Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s possible but reddit isn’t the only one looking for engagement, so are individual users. If a site has more users, it has more engagement and content. It is also not impossible to drop the lemmy name when you do go back there to make people aware of the alternative.

  source

  • Yoink@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone dropped the name lemmy over there, so now I’m here checking it out. Screw reddit, man.

    source
• doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My thought exactly. They can always do like me and nope the fuck out of there.

  source

  • dafo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I left and joined Lemmy. After a couple of months of being flooded by politics in /c/memes, actually it’s everywhere and very little new content I started going back. Now I doomscroll both. I usually head to reddit after a couple of posts which portray me as a fascist because I’m not a Marxist.

    source

    • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m thinking about leaving Lemmy. Not sure where to go but this place does not have diversity of thought or dialog.

      source
• redditrassholes9344@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not a good method though on it’s own, there needs to be effort to undermine them. And since they don’t want to do peaceful protests, the only option left are the more violent and less legal ones. The ones that compromise their platform and its data.

  source
• Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And moving to a different, more decentralized shithole?

  Lemmy has the same power tripping admins and mods, just more of them and each with a new and unique bias. You don’t hate AI? Ban. You acknowledge certain genocide? Ban. You made fun of my typo? Ban.

  source

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unlike the reddit, you can always make your own completed instance and host your own complete communities and nobody will ever ban you.

    source

    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same as subreddits. The problem is most communities are on .lm and .world, and already established.

      source

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Again, the point is that nobody can ever stop you from running a community as you see fit, unlike reddit, which easily ban you and your community for any or no reason. And if your community is run well and the other has indeed power-trippin mods, the people will come to yours, as has happened multiple times before. So no, it’s not the same shithole, unless you make one.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
  • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wrong instance I guess. Yeah, Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad and hexbear are toxic as hell, but there are really nice instances out there. I chose dbzer0 and it’s great here. We also have many interesting threads about locally hosted FOSS AI. db0 himself is quite involved in this topic, he’s the initial author of things like AI Horde. Basically everyone on db0 I’ve seen acknowledges the active genocide that’s being conducted by the Israeli fascists government. Other topics on the instance are anarchism and of course piracy.

    source

    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is great, but for “news” there seems to be one major community and even then there’s like 3 comments on the typical post. Any “news” communities on other instances have zero.

      I have very popular hobbies (football, formula1, to name a few) and there is no community for them. Just not enough users.

      source

      • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s exactly why more people need to leave Reddit and other corporate social media platforms

        source

        • -> View More Comments
  • Asetru@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You did not make fun of my typo? Believe it or not, also ban.

    source

    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We have the best commenters. Because of ban.

      source
  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Public modlogs and federation help fight this.

    source

    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Helps document this, does little to fight it.

      source

      • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As a user from @programming.dev you should know the importance of documentation, and the log being easy to read should help the users to fight it themselves. As in by making their own communities/instances as needed

        source

        • -> View More Comments
• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  True but how do you get the message out when they control the media?

  source