Inception bitch!

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days 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
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        23 days 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.

  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world
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    23 days 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.

  • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Reddit has become practically unusable. Mods censor EVERYTHING even if it doesn’t “break the rules” it’s worthless trying to have honest discussions.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          23 days 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…

          • SparroHawc@lemm.ee
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            23 days ago

            Luigi is also, in all probability, innocent.

            Which means the Claims Adjuster is still at large.

    • IceyPea@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 days 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.

      • SpaceShort@feddit.uk
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        22 days 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.

      • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        23 days 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.

    • SpitefulSprite@lemmy.world
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      23 days 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

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        DuckDuckGo doesn’t hide your IP. Your IP is a fundamental networking number used to route traffic to your computer. It can also change for many home internet service providers over time, so it’s a bit stupid of Reddit to use them, though they might be using more advanced fingerprinting mechanisms and merely saying IP.

      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
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        23 days 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.

  • AbraKadabra1993@reddthat.com
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    22 days ago

    Its true. I have friends still using it and they can’t seem to break free. I used Reddit since its inception, but left it immediately during the api-pocolypse and never looked back. I did the same with Proton when the CEO praised the GOP. I have no loyalties to tech companies.

    • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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      22 days ago

      I will die on this hill - the Proton CEO was right when he praised GOP in the context of the time, and situation.

      The situation was: GOP accidentally* going against Big Tech and pro-citizens, while Democrats were defending Big Tech (just to be in opposition-by-default to GOP). Specifically, the CEO’s tweet was about how Trump nominating a fairly loudly outspoken anti-Big Tech person to a very high position in the DOJ was a good thing.

      The time was: just before Trump 2 took office and showed what a shit-show his admin, and GOP have become.

      The guy was ONLY talking about Big Tech and anti-trust policies nothing else. He never said “GOP is good for the US” or “GOP is good for the world”, he said “GOP are doing a bunch of anti-trust and anti-Big Tech moves right now and it’s good”.

      People dropping Proton for this reason are the epitome of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

      * it was because Trump was throwing a hissy fit at Meta and Twitter for allowing people to express anti-Trump opinions.

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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        22 days ago

        The problem with this, is if he was paying attention AT ALL, it’d be clear that the republican stance “against big tech” was always a lie. The fact he just bought their BS is enough for me to not trust the company.

        • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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          22 days ago

          The problem with this, is if he was paying attention AT ALL, it’d be clear that the republican stance “against big tech” was always a lie.

          Nobody ever suggested otherwise. I specifically mentioned that myself.

          The fact he just bought their BS is enough for me to not trust the company.

          He didn’t “buy” anything. He didn’t become a Republican, WTF are you people talking about? He literally said, that at the time GOP was more anti-Big Tech and pro-consumer than the Democrats and that a specific appointment was a good choice.

          Since when does stating facts mean you’re “buying someone’s BS”?

            • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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              21 days ago

              It’s a common way to say someone was dupes by something, “they bought it” meaning they fell for it.

              Mate, are you OK? I know what the phrase means and I’m struggling to see which part of my reply gave you the impression otherwise…

              there was antitrust brought under the Biden admin. [link]

              What is your argument here, exactly? That Trump appointing an anti-Big Tech person to lead the anti-trust section of the DOJ was… a bad thing… because Biden did stuff for anti-trust…? Hmm?

              The point being GOP was only anti big-tech in rhetoric (…) He is either lying, or not paying attention.

              Sigh…

              Don’t take it the wrong way, it’s not an attack, just a statement of fact: people like you are the reason democracy is failing.

              In most countries democracy has a 4-year turnover. One party comes in, says “we’ll do X”, gets to do their thing for four years, and then… It turns out that “X” takes 6 years to implement so people like you go “they lied to us, they didn’t do X!”. Now, the other party sees that and says “oh, trust us, we’ll do Y” and “Y” is a bullshit non-issue or a non-solution to an actual issue, but it only takes 3 years to implement, which gives them a nice boost and a potential for re-election.

              This creates a vicious cycle of parties becoming more and more populist, saying they’ll “solve poverty by increasing minimum wage” (where the actual solution is massive changes in regulation and policy that would take a decade to implement), or “kick out immigrants to give back jobs to true XYZ” (where “true XYZ” don’t want to do the jobs that immigrants take, and the solution, again, would be proper regulatory (and executive!) action, but that takes a decade or two to implement). Etc., etc.

              Now, back to the point - yes, you’re right. A lot of stuff happened during Biden’s tenure. But A LOT of that stuff was started by Trump’s administration, or the actions of the Trump administration opened the doors for a lot of what Biden did.

              Here’s a list of some of it:

              DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google (2020)- Focused on Google’s deals with Apple and others to maintain default search engine status, thus harming competitors.

              FTC Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook (December 2020)- To potentially break up Facebook by forcing it to divest those companies.

              DOJ Antitrust Review of Big Tech (2019)- Laid groundwork for later actions, like the 2020 Google lawsuit.

              FTC Tech Task Force (2019)- Re-examined acquisitions like Facebook’s of Instagram and WhatsApp.

              Trump’s Executive Order on Section 230 (May 2020) to weaken legal protections that shield social media platforms from liability over user content and moderation decisions. - didn’t get much done as actual change would require Congressional action. But it intensified scrutiny of Big Tech.

              Other indirect actions: Trump supported conservative-led Congressional hearings and investigations into Big Tech’s political power and influence or pushed the idea that companies like Amazon were harming small businesses and exploiting USPS

              • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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                10 days ago

                I didn’t have the energy to reply then, and I still don’t now.

                You seem to misunderstand and assume my intentions and thoughts and it’d take a lot to unravel so I won’t.

  • Cynicalinsurrection@lemmy.world
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    22 days 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.

      • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        22 days ago

        Really? I’ve seen Lemmings are much more competent, way higher debate ability, far less disinformation. Also I’ve seen this 10x so far in a month: “sorry, you’re right”. Almost never saw that on Reddit. And I’ve had to say it many times too.

  • Juliee@lemm.eeBannedEnglish
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    22 days 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.eeBannedEnglish
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        22 days 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.