Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reddit is literally unusable now. I use old.reddit to browse certain subs but there’s no point commenting or interacting cause pretty much everything gets you banned
Interesting you mention this. I guess it’s more common than I realized.
The literal reason I looked around and came here a few days ago is because of exactly this.
Someone posted a picture of a blue hat that said “Is he dead yet” with the caption that is crazy the whole planet knows who is referring to.
I commented that the planet will be a better place when it happens.
Instant ban for a week.
The bot banning me stated “Threats and violence” as the rule.
So ya…I’m not going back to that.
I had my 7+ year old account for saying the word Guillotine which I think is on auto ban. I’ve opened new accounts that get banned for ban evasion or for yet another “wrong word” I used in some sub or another
How does Reddit know? I mean I try with a new email via a secure browser using a vpn and somehow they ban that account immediately after I post something.
I have no idea but I find the same thing, vpn or not i get banned
Do you have ideas to get more people to move over from Reddit to Lemmy?
A lot of people use reddit in Google searches because it has high quality information. Ie solving technical problems etc. This sort of information needs to be hosted here. If Lemmy wants to be the new reddit, it needs to host this sort of helpful, high quality information that other users upvote
whatisthisthing, and whatisthisplant were very interesting niche subs. it will be hard for people to come here, as there are also adjacent subs. also medical conditions too they are found on a ton of forums.
Good idea!
Make 1 to 1 copies of existing subreddits and maybe some kind of automation tool to take the subreddits someone is currently part of and subscribe the Lemmy versions of them automatically. That plus for now some people could repost content from these subreddits to Lemmy, so the feed isn’t so empty and also I don’t know how Google crawlers work exactly but searching for Reddit posts through Google is a big benefit of Reddit for me, if Lemmy could also show up in Google results or if Lemmy builds it’s own internal search to a level that’s equal to or better than Google that would also help
automation tool
I’m currently plan something like this. But I don’t think just posting everything would be a good idea. I thought about a few uprising posts a day at most per community.
Lemmy already gets indexed by search engines.
I’ve started Europe Pub about 10 days ago and Google has already indexed hundreds of pages: www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aeurope.pub
Wish I did. I love discussing wrestling, I love very old wrestling from the 60s to 90s, and some new stuff here and there. But Lemmy has no wrestling communities that are even a little active, the ones I’ve seen have 2 months old posts as their “new”
How about crossposting stuff from reddit there to get the engagement up?
abandon fediverse and all federation bs. Oh wait.
there’s no point commenting or interacting cause pretty much everything gets you banned
Holy hyperbole, Batman! If you’re not posting like an edgy teenager then Reddit is decently usable.
I guess you haven’t heard of people getting warned/banned for simply upvoting content the overlords don’t like? Or saying Luigi…
I got banned from a bunch of subreddits because I had the nerve to leave a comment in a conspiracy sub (I was calling one of them out too). It was done by automods, no humans taking context into account.
Anything that is beyond an eco chamber will surely upset someone who will report you and an auto mod will ban you. You can literally say “i disagree” and get banned. It’s not hyperbole when it’s happened to me and hundreds of others on here. That’s just a straight up fact now. Are you new to Reddit? Cause if you’ve been around for the last few years, the enshitififation of Reddit is well documented fact
I use the Stealth app downloaded from f-droid. You log in to read Reddit but without a Reddit account so you cannot post (not that I ever want to). I like Reddit for community answers e.g. how to fix stuff like a broken household appliance, advice about a glitch in software, useful things like that. I prefer it to YouTube (which I access via Clipious or similar apps, also on f-droid) unless I need to see a job done to understand the repair method. I enjoy some of the jokes and memes and nonsense posts so its cheap entertainment. And, to be honest, I learn a lot about relationship skills by the AITA or TwoXChromosomes reddits - on the whole, I am impressed by the lucidity and maturity of the reddit ‘agony aunt’ stuff although there is also a lot of crap which I think of as part of the entertainment - ‘my wife had sex with my dad, now I am not sure my kid is mine, would I be over-reacting if I asked for a paternity test?’ or ‘I came out as a horse and now my kids refuse to visit me, should I cut them out of my will?’ sort of written version of the Jeremy Kyle Show (British tabloid t.v. nonsense). What is missing on Reddit or anywhere else is ‘positive masculinity’ stuff so that is a ‘gap in the market’ for anyone looking for a project. Not sure I could name a living male role model I respect so maybe that is the reason Reddit feels unhelpful at times - you cannot promote what is not there? Men step up, is the take away message on this. Women cannot carry men’s social media activities for them so maybe quite a lot of stuff is dying because men do not make enough effort to keep it going.
Couldn’t reply to comments on my post a few days ago. “Server error”. Deleted my account.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reddit removed a picture of 3 people standing around a cybertruck from the front page today because it “went against community guidelines”
naught101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What was the picture?
Maybe we need a shitRedditBans community here to repost all the stuff that get banned for bad reasons there? Could be risky, I guess, but could be great with some good moderation.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 weeks ago
I’d follow that
naught101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Me too, but I’m not paying enough attention to reddit to make me a useful moderator…
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Me too