Yoooo Nintendo should sue. Reddit is publicly traded.
That’s a great point. Even if it’s used as a verb, it could mean throwing a banana peel behind you while driving.
Everyone named Luigi should sue for discrimination
Nintendo doesn’t want to raise the specter of association with Luigi Mangione. Heck, I bet they’d advocate for this, and would rename Mario’s brother if they could.
Bring back Green Mario
You are drastically underestimating how much Nintendo loves to sue.
Also, Nintendo’s late CEO Satoru Iwata famously took a massive (50%) pay cut during a tough time for Nintendo, instead of laying off employees. So…
hes the DLC.
Don’t upvote or you’ll get banned.
>Be user
>Use website’s features as designed
>Banned
Sad Yoshi 😢
sounds about reddit
Upvote and get banned and leave.
Time to welcome another wave of Redditors to Lemmy :)
Meh, I’m not so sure. We need to get used to the fact that reddit’s fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023. That was a one-off thing that drove out all the OG users. The people left on reddit are the types that refer to it as an “app” and probably don’t even know old.reddit exists. Those kinds of people will grumble but they aren’t going anywhere. And frankly, that’s fine by me.
Edit: lmao okay, okay, Lemmy got 6 new users today. I get it. My point that we’re never going to see another user influx on the scale of the summer 2023 API changes has been proven wrong. Congrats everyone. Let’s hope half of them actually stick around.
I know that I just came from Reddit today, so… At least 1 person joined because of this fuckery lol
Just joined today because of this!
Yup, got me here today.
💙 Welcome :)
So what’s the cathulhu chant? Me’wglui mrow’nyanfh Cathulhu R’eow meowgah’nagl fhtagn coughs up a hairball?
“Feed me”.
Hi. Are you having a stroke.
Welcome. Let us know if you have questions. I recommend to you and JandroDelSol that you play around with the Hot, Scaled, New and Top 6 Hours and 12 Hours to see more action and posts.
Thanks for the tip!
Welcome aboard, I joined in the last big exodus. It’s not the same here but it’s good and getting better.
Honestly, Lemmy reminds me more of old Reddit. Back when /r/AskReddit had daily “my house is on fire, should I evacuate or just stay here at my computer” types of posts.
nowadays askreddit is mostly political, or an incel, or a entertainment type question that people cant handle the answers.
Welcome! I’ll leave this comment explaining Lemmy that I’ve previously left for new users:
Welcome to Lemmy! I’m glad you joined. There are tons of tutorials out there for how to use the platform, but if it helps, here’s my advice:
I use the Android app Sync For Lemmy. Reminds me a lot of rif is fun from before Reddit shut down 3rd party API access about a year ago.
Lemmy.World is the name of the biggest instance on Lemmy. Think of it as a discord channel with different sub-channels except those are called communities here (and instead of r/ for subreddits we have c/ for communities).
There are still trolls here. What’s nice about Lemmy is that you can block individual trolls, communities of trolls, or even instances of trolls (if you deem them so). Conversely, if you get banned from any of the above, you can make a new account on any other instance (like dbzer0 or shitjustworks) and still have access to the content from those people/places. The same is true if certain communities/instances change their policies on things like Luigi, which happened on Lemmy.World recently. I switched over to dbzer0 to avoid that censorship and to also see stuff about pirating - that which is banned on Lemmy.World.
Lastly, we can see posts/comments from other people on the Fediverse, like from Mastodon (Twitter alternative) and others.
Hope you enjoy your stay here! Lemmy is primarily tech- and politics-focused rn, but a lot of people draw parallels to Reddit’s early days, which is good!
Welcome 🙂 this feels similar to old reddit, but a bit less nerdy and a bit more political than reddit in 2014 or so, but the times have also changed.
Both me and my partner joined today. Problem is a lot of people don’t know about Lemmy, I’d never heard of it before today but someone commented about it on reddit in response to reddit’s latest nonsense.
I’ll likely stick around reddit for a bit and do my part to comment about making the switch. I can’t blame people for not joining something they know nothing about.
Welcome!!! 🧡
Welcome!
I’ll likely stick around reddit for a bit and do my part to comment about making the switch
!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com often features has Reddit posts which mention Lemmy or problems with Reddit. Great place to find and share opportunities to spread the word.
i remember it a year ago, but dropped it because i was still on reddit, it took me getting banned on several accts to come looking for this site.
