Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.
(www.latintimes.com)
from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 2025 21:32
https://programming.dev/post/27634675
from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 2025 21:32
https://programming.dev/post/27634675
They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours
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So surprised! /s
Man he’s such a little fucking snowflake isn’t he?
So much so that he’s a goddamn puddle at this point
I guess even r/whitepeopletwitter wasn’t white enough for Musk.
Which one, (fuck) spez or the Nazi saluting trust fund baby?
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¿Porque los dos?
That is a very good question.
Yes
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.
I didn’t get banned, I just can’t login anymore. All browsers confirm username and pass are correct, but reddit says they are not. They really don’t like critics. No calls for violence, veiled or otherwise. The wheels are coming off that country quickly.
I got banned for saying we should punch Nazis, and calling Musk a cunt.
I regret nothing.
Thank you for your service
The mods on Reddit are a joke anyway. But still, pretty messed up.
Moderators are outraged but will forget that in a few days and won’t leave reddit anyway.
The ones who would leave, have left and been replaced. Just like any other user.
Musk is such a free speech Nazi.
He’s launching a free speech holocaust.
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Yes because he’s a literal Nazi
Reddit is becoming such a shit hole anyway, the site barely functions on mobile browser now, half the time it has API errors or fails to load.
I can vouch for this as well
Thank fuck I deleted my account when they “accidentally” banned a bunch of subreddits that were related to trans or LGBTQ folk. I found that disgusting.
Reddit died June 2023
I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse
Some people are just into that kind of thing.
I feel like as an A’s fan. The same thing happened to Reddit. Owners turned it into a shit hole.
As a fellow A’s fan I completely agree this analogy.
IMO, as much as I dislike Reddit, moderation is terrible here and there’s some niche subs that cannot exist here because of the lack of moderation.
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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.
Like 6 good ones and a bunch of the same tired comments about poop knives, broken arms, same, this.
Here, at least most of the answers are real human beings trying to contribute to a conversation.
Reminds me of the scene in 300 when he asks how many warriors they brought. We brought real comments.
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.
Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good comments drowning in spam.
It is worse, I was convinced I was having discussions with AI multiple times. It seemed to me that they were using some subs for AI to post content and then interact with human and AI. It is another laboratory to train their AI.
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
This is often overlooked. The conversations are great on the niche or smaller communities available on reddit and the experience is great. But for the most part, frontpage and every other sub has been taken over by repost bots or repeated jokes or politics.
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).
Won’t the same happen to Lemmy when it gains enough traction?
I think the lack of profile-wide “karma” is one benefit, so there’s not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.
There are apps which display the user karma though.
But that just means that viewing it is opt-in rather than default. Since most people probably won’t bother to install those apps, the farmed karma won’t be worth squat.
Might be your settings. When I flip the front page to “Active” most of the posts have hundreds of comments (though I prefer setting it to “Top Six Hours”).
I like “Hot” and “Top Six Hours” myself. “Scaled” and “New” aren’t bad if you’re looking for more content.
I also sort by top six hours but subs related to my profession or religious traditions both get too much outside noise from folks who view posts by ‘all’ and feel welcome to flood subs with comments contrary to the intent of the sub. Active moderation could help but there’s just not good moderation under most subs.
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.
I never really thought of it like this despite it being obvious. Very well said
Tbh I’ve decided I can live with less and less of this. I’ll never go back to the giant ad covered spaces. But if this doesn’t pickup or even dies, meh
Literally the next post under this one, sorting by 1d top posts, has 147 comments
You obviously weren’t here for the guy who didn’t want to poop for days. There were a LOT of replies on that one.
Link?
I wish i could, but this was 2 years ago, and once the post blew up huge, OP deleted it. Some Lemmy historian may have a copy, but alas, i do not.
Basically, OP posted a question where they said they didn’t want to poop during the upcoming weekend, and then asked how they could keep from pooping for three days. This was shortly after the Reddit API exodus.
The comments were very helpful, reasoned, and…Nah, im just kidding, they pretty much went the way you would expect, with lots of wild speculation about why OP didn’t want to poop for three days, and lots of “helpful” suggestions about how to not poop for three days.
Strangely though, i think the post did a lot of good, as it showed a lot of ex-redditors that Lemmy could work as a reddit replacement, and be just as goofy as the original.
Here’s an archive link 7 days later, with 800+ replies
I mean, does it really matter? Are you going to read 100 responses on a single post? I feel from Reddit that the larger communities get the shittier they get. More people = smaller intersection of common ground, which leads to dull content and repeating platitudes.
Legitimately who cares though? You‘re not in it for the money with Reddit either.
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Same, once they violated certain principles, it was clear the site was dead. We need to do our best to build lemmy into something. It’ll take years.
Because they have a monopoly on old and especially niche knowledge/communities (also new niche knowledge/communities). As much as I hate it, that’s why I personally still have to use reddit sometimes.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Tired of government censorship, whether it’s left or right wing. They both do it, and it sucks either way. Then both sides will “champion free speech” when they’re not the ones in power.
You’re completely right, both sides have speech they find unacceptable. But lets try to look at it a little closer, what kind of speech does the left try to ban?
