The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that…not so much.
I admit that I got banned from Reddit. I suspect that after saying a bunch of stuff that was unfriendly to lord Musk, to Netanyahu and to Hamas. Since then I seem to have gotten even the most innocent comments reported, leading to a permaban.
The bans are mostly meaningless these days tho. Its so easy to make a new account and bypass detections.
Yea, reddit api thing burned that bridge, been happy ever since.
Same, but kind of sucky sharing a perimeter with authoritarians and the worst kind of anarchists. If Lemmy were a physical location and not an online space I’d be sleeping fully armed.
I don’t mind reading their points of view. I block people that cross lines but overall I appreciate different viewpoints.
I feel like “the people who represent your views are lying to you, murder all your government officials and open the ports for invasion” isn’t really a point of view worth respecting, but I never block anybody for any reason.
Ports old and new are the key. If you leave random ports open, hackers walk right in. Once inside, they pay Rogan to get him talking about like idk guys we can’t hate cold water ports 'afore giving them a chance, ya know? Me no smart so I just don’t know. My guest today, the lovely, blonde, independent journalist Ivanna Holodomor says that…
Fucks sake, they’ve already got these asseating bots running on Lemmy?
You gotta be human to eat ass the way I do. AI can’t possibly replace me.
Cringe
Now imagine yourself saying that in the 1930s. They still know how to slip a prybar into the door you open just a crack.
Oh don’t get me twisted. I oppose the lame capitalists
I mean 1930s, those “authoritarians” were the number one enemy of the fascists, trying to ally with literally anyone who would oppose them instead of giving them Czechslovakia abroad and fighting them in the streets at home.
Im here because I’m fucking stubborn.
I hate the Reddit app, give me back RIF and I’ll abandon this place in a heartbeat. Give me a paid Reddit option to fuck the adds off and Ill take it. Ill pay $20 a month not to have to listen to you neckbeards to try and make literally every conversation about capitalism, linux or Trump.
Bunch of one note ass motherfuckers, you think I dont know the world sucks? I want some escapism for fuck sake.
I want some escapism for fuck sake.
You may want to try subscribing to non-political communities, and then browsing by subscribe. For example, here’s a list of communities I subscribe to for when I don’t want to read about politics:
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Arch btw
If Trump switched to Linux capitalism would fall
Pray to lord donny to be linux pilled 🙏 ramen
I keep getting banned for the dumbest shit these days. God forbid you insult Nancy pelosi for some reason. I got banned for jokingly saying “pour beans in his mouth” as petty revenge for someone farting in a CPAP. It’s is getting dumbed down so bad over there
The frontpage was never good, but hooo boy.
Every time I catch a peek now it’s the same Am I the Asshole (they’re obviously not), Am I Overreacting (My husband called me 15 different slurs, AIO???), and the same stupid AskReddit questions (Americans of Reddit, how do you feel living in a ruined country?)I swear, back then there were bots reposting old posts and reply chains, now they must be AI generating the whole thing because all the frontpage shit is the exact same posts, following the same format, day after day.
At this point I wouldn’t go back even if rolled back their shitty changes.
If Reddit ever disclosed how many “users” were bots, I’m quite confident it would be >80%. 95%+ of everything we see on the front page. Now consider who is running those bots, and why. What kind of opinions are they trying to shape?
For reddit I use RedReader, I don’t know if that will be enough for you tho.
Removed by mod
I dont care what you think.
Removed by mod
99% is still dumb as rocks though
Same percentage as the real world so good representation.
The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that…not so much.
I left reddit at the same time for the same reason; found Lemmy, and honestly I’ve loved it. Looking at other comments, it looks like you’re actually running an instance, so your interaction with the fediverse has been very different from mine… can definitely understand burnout from that angle!
I’d recommend just making an account on an established instance, then curating your personal feed reductively by blocking communities and posters whose content you’re not interested in. That process will take weeks, but just keep passively blocking shit you don’t want to see, and the quality of your experience will skyrocket.
Yeah I’m in the same boat. Though I will say, I have no personal experience of the stress and burden of running an instance myself. Especially one where the admins are actively trying to cultivate a non-toxic environment. That workload and the toxicity it exposes you to must be hell.
Personally I’ve had almost entirely positive experiences here, up to and including currently. But I stay out of politics, I’ve curated my subscriptions carefully and I never browse /all.
I almost exclusively browse /all, but I’m up to 897 blocked communities (sports and porn and sports and porn and sports and porn and sports and porn and sports and porn and…).
It takes some doing, but you can whittle /all down to something personalized and enjoyable to browse.
You could block lemmynsfw entirely if you want.
Is there really that much sports on Lemmy? For the longest time it seemed completely barren. Even now Soccer is just having stable but very minor activity. Formula 1 is fairly active though I guess.
And that just sounds like too much work. Much easier to see what you want to see on /subscribed and then put the phone away.
Is there really that much sports on Lemmy?
Every sports team under the sun has its own community; and redundant communities in multiple instances. No idea if those communities are active, or if they’re just made, spam /all for a couple days, then fizzle into the void, but I block em every time I see em.
Same with the furry porn instances having a different community for every breed of dog, or anime porn instances having a different community for… reasons? Idk there’s no way anime porn is actually that varied, but there are an absolute shitload of them on my block list.
Anyway, yeah it’s a lot of work all together, but it’s nothing in the scope of a single setting - every time I whip the phone out and browse for a few mins, if I see another one I don’t like, I just take the few seconds to block it. Rinse and repeat every time, and it adds up.
Most of the furry and anime porn is on a dedicated instance, just block that and you’re done.
