Reddit @lemmy.world

2d ago

Top post of Reddit. We are gonna see large influx of users.

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I spent an hour last night interacting with and outing ruzzian trolls on Reddit. There was no doubt these were ruzzians, because after a couple of tit-for-tat comments, they use terms like "we" when talking about ruzzias invasion of Ukraine. They all knew what Yandex was without asking or querying it, as a non ruzzian would. In some comments I explained why ruzzia is a third world shithole country, because I've been there. I told a couple to go dig babushka a fresh latrine pit, and a couple others how good they'd look fertilizing sunflowers in Kursk Woke up today, and I've been permanently banned "for inciting violence". Reddit is a hive full of ruzzian trolls and bots, and the moderators appear to support them. I don't think I'll bother creating another account lol.
- i just block some of them and report most of them and block. no point in arguing with those.
- After the election but most notably after inauguration they started to creep out everywhere, especially into local subs. r/Seattle suddenly had weird narratives being pushed. They did usually get downvoted to hell though and the sub mods have mostly been keeping a handle on it.

Who the fuck named him the boss of anything? And Europe doenst need defense we are perfectly capable of defending ourselves thank you very much

Today i saw a deleted comment in a post titled “trump says he will label violence on tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism” and someone quoted it to express their shock that the comment was deleted. It was “elon and the orange dictator need to be removed from the board” and on top of that people are getting moderated messages warning them that they are liking content related to Luigi mangione. And they are even deleting people’s comments that mention the name luigi mangione.
We are in a full fledged fascist authoritarian police state. The only way to remedy it is a revolution. The system is under complete corporate control and has shown that it will not allow self remediation through its own mechanisms. Like the Princeton study proved the amount of influence one has upon legislated policy is directly correlated with the amount of wealth you have with regular working class people having a statistically irrelevant near zero impact on policy regardless how popular or unpopular the policy may be. This is the reality. There is no way forward that isn’t uncomfortable. And those who believe they are too comfortable to risk what they have need to really examine their reality and see if it truly is comfortable or just a meaningless existence of repetitive wage slavery with basically no autonomy or meaning within such an existence. And at the rate the working class habe lost what little we had that was worth working for in the last 5/6 decades how much more will be lost in the future decades and at that point how can you even believe your children will have any semblance of a life worth working and living for? Something needs to be done now before it is too late which it unfortunately may already be. The internet which was supposed to revolutionize human connection and the spread of ideas and information has been weaponized against us to the benefit of the ruling class and something needs to be done to counteract this. The fact that it was easier for people to mobilize and effect change before the magic glowing screens disseminating propaganda becoming so widely available says all we need to know. There is still hope but thst possibility is dwindling faster by the day. But those saying that the answer is to get out and vote and advocating for ballot box socialism/ ballot box progress are deuded and misinformed.
- To be fair I would say a mass-orchestrated event of committing arson and destruction of private property across the nation should be classified as domestic terrorism.. if you remove politics from the equation, it's still terrorism.
  
  Just the thought of doing it is terrorism. Honestly.

What put me off Reddit was my perception that most of the very active users are toxic. Some of the users seem to enjoy bashing everything and anything that they slightly disagreed with and it has reached it's tipping point for me. It seems to me that they are exceptionally lacking in personal development and critical thinking and it ruins what makes the platform great. I'm hoping this platform doesn't end up like Reddit.
- I absolutely agree that honestly most people on reddit are toxic, but I would extend that to twitter/x as well. What I think part of the problem is that they're probably normalish people in real life, and let out some of their frustrations from real life they turn into literal trolls (not just the internet slang). I don't know what to do with that information other than interactions on reddit and x are a lot less meaningful than one would assume since it's all mainly fabricated ragebait

This is wild. When it happened to me, I thought I had just inadvertently crossed the line (and was surprised it had taken me more than ten years to do so). But now I see it's a whole thing. I guess Reddit is officially enshittified.

The thought police have been running roughshod over us since the Orange Idiot took over. You know what that means.