Mostly stuff like racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, stuff that hurts others and keeps them down. But i agree, sometimes they take that too far. I think more left leaning people should focus a lot more on economic equality and workers rights.
What kind of speech does the right want to ban? Mostly stuff about their human rights violations, as far as i can tell.
Two sides of the same coin, i guess.
Oh, please… the mods are all little bitches. Like they care
i read president musk again 😬
One more reason to use Lemmy.
This story compelled me to finally commit to using Lemmy.
Hell yeah. Welcome!
Thank you, I’m glad to be here! 😁
Thank you for not immediately going to “world”, just because it has the most users.
Grab some beans, make yourself at home.
Beans?
It’s kinda lemmy lore I guess.
Beans was a wave of shitposts from about 16 months ago where poeple kept posting a bunch of beans in various forms and the whole feed was mostly beans.
You’ll also stumble upon the “3 days no poop” thing where someone asked a question in asklemmy I think about how to avoid shitting for 3 days.
I think they later deleted their account, but they were very mysterious about why and people genuinely came with ideas for them and it snowballed into its own thing.
Unrelated, but similar to the poop knife, if only in the inside joke / lore kinda thing.
Been on lemmy for two years and didnt see any of that
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Now you have.
Oooh these. Yeah no now i remember
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I got banned from r/comics for calling out US imperialism. Got called a Russian propagandist 😵 And now here I am :)
I got banned from Reddit because I made a suggestion on what should happen to a violent bull terrier dog that attacked a family member
And they had a child
No free speech on Reddit
I think they have people move in to moderator roles that can choose to ban people who disagree with their opinions
i feel like musk is going to demand reddit get rid of old reddit next because it’s too nice a layout
That’s what every company/organization I’ve ever worked for has done. Oh, this intranet tool works okay and no one is complaining. Lets redo it in a “modern” style… (adds whitespace and truncates every meaningful text field so you have to mouseover and scroll for miles to read any of them even on a 4k display).
I think part of why Reddit succeeded initially was because it had some very KEY strengths/advantages. I would say that the old design and the URL scheme are part of that. It fit any screen nicely from phone though 4k TV, portrait displays, whatever. It was a simple design, but extensible by custom CSS and if you knew what you wanted, you could skip straight there by typing r/ or u/ in your URL. Enough reminiscing, if old reddit is gone,I don’t know if I’ll even be able to use reddit at all for anything. New reddit is one of those interfaces, like twitter, that never really made sense or worked for me. I’m just a Lemmy guy I guess.
I could deal with the aesthetics if they kept the core function of old.reddit. But they didn’t. I see “trending” posts more than I see posts from subs I have joined and that’s what eventually has driven me from the site. Every time I log in, it’s whack a mole with random bot repost subs.
Why is anyone on Reddit??
Inertia
I’m here now cuz of this article :shrug:
Welcome!
Let’s see, what useful welcomes advice can I share…?
Gowronhas any remaining relationship with the original character, but I guess he’s one of our mascots, now.Takes time to quit an abusive relationship.
More content than on Lemmy.
Then lets change that
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?
First of all this isnt reddit so its not subreddits. We are communities here
And second: feed sorters exist
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.
How do feed sorters work? And before you say Google it, that brings up farm equipment.
Choosing “all/new” gets the job done.
And many Lemmy clients have more options with additional cleverness to get a feed with a mix of fresh and familiar.
It’s worth pointing out (to communities thinking about moving) that there’s nothing algorithmically suppressing new content here.
Getting (and staying) noticed is way easier, here.
Exactly. Just delete your account!
I’m not anymore because of this.
I no longer have an account, but I lurk in /r/wallstreetbets to read the comments now that the market is so fucked.
duckduckgo: shows tracking attempt. Zero attempts on lemmy
One of the most recurring things I see here is the mods are at wits end with Reddit Admins again. They’ve given up a lot of leverage in doing another blackout, but they really need to ask themselves what they have to gain being unpaid volunteers for a website clearly working against its users.
I hope he does something stupid like buy Reddit.
So the Twitter boss gets to order around the Reddit boss? Typical Stevie… No spine
I don’t feel bad that I got banned by the guy behind the cybertruck. Ahahahaha.
I left moderating some significant subs back when with the 3rd party app protests, but did return to Reddit after that to start my own.
But now, since early December I’m done-done.
My account has been deleted (as with Discord), and I’m all in on the fediverse. Seeing the proposed changes (the concept of a paid sub that Spez is so adament about?), I just had enough. And the more news of Reddit I see, the happier I am I did.
Most of my daily time now is spent on Mastodon, but I am here every few days trying to share a post or two.
Lol, first I hear about paid subreddits (I am not much on reddit since they ended 3rd party apps). This might actually be the end of reddit, if they are really that dumb.
Here’s an article about the plan for paid sub-reddits, on arstechnica. It was reported about a month ago
Their other plan is removing their established messages system and sunsetting it completely over the next 3 months. Instead every message including modmail will be done with their horrendous instant chat system - those stupid DMs they have there.
