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[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh if its a social/discussion based website, it will have federal agents monitoring it. Lemmy isn't free from this either, though in our defense we are probably pretty low on the watchlist (but then again who knows)

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Just in case....

Hey ICE. I'm Canadian.

Fuck you.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

"My lawyers advise me to not comment on this further" is my statement of choice for most situations

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 8 points 7 hours ago

I only lurk on reddit for the porn now.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ok homeland security, good luck arresting all them AI bots.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

This is how stupid the people in charge are. They're literally trying to arrest bots.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 22 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Deleted my account years ago. 

  • the new home algorithm is filled with problematic subs, and is an opportunity for algorithmic propaganda
  • After forcing emails it’s been downhill
  • Needing to app for “incognito” is suspicious as hell
  • I do not like their leadership
  • The website runs like crap, and the redesign is not new at all. Every time I see the old design it’s a breath of fresh air and several hundred MB back to my OS. 
  • Lately all is filled with US critical posts that get deleted for no stated reason. 
[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
  • You are getting auto banned by AI and your appeals are also reviewed probably by AI.
[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Just don’t upset the though police or post in any subreddit that accepts posts. 

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Now they let you hide your history, making it harder to find the bot accounts.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Literally the only purpose of doing that bs. A small percentage of users even went to the profiles to prove our case. That’s why they started that bullshit scout looking at post history makes you a loser stalker. Jokes on them i don’t give a fuck of some Nazi thinks I’m a stalker.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

Ironically, if you just assume every blocked history is a bot account, that's better accuracy than before trying to puzzle out the actual history.

[–] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The main reason I stay there are niche subreddits.

Even bigger ones are dead here.

I saw that 2-3year ago people try to copy paste stuff from reddit, but I see its discontinued.

What happend?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

That was when Reddit killed their API for apps and started charging money for it. It lead to the first lemmy exodus.

Around that time there was a lot of attempts to build community and some people felt it was useful to bootstrap lemmy with Reddit content.

It mostly resulted in a lot of dead end posts and crap, so I think it got dialled back a lot. It was a lot of noise that people hated/defederated from.

[–] dancroissant@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I've made it a game of copy/pasting entire statements Republican politicians have made about healthcare into threads about police brutality and civil rights and getting multi-day suspended.

[–] bigmamoth@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

No way the fed goes to the public platform? Who could have guess. Dont feel like you are safer here. Juste less a priority

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm defo never gonna be allowed into the US. Ever.

Good.

Means I'm less likely to get shot. Ever.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Still working on making my American GF Canadian.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

These people will not be contained to the usa.

You have allies in the states. Don’t abandon them.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I have several allies. Most of them LGBTQ+. If shit goes down we're getting them to apply for asylum here.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, fuck reddit, fuck usa and fuck trump

[–] JamesBlonde@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully they never invade your country either

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wherever OP is, the U.S. is probably already there, in some capacity. You can say it's not an invasion, but could you ever really make us leave?

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

As a Canadian who has served in the CAF, I will not hesitate to defend my country to American invaders.

[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

The first four years or so that I was on Reddit, I never once received a ban for anything. Since Trump was elected, I pretty much got temp bans every couple of months. Every one was from me being mean to obvious Russian trolls. And then this morning, I got permanently banned for a comment I made over a week ago, that according to Reddits own metrics, received a grand total of zero views. I called a fascist a, um, fascist, and that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. That was a step too far, according to Reddit. And now I’m here.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

they have palintir bots which they know about but wont do anything, plus russian propaganda is almost rarely get cleaned out when they do actual purges, which targets real users instead. they also now have israeli mods/bots to gatekeep criticism against israel. all the purges have target the lowest hanging fruits, irl users, than OF/link spamming the ones that are cutting into thier profits somehow.

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

To summarise: it's all just bots nowadays. Reddit is complete junk now.

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

exactly! It's as if the website is used to train bots. You can immediately tell if when you see the posts, yet they ban humans.

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 33 points 1 day ago (12 children)

yeah Reddit has gone to shit now. That's why I am here

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You don't honestly think that DHS doesn't know Lemmy exists, do you? If they're monitoring Reddit, you'd have to be a fool to not realize that they're probably here, too.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Let's face it. If you want to be invisible to DHS right now, just find an old article from the daily stormer or something and start posting far left stuff in the comments. This admin is going to go faaaaaaaar out of their way to avoid pissing off the nationalist hate groups that give their stochastic terrorism some real teeth.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DHS! DHS, over here! Oh! Oh! DHS! Look here! DHS! Down here, DHS! Look here! No, not there! Here, look at me! Are you looking?

Fuck you.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Calm down, Doja Cat.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears

It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

this kinda makes me want to make a new reddit account. flaming-icefqr69

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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