Inception bitch!

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    You left Reddit because you wanted to tell a message

    I left because I was banned site wide cause of an unpopular opinion in a gaming subreddit

    We are not the same

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      I got banned site wide for saying that democrats want to force everyone to get automatic transitions… In a car sub.

      I guess I’m transphobic because I didn’t put a /s at the end. 🤷

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      I was also banned site wide from reddit.

      For saying that mayor Tiffany Henyard or whatever her name is of Dalton IL should be imprisoned for corruption. It was reported as racism. Lmao whatever that site sucks anyway

      Oh wait … I wasn’t supposed to disclose the reason!!!

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          I got banned for wishing that Washington loses their nuclear standoff with Iran, the feeling goes for all of the nuclear standoffs, though. Get shitty representation, a bad economy, and to fight rich men’s wars if you’re from West of the Mississippi, unless you have a beach, then you matter to the Fucking Virginians, lmao.

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        It was an opinion specifically selected from fresh produce and ingredients made with passion and dedication.
        I have served it to Star Citizen players and they started to behave very unfriendly towards me. I had to run for my dear life.

        When I tried to come back I was met with hammers and pitchforks so I decided to take my cuisine elsewhere.

        Unfortunately not everybody likes my cooking but… I have found plenty of enjoyers of my food on the web.

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        Special kind of opinion with extra sauce, served right into the Star Citizen subreddit.

        🤌 House specialty.

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    I ditched Reddit because the writing’s on the wall for them becoming a complete hellscape with their ramping up of censorship recently, and I jumped ship before that Titanic of a platform sinks.

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    There are many communities still on reddit for which there are no alternatives on lemmy as of yet and if you want it to surpass reddit you need to stop with the toxic attitude and the false sense of superiority especially since a lot of the content on this platform is just reposts from 4chan, x, reddit. If curious folk come here and all they see is toxic threads and reposts why would they stay here? This is mostly in response to the comments I’ve seen on here not the thread itself.

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      Where’s the aggression? You want to talk online respectfully, you can do that here apparently, but not there. I haven’t seen it yet… There is a paucity of communities though, NGL. I’ll practice patience.

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        Really? I’ve seen Lemmings are much more competent, way higher debate ability, far less disinformation. Also I’ve seen this 10x so far in a month: “sorry, you’re right”. Almost never saw that on Reddit. And I’ve had to say it many times too.

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          Then we are having different experiences here because I see a lot of extremely flawed understandings of political philosophy and basic/entry level economics.

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            There are geniuses on all sides, I feel its just different priorities and perspectives, not to say they are all geniuses. At least here you can discuss the merits of Austrian economics for instance.

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              Those that find a lot of merit in Austrian economics would be a great example of the type of people Im talking about were they more common here. Im not seeing a lot of them around

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        I mean even if they are, the software is open source and lemmy is made to work with ActivityPup, an open protocol. That is what matters at the end of the day.

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          This is what’s insane to me.

          Option 1: locked software owned by billionaires who can control the narrative and remove anything they don’t like

          Option 2: open-source software anybody can use, coded by people with extreme opinions

          It’s pretty clear which one is superior

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    Its true. I have friends still using it and they can’t seem to break free. I used Reddit since its inception, but left it immediately during the api-pocolypse and never looked back. I did the same with Proton when the CEO praised the GOP. I have no loyalties to tech companies.

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      I will die on this hill - the Proton CEO was right when he praised GOP in the context of the time, and situation.

      The situation was: GOP accidentally* going against Big Tech and pro-citizens, while Democrats were defending Big Tech (just to be in opposition-by-default to GOP). Specifically, the CEO’s tweet was about how Trump nominating a fairly loudly outspoken anti-Big Tech person to a very high position in the DOJ was a good thing.

      The time was: just before Trump 2 took office and showed what a shit-show his admin, and GOP have become.

      The guy was ONLY talking about Big Tech and anti-trust policies nothing else. He never said “GOP is good for the US” or “GOP is good for the world”, he said “GOP are doing a bunch of anti-trust and anti-Big Tech moves right now and it’s good”.

      People dropping Proton for this reason are the epitome of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

      * it was because Trump was throwing a hissy fit at Meta and Twitter for allowing people to express anti-Trump opinions.

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        The problem with this, is if he was paying attention AT ALL, it’d be clear that the republican stance “against big tech” was always a lie. The fact he just bought their BS is enough for me to not trust the company.

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          The problem with this, is if he was paying attention AT ALL, it’d be clear that the republican stance “against big tech” was always a lie.

          Nobody ever suggested otherwise. I specifically mentioned that myself.

          The fact he just bought their BS is enough for me to not trust the company.

