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    • KneeTitts@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      See, if reddit had just let the upvote/downvote system work as intended, instead of banning people for no reason at all in a lot of cases, this entire problem likely would have been avoided. And no matter what the bans should have never been permanent! We dont put people in prison FOREVER, social media accounts should also be treated with some decency.

      • scottywh@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Permabans with no way to appeal are ridiculous.

        And then to add that if you create a new account to get around a subreddit ban then that makes you eligible for a sitewide ban is even more ridiculous.

        • DLAN@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          I got permabanned from r/pics a while back because under a generic Facebook photo of an interracial couple at their wedding somebody asked why it was posted there and I responded “Reddit loves interracial couples”. That was it. The irony is that my marriage is interracial.

      • Tired8281@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        A lot of this is because the prevalent attitude has been ‘it’s the internet, it doesn’t matter’, and that allowed people to do things that we, as a society, decided long ago that people weren’t supposed to do.

    • zabil@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      Small suggestion - Is it possible for you to pin this comment to the top of the comment feed? I missed the comment when I first looked to be honest

    • Balrog of Morgoth@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Same here. It’s already gotten sucky, and it’s only going to get worse.

      If you want to know the future of Reddit, look at Facebook.

      • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Reddit has been going downhill for a decade. The problem was that there were no viable alternatives. Now that /u/Spez has pushed the issue, he forced enough people into Lemmy that it is suddenly a viable alternative. I call that a win!

  • Damaskox@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been around Lemmy for under a week so far. This feels enough like Reddit (more than Kbin) and…seems(?) to have more activity than Kbin so I deleted my account there and decided to stay here. I’ve already created a bit of content here to grow this place! ❤

    I hope I’ll see more communities arrive here what are not yet here but in Reddit 👀

  • BuckFigotstheThird@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    So far, so good. Keep the bigotry and fascists in check and I’ll stick around. I tried to make a community (a page for my band) just now and it just loads and loads when I hit submit. Anyone else had that problem? I turned off all my ad blockers. The issue persists.

    edit: I was able to make a community today. Check out !jambands if you’re into that kind of thing! :)

    edit2: 12/13/23 Lemmy has lots of bigots and incels now.

    edit3: 2/14/24 Lemmy now seems to have bigot and incels mods running many “front page” communities.

  • ConditionOverload@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m planning on staying here permanently. I’ll go into Reddit just to check subreddit names I’ve subscribed to and see if there’s a Lemmy community for it every now and then, but I’m not going to engage with Reddit more than that.

  • somefool@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Absolutely. I’m on a few instances with different moods/themes, and I toggle between them depending on what I am interested in at the moment (sciences, programming and tech, …).

    It has already entirely replaced Reddit for me. It’s much nicer here.

  • Slifer@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’ve switched to Kbin.

    • Posted from Gerboa on mobile because Kbin doesn’t have an app yet …
  • refugeered@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I realized how much of a marketing cesspool Reddit has become once I left it. That along with the whole doom scrolling has been toxic to my mental health. So I am much better off without it.

    That said, the fediverse seems to be a little too small especially for niche topics. Plus the this world still needs some tool/interface to unify it and make it easier to use. I still go back reddit once in a while for those niche communities but I have logged out for the first time in a decade+ from reddit.

    I have started focusing on my hobbies more, the whole reddit fiasco has been a reminder that it is not just FB that is bad, it is everything including Reddit and in time possibly places like this if it grows.

    • NikkiNikkiNikki@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      I remember joining reddit a few years back, and it was on the cusp of when it became a cesspool. I wouldn’t post often (Maybe twice a month), but every time the engagement became less and less useful. Kind like how stack overflow users can never actually give you a helpful answer, they only link to other vaguely related ones, Reddit became “Oh, it’s because x and y” to “Oh god you’re so fucking stupid it’s obviously Z”.

      And I just kinda dipped out to lurking on twitter, and then twitter became so god awful that I can’t even open the app without feeling like humanity lost its way.

      Anyways other than that Kbin has been doing me justice. I’ve never been more active on any other platform.