I started the switch over after how grossed out I was with Reddit advertising betting on the elections, and the overwhelming number of bots and bad actors trying to influence people constantly in most of the subreddits. Since then, I’ve been promoting Lemmy, BlueSky, and the Fediverse as a whole on Reddit.
I believe we are on the cusp of another great migration. The more enshitified things continue to get on Reddit, the more real people will leave for spaces like here. At some point it could just be mostly bots talking to other bots on Reddit.
mostly right wing propaganda, drowning out the actual news. right wing prop, includes just positng all the doge, and trumps gaffes. and whats not really reporting on the other sht.
Not even with the other news of them warning people for upvoting content?
It’s what got me over here finally.
and before that, it was the massive purge that was going on, and i believe its still ongoinging especially if they upped thier filtering of anything they deemed “bannable”, the people that lost the most were the ones using hundreds or thousands of accts to earn income for themselves. my hunch is reddit knows this, thats why they went after those bots/of accts, reddit wasnt getting a cut, and wonder why they do very little against propaganda trolls. i also use adblockers so reddit doesnt get money anyways.
Also, obviously we want more users, but do we want that type of user? Remember what Reddit was before digg, before a few ‘endless summers’ that happen every year
I’m also a Reddit refugee. :-) fuck spez
Your username is cool as hell.
My point that we’re never going to see another user influx on the scale of the summer 2023
You never know. When Digg did a redesign basically all the Digg users fled to Reddit. You never know what is going to be the last straw. And since we’re dealing with network effects, there can be this feedback mechanism where people leaving leads to more people leaving. It’s hard to predict when something’s going to tip over.
IMO, it’s just a matter of time. Reddit wasn’t profitable and now that they’re public their investors are going to demand growth and profit. That means enshittifying the site, and one of those changes is going to be too much. It could go on for years, but I’d be shocked if Reddit is still around in 10 years.
reddit’s fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023
While Reddit might not have a single screw-up of that scale again, that is probably better for long-term Lemmy growth. I think we’ve forgotten just how ill-equipped the small handful of Lemmy instances were to cope with the 2023 influx. We have many more stable instances now, and the onboarding process is smoother.
im an OG user, originally created for use of friendsafari on pokemon(i still have the og acct, that is flagged). i remember when they were there banning “illegal subs” like shoplifting and such, i know they moved to a international site(the users). they dint start aggressively banning til trumps first turn, like around 2018, now everything after that your comment is on thin ice every time.
Yeah, we all know nothing in 2025 will ever be as consequential as what happened in 2023.
Welcome the six new users. We love you
Took me a min to figure out this place but yeah been a long time redditor. I got an email warning me I upvoted something they didn’t like so I joined up here.
Welcome!
I’m curious, what was hard to figure out? I assume it was something federation-related?
I never really had a problem figuring things out (though I’m sure there are still things I could learn). The only difficulty was that when I was subscribing to communities, it was sometimes hard to know which was the “main” or “most popular” community. For instance, there are half a dozen fairly big gaming communities spread across various lemmy instances. Some get more posts, some get more comments. Reddit also had a few different gaming-related communities, but it was easier to figure out which were the bigger ones and which ones had a slightly different focus.
I’m glad I found this, Canadian owned!
reddit is this: and I don’t think enough Canadians know.
this is 2014. 50million raised. led by Sam Altman
https://blog.samaltman.com/trump 2016.
“Trump is right about some big things.” “Trump is right about the problem” “I take some risk by writing this” “this is not an ordinary election”
in a way reddit helped facilitate and validate Donald Trump as a mainstream candidate helping him gain popularity and credibility with /r/the_donald
Marc Andressan - “Marc Andreessen says half of his time goes to helping Trump at Mar-a-Lago” 2024
Snoop Dogg - “I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.” 2024
Donald Trump Was Peter Thiel’s Most Successful Investment. “Thiel is one of the conservative mega donors that has the ability to shore up candidates that might need additional support. His spending is targeted, and his ability to spend millions can be impactful,” Reddit was targeted, to be impactful.