I got a warning for upvoting too much violent content. I know it’s bullshit. I contributed regarding economics but nothing violent.
Done with Reddit.
- Same here, but the bots don't even tell you the "wrongthink" post that you upvoted so you have no idea how to avoid upvotes that will flag your account with a warning/ban. It's fucking psychotic on reddit now. Like watching the Titanic sink at this point.
  
  digg could not be coming back at a better time. I honestly hope that it's basically just reddit but with a better UI and not as many shitty rules. Going public ruined that fucking website and I always knew it the moment they started charging an obscene amount of money to use their API
- Never got my wrist slapped. But enforcing votes is beyond the pale.
  Dipped my toes into lemmy during the last exodus (2023?) but I'm done posting to reddit forever now.
  
  I can't wait for digg to finally come out, I hope it becomes basically a better, private, version of reddit, but you know, good. Lemmy is good too for now but I'm not exactly a huge fan of the UI, and not enough people are moving over yet. Again, probably cuz the UI is a little hard to figure out the first time.
  
  Delete account wipe your posts and replace with links to lemmy stuff
- Not the whole site but I got banned from World News a month or so ago for making a Luigi related Mario Brothers joke.
  Such a joke. I am not even remotely a small time Reddit user either, been there for like 15 years and probably have over a million Karma across 3-4 accounts.
- Yep, that’s why I’m here now. If I ever use my Reddit account I just refuse to upvote anything at all

Hello folks! Found out I was banned this morning and spent all day trying to figure out an alternative. All for liking a post that said Trump raped a girl. Oh well. He did rape a girl so wtf?
- Same here! My second 7-day site-wide suspension, I'm guessing ban next. I got flagged with warnings for upvoting something related to Luigi as "violating the rules by upvoting hate posts." It's like fucking 1984 over there now.
  
  seems the added increase "luigi" and increase the amount of ban/purges going on. i was banned before they labeled LUIGI as a dirty word. i think its going to get worst and worst til theres only MSM only content on the site(that you can comment on)
- Thats wrongthink. Double plus ungood.
- Info: was the article pro or con re: Trump's child rape? You would likely not have been banned by reddit had it been pro Trump's child rape.

To me, getting banned from Reddit (without being a dick) it's a medal of honor. Guess I'll have to try harder...
- I went out with a bang. Coincidentally, implying that such things should happen to the Muskrat and pedophile dictator too.
  The latter getting a golden pager from Netty the Butcher was my highlight snark. And telling off the idiots at LSC was a good bit of satisfaction for myself.
  I miss being able to interact with certain smaller subreddits for particular interests, but that's about it.
  I genuinely don't know if there'd be enough of a following to see an active Blakes 7 group over here. That's my biggest loss tbh.
- I'm on my 2nd 7-day site-wide suspension on this new account as of today. Had two older accounts permbanned. Then I recently got an automod to tell me my account was flagged for upvoting "hateful content" likely related to me upvoting Luigi posts. Reddit is fully unhinged at this point, what a cesspool.
- Not too hard anymore. Say Luigi or upvote Luigi a day you're getting the ban hammer.
  
  One Luigi a day, keeps the Spez away.
  
  Done that... https://programming.dev/post/26558225

Anyone else see Reddit's stock tank 20% yesterday?
- insert good.gif
- if it goes below 100 then I'm gonna celebrate
  
  I'll celebrate when it goes below a dollar and gets delisted

Why was OP banned?
Great introduction to Lemmy, might as well teach people we're no better than reddit
Fucking disgusting internet janitors
- Thats really just .world. Other instances are better imo.
  
  is there a video on youtube explaining how lemmy works? I've heard of instances before and I'm sure you could just explain it in a comment but it would be nice to just see a video going over the UI and where reddit equivalents for stuff are
  
  What are better instances? I'm on .world now and so far haven't had issues, but it'd be good to know better options
- Welcome to Lemmy.World lol

Permabanned after nearly 12 years. Forgive me for hating Nazi's. I'd made the statement fuck all Nazi's but six several times but this time was this time I got automod flagged. They are pretty much flagging the word Nazi regardless of context or overall statements made. The same goes for the word Luigi. Also, Karma is basically useless considering downvoting too much can also lead to a ban. It is pretty ridiculous. I'd never been banned once for any reason except for the last 6 months where I've been sub banned or gotten 3-7 day bans several times for making points about the sorry state of affairs in America lately. Forgive me for not bowing to kiss the fascist MAGA ring. Reddit has really put profits over people this time with these stupid rules and no real care in reading appeals or looking at context during moderation. It is all for their bottom line and oligarch investors now.
- you can get flagged or astroturfed for calling out people trying to sanewash nazis, usually its the statement"You should not call everyone a nazi you disagree with" type of post.
- Interesting. My 10 year old account also got perma banned for telling someone defending the third Nazi salute to "go to hell".
  Apparently I should have told them to "go fuck themselves". But telling them to "go to hell" was inciting violence or whatever.
  
