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Reddits inevitable demise is pending. So many posts are just garbage now. AI slop, rage bait, engagement bait, every comment is some stupid fucking joke, no one is serious anymore, etc. In the science sub you used to get banned for not being serious, now it's all just one shitty joke after another.
Fuck you spez and your goddamn AI powered moderation, you sniveling motherfucker.
Reddit only gained traction when digg fucked itself. This AI shit may (finally) be the second shoe dropping
Yes absolutely, I was one of those people that left digg for reddit.
just came to this site after getting banned off reddit.. it has some nice features.. BUT idk if i understand it correctly or not. i'm on lemmy.zip, if a subreddit on here isn't bundled with together with my lemmy server will i not see it? will i still be able to interact with it? curious how it works.
View all, not local. Keep in mind that if your admin is a nutter, they will defederate instances and you wont see them.
If you don't want to see a instance or community or user you can personally block them. Dont rely on your admin to curate your feed IMO, do it yourself. but you do you.
Youre in charge of your own account. Welcome fellow lemminator. Peace.
are there ELI5 videos for all this stuff that you said about curating and admins cause Im super new too and am curious about all this. Please suggest something if you can.
leminator
I thought we were lemmings
All the different lemmys (by default) will show up for all the others. Though some lemmy servers block specific other ones from syncing with their instance. Notably the tanky-heavy lemmy instances tend to get blocked.
If you go over to hexbear (a lemmy instance), you will hear significantly more people tell you Russia invading their neighbors in wars of conquest is good, actually.
interesting. thank you. when i was on reddit i would go to r/debate r/changemyview and subreddits like that where i could have discussions. are there lemmy subreddits for debates cause i'm not really finding any. thanks for the reply. on the plus side, of the two comments i left on lemmy they both got replies, so i was glad it wasn't like twitter where you leave a comment on a large post and nobody interacts with 99% of your comments there. that's nice and part of what i liked about reddit. good to know lemmy has people replying to each other here too.
Sure, you might be better on Lemmy.world as it's kinda everything. I believe zip is more tech and stuff.
If you got global banned for no reason from Leddit ("no reason" being "you broke no listed rules") then you'll wind up global banned for no reason twice as fast on this amazing alternate website I assure you
Not true in my totally banned from Reddit but enjoyed on lemmy experience
it seems like half the people here are here from being banned off reddit though.
There's actually a surprising number of people who still use both. People who feel they've been wronged are usually pretty vocal about it. I'm not saying they're exaggerating or lying or anything either, mind you, just pointing out that's the way the human mind works. Capital One pissed me off and I told everyone who would listen for like a decade after, but no one really volunteers info about uneventful relationships.
true.
I wasn't banned, I just left. FYI.
I got banned permanently for simple giving my opinion to a maga supporter. That should tell you as much. Fuck Reddit
I got banned for making a crude joke about Kanye West and being surprised he hadn’t murder/suicided himself and Kim or Taylor yet, it was on topic for the conversation not at random, the reason given was “insighting violence” - for who?? Is Kanye personally reading my comments?? I was a power user with hundreds of thousands of post and comment karma too… their loss imo
At least you had a chance to mouth off. I Got banned by a fucking automod glitch and I cant even report it because their ban evasion bot sends you into an automatic ban loop for any account you make.
Didnt even break any rules, they just rely on AI tools to do what should be human work and here we are.
AI destroyed Reddit. Probably will here too soon
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Stock will bounce back. Reddit will not learn, because it knows that it just needs to change its game and enshittify more. It's too late.
I still waste some time there, but I come here for discussion. Although Lemmy needs growth and maturity. But it's still better already.
Lemmy was a ghost town last time I visited, it’s actually viable to leave reddit now because discussions are reasonably active. Also you’re way less likely to be talking to an LLM which is nice.
How do you know threre are fewer LLM and other bad actors etc. here? What if they specifically focus on making it shitty here to stay in power? Seeing what kind of crap gets posted here... not exactly better. Some unhinged comments/people/communities are also not exactly great, but I guess there really are people like that.
LLM slop might be cheap to produce at scale, but why would you bother doing that to influence the 13.3k active users per month on this instance (which is one of the larger ones) when reddit, insta, facebook etc exist? Also Lemmy’s recommendation algorithm doesn’t amplify the spam to potentially millions even if they were here, so it’s not a particularly productive place to be spamming.
Also reddit probably isn’t deliberately keeping Lemmy down, we’re a small decentralised community of people motivated for whatever reason to go down a route other than the default approach. That kind of temperament is necessary for some portion of society to have, but it’s also prone to creating splitting and drama. Lemmy’s problems I feel are largely of its own making, but it’s way better than it was and personally I think there’s quite a high ceiling on slow, sustainable growth. Reddit are even kind enough to drip-feed a stream of new users to us through their clown show approach to running the place.
Uh...they kicked everyone off ...
Fuck reddit. I hope that site dies soon and we can go back to not having everything locked inside a single site.
I miss forum signatures. It's weird, but those were always so fun to me.
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Oh nooo... anyways.
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