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[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

LOL Tiktok sent me a message for posting "Incarcerate Mango Mussolini" as a violation of it's community guidelines so it seems like it's happening everywhere.

Fuck you tiktok, you can't stop me.

EDIT: Formating

[–] soupy_kid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Duck censorship.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet

No they aren't. Those users have long since left Reddit lol

[–] Fiction@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it’s a playground for bots and misinformation now

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i started visiting reddit back around 2009 when places like digg and fark kept linking over there. i liked it because it had a design that the average person wouldn't like - the old design. they sorted comments in a new way that i liked. it's been a slow boil, but look at the reddit monstrosity now. the redesign is puke-inducing, and there really isn't any point in the vote sorting any more because people don't upvote for visibility any more insomuch as just use it as like/dislike. there isn't even any benefit in trying to point that out any more either, because today's reddit users just don't understand that approach to votes - and it really, really sucks.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm, perhaps people should start linking threads from here on reddit....

[–] sloppychops@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Believe it or not: straight to jail.

[–] FrostBlazer@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the admins over there really take for granted how much people care about Reddit. The more they degrade the sense of community, the more it continues to crumble until users feel that there’s no point in going back.

With how many posts are just pure AI generated rage bait, it’s becoming more clear by the day how little worth there is left on Reddit.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

[deleted] is a common user name there!

[–] FrostBlazer@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did they change the way things are formatted? Such as the [removed] comments now just appearing as [deleted]? Deleted would imply the users removed their own content while removed would imply the mods or admins removed it, at least that’s how things have always been. However, I have only been seeing a sea of [deleted] lately.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

After the API kerfuffle, a lot of users who left also used tools to completely erase their content from the site, which explains the sea of [deleted] posts and users. You may also see comments and text body posts that are full of incoherent gibberish because one of the tools didn't delete the content in the normal way, it simply edited the content to be a bunch of random gibberish.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

it simply edited the content to be a bunch of random gibberish.

I used a tool that did this. I also used it on purpose because I figured it would make the content more difficult to farm. Lots of software doesn't actually delete anything when you delete it, but it's a lot more work to put versioning in and then you'd have to go search the version history to find a version that wasn't mangled to farm it...so that'll all theoretically make it more difficult for them to find what I originally wrote.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i just ended up deleted all my comments on my last 2 accts, so they cant be farmed, unless reddit undeletes them. wonder when reddit is going to pull a FB ressurection, revives your account but controlled by AI bots for right wing disinformation.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

They've already been caught doing that - well, not for disinformation spreading but for engagement appearance, around the time Reddit was doing its IPO so needed to hike its stats to give to advertisers as quickly as possible. While entire posts, comment for comment, though with different usernames but the identical responses to the identical questions, and then deeper responses to those, and so forth.

So they don't need the appearance of older accounts - they can manufacturer whatever they need, from scratch already. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they created "10 year old" accounts at will.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is copium.

People still complain that Lemmy doesn't have enough content yet, and they're right.

A big exodus happened recently, but it's a farce to say Reddit doesn't still have way more content.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how you get that more content is somehow better content. The users, and their content, that originally made the site great haven't been around for a long time, even before the major exoduses.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 9 months ago

I'd say the ratio of Good to Bad is higher here on Lemmy, but the volume is so much higher on Reddit that you do still get more Good on Reddit than here.

You can say there's nothing left of quality on Reddit circa years ago all you want, it doesn't make it true.

Even if a thousand of the best contributors left when the API ban took place, there's ten thousand more.

When's the last you browsed Reddit?

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I still see active accounts over a decade old

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

rather suspicious since only bots have those types of accts, i have a hunch reddit is actually accessing those accts or allowing bots to take over the accts. i heard people couldnt log back into thier old accts

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

This article fails to mention that Huffman has previously praised Musk and how he runs Twitter.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow.

More importantly he's a doomsday prepper with fucked up views:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

What a tiny little apocalypse fuckbag. Fuck Spez.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

they want something like a 4400 future, if you watched the show basically its the rich/wealthy enclaves in thier perfect city, while outside is like madmax/desolated. add in a little time travelling, superpowers and body possession arcs. i dont think it lasted many seasons.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If I end up on top after the apocalypse I'll go out of my way to get him as a slave.