  I like how "go to hell" inciting violence implies that hell is a real place or something lol
  
  I got mine for saying we needed to cyberbully Elon Musk to suicide. A little edgy maybe, but old Reddit wouldn't have batted an eye.
  
  Yeah, I've said fuck all Nazis but six or kill all Nazis but six a hundred times on there, but this time was a bridge too far apparently. I really don't care if they think it is violent. They'll get theirs eventually I guess if history is a cyclical as it seems. Just gonna keep on trucking and spreading the word when I can, but it sure as shit ain't going to be on Reddit. I think I'm getting too old, grizzled, and cynical for any form of social media anymore anyways. It's all just so.... fake. Reddit was the last bastion for me. I probably won't be that prolific on here, but we'll see.

It's why I'm here. 12 year member, nearly a million in karma, perma-banned for repeating a statement I'd made many times in the past with no repercussions. The first time I repeated it after HitlerPig stole the election, I was fully banned.
It's happening because Ohanion wants to buy TikTok, and he knows HitlerPig will be personally making the decision, based on who smooched his ass the most, and who paid the biggest bribe. So as a show of good faith, he's volunteering to make Reddit a member of the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
I hope Reddit goes the way of Digg.
- The sweet irony of this is that digg.com is coming back. I'm on the early subscription list for when they finally release it. There's going to be a point in time where reddit is just 80% bots talking to each other, I bet.
- Same here,

US out Ukraine in!

so..trump and musk want russia to take Ukrain and then all of Europe after that i take it.
- Whatever Putin wants, Trump wants.

today / last night he confidentley stated that the X cyberattack was "traced" to Ukraine.
he's just another head of the hydra, the hydra being the transnational crime syndicate that masquerades as the US, Russian, and other governments.

This feels very much like the migration from tiktok to rednote. Hi everyone.
- But without the Chinese censorship (as long as you stay away from tankie instances).
  
  I haven't noticed any censorship yet, but then again, I'm not talking shit about China.
- If it's anything like that, they'll all head right on back very soon.
  
  I was surprised by the amount of people that went back. Or went back and stayed. Especially considering the welcome message. That shit was insultingly disgusting.
- Welcome. And yeah though you might find more communists here than rednote
  
  Tankies are fake commies IMHO
- Welcome!

Oh no there goes the neighbourhood!
Just kidding, welcome refugees!

Yes, we came
- Hello and welcome. Can I introduce you to my friend Linux?
  
  You're one of the many making me feel like a Windows cuck because I haven't used Linux yet
- Will you clean up the mess? 😊

Reddit full bore banned me for saying "I should have a legal right to punch nazis" and declined my appeal.
Reddit is unironically nazi aligned and that's not a joke it's terrifying.
- Reddit is aligned with the corporate overlords of the US, which are nazi aligned.
- I haven't been full banned yet but have grown tired of the amazing levels of stupidity. I caught a temp ban for incivility for writing "Your mother should have gone through with her Planned Parenthood appointment."
  
  Not very civil of you dear...
  Tbh you can catch bans for that here but beauty of fediverse is that power tripping mods have limited ability to ban you fedi wide so freedom enjoyer's just go do their discourse on other sub's and servers
  
  To be fair, that's kinda deserved. You could experience the same here.
  There are plenty of other reasons to hate on Reddit, but acting in a fairly civil manner should be expected.
  Glad to have you here though! 😊
  
  I find that answer amazing and I will adopt it from now on to all the orange guy followers, cheers
- But... but... Won't someone think of the poor innocent nazis???
  (I got a warning for pretty much the same reason and decided not to hang around until I got a full ban.)
- Most people agree punching nazis is fine, very few people agree on who is and isn't a nazi.
  It is precisely because useful clueless idiots are constantly being classified as nazis that no one is taking accusations of actual nazis seriously. Within society the meaning of the word has degraded to "mean people I don't like".
  
