Bye Reddit

It'll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.

I'm almost out of popcorn; I hope you brought more snacks. I want to continue watching the dumpster fire.

My final straw with Reddit was a year ago, with an r/askreddit question, "Now that the Supreme Court has given Presidents immunity, what's the funniest thing Biden could do?" I answered, "Shoot Donald Trump." I caught a strike for inciting violence, appealed it, and got a clearly automated reply upholding the strike. Made a Lemmy account that day and never looked back.

I hope lemmy's hostility to nazis continues unabated.

I haven't been banned from many reddit communities yet, but I've seen the news about them banning upvotes for comments about italian plumbers and I decided it was time to look elsewhere.

Hi! I started reading about Lemmy over the weekend and made my account today.

There’s definitely a change in the air. I’ve been downvoted to hell for the last week saying and doing the exact same things I’ve been saying and doing the entire time, making jokes at the expense of celebrities and being snarky in political subs. For some reason this week joking about how DJ Khalid doesn’t go down on women and offering non-destructive pro-tips for deflating tires is worth a bunch of downvotes.

I bet all of the right wing subs aren't effected at all

forgot my old login to here so made a new one, but my reddit got banned for 3 days for "violent threats" after talking about Luigi in r/europe.

reddit chose their side. goodbye reddit and twitter, hello Lemmy and Bluesky.

I came over to Lemmy a few days ago. I had still been using Boost for Reddit. Somehow my app was still working, but I finally got shut off a few days ago. I can't handle the promoted posts on the reddit app. I'm at peace with advertisements but the promoted posts were too confusing/distracting for me to comfortably browse.

Lemmy needs a lot of publicity IMO. Users who are active on Reddit can do their part.

I came here when all the API drama happened, and I didn't even use third party apps, I just decided that I didn't want to help make that greedy little pig boy any money. Even still, I'm actually shocked that they've cracked down this hard. It's hard to take serious, because it seems like they would destroy their userbase with this, but they're doing it.

Yeah, the upvote thing got me. Crazy shit.

HOA's are communism for libertarians. I think the comparison is apt.

Welcome!

There are rules here, but you can say fuck and also post images in the comments, which is kind of neat:

yeah im the living example, got approved yesterday, and I love the fact that lemmy is self hosted and decentralized, scratches the self-hosted itch of my brain.

Came here after the moderation tool censoring of 'eat the rich' and 'Luigi'. That's some billionaire protective bs.

There was r/YSK post that got me here. I'm not going back to reddit.

Came here from Reddit.

I finally made the jump. Hi all.

Reddit has loved that asshole forever. We forget that back in 2016 Reddit allowed a huge subreddit full of upvoting bots and trolls to post the most atrocious lies and slander and bullshit (/r/the_d**ald) on the entire site and it got so bad that it was the ONLY SUBREDDIT ON THE FIRST PAGE OF /r/all FOR AT LEAST A WEEK.

They pulled back when they saw their profits declining and the massive backlash going on but now that we're in full fascism mode, reddit is going all out again.

Fuck that place.

Hello, it's me. Happy to be here! 😁

Reddit is still on my quick dial, but Lemmy moved to the top spot.

As much as I want to move away from Reddit completely, so much of information I search is from Reddit (because regular SEO results are trash so I always search on Reddit instead). Does anyone have any suggestions to other alternatives?

I understand that there are laws against violent speech online so the platforms have their hands tied in some ways, but they are completely fucking stupid. We need to get rid of them entirely. People are just going to say "luigi them," instead of "kill them," then "luigi" will become a banned keyword, it will get replaced with something else and so on forever. Especially when your country is at war, there is no way to talk about reality without talking about violence. And violence is justified in self defense. These laws are the product of some soy ass peace time virtue signalers and need to be immediately overturned so that people can begin organizing an insurgency for when the yanks invade.

The main "encouraging violence" fantasy I have is the next Wolfenstein spiritual sequel. The series has always had G.I. Robot's absolute adoration for the process of painfully ending Nazis' lives, and as long as it could pick out its exact (in-game) faction targets well, like I.C.E., and takes some ideas from Doom's glory kills, it could be a lot of fun.

Got perma-banned from a 15 year old account for joking about Elon Musk needing to get Luigi-ed. Fuck that place. Never going back.