[–] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I planned on catching him for sport, followed by slowly serving him up like kebab to poorer after the apocalypse.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 10 months ago

#EnslaveSteveHuffman

[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Luigi Luigi Luigi Luigi Luigi

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

We have free speech here.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

news@lemmy.ml restricts saying anything even vaguely anti-russian in a time when Russia is effectively trying destroy the west. At the same time, they're allowing rather blatant anti-west sentiment. And I'm not saying that that's fundamentally bad, but rather that there is no such thing as unbiased.

Reddit sure sucks and needs to die though. But their bias of not supporting murder is somewhat understandable.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But their bias of not supporting murder is somewhat understandable.

Its not murder, it's self defense. A mass murderer was stopped by Luigi, end of story.

[–] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The government has accused Luigi of stopping a mass murderer.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

And somehow they've spun that as terrorism.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great thing about Lemmy is that I can block all instances from lemmy.ml.

[–] Literocola@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do I block .ml results?

Are there other servers which amplify problematic content?

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

So the Tankie Triad is:

  • lemmy.ml
  • hexbear
  • lemmygrad.ml

Edit: ~~The trouble is that, as far as I know, there's currently no way as a user to block an entire instance. You can play whack-a-/C and block communities as you bump into them. The other option is to look for instances that have de-federated from these instances, and make a new account on one of those instances.~~

As @Samskara@sh.itjust.works pointed out, instance blocking is possible:

You can block instances in your settings. For your instance, that's lemmy.ca/settings then selects blocks and add the instances you want to block

Are there other servers which amplify problematic content?

There's a lot more than the 3 listed above, the ones I listed are militant in their belief that Russia and China are Marxist-Leninist utopias. There's some communities and users across all the instances that are problematic. If you see something you don't like, block the user or community.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Finally, Reddit can die

I was one of the many MANY victims of unjust banning, and I just want my niche communities here, all the weird expansion and transformation porn I like, DBD Shitposting, and The Sims 4 troublshooting.. ahh...

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cardinal rule of being a reddit refugee on lemmy: if you want a specific community from reddit that doesnt exist here already, start it.

[–] balssh@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A bit easier said than done: some don’t have the time and mental space to dedicate to moderate a community.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Definitely. Lemmy is pretty collaborative in that regard. Most communities have lots of mods to help balance the workload. That being said, Lemmy is very much a "grassroots platform". Everything we have here we build together. Not any one person is required to become involved in creating spaces here, but if there's a space that doesn't exist yet and you'd like it to then you'd have to start that ball rolling somewhere.

[–] quazar@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am literally here, now, commenting on this because I am reading the article to this on reddit and ..... I can't believe they are going to start punishing upvotes! That is the final stray for Reddit. Its dead. Gone the way of Digg. I am literally here now to start moving over to Lemmy.

I just realized - and must keep in mind, with a federated platform like lemmy, all of your upvotes and downvotes are broadcasted across the network. ANYONE could track your upvotes and downvotes in THIS system.

I had no idea how much I valued voting privacy.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You don’t have voting privacy here on Lemmy though, and theoretically instance admins could “punish” you based on voting patterns.

But decentralization helps that

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

They already do, some instances or communities will ban you for downvoting everything.

Which is kinda fair, why are you here if everything displeases you?

[–] Daelsky@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If an instance becomes oppressive, nothing is stopping you from going to a new one. You can’t do that with Reddit. Let’s say my instance Lemmy.ca becomes awful, I can make a new account on another and still comment on this community. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand, harvesting that sort of data is as simple as creating an instance and Federating with whatever sub you want to spy on

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean any organization that's a risk to use my data maliciously is one that can afford buying it, so I actually prefer this to my data being equally easy to access but reddit gets paid for it.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My comment isn't too say that Reddit is good, but rather that we might be able to do things on Lemmy a bit better for user safety/privacy. Aggregating upvotes to an origin seems good to me

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I hate to say it, but if you're that concerned I wouldn't up or downvote anything.

[–] manorexia@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Luigi is not a hero. He is an alleged hero.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

Whether or not he's the hero he's been accused of being, he's certainly a living martyr now

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