They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours

    • vrek@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      I agree and haven’t returned but lemmy hasn’t hit critical mass yet… Like I don’t recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.

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        1 year ago

        How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.

        • bugg@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.

          Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.

          I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.

          Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).

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          1 year ago

          Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good comments drowning in spam.

          • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.id
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            1 year ago

            I used to help out in r/Botdefense

            The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to us (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greedy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww

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        1 year ago

        I’ve never considered that a limitation.

        You only need one other person in addition to yourself, for a good discussion.

        If anything, here I’m finding I actually get replies, because my comment didn’t drown among a hundred others.

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    1 year ago

    Just goes to show how easy it is to get these people upset.

    Just call them out

    Call them often

    Call them out every day

    Never stop calling them out … you’ll know they’re listening when someone either tells you or forces you to stop.

    Nazis and authoritarians every single one of them.

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    1 year ago

    That’s more or less why I left reddit and came to lemmy.

    This is in fact my very first post here. :)

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      I’m brand new as well and hopeful but wow the smaller forums here need some love. The topic variety is small to the point where maybe straight up bot cloning subreddits here where posts on Reddit just get reposted to their Lemmy equivalent to kick start refugees feeling at home. Plus if there’s basically cross platform discussion posts it gives ground for users of existing subreddits to migrate.

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      1 year ago

      I tested just writing “Luigi” and was banned for a day. I deleted my 10+ years account with over 200k karma. I was so attached to that profile, but I promptly deleted it after being banned. Fuck these billionaires telling us what’s ok to say.

        • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          I think they were using the karma count to show how much they utilized the platform, emphasizing how big the gesture of deleting their account was.

          When I was deep in the Reddit hole I was obsessed with getting upvotes and avoiding downvotes. It was a dopamine hit. When I moved to Lemmy I joined an instance that doesn’t allow or show downvotes, and it has been a breath of fresh air.