Inception bitch!

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2515·
      9 months ago

      I do not see how Lemmy helps with anything other than allowing people another excuse for escapism and scrolling on the internet over actually developing life skills, seeing new sights, socializing with humans, getting better at understanding people, and actually making an effort to communicate with others, doing some small part to make the world better.

      • bunnyBoy@pawb.socialEnglish
        181·
        9 months ago

        I think the ‘problem’ the meme is referencing is supporting centralized social media run by corporations. I think the ‘problem’ you are talking about is more along the lines of tech addiction. Something can fix one problem without fixing every problem.

        • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          9 months ago

          Sure, and my point is maybe we all need to put away the internet entirely a little more often, it’s literally killing us and the world.

            • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
              3·
              9 months ago

              the internet can be a great place if you know where to look. the problem you are referring to is cellphones and general 24/7 connectivity. you can still get called with no data service, anywhere anytime. so ppl… put away the phones, tablets, computers, gaming devices. I challenge anyone to go off grid for a week. sadly I know I can’t.

              • applemao@lemmy.world
                1·
                9 months ago

                We have off grid days on the weekend. I love it. I’d do it more if work didn’t require it or I didn’t have people who call me for help with things.

            • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22·
              9 months ago

              I love me a really well-made grilled-cheese sandwich, like with all the fixings and fancy bread. Truly one of life’s pleasures.

              But if gets moldy, even if it’s no fault of my own, I will probably throw that shit away and pick another option. (This also kills the spread of the mold.)

      • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        9 months ago

        with reddit the CEO ad shareholders control what gets promoted or silenced; with Lemmy they don’t have that power. that’s how it helps

      • ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world
        31·
        9 months ago

        Link aggregate sites do perform an actual function outside of the use case of doom scrolling. It’s a way that I engage with my niche hobby groups, aggregate news, and troubleshoot niche tech issues. There’s a reason why you Google a question then add “reddit” at the end.

      • r.EndTimes@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        This shits so funny bruh, stop using social media as your excuse for not developing skills, yeah its addictive but you make an active choice to not delete these apps, if I want to get shit done I delete tiktok, there you go, no longer distracted by easy scroll dopamine. Went i want a break from learning skills, seeing new sights, I redload it, wtf do you think social media is, there is less small talk and more proper socializing on lemmy/reddit type platforms than any other

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          9 months ago

          Luigi is a bright, shinning example of what happens when the powers that be stop listening to the complaints and needs of the peasantry.

          You’d think they’d have learned that the last several dozen times lords got too high and mighty and triggered a violent revolt/uprising… but alas…

          • IceyPea@lemm.eeEnglish
            9·
            9 months ago

            If they sentence him to death it’s gonna be the white people version of George Floyd.

          • SparroHawc@lemm.ee
            4·
            9 months ago

            Luigi is also, in all probability, innocent.

            Which means the Claims Adjuster is still at large.

    • SpitefulSprite@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      Dude im so tired of bans and creepy tracking that ensures you cant engage on the site… I do enjoy the reddit user friendly platform but im so sick of the overreach from the mods… i have had an account up for a while that just got permanently banned because I accidentally engaged with a sub i forgot had banned my og account… and because of that old account that had an IP ban it was somehow tied to my new account made a whole year later! Even though i use duckduckgo with full protection and cleared all my data… but Im done… its not worth the headache…and trying to use lemmy world now feels better. Still getting used to it here

      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
        151·
        9 months ago

        your comment has been automatically removed because you didn’t choose the right flair.

        your comment has been automatically removed because it doesn’t adhere to “fuckshitstack” guidelines

        your comment has been automatically removed because it didn’t kiss the mods’ asses enough

        your comment has been automatically removed, to become verified, take a photo of your driver’s license, your social security card, and yourself holding both of them, in each arm. SUBMISSIONS WITH BOTH CARDS IN ONE HAND WILL BE DELETED! PLEASE, READ THE STICKY.

        I fucking hate Reddit.

