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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why are you on Reddit, it is vile and absolutely terrible, better stay away.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Both of these posts are complaining about their accounts being banned, which happened because they (at least one of them) posted low effort questions and therefore got lots of downvotes and got automatically banned by a system meant to ban bots and trolls. The irony is that reddit has major problems with their automatic moderation which you yourself as an user is completely powerless to controll, e.g. recently when a massive amount of nsfw subreddits were banned for being unmoderated which they later admitted was erroneous.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Hey this is my first day on Lemmy and my first comment, too! Fun times.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I've noticed a rise of Bot Moderators on reddit and their AI is not very good. They pick up on certain words and not context. One banned me for 3 days for harassment but I was defending myself against someone that was being antagonistic against me. My appeal was rejected :(

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You didn't pay appeal fee that's why.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (54 children)

My beef with Lemmy:

  • It’s weighted towards politics
  • Not a lot of niche sub critical mass yet (though this is not its fault at all)
  • But holy moly, it’s a political purity test! Like, I think of myself as pretty socialist, way far off center, but I feel totally alone veering off certain topics or even acknowledging certain things! I’m (mostly) not getting banned, and I am not leaving, but still.
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Lol. Lemmy feels more like reddit than reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I agree, reddit is so stagnant. I didn't join in its prime by any means, but the place is so different since 2023. Thats what booting all the competant mods and going public does.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

God I can't believe it's been over a year and half since I left. Seems like yesterday.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

It’s probably Spez with a second hand account

[–] [email protected] 257 points 5 days ago (47 children)

I wonder why? I have been here for a couple of days and it's nice so far.

[–] [email protected] 276 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Because Reddit removes posts promoting Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

I've been lurking reddit lately, to see what propaganda the normies in the US are exposed to, and I found this thread fucking hilarious.

Every comment is complaining about how this will be the death of reddit. None of them realize Reddit already died years ago, and they're just getting high off the ashes.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (14 children)

It's so weird to read this, because other than a dork messaging me saying they were going to report me to the FBI I've had nothing but a lovely time on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I will say I have encountered a few highly voted positions that are beyond extreme to the point of stupidity, and I'm a Québecois union executive so that's wild. Most of that was from Hexbear or .ml tankies though.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I just don’t respond to hostile comments on Reddit or here. It makes life much easier. It saves me time too - if my comment is 2 sentences and someone replies to me with 2 very lengthy paragraphs, I just pass.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apparently there is a guy called Lemmy LMAO 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

He was the frontman for Motorhead. Though he started his career in Hawkwind in the 70s, I think.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 5 days ago (15 children)

Lemmy tastes like reddit that I have grown in my backyard garden.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

An heirloom Reddit, if you will.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (15 children)

Ima be real everyone is kissing lemmys ass but.. I mean, it feels like reddit? Which is good?

Feels no different from reddit so far lol it's not better or worse, really

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

New here but so far it feels like Reddit used to feel 10 years ago - a bit less populated maybe.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The top comment on reddit is always a stupid fucking joke or pun. Not so on lemmy. That's the biggest difference I notice when I go back to look at reddit. On popular posts the whole first 3 threads are inane bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago

Oh no... Anyway.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (5 children)

yes. extremely dangerous website

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago

Wait till they hear about reddit

[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 days ago (38 children)

I don't get the hate this place gets. It's been really interesting watching Lemmy's growing pains over the last two-ish years and all the changes it has undergone. The whole concept of the Fediverse is fascinating to me and has been a genuine delight to explore.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Idk I kind of like Lemmy so far 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Usually when there are more comments than upvotes it means that OP is getting thoroughly roasted

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (15 children)

I mean any default experience which includes the ml trio is legitimately vile. The sooner Lemmy gets serious about the tankie problem, the better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I despise the tankies, but imho, stopping them from having their own servers simply pushes them into .world etc. - let them have their safe space, defederated.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Anybody surprized by this?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (9 children)

The community could certainly be kinder.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One of these is someone complaining about a ban from automod triggered by tons of downvotes on fresh account. That is, their takes were so shit that they were swept by tool meant for spambots

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If the rest of the post is: BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO LIBERAL.

Good. We don't need anyone deterred by that. We do a fine enough job fighting amongst ourselves.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Honestly I had some really bad experiences here on Lemmy. I So bad, that in fact I contemplated going back to Reddit because it didn't feel much different. I surely went from recommending my friends to delete Reddit to towards more of a "just quit Reddit altogether but there's no good alternative"

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (6 children)

This is a marketing issue.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Where's my vile homies at?! Let's get freaky with some Linux and Star Trek memes.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (35 children)

lol, Lemmy is the most benign social media platform i have participated in decades

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