Home to all things "Mildly Infuriating" Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that. Please post actually infuriating posts to !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined. Please remember to refrain from reposting old content. If you post a post from reddit it is good practice to include a link and credit the OP. I'm not about stealing content!
It's just good to get something in this website for casual viewing whilst refreshing original content is added overtime.
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Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
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Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means: -No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
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Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
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-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
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-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
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Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
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-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
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6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
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-Content should be Mildly infuriating. If your post better fits !Actually_Infuriating put it there.
-The Community !actuallyinfuriating has been born so that's where you should post the big stuff.
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-Please consider crediting the OC when reposting content. A name of the user or a link to the original post is sufficient.
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Reddit doesn't like my VPN, so for the times when it comes up in my search or a buddy sends me something from there I have an extension in firefox now to redirect reddit links to redlib.
It's called libredirect. It's got a bunch of sites so you can avoid most of those shitty pop-ups if you set them up.
Anyone else still there? Hopefully they stay there if they're trolls and trilobites (I don't know what that means in this context)
I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I'm being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I've never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.
Once this place gets a few more users, it's gonna be the GOAT.
I'm new, came over a couple weeks ago. Others will come.
Careful what you wish for, the larger the sample size the dumber it gets
This... People keep dreaming of reddit crashing and burning or going under but, realistically if that did happen a good portion of the existing userbase will filter into the fediverse somewhere, and thats a lot of inorganic growth. Currently there are a handful of popular topics, and some niche topics. Yes there are also reddit like mannerisms but, when people slowly filter in, the room can be read and the existing culture remains, when a mass intake happens (like what happend with the API debacle) the influx is faster than the adoption and the culture comes with it.
ikr soon as this place gets too big I'm taking off to something else.
Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.
After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I'm like "ugh I guess I'll put the phone down and go to sleep."
I think it's fine as is. The worst part of reddit was opening an interesting post and finding the comments full of jokes and badly remembered quotes.
Edit: That was probably due to the awards creating perverse incentives but still, the more comments there are the more striking a comment needs to be to be on top
It had a lot more with being first to comment than it did about the quality of your comment. After about 100 comments your chances of being near the top were pretty much gone.
I absolutely fell in love with reddit when I joined 19 years ago. Up until the Digg migration I loved it maybe even more than the BBS' I was on in my youth. But it steadily went downhill from there, and I thank Jebus every day for the fediverse because it brings back that good old energy that I was missing. Reddit is so unpleasant compared to here.
I agree with you. Coming up on at least my second year here and I do love it, but I miss some parts of having the bigger crowd.
old reddit still works. I had to install an extension to auto redirect to the old.reddit URL the other day cuz I was troubleshooting something and the ONLY things about it were on Reddit and I noticed that bullshit app advertisement too.
It's a loss, but I've come to see it as just a part of the endless treadmill of 1. Go to where the cool people are 2. Uncool people show up 3. It gets bad 4. Look for the cool people. Feels like that's always going to be the way of it.
It's almost like we're suppose to build and guard our communities and interest against tho...... sorry I meant do nothing and complain.
Yes. That's a good thing.
Always has been.
The Situationists even created new words to describe how radical ideas are co-opted by the mainstream in ways that reduce or outright removing radicalism from the ideas, making them more palatable for mainstream society. They called it recuperation. They also argued we needed to be doing the opposite, and taking the banal and making it radical, which they called détournement. This was often exemplified in the 80s/90s/early 2000s through subversion and revision of corporate advertising, often called "culture jamming."
I've been seeing this for a long time now, as they blocked VPN and anonymous access, so I use a combination of cached pages and libredirect if I really want to bother going there.
They did that about a year or so after I blocked reddit via DNS. No idea why, I don't use a VPN for reddit, and I hadent given them any traffic outside the once and awhile checking a tech support post, but something about my network triggered it.
No big loss.
I always thought that once I moved here, I might still visit reddit but I almost never do. And much of the reason is those fucking stupid cartoon mascots. "snoo"s iirc? FML.
Better late than never!
I got permabanned this morning. Made a joke that automod thought was inciting violence (said people who don't punch their ponies in their face make me sick - not even my joke or a joke but a reference to someone else's joke - in response to someone calling horses disgusting) and all my alts were banned too. Which is fine but I miss my TV show communities a bunch. I like to discuss my stories!
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Start a community here. Be the change you want to see.
I lack diplomacy when I get annoyed.
I assure you, that has stopped nobody here -- especially not the tankies -- do not let it stop you.
What is a tankie?
users from lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad who generally believe that Russia, China, and North Korea can do no wrong, among other things. They (usually) correctly criticize the US or its allies for their imperialist actions or atrocities or human rights abuses while simultaneously handwaving away any imperialist actions, atrocities or human rights abuses in those countries as "Western propaganda". It is generally pointless to argue with them, and fortunately as of late the latter two have mostly stayed contained to their respective cesspits -- .ml users, on the other hand, tend to wander about and regularly start whiteknighting for China on other instances.
Generally, you should block those instances and you'll stop seeing posts from their communities, but unfortunately you'll still see their comments. Only solution for that is manually blocking individual users, which is especially true for .ml as the developers of lemmy (who are tankies themselves) have previously tried to position it as a "default" instance, leading to a lot of non-tankies registering there and finding themselves promptly banned for anti-China talk (and there are still lots of non-tankies there so you can't just block them all indiscriminately)
Honestly, based on early interactions I'll probably have to avoid political conversations if I can help it since even people I agree with ideologically seem to irritate the shit out of me. Not all of them, obviously. But enough to have clocked avoiding engaging with certain groups already. I'll just have to know it when I see it.
Awwww shit, here we go again
Perfect! Nothing brings more attention than drama. 🤣
I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I've been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.
But now it's not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that's just another step for something that's already so not worthwhile.
Welp...
For research purposes use a frontend like redlib
It's really bad when you start to see how many bots and astroturfing there is. Accounts with thousands of posts a year stirring up shit in all the contentious threads.
Welcome to the dark side for good and yes, it is better... overall. I've been on Lemmy now since the first mass exodus when I deleted my reddit account of 15+ years.
While Lemmy is now my 'home', I do occasionally visit 3 reddit subs that have no equivalent elsewhere. It just happens and I see nothing wrong with the occasional view. It's not like /u/Spez can monitize my VPN anonymous visit. So don't feel bad if you end up doing the same, Lemmy just doesn't have the same volume.
I feel ya.