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[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 week ago (4 children)

if they said that about 3rd party apps 2 years ago i would never found Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Its been 2 years already aye. I was so optimistic at the time. "Finally I'll be able to stop doom scrolling"

How innocent I was

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I actually continued to use a 3rd party app up until a few months ago. I created a Lemmy account when all that happened 2 years ago, but I didn't use it much. Glad to see it's been improved, well until recently finding out the creators of Lemmy support Russia.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

That’s the beauty of an idea, though. The worst people can have good ideas and good people can benefit from them. In certain cases, they can use the ideas against the creator themselves. I just consider it a fact of life and avoid giving those people my money directly where possible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who cares? Lemmy is open. There's already many alternatives that are connected, mbin, piefed, etc.

Edit: I don't agree with their views, but this platform is now bigger than them, and they designed it to be that way. I have to respect that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's disappointing to know some of the things the Lemmy devs support but this being a federated platform means you don't really have to be on Lemmy to interact with the posts and users here. Piefed and Mbin work just as well and are fully independent projects so you could try those instead.

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

It kind of makes that people with such strong/extreme views would have enough initiative to start it though. We need to remember that Lemmy development was going on for years before most us took notice.

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

Red Reader is an open source, ad free, third party Reddit app that has been allowed to continue free use of the API due to its usage amongst the disabled community.

I've been using it for nearly a decade & continues to get ignored by folks for some reason.

It's also in the official Play Store, I believe.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cool, it’d be nice if spez dies in a fire.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

that's the smile my friend gets when they've got their butt plug in..

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Hah. I got banned from /r/politics years ago for using that saying to a toxic rando.

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

That place was a shithole.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

straight up propaganda network. same with /r/conservative - same with /r/interestingasfuck - same with just about any sub with more than a thousand subscribers. digg on fentanyl.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This vibe reminds me of the Reddit I enjoyed back in 2010. No, we can't always be toxic af everywhere (sometimes it's a fun little treat), but at the same time, not everything needs to be a goddamn bubble-wrapped "safe space."

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

The real story is buried in there:

Reddit is going to ask for a bit more identifying information from its users, too.

Yeah not going to happen.

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

This is a change from “we will keep it online forever” which is common for a pigboy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

why does it matter once you've been banned for saying something and they won't tell you why and you can't appeal the decision?

they're actively moving users OFF of their platform.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's what they did to me. They made up an excuse because I was critical of Musk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

huffman is both terrified and aroused by elon, it's fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

They're both accelerationists, which is a doomsday cult that wants to rule over the ashes of a world they help destroy.

Edit: And white supremacist Nazis. Can't forget that part.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

new word for the English language, and i'm sorry: humilijactulation

edit - i forgot to say i like yours more

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

Elon probably gave him some spare change

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Old reddit has been mentioned.

He's definitely gunning on shutting it down

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Who cares. Reddit is dead.

Worrying about Reddit on Lemmy reeks of insecure-ex when your new girlfriend is way hotter and actually nice.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These kinds of "who cares" comments are rather rude, I came across an article about Reddit and I posted it to the relevant comm.

Doesn't mean we're all spending every minute of everyday thinking about Reddit

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

I’m a rude boi. I’m just made this way

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unsub from this community if you don't want to see anything Reddit related.

You are actively viewing a community called [email protected] , then complaining about the community containing news and info about Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might want to just block this community then.

There are still some niche subs that Lemmy hasn't replaced yet, and this is a place where we can discuss Reddit without having to worry about shadowbans, automods, or other means of Reddit admins quelling discussions that they don't like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah I’m dumb

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

The Japan-related subs where people share visa, legal, medical, financial and other resources are super important to those of us living here and, despite many times asking, will not move over. Moving over without the people holding that knowledge is pointless. So, as much as I dislike it, I still have to use a very limited section of reddit for things like that (being a new small business owner in Japan be hard).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Many niche communities have not migrated to Lemmy or any other platform. The value isn't the platform, it's the people that make the content. Until reddit is truly dead, it will continue rotting itself from the inside out, and that affects all of us who still need to use reddit for the niche.

Network effects are a hell of a drug

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, you know what's nice about Lemmy? Not being shadow banned, or banned for expressing a legitimate opinion that's appropriate considering the topic at hand. I mean, it still happens on Lemmy, but at the community level, it's not pervasive throughout.

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

When they say "people," does that mean, 1, 20, 8 million, or what? They will define it and I'm sure this is a way of saying they're getting rid of it so there isn't a grand exodus.

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

I have no reason to believe tbis. Not that it matters to me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

old.reddit is literally the only thing that keeps me coming back. i hope they kill it. i'm sick of scrolling for ten minutes just to find a post worth clicking on. i've got netflix for shit like that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I guess this does matter to me, because every time i see new reddit, I take the requisite 10 seconds to retype the URL and change to old reddit. I never log in anymore, but I do make sure its old reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

If I may say that I hope more people support Lemmy. We need to get away from Reddit and it will be difficult. I’m kinda new to Lemmy and I plan on donating.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Welp good bye old reddit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm still using old reddit, but I'm very excited about the return of Digg and partnership of Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian. Hopefully that scares Huffman and somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aaron Swartz is smiling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I only stayed on Reddit as long as I did because of Old Reddit. New Reddit simply isn't worth it.

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

The only reason I'm here in the first place is because it's ridiculously obvious that they're killing old reddit soon. Every time they add some new bullshit feature it breaks our reddit just a little more and it becomes less and less usable. Meanwhile new reddit is also becoming less and less usable as they try to make it Facebook 2.0. It's all getting enshittified very quickly.

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

What a liar. I hope that pasty cat f***** suffers a slowly from feline AIDS. Seeing as he's the reason the feline population even caught it.

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