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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just like Lemmy more. No NFTs, or Karma meaning anything. It feels like it was plucked from an older time.

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      1 year ago

      For someone saying karma doesn’t mean anything you’re sure farming lots of it! Making good comments and shit worthy of upvotes! You’re quite a terrible hypocrite!

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      1 year ago

      But obv the smartest most helpful ppl on any given topic have old reddit accounts with a lot of karma so they can post? That prob killed amas too, celebs prob didnt have enough karma to make a post

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    1 year ago

    I just joined Lemmy today. I found out about it through a piracy site of all things. If it were viable I would replace everything in my life with open-source alternatives. I’m tired of companies getting greedy and ruining the things I love.

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      1 year ago

      Welcome to Lemmy! Just by being here you’re about to find out (whether you like it or not!) just how viable it is to replace (almost) everything in your life with open source alternatives, it’s just seems to be part of the (awesome) culture around here. Enjoy!

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Make sure you check out places like !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, on there and other communities on that site there be many a sailor like you. What’s better is you can participate without having to make a new account!

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I jumped off voluntarily a little over a year ago when spez didn’t like third party apps anymore and reddit went public.

    Edit: damn it’s almost been 2 years on lemmy. What a fucking ride

    Edit: I can’t believe cm0002 copied your exact same post

    https://lemm.ee/post/60400579

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    1 year ago

    It’s not a matter of liking more, reddit was dead for me when they fucked their api. Lemmy still needs content, but the ux is wastly superior

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    1 year ago

    I switched during the API fiasco. Most of my browsing is from mobile and I refused to use the crappy official app. Content had been declining in quality anyway, so I didn’t feel that strongly about it.

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m permanently IP banned from Reddit. During the time when they forced everyone off of third party apps, I posted multiple times in relevant discussions about Lemmy and other Fediverse alternatives. One morning when I logged in my account had a message from Reddit admins that my account and IP address was banned and that any future accounts created would be circumventing the ban and would also be banned.

    More reason to leave that site anyway.

    • lunarul@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Same here. I wasn’t even using a 3rd party app, just left because of the shitty behavior. Uninstalled the app and never logged in again. I was on Reddit daily, I’m on Lemmy daily now.

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    I stopped visiting reddit when they started screwing around with API access. I’m glad I didn’t wait in the hopes the inevitable wouldn’t happen.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    12 years, 900K+ karma, Permabanned soon after the inauguration for repeating a statement I’d made many times before.

    Came to Lemmy and found lots of recently banned veterans. Many of us were high volume posters for over a decade, and never got banned, then suddenly we all turned into monsters that had to be permabanned in the same month.

    I prefer Lemmy in many ways - no puns, fewer trolls, no bots, no Russian propaganda farmers, etc., but some of my favorite subjects are badly lacking. Reddit has several very large and active guitar subs, for instance, while Lemmy’s guitar forums are small and barely used.

    On the other hand, the political subs are far more radical, and allow real discussion of political options more than Reddit. They are not doing themselves a service by suppressing radical speech over there, they are only driving it underground, where it will become even more radical. When it happens they’ll be surprised because they buried it instead of addressing it.