• @kyub@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Basically yes. The alternatives passively become better simply because of the mainstream option becoming worse over time. I think it’s still going too slowly in general but I’m not complaining, better slow than not at all.

    • Not quite… It’s easiest to game on Windows still. I’d love to move to Linux, though. But, alas, this year is not your year still. Crucify me if you wish, but this is the truth. So say a simple gamer that knows more than you do if you’re peddling Linux as the best option in early 2025.

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        I’ve switched to main linux last week, for now with a windows dualboot for games that have issues. Honestly a good option if you just don’t like windows or where it’s heading. Depending on what you play going 100% linux isn’t viable though (but also if you’re not playing any multiplayer games it is).

        Rebooting is so fast these days that switching OS isn’t a big problem, and I’m surprised just how well proton is working. I’ve somehow had more problems with the EA launcher trying to play nfs unbound on windows than on linux (it just worked with no issues, on windows it wouldn’t launch if I don’t close the ea launcher first).

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        What have you been trying to run? I am honestly baffled at the linux gaming possibilities, even outside of Steam. I mean even Star Citizen “runs” on linux. (lol)

  • Tomtits
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    I’m an exodusee as well, just a minnow at this point.

    I just got sick of the right wing bullshit, the censorship, the shills, the morons, the bootlickers…

    Hello all

  • @Pringles@lemm.ee
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    We’re witnessing the second reddit wave now, just like we always knew it would come eventually when reddit crossed another enshitification threshold.

    Welcome all!

      • @gigglybastard@lemmy.world
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        Facts, it’s already happening when most of the perfectly fine comments are collapsed in any interesting topic. Like yesterday when twitter was down. Every comment under the top level memes were collapsed so you have to click the + in front of it and get bored quickly and just give up. Same today with Musk post about being all weird about his empire.

        nothing to see here move along type of thing

    • DaveyRocket
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      I’m pretty sure my account ban is coming, the fact it isn’t banned already is likely an oversight of the fascist running the place.

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          Maybe it’s the fact I have only one? There are a couples places that would be a lot quieter if I stopped commenting and I’m guessing they don’t really want to bite the many hands that feed. Once comments die it’s just a graveyard of links.

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            I don’t think it’s based on your contributions. My main account had over 600k comment karma when it was banned.

            They are purging anti-corporate perspectives and anti-genocide perspectives, this is becoming clear. They now have a social credit system where they track accounts that upvote posts which are later removed.

            They probably want to make the AI training data a bit more pro corporate and right wing.

            • 3DMVR
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              I said one thing bad about trump saying more h1b visas (they are bad for americans (harder for us to get jobs that give experience) and they dont contribute to the economy they actively take money out and send it home, its not the best or the brightest like they claim) Then temp banned for 3 days, and after that banned once a week for a few days til like 2 months later I got banned. The worst ban was abusing reports, I reported some fd up shit like ppl planning group suicides, doubt they even looked or cared, just banned me for reporting and increased it for complaining.

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                I promise you if someone plans to off themselves with you they are manipulating you and have no intention of doing it, felt like watching serial killers in action

    • comfy
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      FWIW, there were also a few smaller waves before the big API one, but they were mostly individual communities migrating (/r/piracy, /r/genzedong, …)

      These last few messups are too silly that I can’t even guess what they’ll do next. Surely they won’t force ID registration…

  • @Aeri@lemmy.world
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    Reddit full bore banned me for saying “I should have a legal right to punch nazis” and declined my appeal.

    Reddit is unironically nazi aligned and that’s not a joke it’s terrifying.

    • @SaltyBarDog@lemmy.world
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      I haven’t been full banned yet but have grown tired of the amazing levels of stupidity. I caught a temp ban for incivility for writing “Your mother should have gone through with her Planned Parenthood appointment.”

      • @MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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        To be fair, that’s kinda deserved. You could experience the same here.

        There are plenty of other reasons to hate on Reddit, but acting in a fairly civil manner should be expected.

        Glad to have you here though! 😊

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          Banning people who aren’t “safe spacey enough” is fucking stupid.

          People can be abrasive. People can be mean. People will absolutely take your shit if you let them.

          Hiding from them in a bubble doesn’t make them disappear (and shockingly sometimes they have points to make).

          • @MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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            Hmm…

            So your argument is that we potentially lose valuable insight?