Haha, the chat system? That will be a shitshow. Oh my, thank you dessalines@lemmy.ml for creating an alternative. :)
As long as I can visit through old.reddit I will keep visiting, less frequent but still. Thanks to old.lemmy.world I can also browse this place at peace.
I can’t stand the modern design on both sites.
I enjoyed my time there immensely. I loved fostering a community, and helping people, I wrote guides and news posts, I helped other users via messages and overall felt like it was a nice place.
But over time Reddit got greedy, and for me to do the work for free (moderate), and then provide their content for free (my posts)…with how they treated us and will continue to?
My time is better spent on the fediverse. Here and Mastodon. I’m far happier here now.
I felt how you felt when I was moderating a forum, so I can relate. In the end we do things for love but if others profit from our work it’s less fun.
I find it hard to leave reddit all together just because of the historical knowledge and the actual presence of niche communities. I wish people wouldnt flip out about choosing a server when signing up for lemmy. They act like you have to have a computer science degree to make the switch.
Kinda pisses me off that this joke of a clown has this much a authority.
Don’t let it piss you off. Just don’t participate. Leave Reddit. Leave FB. Delete, delete, delete.
It still impacts a lot of people because we here are in the minority and we can’t save them all. So it’s absolutely valid to have this piss you off.
Now we just need to make more Lemmy posts that aren’t about them.
Would you settle for a meme about a character from Star Trek installing Linux on something?
I kid. We’re growing. But I agree, we could spend less energy on then.
So more traffic for Lemmy, Mbin & PieFed
Is this the “free speech” everyone in 'Murica is talking 'bout?
Musk bought twitter because he wanted free speech…
Ironic huh
Nah, he wanted to modify what was being said. He blocked and oppressed views he didn’t like. It was never free speech. It was always oppression.
I don’t even think he new the possibilities of what he can do with Twitter before he bought it. He bought it and after that he needed something to do with this shit pile and found the solution in manipulation and illegal election donation
I think he had to enter into agreements about content in order to get financing from the Saudis and Russians.
He did. Free speech for bigots that is.
Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around trying to manipulate the stock price and accidentally made an agreement he couldn’t back out of. He tried. He failed. He was forced to buy it according to the terms he previously specified.
I hate my conspiricy theory minded family but if someone told me they had proof Musk expressly bought Twitter to get right wing power in America and used the buyer’s remorse stock price manipulation attempt gone south as a cover story?
I’d believe it.
Once you are there, start wondering if Trump is really that mad or if they are implementing an old Nixon plan.
The reason that conspiracy theory is appealing is the same for all conspiracy theories; it’s more comforting to think the powerful have a clever masterful evil plan than the sad reality that we’re all making it up as we go, even the literal Nazis.
Relevant ContraPoints from 4 days ago
Well, wanted to own a mechanism of free speech so he could control it.
Not ironic when you realize it’s this but literally. He wants to own all speech.
Honestly, say something useful or keep it to yourself, OK? These lil ‘gotcha’ comments do nothing but take up space and make you feel a misplaced sense of having done something (when you’ve in fact, done nothing).
Stuff like this comment, the mango Mussolini comments, the evil Cheeto comments, it all just fucking does nothing while still making people feel like they’re being transgressive. You’re not. It diverts energy from doing/talking about stuff that affects real change.
pretents to be shocked
Remember that interview with Don Lemon where Musk got heated over censorship?
Me too.
Musk what a knob
This (among other reasons) is why I left Reddit, deleted my account and move to Lemmy.world.
American understanding of free speech
“Spez’s website” when he wants to change policy, and “our community” when bots try to convince us to stay.
Free Speech^TM^
wHY Do pEoPlE HaTe Me!?
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Just reddit things.
That…should be intolerable for redditors, you’d think this would finally make them leave.
I tested just writing “Luigi” and was banned for a day. I deleted my 10+ years account with over 200k karma. I was so attached to that profile, but I promptly deleted it after being banned. Fuck these billionaires telling us what’s ok to say.
Not the karma 😱 Bunch of weirdos
When I hear of a Redditor be like this I yearn to do things…
How much bullying at school must have taken place for someone to… no actually I remember there were people at school like this and this was the reason they were bullied in the first place
Absolute losership of the highest order <spitting onomatopeia>
Words cannot describe how subhuman Redditors are
Orange sludge not even fit to lubricate the smallest gears of the society.
Well anyway, one has to enjoy the great sunny weather today with bbq and sun baths on my summer property so that’s about the amount of attention this topic deserves.
The fuck is wrong with you? Karma is designed to be addictive and make you want to make content for reddit. It’s why the amount of karma per post is capped so hard
Well then have some modicum of self control and respect and do not fall straight into their stuff.
Besides, it’s not even about karma you see. It’s just that these “people” if you can call them that, are most opinionated yet most moronic units you could ever come across.
No sympathy for Redditors and their precious accounts
“Just don’t get addicted to the thing designed to be addictive. It’s easy bro.”
Stop feeding the troll.
I don’t think they’re trolling, this seems to genuinely be their belief and warrants discussion. The poster mentioned recently that they have autism, and as a neurodivergent person myself I can attest that it often takes some back-and-forth to realize when I’m wrong.