        • SpitefulSprite@lemmy.world
          7·
          9 months ago

          So spot on! And i needed a place to vent. I’m glad lemmyworld lets us do that. But I’m so done with reddit. They leave up absolutely toxic awful comments and users that are actually bots, but then punish and route out real users… I didn’t really believe the dead internet theory until i realized how much reddit targets real users…

    • supro47@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      9 months ago

      I once said on /r/nintendo in the context of Nintendo increasing the price of games that even if you enjoy their products, there’s no excuse to defend their anti consumer practices and that there was way too much “corporate boot licking” among Nintendo fans. It wasn’t a statement directed at anyone specifically, but I got a temporary ban for “derogatory name calling.”

      Like…I fully understand it’s going to be a sub of Nintendo fans, and I also consider myself a fan of a lot of their games, but if you aren’t allowed to be critical…then banning me for that post kinda proved my point, lol.

    • SparroHawc@lemm.ee
      11·
      9 months ago

      I dropped Reddit when it was announced that you could be banned for upvoting something.

    • SeattleStyleTeriyaki@lemm.ee
      7·
      9 months ago

      I got an instant permanent auto ban for joking about pushing someone down the stairs. It was ‘supporting violence’. I appealed and it was auto rejected. It’s become absurd.

    • IceyPea@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      9 months ago

      Their threshold for “calls to violence” is ridiculous. Got a ban for commenting I’d slap someone just like the person who got pranked slapped the person who jump scared them.

      • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zoneEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        My ban. A bloke purposely ran over a 12 year old boy that was riding his bike. Seems a group of youths had verbally hassled this bloke so this was his reaction. Thankfully it was caught on film. This happened about 50 miles from me here in Australia.

        Well anyway my comment was that if he had run over one of my two boys he might have ended up in hospital, there might be broken bones and I might end up in prison. I mean it was an angry knee jerk reaction to a horrible situation.

        Well I got a site wide ban for threatening violence. I didn’t actually threaten anybody. No warning, no temp ban, not just banned from that one sub. Appealed but it fell in deaf ears.

      • SpaceShort@feddit.uk
        6·
        9 months ago

        My ban was for saying there should be mass protests outside the building in which that American judge was held and that these protests should prevent anyone from entering or leaving until that judge is released. Apparently, that’s “violence”, even though it’s self-defence against the violence of a fascist state.

    • Alaknár@lemm.ee
      22·
      9 months ago

      Mods censor EVERYTHING

      This is not a Reddit issue, this is a “subreddit I’m subscribed to” issue. I’m not seeing that problem.

      The problem I AM seeing, though, that’s ACTUALLY making it unusable is how they fucked up the latest UI redesign. Ctrl+Enter no longer works, spellcheck is force-disabled when using the Markdown editor, posts no longer open in a panel, you have to open each one in a separate tab or reload the main feed every single time, everything is slow and clunky… It’s just badly written, badly optimised and badly designed overall.

  • Cynicalinsurrection@lemmy.world
    333·
    9 months ago

    There are many communities still on reddit for which there are no alternatives on lemmy as of yet and if you want it to surpass reddit you need to stop with the toxic attitude and the false sense of superiority especially since a lot of the content on this platform is just reposts from 4chan, x, reddit. If curious folk come here and all they see is toxic threads and reposts why would they stay here? This is mostly in response to the comments I’ve seen on here not the thread itself.

  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world
    251·
    9 months ago

    The only thing Twitter has over something like Bluesky is the fact that Bluesky is so milquetoast and nice that you don’t really get any of the drama you get on Twitter. Like, I never see comic fans going “Black Bolt would DESTROY Saitama in a fight!” and anime fans going “Nu uh! ONE PUNCH!” on Bluesky.

    Same with Lemmy tbh. Lemmy is 80% politics, 5% memes about politics, 5% memes about Lemmy being better than Reddit, and 10% Linux.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn’t a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.

      • frostysauce@lemmy.world
        64·
        9 months ago

        Honestly I’ve become so disillusioned with Lemmy over the last few months. Almost all of the discussion I see is liberals saying all conservatives should be executed, leftists saying all liberals should be executed, and tankies saying that anyone not willing to self-immolate in protest of the genocide in Palestine should be executed (but don’t you DARE mention any genocide not perpetuated by the West.)

        /h

    • Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I came here to discuss niche hobbies and technical stuff. What I wanted to use reddit for but I strongly disagree with their business practices since this whole API blocking crap from last year.

