• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      88·
      3 days ago

      That’s a great point. Even if it’s used as a verb, it could mean throwing a banana peel behind you while driving.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      291·
      3 days ago

      Nintendo doesn’t want to raise the specter of association with Luigi Mangione. Heck, I bet they’d advocate for this, and would rename Mario’s brother if they could.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        71·
        3 days ago

        You are drastically underestimating how much Nintendo loves to sue.

        Also, Nintendo’s late CEO Satoru Iwata famously took a massive (50%) pay cut during a tough time for Nintendo, instead of laying off employees. So…

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      452·
      3 days ago

      Nahh deff upvote and then never log back in…

      Welcome to the fedi verse, we got our own neo lib acolyte mods on Lemmy.world and you will get some bans from them.

      Rest of fedi is a decently safe space for proper discourse.

      And remember folks, deny the parasite profit and engagement

      Luigi did nothing wrong

        • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Not really. Lemmy.world is alright as long as you have two functioning braincells to read community guidelines and understand you can’t just say whatever you want in a large fairly moderated public space.

          You can get away with being an anarchist edgelord in a small instance but on Lemmy.world calls to violence are a no-no. When you get as large and stable as .world you need stricter rules to cover ass legally which is understandable.

          The people who complain about being instance banned usually leave out key information that makes them look bad or just plain lie about why they were banned ,cwhich you can check if you go into modlogs.

          Besides that, theres always going to be power mod fuckery any internet fourm you go. At least you can at least post it to c/yepoweryrippingbastard to vent.

  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
    50·
    3 days ago

    The enshittification of Reddit started when they hid new features behind API in order to push their shitty official app. Every next move just made the slippery slope steeper.

    • kava@lemmy.world
      61·
      3 days ago

      Started a much longer time ago in my opinion. I’d say around the time they threatened to ban the kratom sub and did ban the ketamine & steroids one

      Reddit was much cooler 15 years ago. You could find anything on there

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netEnglish
      605·
      3 days ago

      Meh, I’m not so sure. We need to get used to the fact that reddit’s fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023. That was a one-off thing that drove out all the OG users. The people left on reddit are the types that refer to it as an “app” and probably don’t even know old.reddit exists. Those kinds of people will grumble but they aren’t going anywhere. And frankly, that’s fine by me.

      Edit: lmao okay, okay, Lemmy got 6 new users today. I get it. My point that we’re never going to see another user influx on the scale of the summer 2023 API changes has been proven wrong. Congrats everyone. Let’s hope half of them actually stick around.

      • supernight52@lemmy.world
        812·
        3 days ago

        I know that I just came from Reddit today, so… At least 1 person joined because of this fuckery lol

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        221·
        3 days ago

        A small number of reddit users leaving translates to a large number of new users here, comparatively speaking.

      • kay_peep@lemm.eeEnglish
        171·
        3 days ago

        Both me and my partner joined today. Problem is a lot of people don’t know about Lemmy, I’d never heard of it before today but someone commented about it on reddit in response to reddit’s latest nonsense.

        I’ll likely stick around reddit for a bit and do my part to comment about making the switch. I can’t blame people for not joining something they know nothing about.

        • naeap@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          3 days ago

          I’m sorry, never heard about shorthand systems.
          What’s that?
          And why can’t we have a comparable community here? (Like the one you linked and it’s about screen didn’t really give me any info on what it’s about ;⁠-⁠))

          • dpflug@kbin.earth
            5·
            3 days ago

            Shorthand is a method of writing faster and/or more compactly. Speeds over 200 words per minute are attested, or fitting an entire printed page on a sticky note.

            It’s an extremely niche interest, so the main thing preventing a comparable community here is enough active users who are interested. I’ve wanted to do a series of posts teaching one of the systems, but I’ve not hand the chance.

            • socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              I’ve actually been interested in shorthand for years. If you want to migrate over some of the better old content from reddit, I’ll sub and see what happens

            • naeap@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              3 days ago

              That sounds pretty cool actually! :⁠-⁠D

              Is it hard to learn?
              And could you maybe give me some entry level links or so?

              • dpflug@kbin.earth
                2·
                3 days ago

                I think so!

                The difficulty depends on several things, but the easiest systems can be picked up enough to use in a few days to weeks.

                I’ll try to put together an intro post this weekend. How would you rank these features?