Are you stalking me weirdo?
Besides of course I only share my genuine beliefs on the internet. They are always at least 70% true.
Why would I make something up? Not worth the effort. Unless you are some kind of pathetic karma farmer from AiTa or rElATIoNshIPs aDviCe. I would genuinely kill myself out of embarrassment if I was.
Do you even realize how far you have fallen if you farm some internet points and debate politics in the chambers of frikin Reddit?
Certainly feels like trolling.
Yep, with the recent responses I now agree with you.
Just don’t be a loser
I think they were using the karma count to show how much they utilized the platform, emphasizing how big the gesture of deleting their account was.
When I was deep in the Reddit hole I was obsessed with getting upvotes and avoiding downvotes. It was a dopamine hit. When I moved to Lemmy I joined an instance that doesn’t allow or show downvotes, and it has been a breath of fresh air.
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If they didn’t leave after all the crap Reddit has pulled in the last year, they aren’t going anywhere.
Reddit is solidly shitlib. They easily get more upset over policy than their own lack of influence over policy. These are people who think the elites care about petitions.
Everything from the last year pointed to this, they just had to see it.
I did. I got banned for “Musk fuming is fatally toxic”. The platform is dead now. I bet he has good dirt on Huffman.
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They should only post critics of Doge now.
Personally I couldn‘t care less about moderator outrage. Just read the room already and leave. No amount of kicking and screaming will take the platform off the hands of technofascists. You‘re clearly not valued there so why would they care if you cry about their decisions? Just grow a spine already.
Exactly, use the power of creation and make it all together in one day
I read the article and the headline is more like click-bait. There’s a lot of innuendo, but not much in the way of factual reporting. I can’t stand the arrogance of Musk, I also believe that venerable reporting companies should be fact based.
Why don’t we have similar class solidarity?
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.
Don’t worry, I’ll fix it all with my unchecked political influence once I earn my first billion.
(This is sarcasm.)
Because this wasn’t solidarity, it was Spez being Phony Stark’s bitch.
Wow now I feel justified for leaving and feel like I should do another post where I tell people to follow us here
They mostly ban our accounts when we do, but I don’t mind. I like to tell people when the party has moved, if they seem cool.
‘Pressured’? I hate these types of ‘highlighting’ in titles.
Journalists do that to indicate that a term is quoted from a source’s word choice; it’s not for emphasis.
I look at Reddit like I look at Facebook. Both are trash and have outlived their use. If you have a profile on either one, delete it or at least delete the app.
Gonna hijack your comment to shill:
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“The only platform that allows you to automatically clean up your old posts from services like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and more, all in one place.”
Reddit has been a an archive of some of the greatest collective minds of humanity. Besides the general algorithm up voting bots hogwash, there have been some really good subreddits with excellent information from learned professionals on topics. it I wish it was preserved rather than deleted. The AskHistorians is one of my favourite professional vetted and clean subreddits, lots of academic discussions there.
But all things have a Golden Era, and then it’s enshittified and fades away. As Lemmy will be one day too.
Yeah, and try as we might, we haven’t been able to replicate its biggest selling point. It was unfortunately also its greatest vulnerability regarding the corporatetake over.
It was a central location from which thousands of large, niche communities could be found.
Lemmy is great, but the decentralized nature of it also fragments small communities and makes it hard for them to launch. I was super active of the Scuba subreddit, but on Lemmy, there are like 8 scuba communities spread across the instances, but they’re all so small there’s no activity on them, and that fragmentation makes it difficult for one to reach the necessary critical mass to become active.
I don’t disagree necessarily but this is a very euphoric way to phrase it
I can likely fall into some version of a category of learned professional. IMO, it’s fine, many of us have made our migration to Lemmy. Reddit can burn.
A bit weird that there isn’t the same cultivation of professionalism though. I feel I don’t see much of it here like there was on Reddit. Makes me wonder if Reddit worked behind the scenes to create it
Narrator: they didn’t.
I think there probably did.
Fucking crybaby
I never believed reptilian conspiracy theories but now every time i see his photo and his eyes remind me of reptilian. So what if it is true? What if them ultra rich with true background story how they climbed ladder of power and success are actual reptilians who make regular earth humans do crazy shit. What if? Because nothing else controls people on the planet but ultra rich. Ultra rich do not go to wars and usually do not deal directly with poor common man. They live in their own world behind the walls similar like in the movie “In time”. Putin does not go to war neither his children, or trump. They send poor/uneducated or impressionable people to spill the blood of others.
Nah, they’re all just socio-/psychopaths
Nah they’re human for sure. It’s only humans that can be evil as fuck.
I wonder if it’s an affect of the media we would be consuming will use awkward photos and videos whereas their media uses more normalized. And vice versa.
It feels like a warped in to another dimension. Did everyone start using only 5 years ago?
Musk, the great champion of freedom of speech!
Just a reminder that if Musk can do this with no ownership of reddit, you know the CCP through Tencent has been doing it for ages.
Shame that the “DAE CHINA BAD” being shoehorned into unrelated conversations has made its way over to Lemmy now.
The Chinese government is an authoritarian shitshow. This is objective fact.
