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transcriptA picture of the Ben Affleck Smoking meme, with the caption "Me seeing people on reddit telling other people to go to lemmy.world"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

"Lemmy is great, you can choose whatever instance you want! But fuck you if you choose that one."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

No, don't recommend that one. I don't care if you're on LW, its just not a great idea to recommend it to newcomers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I was forced to go to Lemmy after the post-inauguration bloodbath, but Ive liked it a lot, more than Reddit in many ways. I was getting really tired of the bots, puns, Russian Propganda, novelty accounts, TROLLS, etc.

OTOH, I feel like I can speak much more freely on Lemmy. Even before I got permabanned, Reddits Free Speech mission had become non-existent.

The downside of Lemmy is that some of my favorite subs don't have an equivalent on Lemmy. For instance, the Reddit guitar subs are very active, but the few Lemmy guitar forums are nearly empty, with posts that are days, weeks, months, and even years, apart. I tried Googling "Lemmy Guitar" for ideas, and literally every link was about Motorhead.

So I welcome more quality Reddit immigrants, as long as all the Trolls stay over there.

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

Help build the guitar community, tell the people on reddit to come here instead. I will do the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I can't, I'm permabanned. I tried getting around it several times, with new account names, but each one lasted a shorter and shorter time, as the algorithm honed in on me. My first alt lasted a few weeks, my last one was caught within an hour.

I do like the idea of building the Guitar community here at Lemmy, I'm just not familiar enough with the system to know how to do that. Do we start a new forum, or take over an existing one? Do we have just one and put EVERYTHING in there, or do we split it up between various subjects - general, lessons, performances, gear, amps, etc.?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How'd you manage to get banned?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

I repeated an opinion that I'd made made times in the past without even a warning. The first time after the Inauguration, and I was permabanned, despite being a 12 year member with over 900K in karma.

I came to Lemmy, and discovered a lot of recently exiled Reddit vets with high volume posting accounts that were 10+ years old. We were the people that built Reddit over the last decade, with thousands of posts without getting banned, and suddenly ALL of us managed to say something bad enough in the same month to get permabanned.

It turned out February was a bloodbath, and an unknowm number of people were ejected, probably in the thousands. Recently we found out that Musk had been pressuring Spez, and obviously Spez capitulated, like so many other cowardly CEOs, abandoning their core Free Speech mission (which was becoming increasingly compromised anyway).

I'm still lurking over there, but the problems they were habing with puns, bots, TROLLS, Russian propaganda farmers, etc. have only gotten worse.

So now I'm at Lemmy, with a lot of other active ex-Redditors. It looks a lot like Reddit looked 12 years ago, when I started over there. I've seen many of the original posts that have become Reddit lore, and I'll miss what we built, but it's best days are definitely behind it. Now, we'll help energize Lemmy, and grow it into its own cultural powerhouse.

For me, that includes building an active, enthusiastic, supportive, POSITIVE guitar community here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

First post on Lemmy! and oh my word… never seen such an eclectic mix of flavours of people, positions and politics in a long time.

This decentralised thing could actually be a good thing: pulls people away from bubbles and echo chambers!

Just remember to play nice :)

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

i said it before but lemmy hates new users

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I don't hate new users. Just, please recommend another instance to newcomers.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

lemmy.world does not allow the use of vpn to post. vpn is basic internet hygiene. do not go to lemmy.world if you care about that, our you will not be able to post.

you can join any federated instance instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

vpn is basic internet hygiene

according to vpn companies

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