I don’t even know how to block an instance, but even if I did, idk if I like the idea of just nuking that much content in one swoop.
Also would that block posts from users of that instance in other instances (like if one of them posted in this comment chain)? I have nothing against the folks who do enjoy that stuff - I don’t want to see the furry crap in my feed, but someone from a furry instance posting non-furry crap elsewhere is fine.
No, just the posts, I don’t think you have the ability to block comments from one instance.
And if an entire instance is dedicated to NSFW content, the chances of missing something good are slim to none.
I use Boost, I’m not sure if it’s an app feature or a platform feature.
I’m a reddit refugee
from 2023,
but my original instance lemm.ee
has become history
There, only hexbear banned me
which actually means I’m decent, you see?
i avoided those instances, after i heard how bad they were accidentally engaging in thier posts, they rubbed the wrong way so i blocked them before could recieve a ban from them.
Are we the same person? I was on lemon.ee for a month before it shut down. Then actually jumped to another account after hexbear when I started to find out more about them.
I want this read at my funeral
I’ll try to stop by?
Wait a second. You got banned from Reddit two years ago. Then you got onto lemm.ee and then immediately started shitposting in hexbear. Got banned, went back to lemm.ee, tanked that community through abuse and neglect. And had to migrate to… cracypeople.online?
And the problem is with… everyone else?
They didn’t say they got banned, only that they’re a refugee from there.
Is there reason to assume the hexbear “offense” was bad faith and they contributed to lemm.ee’s decline.
Hexbear can ban you for not thinking Russia is doing good by invading ukraine. So I wouldn’t take a Hexbear ban very seriously.
Hexbear is only a problem for Lemm.ee users if those users actually want to post there. Which is weird, because I keep hearing about how much they hate Hexbear and don’t want to post there.
Lemm.ee, on the other hand, was so toxic that even its own admins and moderates abandoned the project. They burned their own instance down because they hated one another too much.
you would be a great fit for Hexbear with that high quality revisionism
Hexbear users routinely cause strife in other instances’ comms just because they criticize the ML regimes they support.
On my lemm.ee account I just kinda joined a hexbear conversation from /all without realising it was hexbear and got downvoted to hell and banned for being vaguely anti-authoritarian.
I was never banned from reddit. I left due to the decisions of their management, mostly regarding 3rd party app api connectivity, but also their decisions regarding the content of the users and Ai scraping, and related to singular governing structure.
I’ve not been a shit poster that I’m aware of, I think I was banned for disagreeing with their …slightly awkward… political leanings.
your comments about tanking the community are empty and seem to be a juvenile attempt to illicit some dumb troll emotional response. lol @ you.
I love how you made up an entire false origin story out of four select words.
Fediverse users who are here because uhh privacy
Lemmy is not, and never has been private. It’s highly public
Its private in that it doesn’t collect data about you, besides what you provide yourself.
*Anonymity
Using Tor btw
lemmy asks a privacy-brain user for their password “who says I have an account?”
To be fair @[email protected]
You’re doing an impossible job by trying to basically singlehandedly create a nice curated instance while removing all the bad stuff. Which honestly is amazing. But it’s not suprising to me that with that sort of workload you’re having a tough time and the charm of the lemmyverse is fading.
Edit: Holy shit I didn’t realise you’re shutting down dubvee (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28754411). Honestly, I think that’s a very fair choice on your part given the situation. Respect.🫡
Thanks. And yep. This started as a fun project 2 years ago and it turned into a nightmare. Best thing I can do is leave.
Thanks for being one of the sane ones lol.
You abandoning lemmy completely or just the instance? If the former, will you be going back to reddit or avoiding this format completely?
Lemmy and the fediverse entirely. I guess you could also say social media entirely as this was my last vestige of it.
Planning to re-join the real world and put my energy into actual positive things.
That’s always admirable. Social media can be very toxic. hopefully you’ll be able to stay away for good, but so much is run via social media atm that it’s hard to completely disconnect.
Itll be sad to see you go, sir
Good for you man
I dont care. If you got banned from reddit youre doing the world a great service.
I’m not in this picture.
What is the 3rd option here?
sick of lemmy’s shit but there’s nowhere better to go?
I came here when the reddit api thing happened, and have since blocked .ml because I don’t want to deal with their shit. Problem though, the .ml admins are the lemmy devs, so using lemmy at all supports .ml and their bullshit.
Where else is there? Hive is a crypto scam, and every other option I’ve seen suggested isn’t like reddit or lemmy. I guess there’s piefed, but I don’t understand how that isn’t just lemmy but worse/different (if someone can explain it to me please do).
PieFed is parallel to Lemmy so it’s being developed by other people, afaik. I think that’s the beauty of the Fediverse, that if you don’t like something or someone, you’re free to make your own.
If your main gripe is with the devs, then definitely switch. I’ve been meaning to but I’ve been lazy. So I guess see you on the other side!
i made an account on piefed social, but they block nsfw communities so that’s a non-starter. Is there an index of piefed instances similar to how lemmy has join-lemmy org?
The Lemmy.world folk just announced piefed.world, you could try that
Well why are you here
I was born. It wasn’t my choice.
Born in the fediverse?
I’m really sorry to hear you burnt out and of your experience. Thanks for all you have done for threadiverse and tesseract. Hope you get a peace of mind after 31st.
Oh geez, Rick… These guys sure like their echo chambers…
YeURRRPep, Morty. Duh… How else would CoOURRRRGHPOommunism sound like a good idea?
But the moral of the story from the episode was that they were both necessary. Vital sub-components of one complete terminally online poster. You can’t really have one without the other.
Why not both?
