Tbh if its a social/discussion based website, it will have federal agents monitoring it. Lemmy isn’t free from this either, though in our defense we are probably pretty low on the watchlist (but then again who knows)
Just in case…
Hey ICE. I’m Canadian.
Fuck you.
“My lawyers advise me to not comment on this further” is my statement of choice for most situations
I only lurk on reddit for the porn now.
Ok homeland security, good luck arresting all them AI bots.
This is how stupid the people in charge are. They’re literally trying to arrest bots.
Deleted my account years ago.
- the new home algorithm is filled with problematic subs, and is an opportunity for algorithmic propaganda
- After forcing emails it’s been downhill
- Needing to app for “incognito” is suspicious as hell
- I do not like their leadership
- The website runs like crap, and the redesign is not new at all. Every time I see the old design it’s a breath of fresh air and several hundred MB back to my OS.
- Lately all is filled with US critical posts that get deleted for no stated reason.
- You are getting auto banned by AI and your appeals are also reviewed probably by AI.
Just don’t upset the though police or post in any subreddit that accepts posts.
Now they let you hide your history, making it harder to find the bot accounts.
Literally the only purpose of doing that bs. A small percentage of users even went to the profiles to prove our case. That’s why they started that bullshit scout looking at post history makes you a loser stalker. Jokes on them i don’t give a fuck of some Nazi thinks I’m a stalker.
Ironically, if you just assume every blocked history is a bot account, that’s better accuracy than before trying to puzzle out the actual history.
The main reason I stay there are niche subreddits.
Even bigger ones are dead here.
I saw that 2-3year ago people try to copy paste stuff from reddit, but I see its discontinued.
What happend?
That was when Reddit killed their API for apps and started charging money for it. It lead to the first lemmy exodus.
Around that time there was a lot of attempts to build community and some people felt it was useful to bootstrap lemmy with Reddit content.
It mostly resulted in a lot of dead end posts and crap, so I think it got dialled back a lot. It was a lot of noise that people hated/defederated from.
I’ve made it a game of copy/pasting entire statements Republican politicians have made about healthcare into threads about police brutality and civil rights and getting multi-day suspended.
I’m defo never gonna be allowed into the US. Ever.
Good.
Means I’m less likely to get shot. Ever.
These people will not be contained to the usa.
You have allies in the states. Don’t abandon them.
I have several allies. Most of them LGBTQ+. If shit goes down we’re getting them to apply for asylum here.
Still working on making my American GF Canadian.
Hopefully they never invade your country either
Wherever OP is, the U.S. is probably already there, in some capacity. You can say it’s not an invasion, but could you ever really make us leave?
As a Canadian who has served in the CAF, I will not hesitate to defend my country to American invaders.
Yeah, fuck reddit, fuck usa and fuck trump
I’m 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators
The first four years or so that I was on Reddit, I never once received a ban for anything. Since Trump was elected, I pretty much got temp bans every couple of months. Every one was from me being mean to obvious Russian trolls. And then this morning, I got permanently banned for a comment I made over a week ago, that according to Reddits own metrics, received a grand total of zero views. I called a fascist a, um, fascist, and that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. That was a step too far, according to Reddit. And now I’m here.
they have palintir bots which they know about but wont do anything, plus russian propaganda is almost rarely get cleaned out when they do actual purges, which targets real users instead. they also now have israeli mods/bots to gatekeep criticism against israel. all the purges have target the lowest hanging fruits, irl users, than OF/link spamming the ones that are cutting into thier profits somehow.
To summarise: it’s all just bots nowadays. Reddit is complete junk now.
exactly! It’s as if the website is used to train bots. You can immediately tell if when you see the posts, yet they ban humans.
No way the fed goes to the public platform? Who could have guess. Dont feel like you are safer here. Juste less a priority
yeah Reddit has gone to shit now. That’s why I am here
You don’t honestly think that DHS doesn’t know Lemmy exists, do you? If they’re monitoring Reddit, you’d have to be a fool to not realize that they’re probably here, too.