            I agree in principle, but it is hard to balance.

            Because without a certain amount of civility we potentially lose the voice of minorities and oppressed groups of people.

            In a free democratic country you of course should be legally allowed to be abrasive and say mean hurtful things.

            How would you balance/solve this dilemma on a social network? The same way as the law?

            I am a bit torn here

    • @El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee
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      But… but… Won’t someone think of the poor innocent nazis???

      (I got a warning for pretty much the same reason and decided not to hang around until I got a full ban.)

  • @fromtheriver@lemmy.world
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    I got a warning for upvoting too much violent content. I know it’s bullshit. I contributed regarding economics but nothing violent.

    Done with Reddit.

    • @IceyPea@lemm.ee
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      Never got my wrist slapped. But enforcing votes is beyond the pale.

      Dipped my toes into lemmy during the last exodus (2023?) but I’m done posting to reddit forever now.

      • @redditfuckingsucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I can’t wait for digg to finally come out, I hope it becomes basically a better, private, version of reddit, but you know, good. Lemmy is good too for now but I’m not exactly a huge fan of the UI, and not enough people are moving over yet. Again, probably cuz the UI is a little hard to figure out the first time.

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          I almost consider that a feature. Same with the sign up process, it may help keep a lot of bots out.

    • @NeonNight@lemm.ee
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      Yep, that’s why I’m here now. If I ever use my Reddit account I just refuse to upvote anything at all

    • @TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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      Same here, but the bots don’t even tell you the “wrongthink” post that you upvoted so you have no idea how to avoid upvotes that will flag your account with a warning/ban. It’s fucking psychotic on reddit now. Like watching the Titanic sink at this point.

      • @redditfuckingsucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        digg could not be coming back at a better time. I honestly hope that it’s basically just reddit but with a better UI and not as many shitty rules. Going public ruined that fucking website and I always knew it the moment they started charging an obscene amount of money to use their API

        • @TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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          The irony is that reddit ripped off digg’s original UI nearly 95% identically. I hope they keep a similar format because the Digg redesign sucked and everyone hopped over to reddit, then reddit made that god-awful new UI that I can’t even bother to use at all (you can opt out of the ‘new design’ in your user preferences/settings) but at this point, reddit is practically useless anymore. They’ll probably be censoring any links to digg once it comes back up as people tell other users that there’s a reddit alternative.

    • @RamenJunkie@midwest.social
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      Not the whole site but I got banned from World News a month or so ago for making a Luigi related Mario Brothers joke.

      Such a joke. I am not even remotely a small time Reddit user either, been there for like 15 years and probably have over a million Karma across 3-4 accounts.

    • @TheHalifaxJones@lemm.ee
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      Funny enough. I just joined like 10 minutes ago. As someone whose been on reddit since 2008! I’ve finally had enough when my 15 year old account started getting permabanned just for understanding why people like Luigi exist. And getting banned all over because of one comment. Then I saw another post this morning talking about alternatives to reddit and how someone else started getting banned for just about the same reasons. Then I and came across this platform. And it seems very promising at first glance. I’m m very hopeful it can make its way. Reminds me of the older days of early Internet.

      • I’ve been here for 12d now and feddit hasn’t lost it’s charm. That feeling of how the internet was before the big companies is so refreshing.

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          Couldn’t agree more. I’m officially onboard with this platform. Still trying to figure out how it all works. But it’s great

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    Mods remove a post from /r/worldnews about Musk pushing for the US to leave NATO because it’s “not the appropriate subreddit”…? Excuse me, what the fuck???

  • @NotSerious@lemm.ee
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    Hello folks! Found out I was banned this morning and spent all day trying to figure out an alternative. All for liking a post that said Trump raped a girl. Oh well. He did rape a girl so wtf?

    • @TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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      Same here! My second 7-day site-wide suspension, I’m guessing ban next. I got flagged with warnings for upvoting something related to Luigi as “violating the rules by upvoting hate posts.” It’s like fucking 1984 over there now.

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        seems the added increase “luigi” and increase the amount of ban/purges going on. i was banned before they labeled LUIGI as a dirty word. i think its going to get worst and worst til theres only MSM only content on the site(that you can comment on)

        • @TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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          That seems to be the general direction at this point. reminds me of r/HailCorporate, calling out posts that are really advertisements but don’t explicitly tell you they are.