Ron Conway - says “Crypto Economy” Is the Next Multitrillion Dollar Opportunity - 2021
yesterday, - “President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile”
Jared Leto - “We want to see your America in all its imperfect glory.”
now reddit is valued at $6 billion, off the data & memes of unsuspecting Canadians supporting their own threat to their sovereignty.
made sense alot of us/military propaganda was directed at the political and news subs. soon came putins trolls after with the help the above investors.
I did not expect Snoop Dogg and Tencent.
That’s why I’m here at least.
all you need to do is criticize musk and trump.
The enshittification of Reddit started when they hid new features behind API in order to push their shitty official app. Every next move just made the slippery slope steeper.
Started a much longer time ago in my opinion. I’d say around the time they threatened to ban the kratom sub and did ban the ketamine & steroids one
Reddit was much cooler 15 years ago. You could find anything on there
the app is so ugly and cumbersome, i use the browser but reddit purposely slows the browser down, use a ton of memor and heats up yuor phone.
Mamma mia!
Reddit is a group of internet users with the vision of free speech, but directed by shareholder and policy makers.
So glad I ditched Reddit.
Why did I do read that like it was lyrics from Bohemian Rhapsody?
The facade of societal benefit with the hidden and actual motivation of profit, such is the whole world.
Same, haven’t missed it since.
the speech tending towards right wing content in order to drive traffic, works for facebook and youtube.
I guess we’ll have to call him Louie G now.
Short for Ludovici Giovanni.
Yep I bailed. Might post one last thing that will definitely get me banned but I saw the “rule” and immediately came to open a new account here… fuck Reddit.
They really expanded their banning too. My ten year old account got banned for telling a guy that was defending the third Nazi salute to “go to hell”. Was banned and then had the appeal just confirm the ban.
New account basically uses your Internet footprint to ban any accounts you make. I could get around it but it just is not fucking worth it at that point.
If they want to keep Nazis on their platform and ban the people that tell them to go to hell Reddit will be like 4chan quickly.
Hell, I feel every website is becoming 4chan these days. Twitter and Facebook are cesspools. Fuck reddit.
The internet is being disabled as an information source or communication medium.
The west fears an ‘arab spring’ reaction.
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It’s what made Elon buy Twitter.
I got banned today cuz some dude DMd me that he would hang himself, I send him a reddit care message and blocked him, I got banned for three days (they cited the care message) for harrassment, I appealed and was like bro reddit admin, they literally wrote me they would hang themselves how is me using reddit care harrassment and then they permanently banned me. Actually insane. My account had like 60k karma and was 7 years old. Reddit can go to hell.
I have an account with like 130k karma in only a year with no post or comment karma farming, just pure gains, and I got banned for a stupid reason from a sub, so I tried ban evading and got every account suspended for a week from any kind of engagement. Username very relevant, I fucking hate reddit man. Gotta support literally any site that isn’t reddit to get some kind of competition
It’s better here anyways.
Same. Redditor for years. Autobanned without appeal. Need more independent platforms like this outside the US.
Yeah it just sucks that the social media bubbles get smaller and smaller, I dont rlly wanna create my own bubble with ppl I agree with, I wanna argue with ppl I disagree with (or at least see what they are saying). Reddit was good while it lasted but damn it went down hill and I am sure it will get worse as well.
Try Usenet then.
I heard that reporting feature of people “self-harm” is abused alot so reddit now bans people for “Allegedely abusing that button”, i rarely get DMed, because often block people at the same time im reporting them to avoid them contacting me.
Yeah I get that but like I did not abuse the feature. I rarely got DMd as well the guy was just rlly mad at me cuz I told him that equivocating left and right extremism (in germany) is stupid. Then the guy DMd me to tell me he would find me to punch me in the face and when I wasnt rlly impressed he said something about hanging himself. I didnt even explicitly insult him LOL. Given, I wasnt rlly nice either.
i had a 11+year old acct, whom i stopped using like 7 years ago, it was ban, because one of my throwaways had a temp ban, so reddit decided to look at any of your accts that are connected by device or ip, that was involved in ban evasion, and just ban all of them regardless, they usually only ban future accounts, but they banned all acct because a temp ban triggered it. the oldest acct is the one that dint get banned, for some reason.
from what ive gathered they look at your IP address, your device (if you use the reddit app it gives them even more info on your device, your browser fingerprint seems to be important, they also use captcha v3, which is more advanced than V2, which records your site activities, cookies, posting and commenting behavior, of course ban evasion too. Also they compare your “bot activity” to other bot activity and just ban you.
yep I got banned on a sub for something flagrant and tried to ban evade with another account and now every account I have is under a week suspension. Supporting literally anything that isn’t reddit rn because of how much their moderation sucks
i assume you try to comment in the sub again with new accts,
yeah lesson learned don’t reply with the new accounts until the ban is over on the old one, well all those accounts have perma bans on that sub now anyway so I’ll just have to make another one with a new email after the suspensions are over
Tipping point for me. Leaving Reddit for good.