DHS! DHS, over here! Oh! Oh! DHS! Look here! DHS! Down here, DHS! Look here! No, not there! Here, look at me! Are you looking?
Fuck you.
Calm down, Doja Cat.
Let’s face it. If you want to be invisible to DHS right now, just find an old article from the daily stormer or something and start posting far left stuff in the comments. This admin is going to go faaaaaaaar out of their way to avoid pissing off the nationalist hate groups that give their stochastic terrorism some real teeth.
I’d argue it was pretty shit for a long while. The fact that r/conservative with the vile spew they have is still allowed is all you need to understand.
and its consistently on the front page, which started around election year is very red flag. other far right subs try to make it to front page, but they get buried,i used to filter them out.
Lemmy now has its own echo chambers and control freak mods too though.
unlike reddit, they are usually segregated to thier instances, and dont have much effect on other communities if you block them.
But in the Fediverse you always have the option to walk away, join another instance or even host your own.
If it gets too bad, just move on to the next thing.
Internet forums have been a thing since for decades, and they will continue long after Reddit and Lemmy are forgotten
for niche category, like medical, hacking,how to spam earny money social media. news type forums are long gone though.
I find your comment insulting. I dare you to try saying that in my group.
reddit has always had those issues and by today’s standard that’s the least of their concern.
echo chambers
Likeminded people meeting is bad.
People demanding group think or exclusion is bad.
Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears
It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.
It’s not dead, it’s just pining for the fjords.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was ‘inciting violence’. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.
Wtf you can be banned for upvoting?
Yup, Reddit has gone full mask off in the past year now. Spez is a known nazi simp.
I got permabanned for comparing israel to the Nazis. Fuck Reddit.
this kinda makes me want to make a new reddit account. flaming-icefqr69
I would not recommend that lol
No, it’s cool. The flames cancel out the ice. The resulting sensation is actually quite pleasant
I agree with you
It’s a good thing I got permanently banned from Reddit just for saying “gill o’ teen”. Like this is America, it’s free speech.
I got banned for updooting comments about Luigi…
(Free Luigi!)
Free Luigi! Reddit is crap now
I got banned for talking to magats they way they talk to everyone else.
I got banned for racism … for making fun of a non-existent race. And the whole point of my comment was to mock racism itself.
Fucking Cardie spoonheads. They totally fucked Bajor.
sounds like they use AI to do it, probabably hallucinating assuming TOS violations.
They ARE using AI for this. Crap AI that bans innocent and ignores the one who should be banned.
Like the clorophors, dirty money grubbing clorophors. Tried to clorph me right out of my money … blew those little bastards up is what I did.
Banned as well, but I said we should all be able to punch Nazis. If you’re sitting at a table of 9 Nazis, you’re the 10th.
What if I’m waiting for the poison to set in?
Winter came for those Nazi scum!
I got banned for saying we should cyberbully Elon Musk to suicide.
Elon complains to reddit quite often if they target him, spez has purges based on his emotions.
Free speech means you don’t need to pay anything to speak. Not that you are free to say anything.
-Some US ceo
Free speech!
[with purchase of regular-priced speech]
Free speech, unless you say something they don’t like 😂
Who?
old dependable gil. Say what you want about the irish but he is one of the best.
Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.
It’s crazy how successful that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.
But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.
While I agree that Reddit is awash in (multiple) state propaganda, and that posting violent rhetoric, or even sympathy for it, there is likely to put you on a list (or multiple), I don’t think Reddit users really trust it’s that safe. In the last year and a half, since Luigi, there has been huge amounts of bitterness over the censorship of content and strict banning policies. People have discussed, and followed through on, leaving in droves. Huge amounts of old content are no longer available because people scrubbed their post history on the way out.
If the current discourse doesn’t reflect that, I would suggest it’s because :
- the real people still there remain to discuss uncontroversial niche topics
- political discussion there is largely driven by bots and paid actors now
It’s an addiction just like any other social media site, being cut off from the supplier is one of a few ways to end addiction, so I’ve appreciated their ban-happiness lately (for myself included).