                • Speed
                • Size on page
                • Less study required
                • Number of users
                • Ability to type it
                • Phonetic (texts written phonetically are about 20% shorter, but it is an extra thing to learn)
                • naeap@sopuli.xyz
                  2·
                  3 days ago

                  As I’m rocking a reMarkable, my priorities would be ranked:

                  • speed
                  • size on page

                  Everything else, I’m not exactly decided on, like number of users isn’t really important to me, because I’m mostly taking notes for myself.
                  Phonetics also aren’t really important, because I’m mostly focused on technical stuff.
                  Study time? Well, it is what it is. And when it’s worth it, I’ll put in the time. But maybe it would be nice to have something quickly rewarding to start?

                  But this probably shouldn’t be orientated about my needs.
                  Anything you provide about this interesting topic, especially when you include practical usage, is absolutely appreciated!

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          there are a couple of niche communities there, that wont be easily replicated here if at all.

          • dpflug@kbin.earth
            1·
            3 days ago

            That’s the biggest problem with everyone doing the corporate socials’ enshittification cycles instead of POSSE and/or independent services. Cool communities just fracture and die.

            I’ve tried to get people to see this for decades. Maybe it’ll finally enter the zeitgeist this go around.

      • SmokeytheBeard1@lemm.eeEnglish
        81·
        3 days ago

        Not even with the other news of them warning people for upvoting content?

        It’s what got me over here finally.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          and before that, it was the massive purge that was going on, and i believe its still ongoinging especially if they upped thier filtering of anything they deemed “bannable”, the people that lost the most were the ones using hundreds or thousands of accts to earn income for themselves. my hunch is reddit knows this, thats why they went after those bots/of accts, reddit wasnt getting a cut, and wonder why they do very little against propaganda trolls. i also use adblockers so reddit doesnt get money anyways.

      • FrostBlazer@lemm.ee
        5·
        3 days ago

        I started the switch over after how grossed out I was with Reddit advertising betting on the elections, and the overwhelming number of bots and bad actors trying to influence people constantly in most of the subreddits. Since then, I’ve been promoting Lemmy, BlueSky, and the Fediverse as a whole on Reddit.

        I believe we are on the cusp of another great migration. The more enshitified things continue to get on Reddit, the more real people will leave for spaces like here. At some point it could just be mostly bots talking to other bots on Reddit.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          mostly right wing propaganda, drowning out the actual news. right wing prop, includes just positng all the doge, and trumps gaffes. and whats not really reporting on the other sht.

      • Kurroth@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days ago

        Also, obviously we want more users, but do we want that type of user? Remember what Reddit was before digg, before a few ‘endless summers’ that happen every year

      • obvs@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, we all know nothing in 2025 will ever be as consequential as what happened in 2023.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        im an OG user, originally created for use of friendsafari on pokemon(i still have the og acct, that is flagged). i remember when they were there banning “illegal subs” like shoplifting and such, i know they moved to a international site(the users). they dint start aggressively banning til trumps first turn, like around 2018, now everything after that your comment is on thin ice every time.

    • Ravenfreak@discuss.onlineEnglish
      22·
      3 days ago

      I just joined Lemmy after lurking on the Fediverse subreddit for the past few weeks. I’m always open to joining new platforms, and I’m a quick learner. I don’t think my wife is willing to leave Reddit for Lemmy though… But I do suspect we’ll see some more people joining after this and possibly after they start locking content behind a paywall too.

    • valkyrie@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      3 days ago

      I’m glad I found this, Canadian owned!

      reddit is this: and I don’t think enough Canadians know.

      this is 2014. 50million raised. led by Sam Altman

      https://blog.samaltman.com/trump 2016.

      “Trump is right about some big things.” “Trump is right about the problem” “I take some risk by writing this” “this is not an ordinary election”

      in a way reddit helped facilitate and validate Donald Trump as a mainstream candidate helping him gain popularity and credibility with /r/the_donald

      Marc Andressan - “Marc Andreessen says half of his time goes to helping Trump at Mar-a-Lago” 2024

      Snoop Dogg - “I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.” 2024

      Donald Trump Was Peter Thiel’s Most Successful Investment. “Thiel is one of the conservative mega donors that has the ability to shore up candidates that might need additional support. His spending is targeted, and his ability to spend millions can be impactful,” Reddit was targeted, to be impactful.

      Ron Conway - says “Crypto Economy” Is the Next Multitrillion Dollar Opportunity - 2021

      yesterday, - “President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile”

      Jared Leto - “We want to see your America in all its imperfect glory.”

      now reddit is valued at $6 billion, off the data & memes of unsuspecting Canadians supporting their own threat to their sovereignty.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        made sense alot of us/military propaganda was directed at the political and news subs. soon came putins trolls after with the help the above investors.

