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[–] [email protected] 261 points 1 month ago (14 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 285 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Because Reddit removes posts promoting Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 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.

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

Using "normies" unironically is one of the reasons Lemmy is a huge turn off. Normal people don't talk like that, and it makes you look stuck up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, you're not wrong…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Same. Just link Reddit. It’s not that hard…

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

You get a bunch of trackers though. To be fair I'm not sure whatever the other thing is is better.

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

that sub used to be good, til it got astroturfed during the election month, its more or less a politics clone sub, with a hint of tech whining. i got "reported" for reporting too much people. trying to eliminate the spam on your sub.

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

This really isn't true. Specific subreddits do, because their mods want to buddy up to the admins. With OP's search settings, I do get one of the posts they got (only one though), and most of the results are drowned out by posts about some guy called Lemmy. But sorting by New, there's plenty of results even from today and the past week. Subreddits announcing their fallback instance, a canadian subreddit discovering lemmy.ca, people asking questions about Lemmy. Lemmy-specific subreddits also show up without a problem. And everything I saw, except for that one post from OP's image, was positive about it.

I think people who have fully left Reddit are falling for confirmation bias when they hear that a post got removed for mentioning Lemmy. While plenty are still up despite doing the same. It's either because of the other contents of the post, or because of the subreddit it was posted in. If it was about promoting Lemmy alone, all posts that promote Lemmy would be gone, which isn't the case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i had heard in a forum site that there was a mod that knows reddit admins, a direct line of communication to them, and he was discussing the levels of shadowbanning tiers. apparently shadow bans has tiers, 4 and 5 being the lowest, and its considered a temp "ban" while one is for the botters/evaders who make multiple accounts, which is usually 1 year to a perma ban. and ban filters, are supposed to have 1 year limit for the most severe, ban evaders, but they seem to have changed it this year.

also the most annoying this, is mods can crossban you for just visiting a controversial sub.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They probably went to .ml or a tankie instance

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

they made a post, got tons of downvotes, then complained about downvotes which also got downvoted, got caught by automod because of downvotes, appealed, got unbanned, then deleted account or got purged because nothing even shows in modlog. the account was on sjw, posts were to communities in .ml and lw

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This right here is why the public mod log is one of the best things on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

like i said, nothing shows in modlog. user is ModerateImprovement on sh.itjust.works, i'm guessing based on that reddit post

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Oi. I remember them. They definitely came in extra hot. Clashing with a culture they had no experience with. And then wondering what everyone else's problem was. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t get why people hate on .ml

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

Ah them. I believe that’s one of the trolls that I blocked in my client.

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

So, it was a skill issue

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

"Tankie instances" don't tolerate transphobia or western exceptionalism or Zionism. Lib instances don't tolerate questioning of US State Department propaganda (been banned from many comms for questioning the validity of Wikipedia articles on geopolitically charged topics) but will tolerate Zionism (downvoted but not banned). I'd rather have the former

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

zionism, pro-israeli is probably the worst right now, i was banned r/worldnews temporarily for pointing out who was the sole instigator of the war(BIBI), someone freaked out and said something along the lines, why don you become PM then, and then ranted, (i assume he was the turd that reported me.) normally you can tell who reported you, but i always CHECK my last message, so i know who it is. even "israelis" own population knows he did it, why is it only people outside of the country supporting him.

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

this is my first acc on lemmy, i had no idea that was a seperate login. whats ML?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.ml is a lemmy community primarily composed of socialists. Because socialists are highly critical of racist behaviour, white supremacist tropes, US exceptionalism/western chauvinism, imperialist attitudes (many of which bleed in well-meaning liberals), and capitalist countries, they don't tolerate such things in their community and are very critical when they see such things in other communities, which is often met with distrust and dislike because nobody enjoys being confronted. .ml are very confrontational and they get met with confrontation. There are also some legit problems with a few moderators expressing transphobic beliefs, which is why i personally choose hexbear as my main community. Kinda sad that people here have such a red scare as if it were communists and not fascists in governments all over the western world right now and increasingly so.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Lemmy has a feature called federation, which means that anyone can setup their own lemmy server and run it how they want, but it will connect to all the other servers, so they share the same posts. lemmy.ml is one server, but it has some tankies who are people who think authoritarian regimes, like soviet russia, were good.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Vile. You offer hot cocoa with no whipped cream!? Aboslutely terrible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm responsible for the whipped cream, here you go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hey, I don't like when the whipped cream gets on the tip of my nose, all right? Let's fight.

Cheers.

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

Do you have 🗿 here?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Its 100% on purpose, those arent the most relevant or highest rated posts, cherrypicked

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Possibly landed in Hexbear. In combination with Spaz’s purge of all things Lemmy encouraging.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Maybe because Reddit sees Lemmy as a concurrent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hell yeah! Consider sticking around for a bit. Don't forget that you have the power to block individuals, communities, and even entire instances if you're having a bad time. Not sure if reddit gives you all that power, but it has its uses!

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

Not sure if reddit gives you all that power

It does not. Was one of the reasons that I abandoned it when they blocked third party clients. I resent being forced to view right-wing propaganda, rage-bait, and ads as well as being forced to short by opaque algorithms that are clearly intended to manipulate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

same, reddit is slowly turning into FB, with all the right wing narratives, 90% of the post is about trump, its the same thing MSMs did to get him into the WH. while it maybe "center right" it mostly gives avenues for right wingers to "see what we told you guys", i pointed that out on many subs. people are just lapping all the bs thats comes out, liek trump did this goof, like it matters. despite them being critical of trump, it actually gives 24/7 coverage outside of X and MSMs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you can block invididuals, and turn off replies, but its often not effective, because if you go back to the orignal convo you blocked, you can see them bitching that you blocked them, oh and they created another account so they can evade your own block(since they cant join your convo thread in a subreddit. often times they will retaliate by reporting you for blocking them. and risking reporting them, can put you at odds with a mod, say you cant make too many reports.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't have the answer but welcome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe OP got a bad experience on .ml or accidentally used hexbear

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

Rent free in your brains, gahdaym

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

cause one half is porn, the other is about linux

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

I can only see one of those two posts (the second one) and it's pretty well reasoned (I don't agree though, just saying they did provide their reasoning in more than enough words imo). If you're interested, here's the link.

To summarize it:

  • UI worse than New Reddit (I personally agree with it being at least just as bad, that's why I didn't go to Lemmy)
  • Big instances are laggy (remember, the post is from 7 months ago not today, so don't compare the statement to how they are now)
  • Bad mod tools (a common complaint I see about Lemmy)
  • Too much far left and tech focus (another common complaint)
  • It's not active enough (yet another common complaint)
  • Shitty mods (I disagree with the specific claim made about them being worse than Reddit ones, but I've definitely seen at least one shitty mod here so far, and too many are neglectful)
  • Lemmy developers are Maoist (fact iirc)
  • The community is filled with far left extremists, Mao worshippers, dictator bootlickers, and genocide supporters (the one actually unreasonable take imo which indicates they went to the wrong instance)
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