  Within society the meaning of the word has degraded to “mean people I don’t like”.
  I've been hearing this for years, and yet, literal neo-nazis are running the us government now. But go ahead and keep using the anti-woke rhetoric lol.
  
  what a cop out. there's no functional difference between an idiot that works to advance nazi ideologies and the same but they have a swastika tattoo on their neck. to resist fascism means to confront ALL fascists. it's not about disagreement or people you dont like, most people are using ur-fascism as their default definition and umberto eco has a fucking 14 point checklist we're using. to act like it's so arbitrary is completely out of touch.
  
  Nazis thrive on diluting language—twisting words like "freedom" and "patriotism" to serve their agenda. Ironically, the same thing happens when "Nazi" gets thrown around carelessly. Mislabeling people weakens the term, but so does refusing to acknowledge real extremists. Precision matters—both in calling out threats and in resisting linguistic manipulation.

I fixed all my reddit problems years ago with this simple trick:
added
127.0.0.1 reddit
to my hosts file.
- Say more about this. What does this do?
  
  Redirects queries for "reddit.com" in your url bar towards your own computer. And unless you literally are reddit, you won't reply to yourself, the result being that you've blocked the website for yourself.
  EDIT: I prefer to use 0.0.0.0 instead, so I'll continue to ignore myself even if I do become Reddit in the future. Gotta be cautious.
  
  It's a DNS file specifically for your computer. It just returns 127.0.0.1 as the IP address of Reddit, instead of it's real IP
- Since when did wildcards work in the hosts file ?
  
  Well, I know it works on my system...

Watch this: Luigi is a hero
- Just made an account here ten minutes ago. The format feels weird but it’s nice to be able to continue talking like sensible people without getting banned for it. Feels good, man.
  
  I will say, DO NOT use Sync or Boost, both are abandoned. Voyager is FOSS and adapts to updates.
  
  No algorithm!
  
  Check out lemmyapps.com for different apps and webUIs. There is even sm old reddit style clone like old.lemmy.world for example.
  
  Happy you could join! You'll find that not only are bans much more reasonable, but conversations are frequently downright pleasant. Aditionally, there are communities built just for calling out mods that abuse power or are heavily biased. The system here is working much better from a user perspective.
  
  The Voyager app is almost exactly like Apollo was before Reddit shut it down. There are others you can try out too and Lemmy will look and function however you want it to.
  
  Welcome!
  
  If you used to use the Apollo app for Reddit then I strongly recommend Transit. It looks and feels a lot like Apollo, but for Lemmy.
  
  If it's any help, I use the sync app on android. I also used sync for reddit prior to the API thing which finally made me leave, so my experience is pretty much the same in terms of format. I agree it can feel weird in a browser but there's a bunch of good mobile apps that might feel more familiar.
- .world mods would be very upset if we didn't bully them into submission 😔
  
  where can I learn more about .world lore

We’re hereeeee! Also Luigi is a national treasure.
- Banned for supporting Super Mario characters.
- Luigi!

Which reddit app is this in the screenshot?
I was using Boost for reddit but it stopped working :/
- I'm using Boost for Reddit and Boost for Lemmy. The Boost for Reddit app requires several patches to keep working though, which makes it inaccessible for most people.
  
  I was using the last version of Boost for reddit, but it completely stopped working a few days ago. Can you link me a guide to do the patches?
- Boost is why I'm here too :(
  They have a Lemmy client but I haven't been able to get it to work reliably for me. Which client are you using for lemmy?
  
  Voyager is the best imo.

I've had a few of my "check out lemmy.ca" posts deleted there and frankly I don't see how it breaks reddit TOS. They're just bitter.

I'm an exodusee as well, just a minnow at this point.
I just got sick of the right wing bullshit, the censorship, the shills, the morons, the bootlickers...
Hello all
- Right here with you. Posted a brief goodbye on my sub and jumped over here. Luigi.
  
  That was one of the last straws, not being able to say Luigi.
- The bots! They were getting really bad.
- Welcome! Have a kitty pic!!
  