Same here. I figured it was a matter of time before reddit was entirely ruined after the api change and IPO. I stuck around for the niche communities, but they’ve all been overrun by bots.
RIP in pizza, reddit.
The fact that Huffman is scared of being Luigi’d makes me happy.
he does look like an alien? what does have to be scared about, he can just ressurect from a pod.
I knew Reddit was dying after they went public and immediately purged all the mods who didn’t fall in line. It was disheartening to see so many users continue to shill for such decisions. Maybe it was a lot of bots, who knows. But watching this site explode in popularity after these new changes is encouraging. Everyone here should do their part to inform people of this place and continue to stay connected. Good luck everyone!
AFTER censoring luigi related news, and promoting trump, is a death knell, and reddit thought it was clever to “ban” a bunch of subs after musk complained about whitepeople twitter, they only backed off when the mods said they wernt inactive.
Yup. Just deleted my ~7 year old account. Fuck trump and fuck spez
The worst thing about the API changes wasn’t even that most people didn’t care or weren’t on board. It was that they were actively against the people protesting. In real life when this happens I always give some leeway because everyone has their own problems and they might be a bit annoyed by the protest action (which is part of the protest). But on Reddit?? People lost their fucking minds because they couldn’t have access to some subreddits for like 24h.
Sooooo many people failed to realize that even if you didn’t use third party apps that it would still affect you even if indirectly. They didn’t even have to do anything other than literally do nothing/something other that browsing reddit for a day. And they couldn’t. They vilified and downvoted the protesters and took the side of the billionaire trying to take advantage of everyone ruining Reddit in the process
That fiasco in pretty meaningless in todays world events, but fuck, I still find it a great insight into how much we can suck as a species
I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum. Apparently I was the “landed gentry”. Haven’t been back in almost 2 years now. Fuck spez.
I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum.
Then you were doing it right. Thank you for your service. But there were lots of bad mods passing out rando-bans left and right.
I usually broke the other way on modding and let people get away with shit for far too long. In fact, if they were arguing with me directly, I let them get away with behaviour that I’d immediately ban them for if they were pulling it on other users. I didn’t want to be accused of using my banhammer just to win arguments.
I find Lemmy’s modding to be way more aggressive and arbitrary than most of what I ever saw on Reddit, unfortunately. Certainly more agressive than I would do myself.
this massive purge last month, is definitely revealing how dead reddit is without people using multiple accounts to comment in, wether to evade or to troll or to even use the site normally. for example after they had a big purge in december, we noticed how little activity there was in political subs , like there was very little engagement. after it the trolls came back everything went back to being “trump did this or that”. making more than 1 accounts just risks you can ban, because thier filters are too stupid to discern if yuor ban evading or not.
Just signed up here. I had my account flagged for upvoting on Reddit. Needless to say I was POed but so far I’m liking it here
Welcome friend. Lemmy is a nice place.
No, it is an open place where CCP shills and Nazis and good people can all say what they want, filter what they don’t, and communicate without shitty corporate overlords or trash mods having all the power.
If you’re going to be negative about people welcoming newcomers, you don’t have to comment. I thought I left all that behind on reddit.
Just being honest. It isn’t always a nice place, it is a fairly open and honest place. Not shitting on it, just not shining it. It is miles above reddit and the like.
Putting “CCP shills” and Nazis together like that is a hell of a choice.
A bit redundant, I know, but it made a point.
How did you find Lemmy, out of curiosity? Seems like there aren’t a lot of Reddit recs for it yet.
