I will shitpost harder.
I’m doing my part!
I’m glad to be part of this renaissance of the forum.
LONG LIVE THE THREAD!! LETS GOOOOOOOOO
A lot of folks here are talking about Reddit being shitty but I switched because I’m in Europe and I don’t want to enrich especially US Companies off of my personal data.
Hopefully even more people will join as Reddit gets shittier and shittier.
Shaddow Banned from Reddit for making some Luigi Mangione prayer candles got thousands of likes and bam old high karma account banned forever. No response from Reddit. Noticed on the shadow ban page that tons of people getting these bans everyday and no response from Reddit . Suggested we protest at Reddit headquarters in SF and now I’m banned from Shadow page ban lol. Nice to be here though
I didn’t realize that was only 50 thousand users. Muddy have been only 5000 in 2023 during the API Exodus.
I created an account a while back now, but it’s been mostly inactive since then. I’m liking it a lot more here!
Yeah, what the other guy said. lemmy.ml is run by tankies. best to move
i moved from .ml about a year ago because of their moderation… “policies”
Oh shit, I had no idea! Any ideas where I should move to? What kind of policies??
basically you get banned for arguing against tankies.
as for which instance; where you from? what you into?
https://feddit.nl/post/16246531
As a recommendation, https://lemm.ee/ is good.
Geez, Putin is a little removed boy dictator so I’ll probably move.
There is even a slur filter (it’s not the case on other instances)
Welcome back! Just…be careful about what you say on the instance you’re on LMAO
Never heard anything about this, are you able to elaborate or provide any links?
The admins have a long history of banning people across the entire instance who are critical of China, North Korea, Cuba etc. That said, you should be fine and if you’re happy with the instance then there’s no reason to move. Some users like to make a bigger deal out if it than it really is.
The “ml” in the domain is supposed to represent “Marxist Lennist” which the ideology the instance is aimed at.
Well Putin is a dictator, if the admins don’t like me saying that they can ban me
you’re not going to get banned for saying that, I would even agree. people get banned for being racist/chauvinist and then run off to cry about evil authoritarian censorship
I bring receipts just a couple days ago
okay racist/chavinist or ableist you’re right I forgot one
The admins and mods of .ml are huge Tankies and censor all content critical of China/Russia/NK and will deny they’re even dictatorships let alone that they enforce censorship or any other violation of basic human rights
!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works has a bunch of content documenting what they get up to that you might miss if you’re not in the modlog, but ironically for a group that complains about censorship they block that comm from all .ml users at the instance level so you’ll have to look at it in a roundabout way.
lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works should work
Great, that’s all I need! I’ll move, Putin is a dictator that invaded Ukraine and anyone who doesn’t understand that can get fucked
Haha yea! That one sentence probably would have got you banned if you said it on a .ml comm
If you don’t want to deal with them, lemmy.cafe is one instance that defed’s from the entire triad (Hexbear.net and lemmygrad are the other 2 major Tankie instances, but they’re even worse than .ml, so most instances defed from them including .world)
If you don’t mind fighting against them though .world, .ee and the excellently named sh.itjust.works all fed with .ml, but not the other 2
Good to know, how about Lemmy.ca? I’m currently living in Canada so that one probably makes the most sense for me
They defed with Hex and Grad, I think they’re partially defed’d with .ml they seem to defed some of .ml’s subdomains but not the main .ml domain
In general .ca is an excellent instance for Canadians, especially if you’re looking to support Canadians, it’s all hosted in Canada with Canadian business
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Sync for Lemmy is a good app’ if anyone is looking for RIF like experience. Sync
I’m a fan of Voyager. Very nice experience in my opinion
I’m using Voyager right now and I agree it’s good
As much as I love Sync, it has been almost a year since the last update.
I’m using Connect (on Android, dunno if it’s on iPhone tbh), just had an update yesterday. Very solid interface, reminds me a bit of bacon reader
Alternatively, shout out to Boost for Lemmy - from the creator of one of the best Reddit 3rd party clients (RIP Boost for Reddit).
Let’s go!
I created an account a while back and I’m back after receiving a warning from reddit for upvoting certain content. I was going through the communities looking for stuff to subscribe to and I was a bit surprised by the number of communities with a couple thousand users and the last post being half a month or more out.
I hope people’s suggestions about making the instances and navigation more seamless is being taken seriously because there hasn’t been much change there from what I’m seeing.