  Despite the look on her face, the only trauma she suffered was having her blanket fort folded and tidied.
  
  ;_; I can't see any kitty pic
- Oh, i approved your application a couple of hours ago. Hello! Welcome to lemmy and dbzer0. I hope you like it here :)
  
  Dragon ball zero?
- welcome in! insert obligatory ‚dozens of us‘ meme here.
  
  Thank you!
  Where is the door in case I get scared
- Welcome! Glad you made it over. Any way I can clear thing up or make it more smooth?
  
  Coke and a ciggie and I'll be right as rain
- Welcome, it's nice to have you!

All are welcome and check this out: Cisgender
Truely amazing
- Cisgendered Nazis should be punched in the face! To be fair, all Nazis deserve a violent rebuttal. See? Not banned.
- watch out! you just killed 5 cis people 🥺

We're witnessing the second reddit wave now, just like we always knew it would come eventually when reddit crossed another enshitification threshold.
Welcome all!
- Happy to be here... I think. Doesn't seem too weird so far.
- Next one will be when the kill old.reddit.
  You know that's coming
  
  Facts, it's already happening when most of the perfectly fine comments are collapsed in any interesting topic. Like yesterday when twitter was down. Every comment under the top level memes were collapsed so you have to click the + in front of it and get bored quickly and just give up. Same today with Musk post about being all weird about his empire.
  nothing to see here move along type of thing
  
  Maybe.
  Most people use apps though, so it’s not high on their enshittification list.
- I’m pretty sure my account ban is coming, the fact it isn’t banned already is likely an oversight of the fascist running the place.
  
  Most of my accounts are banned or suspended now.
- FWIW, there were also a few smaller waves before the big API one, but they were mostly individual communities migrating (/r/piracy, /r/genzedong, ...)
  These last few messups are too silly that I can't even guess what they'll do next. Surely they won't force ID registration...
- Enshitification complete!

Mods remove a post from /r/worldnews about Musk pushing for the US to leave NATO because it’s “not the appropriate subreddit”…? Excuse me, what the fuck???
- Mod decisions always baffled me, both on Reddit and Lemmy. We aren't immune to it.
  
  But here it's a lot easier to set up a new home.
  !theonion@midwest.social is still very popular but I saw the writing on the wall and jumped to make an alt !theonion@sh.itjust.works because people had gripes with the Midwest admin and I wanted to prevent an inevitable Lemmy.world alternative from appearing.
  And now we happily co-exist. Theirs tends to focus more on the political while I like to also post the more mundane, slice-of-life, articles
  
  !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Feels like they promote lemmy the same way microsoft promotes linux
- Basically yes. The alternatives passively become better simply because of the mainstream option becoming worse over time. I think it's still going too slowly in general but I'm not complaining, better slow than not at all.
  
  Linux isn't just getting better in comparison because Windows got worse.
  Linux is so much better now than just 10 years ago, it's absolutely incredible.
  
  Better slow than too fast too. Lemmy feels like a nice fairly small community. I'm not sure that'll continue once it's the size of Reddit. We'll get more content and niche communities will be better served though, so there's pros and cons.
- Not quite... It's easiest to game on Windows still. I'd love to move to Linux, though. But, alas, this year is not your year still. Crucify me if you wish, but this is the truth. So say a simple gamer that knows more than you do if you're peddling Linux as the best option in early 2025.
  
  I've switched to main linux last week, for now with a windows dualboot for games that have issues. Honestly a good option if you just don't like windows or where it's heading. Depending on what you play going 100% linux isn't viable though (but also if you're not playing any multiplayer games it is).
  Rebooting is so fast these days that switching OS isn't a big problem, and I'm surprised just how well proton is working. I've somehow had more problems with the EA launcher trying to play nfs unbound on windows than on linux (it just worked with no issues, on windows it wouldn't launch if I don't close the ea launcher first).
  
  What have you been trying to run? I am honestly baffled at the linux gaming possibilities, even outside of Steam. I mean even Star Citizen "runs" on linux. (lol)
  
  That depends on what games you play. The steamdeck proves that it's possible to game on Linux.

