Ask Lemmy

Mainly curiosity

The apicalypse

I stopped laughing everywhere else. Sure there’s bad news but the internet (and Reddit) always found a way to make me laugh in the middle of it. Found my laughs here.

too many people got banned , by thier AI moderation.

disagreeing with Reddit policy change, a few years ago. Appreciating Lemmy/Piefed being algorithm-free, and allowing me to filter out whatever content I would consider noise.

Permanently banned from reddit lmao.

They didn't even tell me why. I appealed the initial ban, they accepted my appeal, then I was banned again with no stated reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I came because of the Reddit API closure. I stayed because of the huge anarchist and communist communities.

bots and toxic behaviour

This. I wouldn't be surprised if its 85% bots and paid posters now. Sucked all the fun out of it. You have to wade through the slop and propaganda to get to the real, quality shitposts.

I really wanted aether to happen and it never happened but this is similar enough. The only big difference is no baked in 6 month deletion cycle but if I had my own server presumably I could just delete stuff that often and send out requests for content deletion at that interval and not all of them would get honored but probably most of them would.

I wholeheartedly agree with that developers sentiment that if any of my statements were really all that positively OR negatively profound that they would have been saved elsewhere by that time. It would reduce a lot of instances where people look up someone's posts from 5-10 years ago that became politically incorrect in that time and are representative of a mindset they've probably outgrown. Doesn't make it impossible, just unlikely, and to me that's good enough.

As I'm interacting from a non-Lemmy (Catodon) instance, I'll interpret the question as a broader "What made you join the Fediverse?".

In a nutshell, the open-source nature, the possibility of having choices (I can choose between instances and platforms), decentralization, distance from capitalist interests and from enshittification, the shared resonance to some of my principles, among other reasons.

I used to have a Lemmy account (The Lemmy Club) but I'm fond of a platform where I can have both a personal microblogging feed alongside the interactions with the communities on the threadiverse (Lemmy, Piefed, mbin, etc), and Misskey/Sharkey/Catodon is this platform. I also have accounts on other platforms, namely Mastodon, PixelFed, Friendica and tootik (Fediverse platform for geminispace/geminiprotocol, which has nothing to do with Google despite the name), but Catodon is the platform I've been using the most.

Also, I didn't come from Reddit, I didn't even use to use Reddit despite having had an account there many years ago. I don't even how who exactly is this "spez" y'all talk about. I mostly used from Orkut (back when it existed in 2010s) all the way to TikTok (up to a few years ago) before I ditched it all and pivoted to decentralized platforms. Nowadays, the only mainstream social platform I still have (against my own values, I eager to ditch it) is the damn WhatsApp because Brazilians around me use it as their must-have instant messaging, otherwise I'd have exclusively decentralized platforms.

!asklemmy@lemmy.world

Got banned from Reddit eventually, they seem to have ramped up their detection abilities and banning.

Looked for similar alternatives and lemmy popped up.

One of the biggest reasons i stick around, is just the slower pace and lack of algorithms. If i check in the morning, there's a good chance that the same content will be trending in the afternoon or evening so I'm less inclined to scroll.

I'm tired of the "hot take" toxic culture that has spread from other social media to reddit. It's just ragegagement now like everything else. Even my gaming subreddits are hostile in the comments now.

Got permabanned for making a sarcastic joke on reddit

Reddit went to shit. Maybe five years ago.

I heard you were on here.

it's not American.

I was never really much of a Redditor, but the API changes what caused me to stop visiting it completely.

The reason I use Lemmy more than I did Reddit is because it has replaced basically all of my other social sites so I visit this one instead of all of the other sites I had in the past.

Because the light was on.

All other social media sucked and were bad. Reddit wasn't that bad and I had my subs that where fun. Then reddit blew up and so many people started flooding with their agenda. Specially once Elmo bought out twitter. So called "twitter refugees" came over and turned it into twitter wanna be. This got bot farms active and now every second post if not every big post you see is just a bot post with a very clear agenda. And now you can't even look at their profile histories anymore.

When I heard of Lemmy I was, hmm ok maybe it's good. And to be honest, it feels like old school reddit, which is awesome. Yes, you get less interactions, but they are more meaningfull than the ones on reddit.

so. I signed up for reddit because of some mmos I was on. It kinda seemed like a nice slashdot alternative and was a bit more reminiscent of the old internet usenet in some ways. I stopped playing the mmos and it was just sorta a time waster at that point. I had been hearing about decentralized social media like mastadon but I never liked twitter even before it became xitter. when the api fiasco happened there was a lot of mention of decentralized alternatives and since these are setup in a way I more like I went to it. Started on kbin because earnest was way prolific and doing things then when he had life issues and kbin folded went to mbin but with piefed I saw that same gusto so switched to it. I feel I have more control here than I ever did on reddit.

Came here with the FuckSpez wave and boycott. never owned a reddit account, decided to make one here because smaller forum 0 less scary

It was there.

I didn't!

Because Lemmy is FOSS

Steve Huffman

Mega band me from Reddit for suggesting somebody should drill a hole in the Charlie Kirk statue. it was just a suggestion I didn't say I had a plan or pay someone to do it or I was going to it. was just a suggestion and now I'm in a better place

The money!

reddit

Just a heads’ up — the majority of accounts that will see this post aren’t from lemmy.world. For example, I’m from feddit.online. Your posts are federated, which means your instance, lemmy.world, passes your post to our instances, where we see them.

I am not on .world

But came during the great reddit blackout a while ago