They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours

  • SunshineJogger@feddit.org
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    That’s more or less why I left reddit and came to lemmy.

    This is in fact my very first post here. :)

  • MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca
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    I got a lifetime IP ban on Reddit for saying “Fuck Elon Musk all the way to hell” - so fuck Reddit, fuck DOGE, and especially fuck Elon.

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    I’m old enough to remember when Elon released “the twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.

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      I agree and haven’t returned but lemmy hasn’t hit critical mass yet… Like I don’t recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.

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        How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.

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          This is often overlooked. The conversations are great on the niche or smaller communities available on reddit and the experience is great. But for the most part, frontpage and every other sub has been taken over by repost bots or repeated jokes or politics.

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          It is worse, I was convinced I was having discussions with AI multiple times. It seemed to me that they were using some subs for AI to post content and then interact with human and AI. It is another laboratory to train their AI.

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            I used to help out in r/Botdefense

            The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to us (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greedy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww

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          Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good comments drowning in spam.

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            I think the lack of profile-wide “karma” is one benefit, so there’s not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.

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                But that just means that viewing it is opt-in rather than default. Since most people probably won’t bother to install those apps, the farmed karma won’t be worth squat.

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          Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.

          Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.

          I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.

          Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).

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        I’ve never considered that a limitation.

        You only need one other person in addition to yourself, for a good discussion.

        If anything, here I’m finding I actually get replies, because my comment didn’t drown among a hundred others.

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          You only need one other person in addition to yourself for a good discussion

          I never really thought of it like this despite it being obvious. Very well said

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        Might be your settings. When I flip the front page to “Active” most of the posts have hundreds of comments (though I prefer setting it to “Top Six Hours”).

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          I like “Hot” and “Top Six Hours” myself. “Scaled” and “New” aren’t bad if you’re looking for more content.

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          I also sort by top six hours but subs related to my profession or religious traditions both get too much outside noise from folks who view posts by ‘all’ and feel welcome to flood subs with comments contrary to the intent of the sub. Active moderation could help but there’s just not good moderation under most subs.

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            I wish i could, but this was 2 years ago, and once the post blew up huge, OP deleted it. Some Lemmy historian may have a copy, but alas, i do not.

            Basically, OP posted a question where they said they didn’t want to poop during the upcoming weekend, and then asked how they could keep from pooping for three days. This was shortly after the Reddit API exodus.

            The comments were very helpful, reasoned, and…Nah, im just kidding, they pretty much went the way you would expect, with lots of wild speculation about why OP didn’t want to poop for three days, and lots of “helpful” suggestions about how to not poop for three days.

            Strangely though, i think the post did a lot of good, as it showed a lot of ex-redditors that Lemmy could work as a reddit replacement, and be just as goofy as the original.

      • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Like 6 good ones and a bunch of the same tired comments about poop knives, broken arms, same, this.

        Here, at least most of the answers are real human beings trying to contribute to a conversation.

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        I mean, does it really matter? Are you going to read 100 responses on a single post? I feel from Reddit that the larger communities get the shittier they get. More people = smaller intersection of common ground, which leads to dull content and repeating platitudes.

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        Tbh I’ve decided I can live with less and less of this. I’ll never go back to the giant ad covered spaces. But if this doesn’t pickup or even dies, meh

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      Same, once they violated certain principles, it was clear the site was dead. We need to do our best to build lemmy into something. It’ll take years.

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        (Rest) She never
        was this good in
        bed even when
        she was sleeping
        now she’s just so
        perfect I’ve nev-
        -ver been quite so
        fucking deep in

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      Because they have a monopoly on old and especially niche knowledge/communities (also new niche knowledge/communities). As much as I hate it, that’s why I personally still have to use reddit sometimes.

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      IMO, as much as I dislike Reddit, moderation is terrible here and there’s some niche subs that cannot exist here because of the lack of moderation.

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    Shadow banned for making a very popular post about how to make DIY Luigi Mangione prayer candles using dollar tree candles, printer and a glue stick on witches vs patriarchy

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    There has been unwarranted censorship at a scale I’ve never seen on Reddit I thought it was the last bastion of free speech

    While actual hate speech and seriously harmful content goes completely unchecked

    It is unfortunate

    Steve Bannon isnt welcome in Colorado. Phil Long Auditorium shouldn’t host nazis. I was banned for saying as much from Fucking Reddit of all places Pointing out that there have been fires at dealerships lately does not equate to harrasment Phil Long Auditorium should not host the Rally period. Their casual attitude towards white supremacy is unacceptable and while i dont believe they should necessarily be burnt to the ground, there are better places to buy automobiles They deserve to be boycotted And i will punch a nazi mod in the face 100% of the time

    Edit: UPDATE 2 PROTESTORS WERE RAN OVER BY TWO DIFFERENT HATE RALLY ATTENDEE"S CARS !!! NAZIS ARE VIOLENT PIECES OF SHIT

    Told you so r/Coloradosprings

    Fuck yall

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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        Nah, he wanted to modify what was being said. He blocked and oppressed views he didn’t like. It was never free speech. It was always oppression.

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          I don’t even think he new the possibilities of what he can do with Twitter before he bought it. He bought it and after that he needed something to do with this shit pile and found the solution in manipulation and illegal election donation

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            I think he had to enter into agreements about content in order to get financing from the Saudis and Russians.

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        Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around trying to manipulate the stock price and accidentally made an agreement he couldn’t back out of. He tried. He failed. He was forced to buy it according to the terms he previously specified.

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          I hate my conspiricy theory minded family but if someone told me they had proof Musk expressly bought Twitter to get right wing power in America and used the buyer’s remorse stock price manipulation attempt gone south as a cover story?

          I’d believe it.

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            1. He’s dumber than you give him credit for
            2. What is the point of the supposed cover story? To cover from who, about what? He’s literally paying people to vote, again. Next to that, buying a social media to influence it almost sounds democratic.

            The reason that conspiracy theory is appealing is the same for all conspiracy theories; it’s more comforting to think the powerful have a clever masterful evil plan than the sad reality that we’re all making it up as we go, even the literal Nazis.

            Relevant ContraPoints from 4 days ago

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            Once you are there, start wondering if Trump is really that mad or if they are implementing an old Nixon plan.

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      Honestly, say something useful or keep it to yourself, OK? These lil ‘gotcha’ comments do nothing but take up space and make you feel a misplaced sense of having done something (when you’ve in fact, done nothing).

      Stuff like this comment, the mango Mussolini comments, the evil Cheeto comments, it all just fucking does nothing while still making people feel like they’re being transgressive. You’re not. It diverts energy from doing/talking about stuff that affects real change.

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    I got banned from reddit for saying that netenyahu should be put on trial and hanged for war crimes.

    After their censorship of me for saying a reasonable thing (a war criminal made to face justice) I will say I have altered my opinion. He should be tied up, simply read his charges and then unceremoniously shot in the head.