I knew Reddit was dying after they went public and immediately purged all the mods who didn’t fall in line. It was disheartening to see so many users continue to shill for such decisions. Maybe it was a lot of bots, who knows. But watching this site explode in popularity after these new changes is encouraging. Everyone here should do their part to inform people of this place and continue to stay connected. Good luck everyone!
AFTER censoring luigi related news, and promoting trump, is a death knell, and reddit thought it was clever to “ban” a bunch of subs after musk complained about whitepeople twitter, they only backed off when the mods said they wernt inactive.
Yup. Just deleted my ~7 year old account. Fuck trump and fuck spez
I just got a permanent ban on my 9 y o account for saying Fuck Trump, I shit you not. Now I’m here.😁
so many users continue to shill for such decisions
I think that something that a lot of people need to be reminded of here, especially ex Reddit moderators, is that the users have NEVER particularly been fans of the moderators. In fact the moderators on Reddit helped the admins bring Reddit to the point where it is now in the first place. Setting up automoderator to catch buzzwords out of context and make people’s comments disappear without notice or a trace is just as fucking dodgy as the admins flagging the word “Luigi”.
So no, it’s not a surprise that moderators getting into trouble for not falling in line with the admins doesn’t cause a mass exodus. Because most people don’t give a fuck about the moderators and would be glad to see them gone. With the way they have been abusing automoderator over the years, it wouldn’t make much of a difference if they were replaced by an automated system anyway.
So if you want people to come to Lemmy, stop acting like they give a shit about the moderator that treats them like dirt. Because that’ll probably have the opposite effect. I know that it did on me when all the mods were crying about the API and their modding tools. Start offering more reasons for why USERS should come here.
The mods here can also be equally ridiculous. That’s just a problem with internet mods in general. It’s a role that attracts petty tyrants.
The worst thing about the API changes wasn’t even that most people didn’t care or weren’t on board. It was that they were actively against the people protesting. In real life when this happens I always give some leeway because everyone has their own problems and they might be a bit annoyed by the protest action (which is part of the protest). But on Reddit?? People lost their fucking minds because they couldn’t have access to some subreddits for like 24h.
Sooooo many people failed to realize that even if you didn’t use third party apps that it would still affect you even if indirectly. They didn’t even have to do anything other than literally do nothing/something other that browsing reddit for a day. And they couldn’t. They vilified and downvoted the protesters and took the side of the billionaire trying to take advantage of everyone ruining Reddit in the process
That fiasco in pretty meaningless in todays world events, but fuck, I still find it a great insight into how much we can suck as a species
I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum. Apparently I was the “landed gentry”. Haven’t been back in almost 2 years now. Fuck spez.
I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum.
Then you were doing it right. Thank you for your service. But there were lots of bad mods passing out rando-bans left and right.
I went straight to a perma commenting on what was going to happen with those inmates being moved despite the judge blocking it. It’s not a huge loss since that is the second account perma’d in the last 30 days. And I’ve been using revanced Reddit so no ads. But they’ve become pretty insane about what is “hate, or violence”
I’ve had several bans for saying things like “where’s Luigi?”
The nintendo sub must have a hard time right now
Green Mario Mangioni is a pillar of our society.
Is waluigi banned too or do I need to find another place to publish my slashfics?
i highly object to the idea that you’re shipping waluigi with anyone but luigi (the otp)
Luigi deserves better 😭
nah, y’all can see right through me it’s waluigi/luigi slashfics but waluigi is totally the author stand in
mary suegary stu.
is Luigi our tiananmen square June 4 1989?
great reference that actually might be what ends up happening here
An establishment threatening event that definitely never happened? Absolutely.
/s, viva green Mario!
What a sad sick joke Reddit has become.
I also just got a warning, lol. Fuck them, I really need to come here more often :-/
Gravitated back to Reddit due to lacking content unfortunately…
Oh no! Look at all the unique unfiltered user content I’m missing out by leaving reddit for Lemmy!
Yoooo Nintendo should sue. Reddit is publicly traded.
That’s a great point. Even if it’s used as a verb, it could mean throwing a banana peel behind you while driving.
Everyone named Luigi should sue for discrimination
Italians are always getting shafted in the US tbh…
It’s anti-Italian discrimination
Nintendo doesn’t want to raise the specter of association with Luigi Mangione. Heck, I bet they’d advocate for this, and would rename Mario’s brother if they could.
You are drastically underestimating how much Nintendo loves to sue.
hes the DLC.
Bring back Green Mario
Nintendo is going to love this xD
That moment when I’d be behind a Nintendo suit lol
At this point, there is an outstanding opportunity to just gather up a bunch of people and have long discussions about random Luigi’s Mansion lore.
or talk about LUGIA.
Mamma mia!
Reddit is a group of internet users with the vision of free speech, but directed by shareholder and policy makers.
So glad I ditched Reddit.
The facade of societal benefit with the hidden and actual motivation of profit, such is the whole world.
Why did I do read that like it was lyrics from Bohemian Rhapsody?
vision
That’s a polite way to say delusion
Same, haven’t missed it since.
the speech tending towards right wing content in order to drive traffic, works for facebook and youtube.
The fact that “luigi’d” as a verb has become pretty common slang very quickly, it’s not crazy to associate it with violence.
Now we get to the actual matter. Several years ago saying “Someone should shoot that CEO” (which would be the same statement as something like “Hoping that CEO gets luigi’d”) would not have gotten you banned. Wishing death upon someone is not the same as actual threats of violence.
