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i left reddit for good today with their obvious attempt at controlling the narrative like the rest of big social media. long live the lemmy federation

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[–] [email protected] 188 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

This was the straw that broke the camel's back. I remember seeing something a while back on r/coolguides about alternatives for various sites, including Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Today, I saw the writing on the wall and decided it was time.

The worst isn't just the Luigi thing, it's that in the future, they will most likely expand it to include any topic that the administration disapproves of.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

my sentiment exactly. this is just the start of it. once they became a publicly traded company, it was no longer a social media for the people. may free speech live on ✊

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

welcome! it ain't perfect here, but at least it's decentralized and harder to manipulate in favor of the oligarchs.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

I am new here, and I actually like everything about it. It’s very simplified. But the fact that it’s decentralized is the key reason to why I moved here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Butt fuck pastries for elfs!!!

See, that sentence may not make sense, but we have free speech here, so I can say it as much as I want!

BUTT FUCK PASTRIES FOR ELFS!!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ooh ooh I wanna try one...

Billionaires should be shot in the street for fun like carnival games. 3 shots for a dollar!

Also, I just anally fucked a pastry for elf's. Creampied a Danish.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to Lemmy, hope you have a great time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reddit has only one consistently-enforced rule: don't sass the nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome! We are few, but the bones are good.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Was that AI generated? That is fucking sick, my dude. I'm gonna save it

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, another db0 user has posted it in a chat and I snagged. Amazing job on it. I was floored

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Here's the original in higher quality and less cropping: https://i.imgur.com/XzgU9AS.mp4

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[–] Strocker89 76 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember, they're not threatened by Luigi. They're threatened by the fact that so many people love Luigi and what he stands for.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This. He's basically a martyr at this point.

Luigi reminded the people that we have power. We don't need to be subservient to the whims of corporate interests. We can choose to go a different way. He's in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO who is devoid of empathy or ethics (which is all of them). Anyone could be the perpetrator, anyone could be the target.

It's like a large chunk of the USA is now part of anonymous. Expect us.

(And for anyone who binds anonymous with 4chan, you don't understand anonymous)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He’s in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO

Let's be real, all it takes is one person struck by tragedy who no longer has anything to live for choosing to go out this way rather than going quietly. Maybe their kid was killed in the nth school shooting of the year. Maybe they're dying of cancer due to delayed treatment. Maybe they're financially ruined by medical debt. Like you said Luigi reminded people of what is possible, and there's plenty of tragedies that can be correctly attributed to the choices of the rich that happen every day

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

Kill one rich guy - complete and utter censorship.

Be a rich guy who is a twice impeached convicted felon presidential traitor making decisions resulting in casualties over the thousands - whoah, now, wouldn't want their feelings to be hurt!

State of the world in a nutshell.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Welcome, hope you will enjoy your stay as much as I did. Water is just fine over here

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

thank you! free speech for everyone!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There's still lots of moderation on Lemmy, but thankfully it's all public. The lemmy.world modlog can be found here https://lemmy.world/modlog.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

It is amazing how much fear Luigi has put into the establishment.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Oh don't worry - Lemmy will soon have people posting child porn, gore, or other things en-masse before reporting the site/domain. I've seen it on almost every Reddit alternative since Digg shut down.

They'll run hit pieces against this place for being extremist, they'll do all sorts of nasty shit.

So first they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder how resistant to that Lemmy will be, with the whole federation thing. Harder to ban it when it’s not just one domain.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Yeah, I mean I barely understand this federated stuff. To my understanding, each instance has their own rules. I can't post nudes on my Lemmy.ca to my understanding. I think if there's an instance that is running "afoul" then the instance I connect with can block the entire instance?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

He "allegedly" killed one of them. So they should feel threatened.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, not because of that guy. Because of us. They are afraid of us. They should be.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think that it was more the fear in that he was the closest thing to bring so many of us together since, i don’t know, maybe ever? We can’t agree on who controls the price of eggs, but we all get fucked by healthcare and rich people!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

waking people up to a class war issue which is the real ISSUE, isntead of the CULTURE WAR bs, that trump news is being pushed reddit, and i pointed this out and it was met with deaf ears.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

It's not so much the guy they're afraid of, they're afraid of what his actions could spur others into repeating. They're afraid of what can be done to them if multiple people follow suit. And y'know what? Maybe that's what we need now. Enough of us fearing them, and them fearing us. We don't need them. They need us. And it's well past the time to give them a reminder of that. Through force, if necessary. Preferably without bloodshed, but at this rate it doesn't look good. They've shown time and again they don't care about how many of us lose our lives to preventable circumstances, so it's time to MAKE them care again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Romans felt threatened because of Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Well he was super violent.

and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

Upvoting that probably gets a ban now.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome! A few pointers to help you settle in

Feel free if you have any questions

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Just proves we need more luigis in the world. But reddit has been shit for a while.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit Exodus v43, stay tuned everyone

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Free Luigi

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

All this violent imagery, my stars! I need pearls to clutch.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, Trump said that they will push to get the death penalty for drug dealers...

Lock and load, folks.

We're hunting pharmaceutical CEOs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i mean yeah, generally when a society idolizes a killer, it's not for a particularly good reason (society wise)

and before anybody tries to yap about it, no there would only be a potential long term benefit to this kind of thing, slight shift in politics, maybe on the extreme end a government uprising, which will take many a year to come to fruition, and cause many years of instability. Generally these kinds of things only bring short term problems, when acted upon, humans are just animals, the salem witch trials happened for a reason, if left unchecked, this would turn into a bloodbath very quickly. Lots and lots of people would die. most of them not billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

The romanticisation of a murderer is quite frankly astounding. You can agree with his side of the discussion and not be ok with murder. I don't think enough people get that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The CEO was responsible for thousands of deaths, and the law doesn't give a fuck. It was all legal.

In this case, I'm genuinely ok with the murder.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I left reddit for good yesterday as well. To hell with their censorship.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

They are afraid of copycats, but they had months to try and stop them by just loosening their strangle hold on society. I heard another exec got offed last month in his home in Oregon. it's starting

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

All the people praising Luigi say "this does nothing" when someone suggests an alternative to just shooting CEOs. Well you know what did nothing? Shooting Brian Thompson did nothing. United Health Group just hired a new CEO to run his division, and the real oligarchs continued looting the country even harder than before.

So no, they don't feel threatened. The top oligarchs like Elon barely even registered it. If you wanna know what they're afraid of, look at where they spend money - buying politicians and opposing attempts to regulate them and break up their monopolies. Lucky for them there is no well funded lobby for consumers, people denied health care, or even the poor and middle class generally. Tell the next Luigi to work on that if you really wanna scare these people.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The top oligarchs like Elon barely even registered it.

Elon admitted to Jon Rogan a week or two ago that he's using his kid as a human shield to protect himself from an assassin.

If you wanna know what they’re afraid of, look at where they spend money - buying politicians and opposing attempts to regulate them and break up their monopolies.

Actually, mob justice and dying actually does scare them. It's the one thing they can't just buy their way out of.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

One of several reasons it did nothing is that most Americans aren't interested in action. Luigi is. I don't think his is the only action or even the best, but if other people were taking action it would be a lot more effective.

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