Before you even try it, don’t “what about” and point to another authoritarian shithole like that makes China’s continuing abuses ok. It’s not, and there is no defending it. To attempt to do so is excusing it, and merely shows your ignorance and/or complicity.
I bet you are one of those Le Redditors that still think the social credit score is a real thing that exists lmao
That’s the best you’ve got? “lmao”
Have you lived in China?
Have you lived on the moon?
Have you personally seen ICE abduct anyone?
To quote one of the greats, “The Chinaman is not the issue here, dude.”
It’s a good thing I was naming specific organizations instead of a racist dog whistle.
Woosh.
Reddit has been compromised by the oligarchs.
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
Jesus has it been 20 years now? I’m old
I turn 40 on 4-20. We’re old now homie
Just a couple years behind you brother 😩
You’re a wee babby. After the next few blinks, you’ll be 62 like me. Make the years count and don’t work for some corporate overlord anymore t than you have to.
This is the exact catalyst that finally brought me over to Lemmy
Same. I had JUST said to someone last night that I’d never been banned or even warned, though I’d said plenty stuff on the violently anti fascist end of things. A few hours later, I get a warning, though they didn’t say for which comment. Thankfully, someone told me about her!
Her?
I got a 7 day platform ban for calling someone a virgin lmao
Wait. Here? Or on Reddit? Either way…ugh.
On reddit
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.
I’m using the voyager app and the experience is almost 1:1 with reddit if that maybe helps you.
eventually, imma have to actually look into lemmy front ends or clients. I stand by the statement that I shouldn’t have to, but I’ll prolly have a better time of things if I did.
World is already heading that way. It’s one of the few instances that requires your “real” email address and has deleted political threads.
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I received two platform bans in the last few months over the most asinine things. Hadn’t gotten a single one in nearly 15 years up until now.
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Do you recognize how problematic it is that you think women can solve men’s own behavior?
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I’m sorry? You’re asking us to fix men? Maybe we’re sick of it. How pathetic to even justify such a thing
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So the plan for men is to beg those you’ve been oppressing for like… most of human history to be nicer to you?
The amount of coddling grown ass men seem to feel entitled to is wild. I got less coddling as a young girl.
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What if we don’t really want to do this anymore?
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I don’t think you get it. It’s not our job to save you. Me personally, I just married a Canadian. So I’m out of this shit show.
Women are tired of picking up the slack and creating life for ungrateful men. Maybe it’s time to stop
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You can call me whatever you want, but there’s millions of me.
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Do I seem pissed? Am I the sexist one?
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I’m not. I’m very lucky to have options. There’s going to be a lot of pissed women in America, though. I hope it works out well for you telling them to keep sweet
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The fucking bots are insane, they don’t even try to hide over there.
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Truth is this place will fall too. Unless someone can figure out how to protect against these take overs. The rich control the Internet just as easy as they control everything else.
If this is successful, it’s only a matter of time.
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I have been less active there since the API fracas, and since they announced they’re policing upvotes? I haven’t been active at all.
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Ah the “free speech absolutist” strikes again.
Any time I hear someone say they are “free speech” I am going to pause because what it means is: “My speech > your speech”
True free speech means you know when you’re wrong and when you need to change, or as I like to call it: EMPATHY
Add “brown nosing spinless wimp” to the list of acceptable descriptors of Spez
Fuck u/spez
This works here right
always and forever
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Oh good job Musk! Bring them all here! Right into our icy flippers!
Seems to be working.
I see many new ex redditors here like me
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Flippers because we’re penguins because we love Linux?
We’re not going to live down that time we held a guy at gunpoint in Grand Theft Auto to help him consider switching to Linux, are we?
No commrade senior citizen most equal of all pimball_wizard, we are not :'[
Boooo
Where’s the freedom of speech Americans are so proud of
I wonder how many people will struggle to cut themselves off from their reddit crackpipe. So many people are still using Meta shit even after it’s been overtly weaponized against dissidents.
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Ah…ah…ah…ach-<no one should be allowed to bomb hospitals>-choo!
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I bet only a handful know about it.
No shit, that explains Reddits noticeable change in moderation after the election.
Before it, it’s PC paradise now a days.
This happened to me like 10 times so I came here.
I’m sure this wasn’t designed as an exodus of critical thinkers
Welcome!
In case you’re very new, I should mention something about this place…
We have the best Star Trek memes, here…
Well, the most anyway…
Okay not the most…
But our devotion to Star Trek memes is both adorable and worrying.
That’s more or less why I left reddit and came to lemmy.
This is in fact my very first post here. :)
Same. Just created my account
I think we chose well.
Welcome fellow former redditor!
Welcome, fellow ex redditor.
Thanks :)
I’ve been here for about a month, switching bettween this and Reddit, while still mostly using Reddit. This made me leave Reddit completely. This and getting banned for 3 days for upvoting a comment was the final straw.
Similar final straw for me.
I had wrote an anti putin thing under a post of Selenskyj where he stated putin will soon die, I confirmed that I hope so too and got like 400 upvotes and a hour or two later got deleted and a 3 day ban.