          He didn’t “buy” anything. He didn’t become a Republican, WTF are you people talking about? He literally said, that at the time GOP was more anti-Big Tech and pro-consumer than the Democrats and that a specific appointment was a good choice.

          Since when does stating facts mean you’re “buying someone’s BS”?

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      I’ve been trying to break free from Reddit ever since the api-pocalypse and subsequent ai-pocalypse. I mostly found my home on Tumblr for a while but it’s taken a long time to find replacements for some things.

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    Neither of these are true lol. Someone has to tell the right wingers they deserve the death penalty for treason.

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      Keeping away from X is more of a health thing honestly,

      I know at least for me, it leaves me worse off reading through posts on there even if I’ve tried to fight them

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        That’s legit. If this post were a call for good self care and mental health, I wouldn’t have commented. I tire quite easily of individualistic solutions to social and institutional problems.

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    So what’s the alternative to Lemmy? IRC? It seems like every social media platform has problems.

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    Reddit has become practically unusable. Mods censor EVERYTHING even if it doesn’t “break the rules” it’s worthless trying to have honest discussions.

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      Not even censoring, also outright stealing for karma farming. I’ve had perfectly normal photos being criticized as not within the rules for bullshit reasons. An alcoholic drink aggressively marketed in two “variations” for men in women in pointlessly gendered was taken down with the bullshit excuse, that men and women have different metabolisms so it wasn’t pointless. A week later there was a post about this drink with a lot of upvotes and my exact photo from our local supermarket. It was posted by one of the very active accounts. Mods are taking down promising content in some subs just to post it themselves.

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      I once said on /r/nintendo in the context of Nintendo increasing the price of games that even if you enjoy their products, there’s no excuse to defend their anti consumer practices and that there was way too much “corporate boot licking” among Nintendo fans. It wasn’t a statement directed at anyone specifically, but I got a temporary ban for “derogatory name calling.”

      Like…I fully understand it’s going to be a sub of Nintendo fans, and I also consider myself a fan of a lot of their games, but if you aren’t allowed to be critical…then banning me for that post kinda proved my point, lol.

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      Mods censor EVERYTHING

      This is not a Reddit issue, this is a “subreddit I’m subscribed to” issue. I’m not seeing that problem.

      The problem I AM seeing, though, that’s ACTUALLY making it unusable is how they fucked up the latest UI redesign. Ctrl+Enter no longer works, spellcheck is force-disabled when using the Markdown editor, posts no longer open in a panel, you have to open each one in a separate tab or reload the main feed every single time, everything is slow and clunky… It’s just badly written, badly optimised and badly designed overall.

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      I got an instant permanent auto ban for joking about pushing someone down the stairs. It was ‘supporting violence’. I appealed and it was auto rejected. It’s become absurd.

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          Smh I’ve heard about a ton of stupid reddit bans but this one takes the cake. I guess if you keep reporting it they’d have to actually do something about it so they prefer to ban you and pretend it doesn’t exist.

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          Luigi is a bright, shinning example of what happens when the powers that be stop listening to the complaints and needs of the peasantry.

          You’d think they’d have learned that the last several dozen times lords got too high and mighty and triggered a violent revolt/uprising… but alas…

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            If they sentence him to death it’s gonna be the white people version of George Floyd.

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            Luigi is also, in all probability, innocent.

            Which means the Claims Adjuster is still at large.

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      I dropped Reddit when it was announced that you could be banned for upvoting something.

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      Dude im so tired of bans and creepy tracking that ensures you cant engage on the site… I do enjoy the reddit user friendly platform but im so sick of the overreach from the mods… i have had an account up for a while that just got permanently banned because I accidentally engaged with a sub i forgot had banned my og account… and because of that old account that had an IP ban it was somehow tied to my new account made a whole year later! Even though i use duckduckgo with full protection and cleared all my data… but Im done… its not worth the headache…and trying to use lemmy world now feels better. Still getting used to it here

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        your comment has been automatically removed because you didn’t choose the right flair.

        your comment has been automatically removed because it doesn’t adhere to “fuckshitstack” guidelines

        your comment has been automatically removed because it didn’t kiss the mods’ asses enough

        your comment has been automatically removed, to become verified, take a photo of your driver’s license, your social security card, and yourself holding both of them, in each arm. SUBMISSIONS WITH BOTH CARDS IN ONE HAND WILL BE DELETED! PLEASE, READ THE STICKY.

        I fucking hate Reddit.

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          So spot on! And i needed a place to vent. I’m glad lemmyworld lets us do that. But I’m so done with reddit. They leave up absolutely toxic awful comments and users that are actually bots, but then punish and route out real users… I didn’t really believe the dead internet theory until i realized how much reddit targets real users…

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        DuckDuckGo doesn’t hide your IP. Your IP is a fundamental networking number used to route traffic to your computer. It can also change for many home internet service providers over time, so it’s a bit stupid of Reddit to use them, though they might be using more advanced fingerprinting mechanisms and merely saying IP.