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    It’s why I’m here. 12 year member, nearly a million in karma, perma-banned for repeating a statement I’d made many times in the past with no repercussions. The first time I repeated it after HitlerPig stole the election, I was fully banned.

    It’s happening because Ohanion wants to buy TikTok, and he knows HitlerPig will be personally making the decision, based on who smooched his ass the most, and who paid the biggest bribe. So as a show of good faith, he’s volunteering to make Reddit a member of the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

    I hope Reddit goes the way of Digg.

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    Permabanned after nearly 12 years. Forgive me for hating Nazi’s. I’d made the statement fuck all Nazi’s but six several times but this time was this time I got automod flagged. They are pretty much flagging the word Nazi regardless of context or overall statements made. The same goes for the word Luigi. Also, Karma is basically useless considering downvoting too much can also lead to a ban. It is pretty ridiculous. I’d never been banned once for any reason except for the last 6 months where I’ve been sub banned or gotten 3-7 day bans several times for making points about the sorry state of affairs in America lately. Forgive me for not bowing to kiss the fascist MAGA ring. Reddit has really put profits over people this time with these stupid rules and no real care in reading appeals or looking at context during moderation. It is all for their bottom line and oligarch investors now.

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      Interesting. My 10 year old account also got perma banned for telling someone defending the third Nazi salute to “go to hell”.

      Apparently I should have told them to “go fuck themselves”. But telling them to “go to hell” was inciting violence or whatever.

      • Grool The Demon
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        Yeah, I’ve said fuck all Nazis but six or kill all Nazis but six a hundred times on there, but this time was a bridge too far apparently. I really don’t care if they think it is violent. They’ll get theirs eventually I guess if history is a cyclical as it seems. Just gonna keep on trucking and spreading the word when I can, but it sure as shit ain’t going to be on Reddit. I think I’m getting too old, grizzled, and cynical for any form of social media anymore anyways. It’s all just so… fake. Reddit was the last bastion for me. I probably won’t be that prolific on here, but we’ll see.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      you can get flagged or astroturfed for calling out people trying to sanewash nazis, usually its the statement"You should not call everyone a nazi you disagree with" type of post.

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        Yep. The whataboutism and trying to play the both sides are wrong shit is so old. I think it is fair to say that a large portion of the Democratic party are gutless centrist DINO’s, can’t get their point across, can’t get a coalition going, and have no real power or momentum right now, but to try and argue that they are as bad as the conservatives is complete nonsense. Certainly, no party is perfect but to even try to say they are equivalent is folly of the highest order. Many in the republican party are fascists and I’m sick of people pretending that they aren’t. Nuanced conversation is lost on the bots, AI slop, and the rest of the idiots on Reddit.

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    today / last night he confidentley stated that the X cyberattack was “traced” to Ukraine.

    he’s just another head of the hydra, the hydra being the transnational crime syndicate that masquerades as the US, Russian, and other governments.

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    I spent an hour last night interacting with and outing ruzzian trolls on Reddit. There was no doubt these were ruzzians, because after a couple of tit-for-tat comments, they use terms like “we” when talking about ruzzias invasion of Ukraine. They all knew what Yandex was without asking or querying it, as a non ruzzian would. In some comments I explained why ruzzia is a third world shithole country, because I’ve been there. I told a couple to go dig babushka a fresh latrine pit, and a couple others how good they’d look fertilizing sunflowers in Kursk Woke up today, and I’ve been permanently banned “for inciting violence”. Reddit is a hive full of ruzzian trolls and bots, and the moderators appear to support them. I don’t think I’ll bother creating another account lol.

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      i just block some of them and report most of them and block. no point in arguing with those.

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        You’re probably right, but I felt that by exposing them maybe some other more gullible people wouldn’t absorb their views. Too many people can’t think very well for themselves and just regurgitate what they’ve heard, so calling out liars has some value. I hope.

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      After the election but most notably after inauguration they started to creep out everywhere, especially into local subs. r/Seattle suddenly had weird narratives being pushed. They did usually get downvoted to hell though and the sub mods have mostly been keeping a handle on it.

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    I’ve had a few of my “check out lemmy.ca” posts deleted there and frankly I don’t see how it breaks reddit TOS. They’re just bitter.