I’m surprised that the loss of 3rd party apps almost 2 years ago wasn’t the final straw for y’all, but either way I’m glad you finally made it here.
That’s when I made the switch. I can’t believe it’s been that long already.
Yeah same, I guess time flies when you’re bombarded with shit 24/7
I should go. <3
I’ve been using an unofficial Infinity For Reddit version since then, so it didn’t really make a difference for me.
Yeah that was when I finally left too. I just didn’t think it was worth it if I had to use the website or their crappy app
Since democracy is literally built on murdering fascists and monarchs (or just authoritarians in generel), it seems pretty wild to me that it’s seen as a radical belief that they should die. If we’re forced to tolerate leaders whose claim to power is based on supressing and murdering dissidents in an effort to quash democratic thought, what in the actual fuck are we supposed to do to?
In over 2 decades of internet, i can safely say banning users for upvoting things is the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever seen a discussion board do. Just remove upvotes at this point and have the feed curated by Lord Muskrat.
same!
Welcome for both of us! :)
Welcome, I am a former redditor myself.
Welcome to the party!
Welcome friend!!
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.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Think of it of getting in at the ground floor, where we’ll create topics and in-jokes that will be repeated ad nauseum for decades!
🔝⬆️THIS⬆️🔝 To the top with you!
Somebody gild this!
I tip my
fedorahat to you kind gentlesir! Updoots to the left!Beans!
Oh my god the flood of beans and denim jeans content was ridiculous, I used Lemmy less for a while.
Bean betrayal. Mo’ beans, mo’ better.
But to be honest, I didn’t really like the denim.
I have yet to come across a repost community here that actually gets any comments on the posts. I wound up unsubscribing from all of them because they just clog up my feed.
I definitely have wanted to but wasn’t sure if I should since no one else had. I should have just done it.
Yeah that’s likely what everyone else thinks too. Someone has to start the discussion 😆
Unlike others, i didn’t get banned from Reddit, i just wanted to get a head-start learning this site, because Reddit is on the way to become X2.
Yep, Reddit pushed me this way too, but I’m much happier. Welcome!
I got here because they killed Apollo 🫶🏻 never forget
I use Voyager now for lemmy
Welcome here!
The same mods who arbitrarily ban users without showing what rule they claim was broken?
And who refuse to explain even when asked?
If they don’t block you for asking
This is why I left Reddit.
They’re still pressuring and mass banning
People need to stop using reddit.
I deleted my last alt account last week. I’m done.
Friends don’t let friends visit Reddit.
My posts and comments were being censored too. Nothing related to Musk nor politics. Good thing I switched over. This is my new home.
Welcome, reddit refugees. You won’t miss Spezzit.
I got banned from reddit for saying that netenyahu should be put on trial and hanged for war crimes.
After their censorship of me for saying a reasonable thing (a war criminal made to face justice) I will say I have altered my opinion. He should be tied up, simply read his charges and then unceremoniously shot in the head.
I was banned for saying traitors to our nation should be publicly executed. Which is our actual law. So that’s confusing
You can’t just cite established law without thinking about what Musk/Trump think. What do you think this is, a democracy?
Trump committed treason on jan 6th, 2021. That is enough reason to hang him, and yet he still breathes.
I said justice would’ve seen Trump tried on January 7th and hung on January 8th. That got me a soft ban. Then I said kill all Nazis but six and save them for pallbearers. That got me a permaban. Tearing the bandaid off on 12 years of comments and posts hurt but so far I like the attitude of Lemmy a lot better. It feels like real conversation instead of just shitposting and trolling.
Fun Fact: you should be wiping all comments and posts on every socmed platform at LEAST once a month.
Which reminds me that I am overdue on THIS one.
Why? So the Nazis don’t find us? I feel like the only possible conclusion to this is a civil war because most of us don’t want to live in moronville
Seems too easy on him. I like the hanging. Or the drugs that work so badly.
Yeah, I’d deleted my Reddit posts and then my account in November. I was already irked at what they did to their API, and then the Orange Dingbat got elected and I decided it was enough.
Later on, I went back, but only to lurk, but since many of the specialised subs require that you join in able to read posts makes it pretty unusable at this point.
I miss the old Reddit; I was there for over a decade. But here we are, building a new place for ourselves.
Almost like the sites need the users more than the users need the sites.
Social platform capitalism. Yupppp
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that just about everyone on Lemmy originally came from reddit.
Mass edit your comments while you still can. I got halfway through my history before being blocked.
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You could mass edit your comment history to be the same comment you got banned for. That’s what I did to cope 🖕I got banned from 5 more subreddits over it, looking at the b.s. excuses brought me some closure. The comment was “Musk’s fumes are fatally toxic”. Instaban.
I mass edited my 10+ years of honestly pretty heavy commenting, not to protect myself, but to remove their utility to the reddit platform.
I’m here because I got shadowbannned for some unspecified reason.
What I find ironic about this whole situation is that the conservatives had a major uproar after they discovered that the Biden administration told Meta/Facebook to censor COVID misinformation. But now that it’s them telling social media platforms to censor content critical of Musk and DOGE? Complete and utter silence. Free speech my ass. Source
I love Reddit so much, but the censorship is bullshit! I quit the entire META platform months ago, lost a lot of contacts but fuck Zuckerberg!
