I just got a ban for “encouraging violence”. Someone asked “what will you do to celebrate when he dies?” Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they’d put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians’ careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.

So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.

And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It’ll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.

  • Roundeyegweilo@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 minutes ago

    Some right wing troll said something akin to “so much for the tolerant left.” I replied “I don’t give two shits about your opinion dude. I’ll see you in the streets during the revolution.”.

    That was my third account banned. I figured that shit was pretty innocuous. 😂 This was a few weeks back.

    Fuck reddit. It’s probably for the best. They’re talking about paid subs coming next year or whatever. I hope reddit burns to the ground.

  • astro_plane@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    18 minutes ago

    Just made my account. Reddit can no longer be a trustworthy site since Spez keeps shitting all over the site with dumb ass rules.

  • acme401@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    21 minutes ago

    Hi. I made it.

    Just deleted my 13-year-old account. I’m fucking pissed how much effort I put into that fucking place. The hardest thing was overwriting my content so they don’t grt to keep my work. It’s done, fuck that place.

    • HairyRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      47 minutes ago

      Thanks! Hope this place is better–tired of astroturfing, bad faith arguments, mods who don’t care…

  • Montreal_Metro@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    4 hours ago

    I got banned for suggesting that maybe all the conservatives young men (the “alpha male types”) should be sent to an island where they can fight in an artificial, made up war against each other and then when they return home they’ll be progressives.

    LOL. I was just making a point that people who call for wars are often the ones who have never fought in one. Oh well. Getting banned from Reddit is probably for the best, I should be supporting Canadian services anyway.

    • Fabian@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      1 hour ago

      Good idea. We can dedicate a small island where all ‘Alpha males’ fight against each other every year. The winner is the true Alpha

  • subunit317@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 hours ago

    Be the change you want to see in the world. I’ve been on here since the api controversy. I’m done with Reddit for good now, after about 15 years. So now I’m going to try to drive activity on all the niche communities I want to see here.

    • Fabian@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I also did not like the api changes. But I was at least able to understand why they did that. But the shit that is going on now is enough

    • kerf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      I also left for good after ‘API-gate’, after more than ten years… It actually hurt to see how something that had been such a big part of my life for so long got worse and worse, like a family member becoming radicalized or something.

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    You’d think asking people what they’d do to celebrate when he dies would be encouraging violence….

    But it’s Reddit, so it’s probably a bait post to remove people who respond “incorrectly.”

    The ignorant will be conditioned through social media. Reddit has no need for those that can think for themselves.

  • Mustakrakish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    8 hours ago

    I switched over and am permanently deleting my accounts. Be sure to do that, and don’t just stop using it. They’ll really only start to feel it when a bunch of 10+ year accounts start deleting, since they can’t waive it away as “consumer fickleness” that will swing back around

    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Don’t just delete accounts, delete all your posts first. There’s multiple 3rd party tools to do it since Reddit only lets you do 1 at a time manually

  • DosDude👾@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    11·
    13 hours ago

    Welcome to the fediverse, and retrolemmy! If you have any questions there are loads of “new to Lemmy” communities like !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca. Users are usually pretty helpful to reddit refugees, since most uf us are refugees ourselves.

    If you have any questions or recommendations for retrolemmy itself there is !general@retrolemmy.com , or you can message me privately.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    20 hours ago

    I’ve been here since reddit backstabbed its 3rd party app devs, and even just since then, Lemmy has grown a LOT while reddit continues to enshittify.

    Welcome aboard!

    • Vreyan31@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      18 hours ago

      I feel like today is my first day but I made a serious attempt to move here when that happened. I just couldn’t get the apps to work on my android – I kept having to make new accounts when the one I’d set up would suddenly no longer log in.

      But today things seem to be working beautifully!

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        There are quite a few mobile apps to choose from now. I’m using Sync with no complaints, but I haven’t done a comparison since I joined.

        • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          My main complaint with sync is that the premium version is just too damn expensive. At least give me a discount since I bought premium for Reddit sync ! Then again, it usually fails to serve me the ads these days, so I guess it’s alright.