Having not been using this place as regularly for the last couple of weeks, it definitely looks like there's more upvotes on posts now in general compared to when I started up here about two months ago. Even just before this latest Reddit fuck up, it looks a lot to me like there's been a steady influx lately. Like suddenly noticing that the grass has got longer.
- When I made my Lemmy account (the day reddit put a paywall on the API) most posts didn't even have comments (sorting by hot/popular). And it would be common to run out of new posts after a bit of scrolling. Now it looks about the same level of activity as reddit 10-something years ago.
  
  It feels good not seeing repeated comments, everyones actually reading before saying stuff
  
  I just came over from Reddit. I stepped back after the API debacle but didn’t switch to Lemmy until this week when they threatened me for upvoting something “violent” (honestly, no idea what it could have been).
  Anyway, I want to agree with your sentiment. Remember Reddit before they started messing with the upvotes? Top posts would have 1k-2k upvotes and outstanding insanely popular posts would break like 7k.
  On Lemmy, I scan the comments and I easily can see real people talking. I usually have to scan a long time on Reddit to find real people and not bots recycling comments. It makes me wonder how many real humans are commenting over there.
  Glad there’s humans here.
- Welcome back!
  
  Haha thanks! I've been lurking a fair amount. Just a little more distracted currently.
- Oh yeah, I've only been on Lemmy a few months but I've noticed it. I was one baby face emoji (is that just a Voyager thing?) in a sea of old accounts, but recently I've been seeing more and more of those baby emojis
  
  I think it is just a Voyager thing, on Thunder I see a pink name & cake if a user joined today

I came from reddit due to overt censorship, so yeah. I hope this place gets more populated, reddit definitely has the userbase advantage for now.
- I've been here for a while now. The userbase can be seen as an advantage, but it's also a negative. Things move so fast in reddit and everyone is just passing by each other. You can have actual conversations here though. It feels more communal.
  I want more users so niche communities can thrive, but I'm also worried about it becoming too much like Reddit has been for a while now.
  
  Lemmy is not commercial, so the more fundamental problem will be battling bots, hosting, legal issues, and attracting users from sites that burn cash on advertising and entrapment, probably.
  The community could get toxic, but it’s not going to be stoked from the top, and it’s more escapable.
- Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
  
  Aren't we getting fancy! When I moved over after the api changes all we had was potatoes. Lemmy is definitely improving with each new wave.
- Welcome!

Absolutely. I'm here after a decade+ over there.
- I've been here since they killed third-party apps. I regret nothing, this place is my home now.
  
  I still go sometimes, but I use the RDX app and don't contribute
- Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
  
  Wait a minute, this hot cocoa cup is just full of beans
  
  And lots of gay
  
  And cookies.
  The dark mode cookies in particular ;)

Ok, remove all military bases from those countries and expel all American soldiers and diplomats. No more sharing intelligence with the u.s, they’re compromised anyways

What was the post, though?
- Funny enough. I just joined like 10 minutes ago. As someone whose been on reddit since 2008! I’ve finally had enough when my 15 year old account started getting permabanned just for understanding why people like Luigi exist. And getting banned all over because of one comment. Then I saw another post this morning talking about alternatives to reddit and how someone else started getting banned for just about the same reasons. Then I and came across this platform. And it seems very promising at first glance. I’m m very hopeful it can make its way. Reminds me of the older days of early Internet.
  
  It can make its way. I've been here for 2 years, and it's like a more civil and chill version of reddit.
  With a lot more genuine interaction and less of the same fucking haha-funny comments in every thread.
  
  I've been here for 12d now and feddit hasn't lost it's charm. That feeling of how the internet was before the big companies is so refreshing.
- Went to find the removed post. The comments are not locked, lol. So everyone is discussing Reddit censorship and how they are upvoting it after it was removed.
  Anyway, someone in the comments said this: “Musk doing a Hitler salute with a target on his head. Text "Make Nazis dead again" Very nice sticker”
- Anyone know? Super curious.

Should there be an image or a link to one? I'm wondering if there's some kind of mbin compatibility issues with some posts (or some other shenanigans). Nothing jumps out in browser dev tools, but I've seen a lot of posts that are nothing but a non-clickable title for me. Thanks!
- Yes, this post should link to/display https://i.imgur.com/Mn9CPSZ.png
  
  Ok. Thank you. I'll go hunting to see if there's already a PR or issue about it. Thanks!