Yeah I quit a while back. I thought it would be harder, I had several old accounts, moderated a couple of small subs, had loads of karma, spent at least an hour a day being active on there. I realised all that shit was sunk cost fallacy and I’m glad I finally left.
I am jumping back and forth as well for now…. My first posts here! Thanks to whomever got this going !
Welcome. Your username is a joy to pronounce in my head
Yeah I’m originally from Littleton Massachusetts just outside Boston. I’m wickedcool On Bluesky😂
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.
Hmm, sounds like your freedom of speech was suppressed, at least according to the standard Elon espouses. I wonder why he now feels so strongly about doing the opposite thing from what he wanted before. 🤔
I truly can’t imagine what that could be, he’s always been so stable and trustworthy before.
lol I got actually hwid banned for refusal to stop Luigi posting
Yeah, they seem super sensitive about anything Luigi
Probably because the top level “people” at Reddit know they deserve to meet him
You forgot “to hell” in your last sentence 🧐
To Hell, you say?
I got mine for hoping Elon’s penis pump would explode and burn him to death from the dick up.
You paint a beautiful picture 😂
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How’s an IP ban even supposed to work when you get a new IP regularly?
I actually pay extra to my internet provider for a fixed ip so that I may have a privilege of being permabanned
Honestly, I wish I knew - I tried creating new accounts from both home and other Wi-Fi networks, and they all got banned within an hour. Our daughter still lives with us and her account was banned too, same thing happened when she tried creating new accounts. I’m assuming it may be tied to the MAC addresses of my laptop and phone, but not sure.
This is a myth. We’re out of addresses and now most DHCP rules are locked.
Shadow banned for making a very popular post about how to make DIY Luigi Mangione prayer candles using dollar tree candles, printer and a glue stick on witches vs patriarchy
ha! that sounds like an amazing post!
I love everything about this 🤣
I need this on the Fediverse. Where’s the step-by-step
I posted it on the Luigi Mangione instance. Join us
He has his own instance? Lol
Fuck Patriarchy! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Let us see !luigimangione@lemmy.world
I made the same post diy candle on this instance today
The enshittification of Reddit continues on.
Fuck the GAFAM + Musk rat.
Add reddit. FRAGMAT? MAF G RAT? MAGA FRT? Oh thats not bad
Edited to add: F GRAMA T
I got a ban for saying “even the sharks don’t want to eat Russians” on an article about a Russian tourist getting attacked by a shark.
Maybe you got the ban so one of the moderator’s cronies could post the same joke and reap all the karma for themselves!
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Banned for speaking the truth lol
I’ve been seeing the steady increase in posts and complaints about Reddit banning folks for political speech for the last couple of months and I finally have had enough so here I am. Been on there for 14 years… Byeeeee.
Was about 17 years.
The Russians are astroturfing hard, doing everything to justify their invasion and banning anyone who disagrees.
No point anymore.
That’s not even recent. Russia has been astroturfing Reddit since at least 2015.
I remember reading /r/politics pretty often back then. All of a sudden, half the posts were from RT talking about Hillary and the DNC. Yes, what they did to Bernie was bullshit but the point was clearly to either get people to vote for Trump instead or to encourage people not to vote.
Now, like you said, it’s about the war. All of a sudden, every single post about the invasion has dozens of people who are totes Ukrainian and think that Zelenskyy is a monster who refuses to end the war. Yet they either have a rather bare post/comment history or never mentioned the war before.
And, if you go to the profile for any user who identified themselves as Ukrainian years ago, it’s crazy but they’re still in favor of the war and protecting Ukraine.
This is what propaganda is. It’s not just the government putting up posters saying you should listen to them; it’s convincing you that your views are extreme and unpopular.
That’s the terrifying thing about it… we’re being horribly influenced
No, the terrifying part is that we’re letting it happen without getting angry, much less fighting back.
Haven’t gotten banned yet but it’s definitely gotten to the point on Reddit where you are aware that you can’t discuss some topics.
Like mentioning Luigi could get you shadow-banned. Redditors acted like they were going to stand up against this and yet there’s nothing. So the censorship is working - either all the comments are getting removed or people are too afraid to talk about it.
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I guess time to bail for good?
Most people are too ignorant, indifferent, and/or stupid to make that move.
Honestly, I haven’t actually deleted anything totally. But I probably still have a Friendster account.
Jan 16, 2008. Got me beat by a bit. Beat you to Lemmy though, so I guess I’ve got that going for me.
We have to take solace where we can
Probably, yeah. I made new accounts often but my oldest would probably have been 2010. But I’ve given up once I found lemmy aside from occasionally going back to help people come over when I know reddit has further agitated its existing base.
My permaban came from a post about DOGE. They deleted the comment, permabanned me, and wouldn’t let me see what I even commented. They said it was “encouraging violence” but hell no, I was making sure not to say anything like that. Wonder if I just insulted Elon and reddit decided to finally get rid of me.
Ya. The ol’ “encouraging violence”. Pretty much the same thing as “national security”
Elon is being a damn snowflake.
