Tbh if its a social/discussion based website, it will have federal agents monitoring it. Lemmy isn’t free from this either, though in our defense we are probably pretty low on the watchlist (but then again who knows)
Just in case…
Hey ICE. I’m Canadian.
Fuck you.
“My lawyers advise me to not comment on this further” is my statement of choice for most situations
I only lurk on reddit for the porn now.
Ok homeland security, good luck arresting all them AI bots.
Deleted my account years ago.
- the new home algorithm is filled with problematic subs, and is an opportunity for algorithmic propaganda
- After forcing emails it’s been downhill
- Needing to app for “incognito” is suspicious as hell
- I do not like their leadership
- The website runs like crap, and the redesign is not new at all. Every time I see the old design it’s a breath of fresh air and several hundred MB back to my OS.
- Lately all is filled with US critical posts that get deleted for no stated reason.
To be fair, Homeland Security still has a job to do and that is protecting the homeland.
Whose home?
Our home!
I’m defo never gonna be allowed into the US. Ever.
Good.
Means I’m less likely to get shot. Ever.
Still working on making my American GF Canadian.
Yeah, fuck reddit, fuck usa and fuck trump
These people will not be contained to the usa.
You have allies in the states. Don’t abandon them.
I have several allies. Most of them LGBTQ+. If shit goes down we’re getting them to apply for asylum here.
Hopefully they never invade your country either
Wherever OP is, the U.S. is probably already there, in some capacity. You can say it’s not an invasion, but could you ever really make us leave?
yeah Reddit has gone to shit now. That’s why I am here
You don’t honestly think that DHS doesn’t know Lemmy exists, do you? If they’re monitoring Reddit, you’d have to be a fool to not realize that they’re probably here, too.
DHS! DHS, over here! Oh! Oh! DHS! Look here! DHS! Down here, DHS! Look here! No, not there! Here, look at me! Are you looking?
Fuck you.
Lemmy now has its own echo chambers and control freak mods too though.
unlike reddit, they are usually segregated to thier instances, and dont have much effect on other communities if you block them.
But in the Fediverse you always have the option to walk away, join another instance or even host your own.
If it gets too bad, just move on to the next thing.
Internet forums have been a thing since for decades, and they will continue long after Reddit and Lemmy are forgotten
echo chambers
Likeminded people meeting is bad.
People demanding group think or exclusion is bad.
I’m 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators
The first four years or so that I was on Reddit, I never once received a ban for anything. Since Trump was elected, I pretty much got temp bans every couple of months. Every one was from me being mean to obvious Russian trolls. And then this morning, I got permanently banned for a comment I made over a week ago, that according to Reddits own metrics, received a grand total of zero views. I called a fascist a, um, fascist, and that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. That was a step too far, according to Reddit. And now I’m here.
Homeland security if you are reading this shame on you! you are working for a pedophile!
It’s a good thing I got permanently banned from Reddit just for saying “gill o’ teen”. Like this is America, it’s free speech.
I got banned for racism … for making fun of a non-existent race. And the whole point of my comment was to mock racism itself.
I got banned for updooting comments about Luigi…
(Free Luigi!)
Free Luigi! Reddit is crap now
Free speech means you don’t need to pay anything to speak. Not that you are free to say anything.
-Some US ceo
Free speech!
[with purchase of regular-priced speech]
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was ‘inciting violence’. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.
I got permabanned for comparing israel to the Nazis. Fuck Reddit.
Wtf you can be banned for upvoting?
Yup, Reddit has gone full mask off in the past year now. Spez is a known nazi simp.
this kinda makes me want to make a new reddit account. flaming-icefqr69
I would not recommend that lol
No, it’s cool. The flames cancel out the ice. The resulting sensation is actually quite pleasant
Is that why reddit was IP blocking people from seeing content even though they weren’t logged in
?That happened to me the other day. I did absolutely nothing about it and it had cleared up 15 minutes later.
Are you using a VPN?
Does reddit block VPNs?
they do. the common ones. the other way to get around its using complicated methods proxies, anti-detect browsers, new devices in a specific setup to avoid reddit detection.
yes, they aren’t as effective as kroger.com or usps.com, though. You can occasionally find unblocked vpn servers w/reddit
Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.
It’s crazy how successful that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.
But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.
Redditors all hate the other social media platforms.
What other examples of bullshit can you give us?
It’s kind of well-known and a long-running meme at this point that Redditors have a superiority complex about other platforms and think only theirs is the most “intelligent” and “rational” platform. It dates back to when it was mostly controlled by right-libertarian fedora-wearing raging atheist types.
Did you just log on to the Internet for the first time yesterday?
Those were the good ol days. Now it’s controlled by maga. It’s getting closer to twitter every day, soon it will just be another republican propaganda site
What the fuck are you people on about? Have you been on reddit? Go look at r/all right now, or any other time. You have to go to r/conservative to find magats, and even there you’ll find skeptical sentiments.
I used reddit long before the /r/thedonald showed up. Before /r/atheism became a default sub, which was terrible for the community of that sub. It became meme infested and caused /r/trueatheism to be made for sharing stories about religion intolerance from politicians, educators and employers. At a certain point, I started wholesale blocking any major sub and power user to reclaim some usability, but the API change signaled to me it wasn’t worth the effort anymore.
My reddit account is almost 18 years old so I know that you’re talking about. I came to lemmy at the time of the API change as well, but I stayed on reddit too. I’m not giving them any revenue: I use old.reddit and RES, so I don’t see and ads.
But blocking subs, as much as I also did that until I hit the limit of 100 blocked subs, is the wrong approach. Instead, you sub to the ones you like and avoid /r/all.
Have you ever heard a twitter user talk about reddit? They all hate each other.
People in this thread are perfect examples of that. They hate reddit so much they have to talk shit about it, regardless of reality.
A lot of lemmy users are ex reddit users and have reason they switched. I switched because it started looking more and more like twitter.
Yes, that’s probably it. You and others had some bad experience there and fled reddit, and now your opinions are based on that bad experience instead of reality. I’m on both. I’m both lemmy and reddit you create your own experience. If you failed to do that, I’m not surprised you didn’t like it.
now your opinions are based on that bad experience instead of reality.
The fuck does this mean? How is my experience not reality? What else are my opinions suppose to be based on, if not my experience?
Reddit was showing signs of introducing a more algo based experience, so I fucked off. They would hardly be the first website I left because of shit like that.
