Hopefully even more people will join as Reddit gets shittier and shittier.
What happened around February 12?
Lets just have each of us 50k post about Lemmy over on Reddit.
Can’t. Banned for a 3-month old post supporting Luigi.
I got one person to try it! In eattherich. I thought about deleting my 15yr account but that is a much better use of it
I should have used a code to change all my posts/comments to an advertisement for Lemmy. What are the going to do, ban me??
This is my first time here. I do not abide thought policing. Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.
Always happy to see the Fediverse getting more popular! 😃
Shaddow Banned from Reddit for making some Luigi Mangione prayer candles got thousands of likes and bam old high karma account banned forever. No response from Reddit. Noticed on the shadow ban page that tons of people getting these bans everyday and no response from Reddit . Suggested we protest at Reddit headquarters in SF and now I’m banned from Shadow page ban lol. Nice to be here though
Let’s nooooooootttt!
Been checking and commenting on Lemmy everyday since I made my account. Its my new first opened app of the day now
and its so much better than trying to do that on reddit witha new account, they make it very hard engage with a brand new acct.
One of us one of us!
Obligatory hiiii
What happened 2/12?
Hexbear lost its domain and went offline
Hey everybody! This guy doesn’t know about 2/12! Let’s all laugh at him! Ha ha ha ha ha!
…I have no idea. Does ANYONE know what happened?
hexbear lost its domain and went offline
Holy shit, what was a month ago??? Feels like last week.
Didn’t they start back up on another domain?
Lemmy was for while like 50% bots, which is why you see random shifts generally.
Could be something else though
Probably a bot instance being removed
It was President’s Day in the US, but I don’t know why that would impact Lemmy.
US workers had the day off to do other stuff than scroll Lemmy at work
I didn’t realize that was only 50 thousand users. Muddy have been only 5000 in 2023 during the API Exodus.
Literally seems like 1/4 the comments of Reddit, 1/1000 the userbase. I think between API lockdown and “violence” banning, the entire commenting community of Reddit came here lol.
when they allow so much astroturfing from the right, and anything remotely try to use a neutral word to describe a controversial ones, eg demographic instead of the POC actual race, will get you banned.
50 thousand users
Active users, so vote, post or comment. Lurkers aren’t counted.
Yeah but fucking still. I never would’ve imagined i was surrounded by more peers at any given Bills game than there were people accross the whole world contributing to Lemmy on avg. That’s sooooo fucking wild.
It’s also so crazy how in a stadium of 70,000 people from US and Canada I will see someone i know every piss or beer break. Whereas Lemmy is half that amd I am 100% positive I’ve never interacted or saw a comment/post on Lemmy from anyone I know. It’s just crazy to see the perspective of seeing the odds of being 1 out of 70,000 vs being 40,000 out of 6 or 7 billion. Obviously I’m intentionally ignoring all the variables at play for the real reason I know people at bills games vs lemmy but it’s still the quntificatikn that I found amazin.
I think the mainstream isn’t quite ready for the fediverse yet, I see people complaining about not knowing which instance to sign up for and how it works on reddit here and there. I just got a 7-day site-wide suspension because I guess I said something the admins didn’t agree with (didn’t violate any ToS, they just see something they don’t like and banhammer.) This is why decentralization is the key to the future, reddit admins/mods are psychotic power hungry assholes 99% of the time it seems.
Left Reddit as soon as Boost stopped working
Same. My boost app finally stopped working so I had to switch over. Seems basically the same here just less comments
omg samee 😭
I replaced boost for reddit with boost for lemmy
Same. Boost for Lemmy and Sync for Lemmy. Both awesome. Sync is my main, on the free plan.
There are dozens of us!
Welcome! We’ve got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian “communists” who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the “gold standard”), but here they’re mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
I signed up for hexbear out of morbid curiosity, that place feels like an insane asylum.
Boost can still work, though - ReVanced is a great project
Let’s just leave it 😅 I’m happy pretending Boost doesn’t work so that I have no reason to go back to Reddit.
I’m the “9” of the 90-9-1 rule (aka: mostly comments)
hope that counts 👀
Who has time to put in the effort to post posts?
I went through a phase where I would find good posts on reddit and then just copy the link and post here… but as of now, reddit is like 95% anti-Trump posts so it’s all noise. Lemmy is fairly noisy with that lately too but not as bad. I need to figure out a better way to filter out politics because it’s ruining online discussion even in non-political threads, somehow it devolves into “orange man bad” somehow at some point and it’s just tiresome going over the same topic over and over with the same talking points. Musk nazi, orange man bad… when you see it 50000000000 times it just gets old after a while, with RES I am able to filter out subs which helps immensely but I don’t think that’s possible here. But like r/pics, r/interestingasfuck, r/lotr, r/lego, r/technology, r/news, many many others… 90% political now, so the majority of the site is useless to me now. And it feels like it’s majority bots now, probably LLM-generated discussion through an API, dead internet theory is in full speed ahead mode.
its also hard to chime in agreement with those post without someone misconstrueing your statement about anti-trump and getting reported too. i had to filter out some posts/or ignore because the amount of TRUMP news, pro or anti. in R/ALL i filter alot of subs that way.
Makes me wonder if a social site could advertise a “bot-free” environment somehow. Some sort of verification system, one e-mail, one verification picture (handwritten note picture maybe, not face or anything.) And only 1 account per human, no bots… I feel like that’s going to have to happen eventually at the rate AI is going. Facebook is probably half-AI bots at this point already.
Effort? Nah the typical post is as effortless as a comment
Thankfully, Stamets@lemmy.world and The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
I can’t remember one instance of a company being bought out and then made better by investors. That’s why I came here. I just don’t like people like that. I hate how everything is about money.
Yeah, it’s textbook enshittification.
