this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Bye Reddit

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

Welcome!

There are rules here, but you can say fuck and also post images in the comments, which is kind of neat:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

You can't post images in the comments on Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 minutes ago

Came here after the moderation tool censoring of 'eat the rich' and 'Luigi'. That's some billionaire protective bs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

There's dozens of us!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

We should advertise lemmy more often on reddit. Lemmy and mastodon are the mother of all social media and we should all switch to it. Ditch the billionaires owned profit driven social media!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 hour ago

Reddit has loved that asshole forever. We forget that back in 2016 Reddit allowed a huge subreddit full of upvoting bots and trolls to post the most atrocious lies and slander and bullshit (/r/the_d**ald) on the entire site and it got so bad that it was the ONLY SUBREDDIT ON THE FIRST PAGE OF /r/all FOR AT LEAST A WEEK.

They pulled back when they saw their profits declining and the massive backlash going on but now that we're in full fascism mode, reddit is going all out again.

Fuck that place.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

I came here when all the API drama happened, and I didn't even use third party apps, I just decided that I didn't want to help make that greedy little pig boy any money. Even still, I'm actually shocked that they've cracked down this hard. It's hard to take serious, because it seems like they would destroy their userbase with this, but they're doing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 58 minutes ago

I came when Apollo died. Found Voyager and stayed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

You did god's work being here this whole time. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

I also came here when all the API drama happened. I also checked out Sqabblr, which had a different name at first. There wasn’t much here and I was confused by the fediverse. I went on Facebook and that was a hot mess of garbage.

I went back to Reddit recently and it’s noticeably worse - probably a combination of chasing away great mods and our world just being what it is makes for people being awful at each other rather than at problems.

I’ve just come back here this weekend and there seems to be more resources to help me understand the nature of the fediverse. Ideally I won’t be back to Reddit.

Sorry to ramble, hope you have a great week!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

I finally made the jump. Hi all.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

All the commenters sitting in the circle replying in a monotonous voice: Hi Blorps!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

Don't forget to offer them a can of beans on their way in!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 minutes ago

I use Arch, btw

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, please stick around. Do not let the small number of subscribers demoralize you. The communities are small but active.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I tried coming over during the API drama, but seems like there are way way more users here now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago

Yeah, that’s what caused me to switch. I’m pretty happy without reddit. I might open it once or twice a year or when Duck Duck go sends me there for my trouble shooting question.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Hello blorps!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

oh its been fun, yeah

i love seeing spez fuck himself into a corner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

i turned myself into a corner, morty

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Got perma-banned from a 15 year old account for joking about Elon Musk needing to get Luigi-ed. Fuck that place. Never going back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Similar situation here. Nice to see all the like minded folks though!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Elon needs to have a come to Luigi moment. Welcome to the free internet, sibling. Btw fyi, .world tends to be a little more aggressively moderated than some other instances like .ee; it's nowhere near Reddit, and I wouldn't even say it's problematic, but folks have taken issue with their moderation before.

It's a bit of give and take, but I doubt you'll encounter a problem. If you do, just hop servers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 minutes ago

And watch out for .ml of course.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Finally jumped ship after I had a third account banned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

same same. tired of being banned for borderline comments.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Everyone please put your narwhals and your bacon in the trash, this is jeans and beans country

(But you can put bacon in the beans, and on everything else, and by itself … no sense wasting bacon)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Can confirm, have made the move. It was only a matter of time before that place went down the fascist watch list.

Facebook, gone. Amazon, gone. Reddit, gone.

Gotta get rid of my Google account next.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I've degoogled and life is sweet.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Your revolution sounds peaceful. I take your comment to mean "you might disagree but we'll both be revolting together arm in arm against the billionaires". I don't even see where violence is implied lol.

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