They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours

    • vrek@programming.dev
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      I agree and haven’t returned but lemmy hasn’t hit critical mass yet… Like I don’t recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.

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        How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.

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          Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.

          Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.

          I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.

          Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).

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          Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good comments drowning in spam.

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            I used to help out in r/Botdefense

            The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to us (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greedy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww

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        I’ve never considered that a limitation.

        You only need one other person in addition to yourself, for a good discussion.

        If anything, here I’m finding I actually get replies, because my comment didn’t drown among a hundred others.

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    That’s more or less why I left reddit and came to lemmy.

    This is in fact my very first post here. :)

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      1 year ago

      I got here because they killed Apollo 🫶🏻 never forget

      I use Voyager now for lemmy

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      I’m brand new as well and hopeful but wow the smaller forums here need some love. The topic variety is small to the point where maybe straight up bot cloning subreddits here where posts on Reddit just get reposted to their Lemmy equivalent to kick start refugees feeling at home. Plus if there’s basically cross platform discussion posts it gives ground for users of existing subreddits to migrate.

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    I got a lifetime IP ban on Reddit for saying “Fuck Elon Musk all the way to hell” - so fuck Reddit, fuck DOGE, and especially fuck Elon.

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    Just goes to show how easy it is to get these people upset.

    Just call them out

    Call them often

    Call them out every day

    Never stop calling them out … you’ll know they’re listening when someone either tells you or forces you to stop.

    Nazis and authoritarians every single one of them.

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      Because at least in America, we’re all just temporarily embarrassed billionaires. We’ve had a lifetime of brainwashing and conditioning to act against our own self interest.

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        Don’t worry, I’ll fix it all with my unchecked political influence once I earn my first billion.

        (This is sarcasm.)

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      I just left after twenty years. I warned them about overly censoring in their research calls but I guess they didn’t want to listen

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      It always amazes me people keep on using centralised platforms like reddit.

      Sure lemmy isn’t perfect but at least if one instance goes crazy you can always switch.

      • when it was good, it was real good. Every subject I could want in one place, and I could organize it as I wish.

        Lemmy is a confusing mess and lacking in basic features compared to reddit (although there’s probably front ends I could download that would fix my complaints).

        Obviously, I’m here, so the inconvenience is an acceptable price for not being on reddit anymore.

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      Don’t let it piss you off. Just don’t participate. Leave Reddit. Leave FB. Delete, delete, delete.

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          It’s hard for the subreddits that barely have any traction as is. But it’s entirely feasible for most of them. Is there a way on lemmy to have small communities new post always come up on the top of your feed?

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            First of all this isnt reddit so its not subreddits. We are communities here

            And second: feed sorters exist

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              It’s hard enough getting acclimated here and then someone comes along and asks an innocent question or looks for more information and it’s all “fIrST oF AlL ThIs IsN’t ReDdIt” like no shit, shut the fuck up and stop being the problem with this site that makes people leave.