"

    join-lemmy isn't the best for user onboarding: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536?scrollToComments=true

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    also what's the best alternative for Mastodon? a lot of people there already tried Mastodon and didn't like it due to UX/UI issues

    I would be good to list Mastodon as well as an alternative, and also listing Mbin might be good too? but then maybe you're putting too many choices lol

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    didn't like it due to UX/UI issues

    That's my biggest beef. But I think maybe it's "ugly like a Mazda truck", as in, it's plain and weird until you get to driving it and then it's just simple and great.

    That's my hope anyway.

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

    I would help, but I honestly don't have the password anymore. I don't think I signed up with an email, but if I did it was a dummy one. I wish I could help.

    Edit: Also, I didn't know about this bridge for Mastodon:

    if you want your Mastodon posts to also show on Bluesky then use this bridge https://fed.brid.gy/ you only need to follow the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy (note: is this a typo? It is not a typo. It will follow you back and make sure to accept the follow) and it will automatically bridge you

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