Not that person, but I found out about lemmy from reddit. There are people talking about it when this kind of stuff comes up.
i heard it about over the API thing like 2 years ago, then forgot it. got sitewide ban 99% of my accts meant for different subreddits, and came here, after i remember lemmy. im on LEMMY and on another forum(meant for people who evaded bans and got sitewide banned, and i noticed some got banned for no reason as well.
Honestly googled Reddit alternatives and the first search was from Reddit discussing Lemmy. Took a peek and now I’m here. I like Lemmy, just communities are a hit or miss due to inactivity.
Agreed about the inactivity but hopefully more users make the transition as reddit continues to filter people out
I actually heard about it a while back after the whole API block but never made the transition over till now
i came after part of the reddit february ban wave.
That sent me here as well. What a great way for them to advertise for a decentralized information exchange!
I got banned from Reddit for stating that fascists need to be hung while Reddit endorses fascist subreddits such as /r/conservative that spews hate.
Make it make sense.
Hanged*
Fascists need to be hanged.
Well, Reddit endorses fascists, so I think it makes perfect sense already, really.
“Don’t hurt my friends”
I got banned for an assortment of things. Saying punch a nazi, Luigi did the right thing and Andrew Tate fans are fucking retarded
dont even need to get banned in con sub, any political or news sub, or any sub that remotely talks about politics.
r/con bans you for anything, most of its controlled by russian trolls anyways, well known fact. thats how whipped up reddit into a trump frenzy.
Reddit is doing top tier ads for Lemmy.
I recently got banned for three days but I’m going to get rid of my Reddit. It’s only going to get much worse unfortunately.
i had one acct left after they banned all my other accts when they decided a large purge last month, im just lurking there with that acct and only commented once on a niche sub, likely i wont be commenting on any controversial ones, and just spend it here instead.
It sucks where Reddit went. MAGA is a plague and it needs to be cured.
Reddit is also banning and warning people for UPVOTING “violent” comments (or what they now consider violent and somehow right wing subs don’t get the same censorship applied; or we’d see them bitch about it). It’s now a dystopia.
and russian trolls while get removed almost always come back in full force, and its is allowed them to astroturf any cricticism of conservatives.
Get rid of the goddamn up/down vote system then. It sounds like it is headed towards youtube where they only show upvotes to create a fake “yaaay!” impression.
reddit is mostly a hybrid of youtube and facebook.
Imagine how much harder the lives are for the mods of /r/nintendo
Made my first Lemmy account after this bullshit! Took a split second to figure out, but Lemmy seems super rad so far!
Welcome to Lemmy!
Thanks!
Lemmy tell you, you made the right choice.
😂 thank you!!!
It’s a familiar enough looking place, with some good discussions. But what’s super cool - at least to me - is that “Lemmy” isn’t just Lemmy. There are people here using websites running all sorts of engines. Mbin is a different reddit-like platform that cross-communicates with Lemmy. Friendica is a Facebook-like engine that can talk with Lemmy. NodeBB is a traditional forum. Mastodon, Misskey, and Akkoma are Twitter-like platforms that can show up here, too.
It’s a mesh network, with each node having different strengths and weaknesses, different UIs and UXes, and different rules and goals.
It’s both familiar, and also something totally different, both at the same time.
Welcome to the wilderness!
This sounds super interesting - I understand a lot of what you said, but maybe not all of it.
Any recommendations for learning about this cross-platform integration?
Is it simply something like cross-posting to a different site? I like how Lemmy seems a lot more “web 1.0-2.0”’ish, but I’m left wondering what I am still missing. Thanks!
If you follow a community (or a user, if you’re using something that allows following user accounts, which Lemmy does not) on a remote website, that website will send the website you’re using a copy of all future content they post, and your website will include it in your feeds (as well as in the sites’s ‘global’ feed). It doesn’t really matter what software those other sites are running, so long as they A) use ActivityPub, B) have federation turned on, and C) have not blacklisted the website you’re using.
It’s like following a Twitter user or a Reddit subreddit from Facebook. And it highlights that that’s a thing they all could have done, if they all wanted to work together to make it happen.
They didn’t. Fedvierse developers do.
This was so helpful, thank you. Reading up on ActivityPub now. Kind of sounds similar to RSS.
I’ve already said this, but I really enjoy how much Lemmy is giving me the same feelings as using the “oldschool” web!
It’s very similar to RSS in concept, just two way!