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      Their threshold for “calls to violence” is ridiculous. Got a ban for commenting I’d slap someone just like the person who got pranked slapped the person who jump scared them.

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        My ban was for saying there should be mass protests outside the building in which that American judge was held and that these protests should prevent anyone from entering or leaving until that judge is released. Apparently, that’s “violence”, even though it’s self-defence against the violence of a fascist state.

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        My ban. A bloke purposely ran over a 12 year old boy that was riding his bike. Seems a group of youths had verbally hassled this bloke so this was his reaction. Thankfully it was caught on film. This happened about 50 miles from me here in Australia.

        Well anyway my comment was that if he had run over one of my two boys he might have ended up in hospital, there might be broken bones and I might end up in prison. I mean it was an angry knee jerk reaction to a horrible situation.

        Well I got a site wide ban for threatening violence. I didn’t actually threaten anybody. No warning, no temp ban, not just banned from that one sub. Appealed but it fell in deaf ears.

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    It’s me, I’m the problem… (Sorry I’m old and couldn’t help it)

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      I do not see how Lemmy helps with anything other than allowing people another excuse for escapism and scrolling on the internet over actually developing life skills, seeing new sights, socializing with humans, getting better at understanding people, and actually making an effort to communicate with others, doing some small part to make the world better.

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        This shits so funny bruh, stop using social media as your excuse for not developing skills, yeah its addictive but you make an active choice to not delete these apps, if I want to get shit done I delete tiktok, there you go, no longer distracted by easy scroll dopamine. Went i want a break from learning skills, seeing new sights, I redload it, wtf do you think social media is, there is less small talk and more proper socializing on lemmy/reddit type platforms than any other

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        I think the ‘problem’ the meme is referencing is supporting centralized social media run by corporations. I think the ‘problem’ you are talking about is more along the lines of tech addiction. Something can fix one problem without fixing every problem.

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          Sure, and my point is maybe we all need to put away the internet entirely a little more often, it’s literally killing us and the world.

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              the internet can be a great place if you know where to look. the problem you are referring to is cellphones and general 24/7 connectivity. you can still get called with no data service, anywhere anytime. so ppl… put away the phones, tablets, computers, gaming devices. I challenge anyone to go off grid for a week. sadly I know I can’t.

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                We have off grid days on the weekend. I love it. I’d do it more if work didn’t require it or I didn’t have people who call me for help with things.

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              I love me a really well-made grilled-cheese sandwich, like with all the fixings and fancy bread. Truly one of life’s pleasures.

              But if gets moldy, even if it’s no fault of my own, I will probably throw that shit away and pick another option. (This also kills the spread of the mold.)

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          It would be weird if a Lemmy instance tried to make itself addictive. Like congrats your users request way more content and it costs 10x more to operate now yay

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        Link aggregate sites do perform an actual function outside of the use case of doom scrolling. It’s a way that I engage with my niche hobby groups, aggregate news, and troubleshoot niche tech issues. There’s a reason why you Google a question then add “reddit” at the end.

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    The only thing Twitter has over something like Bluesky is the fact that Bluesky is so milquetoast and nice that you don’t really get any of the drama you get on Twitter. Like, I never see comic fans going “Black Bolt would DESTROY Saitama in a fight!” and anime fans going “Nu uh! ONE PUNCH!” on Bluesky.

    Same with Lemmy tbh. Lemmy is 80% politics, 5% memes about politics, 5% memes about Lemmy being better than Reddit, and 10% Linux.

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      I came here to discuss niche hobbies and technical stuff. What I wanted to use reddit for but I strongly disagree with their business practices since this whole API blocking crap from last year.

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      It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn’t a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.

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        Honestly I’ve become so disillusioned with Lemmy over the last few months. Almost all of the discussion I see is liberals saying all conservatives should be executed, leftists saying all liberals should be executed, and tankies saying that anyone not willing to self-immolate in protest of the genocide in Palestine should be executed (but don’t you DARE mention any genocide not perpetuated by the West.)

        /h

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    They will follow us everywhere. If the medium is commercial, the capitalists will capture it. If its public, the extreme social interest groups will capture it.

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      “Extreme social interest” like universal healthcare / basic income, human rights, being anti genocide, pro-human rights, basic privacy rights… list goes on.

      My good fellow, extremists are not here shitposting, they’re running the biggest economies of the world. World’s richest man did 2 nazi salutes a couple weeks ago. Twitter is full of nazis. Spotify is hosting Andrew Tate podcasts.

      “Public/open source = bad” is exactly what those people want the public to think, because it can’t be monetized and easily controlled.