      • HereIAm@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        The protocol itself could surely start its journey if enshittification? In which case different, possibly incompatible, branches would spawn fragmenting the Lemmy space. Still miles better than the whole thing burning to the ground. But with no shareholders looming around (yet) we can hope it won’t come to that.

          • HereIAm@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            I guess the closest I know of is Maps.me and Organic Maps? Maps.me was open source, but got purchased and enshittified, so Organic Maps was forked from it. And now there is some drama with the Organic Maps shareholders/co-founders, so unless that is (or has it already been?) sorted out we’re likely to see another fork of it.

            Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the main dev(s) members of lemmy.ml? So I can certainly see how differing political views could skew the development of the main branch of Lemmy.

            • farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works
              5·
              9 months ago

              The organic maps founders seem to have convinced the volunteers that a private company would be best to manage an open source project. The community got duped hard.

              • HereIAm@lemmy.world
                1·
                9 months ago

                I agree. And luckily for Lemmy and all other FOSS projects the worst that can happen is a fork of the project is created with a potentially fractured community.

            • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              That’s a bad example because it got forked and it wasn’t an actual problem?

              Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the main dev(s) members of lemmy.ml[3]? So I can certainly see how differing political views could skew the development of the main branch of Lemmy.

              People say this all the time but never can give even one example of a potential problem. Preemptive forking sounds insane to me. The notion that lemmy might enshittify because you don’t like their politics is also ridiculous when their politics are anti-capitalist… aka the politics that are least likely to enshittify.

              • HereIAm@lemmy.world
                1·
                9 months ago

                But that’s exactly what I said in the beginning. The worst that can happen is the original creators take the project in an undesired direction so a fork is created.

      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        if .world says being a minor is bannable suddenly there’s no minors anywhere on Lemmy. A minor example that is understandable, sure, but it’s just to show that a single large instance can cause a lot of change if they decide to.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        9 months ago

        Isn’t that the exact same argument for Twitter? If Twitter gets shitty, people will just leave? Because I feel like we’re not really seeing that.

  • Juliee@lemm.eeEnglish
    221·
    9 months ago

    You left Reddit because you wanted to tell a message

    I left because I was banned site wide cause of an unpopular opinion in a gaming subreddit

    We are not the same

      • Juliee@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        It was an opinion specifically selected from fresh produce and ingredients made with passion and dedication.
        I have served it to Star Citizen players and they started to behave very unfriendly towards me. I had to run for my dear life.

        When I tried to come back I was met with hammers and pitchforks so I decided to take my cuisine elsewhere.

        Unfortunately not everybody likes my cooking but… I have found plenty of enjoyers of my food on the web.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      I keep on getting 3 day bans from these infantile mods with no reply and no reason behind it besides their pettiness and immaturity. Ahhhhhh! 😆

    • Hellsfire29@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      I was also banned site wide from reddit.

      For saying that mayor Tiffany Henyard or whatever her name is of Dalton IL should be imprisoned for corruption. It was reported as racism. Lmao whatever that site sucks anyway

      Oh wait … I wasn’t supposed to disclose the reason!!!

    • StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net
      1·
      9 months ago

      I got banned site wide for saying that democrats want to force everyone to get automatic transitions… In a car sub.

      I guess I’m transphobic because I didn’t put a /s at the end. 🤷

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        11·
        9 months ago

        I mean even if they are, the software is open source and lemmy is made to work with ActivityPup, an open protocol. That is what matters at the end of the day.

        • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          This is what’s insane to me.

          Option 1: locked software owned by billionaires who can control the narrative and remove anything they don’t like

          Option 2: open-source software anybody can use, coded by people with extreme opinions

          It’s pretty clear which one is superior

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    Reddit is like CNN, which is Fox-lite, while xitter is ( oan and newsmax)

  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca
    141·
    9 months ago

    Lmao well I found this place cause they won’t let me on Reddit anymore. They didn’t appreciate my colourful thoughts on Musk.

    • Alaik@lemmy.zip
      6·
      9 months ago

      Honestly you could get banned for upvoting someone who stated someone seemed agitated and should try following dear leaders advice and take a shot of ivermecrin, a shot of bleach, and take a nap.

      Watching reddits fall over the span of 12 years was certainly a thing.