Also, blocking it entirely in your browser / firewall can do wonders in keeping one from relapsing… helped me personaly a lot.
The user interaction metrics they’ve added have been interesting tho. Millions of south and SE Asians are flocking to reddit.
It’s been wild to watch how the site has grown over the past 15 years for me. Back durning trump’s first term I deleted my account and alts due to paranoia. I’m starting to think I should do the same for newer accounts or abandon the site entirely; hense my presence here.
I heard murmurs about Lemmy when the API shit was going down a few years ago but it was so small back then the switch didn’t really make sense for me. Now that the paranoia is back I don’t feel as comfortable/safe commenting on reddit anymore
Between reddit’s control freak mods, their selective enforcement of rules, their lack of mod behavior restrictions, ads made to look like postings, etc you have very little freedom outside of porn surprisingly. You have to stick to the groupthink in subs or get banned which makes most comments predictable, agreeable and milktoast.
Redditors all hate the other social media platforms.
What other examples of bullshit can you give us?
It’s kind of well-known and a long-running meme at this point that Redditors have a superiority complex about other platforms and think only theirs is the most “intelligent” and “rational” platform. It dates back to when it was mostly controlled by right-libertarian fedora-wearing raging atheist types.
Did you just log on to the Internet for the first time yesterday?
Those were the good ol days. Now it’s controlled by maga. It’s getting closer to twitter every day, soon it will just be another republican propaganda site
What the fuck are you people on about? Have you been on reddit? Go look at r/all right now, or any other time. You have to go to r/conservative to find magats, and even there you’ll find skeptical sentiments.
I used reddit long before the /r/thedonald showed up. Before /r/atheism became a default sub, which was terrible for the community of that sub. It became meme infested and caused /r/trueatheism to be made for sharing stories about religion intolerance from politicians, educators and employers. At a certain point, I started wholesale blocking any major sub and power user to reclaim some usability, but the API change signaled to me it wasn’t worth the effort anymore.
My reddit account is almost 18 years old so I know that you’re talking about. I came to lemmy at the time of the API change as well, but I stayed on reddit too. I’m not giving them any revenue: I use old.reddit and RES, so I don’t see and ads.
But blocking subs, as much as I also did that until I hit the limit of 100 blocked subs, is the wrong approach. Instead, you sub to the ones you like and avoid /r/all.
I was perma banned for saying “fuck all republicans”. They don’t want maga to be tied to the republican party for when trump is gone
Edit: this was when trump ‘won’ the second time and everyone was shouting “fuck maga”.
And that experience tainted your view of reddit. Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of reasons not to like reddit as a company, but the community is not the company. It’s up to you to make your own experience good or bad there, same as in lemmy.
i used to use reddit from 2014 to 2024 and its gotten far more rightwing. The sheer amount of accepted racism and openly right wing stances on reddit these days is shocking to me. That kind of stuff would get you insta banned or downvoted into oblivion. Reddit culture has completely 180’d and it has no remnants of its former self.
I don’t know where you’re seeing that. Unless you go looking for it in right-wing subs, the vast majority of reddit is very clearly to the left and any right wing comments are immediately downvoted to hell.
Have you ever heard a twitter user talk about reddit? They all hate each other.
People in this thread are perfect examples of that. They hate reddit so much they have to talk shit about it, regardless of reality.
A lot of lemmy users are ex reddit users and have reason they switched. I switched because it started looking more and more like twitter.
Yes, that’s probably it. You and others had some bad experience there and fled reddit, and now your opinions are based on that bad experience instead of reality. I’m on both. I’m both lemmy and reddit you create your own experience. If you failed to do that, I’m not surprised you didn’t like it.
now your opinions are based on that bad experience instead of reality.
The fuck does this mean? How is my experience not reality? What else are my opinions suppose to be based on, if not my experience?
Reddit was showing signs of introducing a more algo based experience, so I fucked off. They would hardly be the first website I left because of shit like that.
As long as you recognize it’s a meme and not reality, I’ll forgive that ridiculous generalization.