    • KAbeene@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      Took me a min to figure out this place but yeah been a long time redditor. I got an email warning me I upvoted something they didn’t like so I joined up here.

  • DooshDoosh408@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 days ago

    I knew Reddit was dying after they went public and immediately purged all the mods who didn’t fall in line. It was disheartening to see so many users continue to shill for such decisions. Maybe it was a lot of bots, who knows. But watching this site explode in popularity after these new changes is encouraging. Everyone here should do their part to inform people of this place and continue to stay connected. Good luck everyone!

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      AFTER censoring luigi related news, and promoting trump, is a death knell, and reddit thought it was clever to “ban” a bunch of subs after musk complained about whitepeople twitter, they only backed off when the mods said they wernt inactive.

    • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      so many users continue to shill for such decisions

      I think that something that a lot of people need to be reminded of here, especially ex Reddit moderators, is that the users have NEVER particularly been fans of the moderators. In fact the moderators on Reddit helped the admins bring Reddit to the point where it is now in the first place. Setting up automoderator to catch buzzwords out of context and make people’s comments disappear without notice or a trace is just as fucking dodgy as the admins flagging the word “Luigi”.

      So no, it’s not a surprise that moderators getting into trouble for not falling in line with the admins doesn’t cause a mass exodus. Because most people don’t give a fuck about the moderators and would be glad to see them gone. With the way they have been abusing automoderator over the years, it wouldn’t make much of a difference if they were replaced by an automated system anyway.

      So if you want people to come to Lemmy, stop acting like they give a shit about the moderator that treats them like dirt. Because that’ll probably have the opposite effect. I know that it did on me when all the mods were crying about the API and their modding tools. Start offering more reasons for why USERS should come here.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      The worst thing about the API changes wasn’t even that most people didn’t care or weren’t on board. It was that they were actively against the people protesting. In real life when this happens I always give some leeway because everyone has their own problems and they might be a bit annoyed by the protest action (which is part of the protest). But on Reddit?? People lost their fucking minds because they couldn’t have access to some subreddits for like 24h.

      Sooooo many people failed to realize that even if you didn’t use third party apps that it would still affect you even if indirectly. They didn’t even have to do anything other than literally do nothing/something other that browsing reddit for a day. And they couldn’t. They vilified and downvoted the protesters and took the side of the billionaire trying to take advantage of everyone ruining Reddit in the process

      That fiasco in pretty meaningless in todays world events, but fuck, I still find it a great insight into how much we can suck as a species

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum. Apparently I was the “landed gentry”. Haven’t been back in almost 2 years now. Fuck spez.

  • SoloCritical@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    Yep I bailed. Might post one last thing that will definitely get me banned but I saw the “rule” and immediately came to open a new account here… fuck Reddit.

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.eeEnglish
      35·
      3 days ago

      They really expanded their banning too. My ten year old account got banned for telling a guy that was defending the third Nazi salute to “go to hell”. Was banned and then had the appeal just confirm the ban.

      New account basically uses your Internet footprint to ban any accounts you make. I could get around it but it just is not fucking worth it at that point.

      If they want to keep Nazis on their platform and ban the people that tell them to go to hell Reddit will be like 4chan quickly.

      Hell, I feel every website is becoming 4chan these days. Twitter and Facebook are cesspools. Fuck reddit.

      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
        18·
        3 days ago

        The internet is being disabled as an information source or communication medium.

        The west fears an ‘arab spring’ reaction.

      • Braindamagedeluxe@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        I got banned today cuz some dude DMd me that he would hang himself, I send him a reddit care message and blocked him, I got banned for three days (they cited the care message) for harrassment, I appealed and was like bro reddit admin, they literally wrote me they would hang themselves how is me using reddit care harrassment and then they permanently banned me. Actually insane. My account had like 60k karma and was 7 years old. Reddit can go to hell.

          • Braindamagedeluxe@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            3 days ago

            I mean Im like 99% sure the dude wrote it ironically but how is it my job to figure that out and how would the reddit admins know. Tbf he wrote he would hang himself in german so they probably didnt even bother google translating it and gave me the three day ban cuz admin had a bad day or whatever. What rlly pisses me off is that me appealing got me perma banned. WTF is up with that.