Even though 50k is a nice number of MAUs and allows for active discussion in the bigger communities, it’s still not enough to fuel niche communities - at least presuming the 90-9-1 rule applies even to early adopters such as us. While I agree that discoverability could be a lot better, I think what’s holding back the smaller communities right now is lacking critical mass more than anything else.
A bunch of communities were created at the last Reddit exodus and left to die. Buuut some of the communities might have moved to another Lemmy server or simply died out because the same community exists on another Lemmy server.
I wonder what happened during the small dip . Very good news though!
Astronomical
People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.
I’m more oxi clean of reddit myself
They’ve basically banned anonymous accounts. Their whole thing was anonymity.
They seem to be blocking access from certain IPs and VPNs (if not logged in?) Which is funny because some of these VPNs are not really hiding anything. Like my work VPN which I would think makes it pretty obvious which company I work for. Annoying when search results link to reddit content.
You can use this script with a browser addon like Tampermonkey to get around the sign-in requirement:
// ==UserScript== // @name reddit - unblock (create cookie and reload) // @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts // @match *://*.reddit.com/* // @grant none // @version 2024-01-08 // @noframes // @license MIT License // @description for "Blocked" "whoa there, pardner!" cowboy bs // ==/UserScript== /* thanks: https://www.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/18jbxb2 */ if (document.title === "Blocked") { document.cookie="reddit_session=;Domain=.reddit.com;Path=/;Expires=;Secure=true;SameSite=None"; window.location.reload(); }Why should the user have to fix reddit to make it functional?
This what infuriates me the most.
I use a VPN (because my government is insane) and i get a “security warning” if I visit any Reddit post (even old Reddit).
All they’re doing is building a moat around OUR content we created.
Wait first I’m hearing of this one. What happened now?
I think they’re referring to the fact that you no longer can create accounts without using an email address. You were able to use a UI loophole to do it before via Old Reddit, but no more.
Woah, it’s finally gone? Guess I haven’t been back in a while
Without anonymity it is in fact pointless. Pseudo anonymity is extremely useful I basically won’t go anywhere without it. That’s definitely a feature we should advertise to people, you can actually be anonymous
Reddit has become very strange.
Shadowbanning sucks when your on the other side of it.
Forever mods that have hundreds of default subreddits act like dictators. Banning people from all their collections of subreddits without anyone knowing.
Removing the ability for users to see actual number of votes up/down.
And now with the whole “don’t upvotes certain content or you will get a strike”. Never mind that isn’t how the site works at all.
They haven’t come out with a feature that people have wanted in the last couple of years.
Getting rid of coins/rewards just to empty everyone’s stock and then bringing them back again without 1:1 compensation and forgetting everyone who gave their coins away before they would vanish
It’s been a while since I’ve been on and everything I’m hearing is that it just keeps getting worse. Eventually it’ll be completely unusable and probably shudder but by then the real conversation will have moved elsewhere
Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol
Is Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn’t updated in a while
I have no idea, Boost has always been one to go long periods between updates, but it is getting pretty long since the last one
God I really hope its not dead. I know everyone suggests voyager but I don’t like the gestures and it feels slower than just having buttons.
You can have gestures disabled on voyager and just use the buttons
I use voyager and don’t use any gestures. Looks like I turned them off in settings. And they have a ton of options for things you can adjust in the settings. I was a reddit is fun app user and am completely happy with voyager. But I’m also almost always just lurking. So more active users might have more problems but with how much you can adjust it I doubt it.
I’m using Thunder and really enjoying it
Does it save your position in the comments of a specific post? That’s my #1 criterion for an app. Boost is the only one that I’ve found that does it
Not that I can see
Like if you visit a link or go to someone’s profile, then go back to return to the comments, will your scroll position be remembered so you can see the comment you were just looking at? If so, yes
Ill check it out. Thank you.
Mine stopped working completely this week. It then linked to boost for lemmy. Now I’m here.
Boost gang!
I’ll still check sometimes on Reddit when I’m at my desk if I feel like it and I’ve got time, so like barely anymore.
When 3rd party apps died I moved here.
After them saying that if you upvote enough banned content you’ll get banned, I’m just waiting to catch ban over there.
i still lurk a lot. i have a rule against posting there though… which admittedly i did break recently, but only to plug lemmy. otherwise no posts/comments there in two years
I think since coming over here I’ve done like 2 dozen comments and a handful of posts (on Reddit), but considering I used to post and comment as much as I do here but over there I’d say that’s a lot of progress.
