I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.
I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.
Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.
I didn’t want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn’t comment or post for the first month.
Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn’t take long before it inevitably became political.
I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.
But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.
I’m not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.
I appealed, I do not expect a reply.
Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.
This time I lasted only 2 months
I got perma’d a month ago for posting links to .edu domains showing proof that UV light damages your eyes.
Some guy was claiming “the CDC/FDA doesn’t know shit because I used to start into the sun to spite the people who told me not to.”
I got a redditcares and then a site wide shadowban.
No action on the appeal.
I decided not to make another account and to try quitting the internet, when that failed I decided to go to Lemmy instead of reddit again.
When Lemmy gets shitty like that hopeful I’ll be ready to disconnect for good.
reddit now hates people dropping links, they ban people for that now.
I guess it messes with the LLM training
Since you seem to know about light and eyes: Huberman often suggests direct bright sunlight into the eyes. Is that wrong or is there a trade-off between advantages and damage? (Although, direct in Hubermans sense means unfiltered and not looking into the sun, but possibly close to it from my understanding, so is that the important difference?)
I know that he’s not always right, but eyes seem to be his special/original area of expertise. Also, I didn’t follow him much for quite some time, but I remember the sunlight into eyes.
I don’t really know about light and eyes, I just know that UV radiation is bad for you and I know that academic quality evidence for this is abundant.
It was easy to find multiple .edu and .gov sources that explicitly state that UV is harmful to your vision.
When people say things like “bright direct sunlight to the eyes” to me it reads as “touching grass is beneficial.”
You don’t need to look at or near the sun, there’s plenty of sunlight bouncing around on a sunny day. You also don’t need to expose yourself to UV so sunscreen is still a good idea.
Thanks for the explanation.
When I got permabanned on Reddit I took the opportunity to step away from scrolling. I got a lot accomplished and my mental heath improved. Since Lemmy is slow, it works well, I can’t spend hours here. Unfortunately my baser instincts took over and I find myself scrolling the news app for hours instead…
Yeah the API changes were a good excuse for me to re-evaluate my Reddit and internet habits. I’ve found Lemmy and Mastadon refreshing, and honestly I love the vibes of folks on Mastadon since folks are way less doom and gloom than some of the folks here on Lemmy.
Since abandoning Reddit, I’ve picked up running and biking, gotten back into model railroading and started reading books again. I tried getting back into drawing but that petered out with some disruptions in routine due to travel before I’d fully got drawing integrated into my daily life again. Basically I think I’ve become a better version of myself since leaving Reddit (and honestly a bunch of that was more to do with me than Reddit)
Yeah I definitely feel better now that I’m not looking at reddit.
Still doom scrolling on Lemmy but like you said it’s slow and imo it’s a bit less hyperbolic.
I feel like you can have actual conversation and exchange ideas here as opposed to the reddit dunk off.
hoping Digg 2.0 is something of value
Is Lemmy Digg 3.0 or Slashdot 4.0 (i.e. Slashdot →Digg→Reddit→Lemmy)
Is there a new digg or are you referring to lemmy?
Digg has been working on rebranding recently, to try and capture some of the fleeing Reddit refugees.
Do you not read the modlogs? The same shit happens here.
At least you have a modlog to look at, right? But yeah, moderators will do as they please, and I won’t always agree with it. Not too bothered
But with Lemmy’s decentralized nature, you can always join a different server with less shit admins and still interact with the same people (more or less). The worst the other instance admins can do is ban you from their own servers or defederate.
It’s the same shit with a different name. Reddit is a bunch of smart people that act stupid, and lemmy is a bunch of stupid people that act smart.
Decentralization doesn’t mean shit if you have to keep jumping ship the moment someone does something you disagree with.
Give lemmy another decade and I guarantee you It’ll be a decentralized shitshow. I hope I’m wrong, but look around. It’s already happening.