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Everybody upvote Luigi content! Get banned! Leave reddit! Reddit crumbles! Fuck reddit! Go Luigi! Lemmy grows! Centralized social media dies! I eat a burrito. That last one wasn't really on topic, but it's happening anyways! I'm hungry.

Friendly reminder that almost all news media outlets and social media platforms are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy individuals and they are in full control of the algorithm that feeds you content, so you'll likely never see anything that is critical of them or advocates for them to have less power or influence than they do.

This is the 2025 version of "The revolution won't be televised".

Which is why I'm here!

I accidentally upvote, so even if I undo it, I think it’s only a matter of time. Plus they didn’t even think about edited posts. It may not start off with affecting a lot of people but may grow that way. It is what is pushing me to lemmy and I hope to join you guys for good convo!

It's horrifying especially to think how Reddit never did anything about the fucked up things incels would say they wanted to do to underage girls and women, or the literally jailbait, racist, insanity they'd share. Basically that stuff was always okay, but if you want to defend yourself against your oppressor? Banned for upvoting despite you didn't even think the comment was "bannable".

Why I'm here on Lemmy now lol.

I got banned from my city’s subreddit for calling out racism and within minutes was then banned 3 other Canadian subreddits.

The Russkies seem to have a stranglehold on our social media platforms

And that is why I'm here now. Hello fellow travellers!

Finally made the jump. Reddit is a right-wing cesspool of censorship.

I just created a Lemmy account because of this stupid policy. Republicans/Conservatives can spew all manner of hate without consequence and we upvote "Elbows Up" (a hockey term BTW) and we get banned? Screw that.

Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.

One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.

Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.

So let's not pretend that it's only big bad reddit doing this.

Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.

God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.

ETA: I mention this because the current government wants to find anyone who does this.

The [unelected president] moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad.

!spezholedesign@lemmy.world

Well that's just straight up fucking bonkers.

Exactly the same. I got critical of the right and all of a sudden banned for violence ? After 12 years ? And me NEVER calling for harm to anything.

But I got hyper critical of the right and that's what did it.

Reddit is and has failed.

So if the content is banned how are people up voting it?

Left because any form of critique gets you a ban. People rather look away from problems so they can say they don’t see any.

Reddit is turning into an American-dominated oligarchy. That's why I moved to Lemmy. Hi everyone!

Reddit; hear no evil, see no evil, upvote no evil

Someone posted this and that’s honestly scary. I hope more people abandon this sinking ship of Reddit.

I actually came here today because of this! So far so happy with Lemmy

And now here I am.

That's why I'm here.

It's so awesome seeing all these new people here bailing from reddit. Welcome!

I barely used Reddit - good riddance, this is what spurred me to sign up here. The right wing infestation of social media is nasty.

Yeah, that's why I'm here now. That site has just been getting shittier and shittier.

I've been a Redditor for 13 years. I read the Admin explanation and the Mods reactions and immediately downloaded Lemmy. I'm still gonna lurk just to watch the chaos but fuck that noise with someone else's dick thank you very much.

One would think that banned content couldn't be voted upon. Sounds like reddit is using any excuse to censor any use other than "sponsored".

Welp, just moved into Lenny, hello yall

Hey to everyone moving in from reddit. Don't forget that lemmy can't fill the void you're trying to fill without content.

Thanks to the federated nature of lemmy, we have infrastructure, we just need more creators on it.

F*ck those Reddit guys. Why is anyone still at that corporate swamp ?

Basically declaring that they don't allow free speech.

"Hey, you have been liking things we disagree with and we need an echo chamber here, align with us or fuck off. Sincerely, the money hungry bitches of the internet! Also heil daddy musk!"