I’ve done over 3k comments and over 3 hundred posts here since joining in June of 2023.
Thank you for your service 🫡
I’m the same as the other guy, my rule is that I only post/comment about Lemmy when I use my reddit acount.
I used to only comment a few times per month when I used reddit but as soon as I started using Lemmy I started making hundreds of comments per month. Especially in the first few months, I got to 1k comments super fast. Since then I’ve slowed down a bit but still way more active than I was on reddit. This is my alt account btw.
It’s so much more rewarding to participate on Lemmy for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because it feels like people actually care enough to read my comments and respond. On reddit it often seemed like shouting into the void. Plus, it’s a great feeling to be a part of something that’s community based and not just soulless corporate slop. Every time I check reddit, it feels so miserable and I wonder how I ever tolerated that site for so long.
It feels more human over here (if that makes sense lol)
And yeah after my initial break from Reddit it definitely feels more insufferable over there.
This is also one of my alts, I’ve a few but none are used as much as this one by a long shot.
The thing is for a good solid decade using one of those corporate websites actually it wasn’t so bad, I was right user since 2012 and it used to be good. It’s slowly degraded over the years since then and at this point I think I’m fine never going back, except if I am reading some several years old post that has information but even then the internet archive can do that for you and it might be the only place to get that information from Reddit
Yeah that’s true, I was also a user since 2012 and it was much better back then. It slowly got worse through the 2010s and then really fell off a cliff after 2020
Use Reddit Enhancement Suite. You’ll thank me later.
makes red it much more usable and easy on the eyes.
I used it for awhile (I’ve been on Reddit for about 13 years)
Honestly though pulling more away from social media is good for my mental health. And making the experience more abrasive so it’s less of a passive thing is good.
Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday
Welcome! We’ve got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian “communists” who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the “gold standard”), but here they’re mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .world account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
In terms of sorting the “tankie triad” least bad to worst though it’s definitely: ML, Grad, then HexBear. At least I sometimes have decent interactions with people from ML, can’t say the same about the other 2 though.
Edit: Actually put this as a reply to the correct comment this time. :/
I deleted the other one as I replied to the wrong comment.
^ one of the bigger Tankies around, “good posts” aka anything pro-CCP, pro-Russia, pro-NK and nothing not
Anything otherwise is considered “liberal”/Western propaganda/“CIA something or another”
Just wait till they break out the random blog links and YT videos lmao
And you’re the biggest anti-communist “leftist” around.
NOoo TAnKiES AREN’t CoMmUNISt They’RE AuthoritArIan. Every time you say that you only show your ignorance. Read an actual book, or stop talking nonsense. Stop trying to fabricate a pacifist communism, and just admit that you are anti-communist full-stop.
- Friedrich Engels, On Authority
- Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
- V.I. Lenin, “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder
- Michael Parenti, Anticommunism & Wonderland
Stop trying to fabricate a pacifist communism
Ah ok, so if authoritarian communism is the only form of communism that exists then eroding human rights ever further in the pursuit of it is A-OK then?
Sorry, I don’t subscribe to that, I personally would love to see the fall of capitalism in my lifetime, but not at the sacrifice of basic human rights like freedom of speech and inviting even worse censorship.
Skill issue, I would simply choose liberal reforms, despite their never succeeding.
He’ll never read a book.Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
Hmm yes, century+ old books that predate the CCP coming into power by like 25 years and well before modern age concerns like the power of the internet could even be imagined
Y’all keep arguing theory with books that are incredibly dated and blog posts based on that dated info when most of us are talking about what the Chinese and Russian governments are doing today.
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so basically a right wing propaganda/astroturf instances, no thanks had enough of that on reddit.
They’re actually mostly anarchists/communists, so left wing
We have an entire instance dedicated to popular 1960s television show Star Trek (don’t go there)
There are dozens of us!
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.
Keep in mind that subscribing to this community means that it’ll take over your feed.
/j, but it’s also true
Welcome!
If you’re new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing “all”. There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse “all”…
https://sub.rehab/ is also good.
Sub.rehab is super outdated and https://fediverser.network/ is easier and crowdsourced.
Thanks, hadn’t seen that one before
Welcome! It’s a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.
In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it’s no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we’re seeing things pop off more than it used to.
still feels a little bit like the old internet.
Yes! I miss it.
Welcome!
Welcome!
There’s a ton of good apps that use the API.