Elon acts like a dude with a very tiny penis.
Like?
Ya. Who are we kidding. Bros got a tiny pecker.
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That’s why I’m here. Whatever musk touches turns to shit.
The mierdas touch!
For anyone who doesn’t know: this is a clever reference to the myth of Midas’ Touch that I’m totally stealing.
Oh I can definitely not claim it either. Someone said it ages ago, and I stole it.
I’m not and never was banned from there, however I left on my own accord after this happened, as if all their other enshittification didn’t reinforce that decision.
I just got a temporary ban for cussing out Elon in one of the antifacist subreddits, felt good. I’m wearing this ban as a badge of honor.
I got perma banned for calling a magat regarded and telling them to stop eating crayons, under rule 1:
lol. The small, vulnerable, and marginalized group of election winning fascists.
Surely you can insult musk without being ableist though? There’s 500,000 words in the English language. Choose one that doesn’t drag innocent people into it.
It’s why I said regarded instead of retarded. I’d never call someone with a disability retarded though, it’s more appropriate for right-wingers.
Typo/intentional misspelling aside, it’s clear from context what you meant. Here’s a fun idea, let’s not call anyone retarded. It’s a slur against a marginalized group who have nothing to do with any of this. There are plenty of other adjectives to choose from.
There has been unwarranted censorship at a scale I’ve never seen on Reddit I thought it was the last bastion of free speech
While actual hate speech and seriously harmful content goes completely unchecked
It is unfortunate
Steve Bannon isnt welcome in Colorado. Phil Long Auditorium shouldn’t host nazis. I was banned for saying as much from Fucking Reddit of all places Pointing out that there have been fires at dealerships lately does not equate to harrasment Phil Long Auditorium should not host the Rally period. Their casual attitude towards white supremacy is unacceptable and while i dont believe they should necessarily be burnt to the ground, there are better places to buy automobiles They deserve to be boycotted And i will punch a nazi mod in the face 100% of the time
Edit: UPDATE 2 PROTESTORS WERE RAN OVER BY TWO DIFFERENT HATE RALLY ATTENDEE"S CARS !!! NAZIS ARE VIOLENT PIECES OF SHIT
Told you so r/Coloradosprings
Fuck yall
I’d argue Lemmy and other decentralized platforms are the last bastion for free speech instead of Reddit though.
Like, since Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon, PeerTube, and Matrix are decentralized, that naturally shields them from censorship somewhat compared to centralized platforms where you’re ultimately at the mercy of whoever runs that platform.
Lemmy is kind of forced to be, too.
Horrific speech can be removed from the site. But if you want to see it, the admin logs are open to the public. Other instances also aren’t forced to play along with the views of one instance. And each instance can choose whether they want to connect with others.
So you could create your own Christian Nationalist and White Supremacist Lemmy. But our instances don’t have to federate with it. And if they choose to do so, we can leave for a different one or the users can block it entirely.
Lemmy lets anyone have a platform and, simultaneously, it doesn’t force anyone to listen to you just because you have your own platform. Basically, everything that makes Lemmy a decentralized platform also makes it good for moderation without harming free speech.
That applies for PeerTube, Matrix, Pixelfed, and Mastodon as well.
No media/communication company supports your expression of your rights.
I’m amazed any of you get told why you were banned
Reddit is dead to me and I was with it since near the beginning.
Same. Joined at the Digg migration. Left at the 3rd party App-ocolypse. Reddit is dead. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that it’s a zombie: with more bots than actual human users, it’s the Dead Internet Theory in action.
Exactly the two events that got me on and off Reddit. I use LibRedirect to rewrite any reddit links to proxies that only work about 15% of the time, and it really discourages me from even bothering…
There was that peak time back in the 2010s. Right after they got rid of all the worst hate communities but before they were taken over by astroturfing.
Maybe like 2014-2015ish?
It’s kinda sad really. It’s been part of your life for so long
My God they’ve pissed off Hitler
“Free speech absolutist” 🤣🤣🤣
I’m old enough to remember when Elon released “the twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.
Fucking hell I didn’t know that! He just believes what suits him
Because Reddit mods are known for not being massive corruptable stooges?
/r/mariokart is gonna fucking implode
America Hates
TRAITORAPIST TRUMP
What the nazis couldn’t subdue - they killed.
They Walked In Line
I get that Musk is doing all types of tropes. But… what is the source for this newspaper I never heard about before? Is there any evidence for these pressures beyond “Trust me bro, we are the Latin times”?
I also deleted my reddit account. What is happening in that sub?
Spez is silencing people all over reddit giving warnings n shit for making Elon cry, it’s what made me come here just now via r/enoughmuskspam
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This was finally the point that made me come here
Same here, friend. This is my first post. Fuck Musk, and fuck Spez.
Welcome to you both! I’m also new here and enjoying it so far!
Let’s be real here, Pig Boy didn’t need Elon to pressure him much to clamp down on people critical of the elite.
That's called class solidarity...
It ain't amazing how the rich ways have it but the normie is always simping for the club he don't belong to?
I’m glad I got banned, Reddit is going downhill fast
It’s why I came here…