        • redditfuckingsucks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          I have an account with like 130k karma in only a year with no post or comment karma farming, just pure gains, and I got banned for a stupid reason from a sub, so I tried ban evading and got every account suspended for a week from any kind of engagement. Username very relevant, I fucking hate reddit man. Gotta support literally any site that isn’t reddit to get some kind of competition

          • Braindamagedeluxe@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Yeah it just sucks that the social media bubbles get smaller and smaller, I dont rlly wanna create my own bubble with ppl I agree with, I wanna argue with ppl I disagree with (or at least see what they are saying). Reddit was good while it lasted but damn it went down hill and I am sure it will get worse as well.

          • Scrappy_Panda@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Same. Redditor for years. Autobanned without appeal. Need more independent platforms like this outside the US.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          I heard that reporting feature of people “self-harm” is abused alot so reddit now bans people for “Allegedely abusing that button”, i rarely get DMed, because often block people at the same time im reporting them to avoid them contacting me.

          • Braindamagedeluxe@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Yeah I get that but like I did not abuse the feature. I rarely got DMd as well the guy was just rlly mad at me cuz I told him that equivocating left and right extremism (in germany) is stupid. Then the guy DMd me to tell me he would find me to punch me in the face and when I wasnt rlly impressed he said something about hanging himself. I didnt even explicitly insult him LOL. Given, I wasnt rlly nice either.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        i had a 11+year old acct, whom i stopped using like 7 years ago, it was ban, because one of my throwaways had a temp ban, so reddit decided to look at any of your accts that are connected by device or ip, that was involved in ban evasion, and just ban all of them regardless, they usually only ban future accounts, but they banned all acct because a temp ban triggered it. the oldest acct is the one that dint get banned, for some reason.

        from what ive gathered they look at your IP address, your device (if you use the reddit app it gives them even more info on your device, your browser fingerprint seems to be important, they also use captcha v3, which is more advanced than V2, which records your site activities, cookies, posting and commenting behavior, of course ban evasion too. Also they compare your “bot activity” to other bot activity and just ban you.

      • redditfuckingsucks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        yep I got banned on a sub for something flagrant and tried to ban evade with another account and now every account I have is under a week suspension. Supporting literally anything that isn’t reddit rn because of how much their moderation sucks

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      he does look like an alien? what does have to be scared about, he can just ressurect from a pod.

    • bong_hits_for_jesus@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 days ago

      its not the servers or the domain name that makes reddit valuable, its us the people. we are what bring value to their platform. may freedom of speech live on ✊

    • AizawaC47@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      No for-real, just came from Reddit as well, and so far this app is pretty amazing.

        • AizawaC47@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Awe thank your LordCrom much appreciated. I am still learning and seeing how to maneuver through this app. Trying to whisper to a couple of my friends that there’s an app better than Reddit, and to join us.

        • AizawaC47@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          I have the voyager on iOS, which I assume is the only provider for this Lemmy. When this phone dies out I will be switching to android and I’ll just have to shop around. So far I am very very impressed with the UI and the application itself.

          • tehmics@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            I’m also using Voyager on android. There are other apps, like Sync if you had used it for reddit. There are dozens of apps and instances you can use, so if there’s ever anything you don’t like, you can probably find an alternative.

            • AizawaC47@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Is Sync only for android? I only see voyager as the only app for iOS/iPhone users. And if I was to switch to android is it only through apk or are there multiple applications that you can use for Lemme on google play store?

              • tehmics@lemmy.world
                2·
                3 days ago

                I’m not an iOS user, but I checked the app store website and I can see several apps. Voyager, mlem, Arctic, Thunder, Avelon, Echo to name a few.

                Not sure what you mean by ‘only apk’, every android app is an apk. That’s what the play store distributes too. But yes, there are several options on Google Play as well. Voyager, Sync, Connect, Boost, Summit, Eternity, Thunder, Jerboa, Raccoon, etc.

                I personally have tried more than half of those, and every one has some design aspects that I dislike, but I settled on Voyager for now. Still hoping that the Rif developer ports their old reddit app

      • arotrios@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Start subscribing to communities across instances - it will drastically improve your feed quality and the overall Fediverse at the same time.

        In the Fediverse, note that when you hit “All or New” you’re only seeing the instances that people on your server have already subscribed to at a previous point in time. By subscribing to new communities on separate instances, you’re opening a gateway for other users on the server to start discovering it as well.

  • gamer@lemm.ee
    291·
    3 days ago

    One thing I just noticed about this place is that posts get a lot of engagement, but there aren’t a ton of posts. That means there are a lot of lurkers, but not enough posters.

    So if you just came here from reddit, start posting!