• Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
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    17 days ago

    I tried ot login last week, was able to with the same email and password but it acted like I was a new user. So it created an entirely new account.

    On a session I was still logged in I changed my email and password and I ended getting banned on that account.

    Really weird and I gues it’s time to delete my main Reddit account

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      They’re banning or shadowbanning people almost arbitrarily, they don’t want more human users than bots, they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment with a turn of a dial if they get enough bots who seem like convincing human users to all chime in about something.

      You can really see the disonnence on a major post criticizing Elon Musk or on the topic of vandalizing Teslas. The posts are all highly voted, but the top comments are all crying and whining that Musk “doesn’t deserve the hate” or how “vandals should be put in jail, we obey the law in this country!” and a lot of other very obvious oligarch fellation machines.

      It works very well too. People always look to each other for cues, and if the people they look to aren’t even alive, we have a generation being led by undead abominations, being influenced to discard their critical thought, their morals and ethics, their values.

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        17 days ago

        they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment

        That sounds almost conspiratorial. How many people know of Reddit, use it, then automatically follow the narrative? Like out of the total population?

        • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Reddit gets half a billion browsers a month. They announced last year that they would be partnering with Google to train and host a new generation of AI, and we also know now that people like Elon Musk have no qualms about enforcing their agendas on the site.

          The number one way to filter the plausibility of conspiracy theories is to ask one simple question: How does this impact the rich?

          For the vast majority of normal kook conspiracies, they fall apart almost immediately when you apply that filter. They have way too much to lose to risk gambles on covering up moon landings and flying saucers or perpetrating huge hoaxes that need a vast contingent of people involved to maintain. Meanwhile, social engineering… that’s easy as shit, you can do it alone if you have the resources. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. It starts simple with “Hmn I want to make people realize that investing in my company is a smart move” but quickly degrades to “We can’t let people think this genocide is bad, it will wreck our bottom line.”

        • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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          17 days ago

          LOL it’s been a decade since Jessica Ashoosh.
          Just bcs you’re ignorant about these things and throw conspiracy accusations around doesn’t mean it’s not reality.
          Look someting up.

          • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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            16 days ago

            Something happened a decade ago to a single person. Therefore it follows it affects millions now in ways that persuade me my world view is correct.

            I see.

            • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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              16 days ago

              You clearly have no idea who or what that is about, I’m going to let it rest since you look really stupid as it is.

        • Sibshops@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Wouldn’t for it to be conspiratorial mean there has to be a secret organization behind the scenes? I thought Reddit and X admit to doing this.

    • applemao@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      How can you convince anyone to get off these ? Everyone I’ve showed lemmy to is terrified it’s a virus, and what chat platforms are there besides messenger that we can convince anyone to go to? Maybe I need smarter friends, lol.

      • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
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        17 days ago

        To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.

      • nadram@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        It is a very big ask… For chat i moved to Signal and convinced my closest relatives and friends to humor me and get the app, but they didn’t let go of Whatsapp. It’s lonely but i enjoy the quietness, and do not miss the endless groups!

      • kautau@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        What you’re describing is intentional. Keeping people dumb about the tech they’re using while maintaining messaging like “Facebook works day and night to keep you safe” was the point all along so that people don’t understand what they’re doing. Granted that extends far beyond social media, but still

        • applemao@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          They don’t realize it’s the big shiny companies that are actually scamming them and stealing their data.

      • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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        18 days ago

        That was the goal of big corporations and more simplification over time and less customization, went from webdev not seeming viable since every mf could make their own website and would to everyone being incompetent to the point they cant use websites and can only use the few popular apps.

      • ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.ukEnglish
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        18 days ago

        One of my phone browsers has warned me that one Lemmee instance is a scam, that doesn’t help if it is happening to others.

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Out of those, the only one I use is Whatsapp… kinda hard to get away from it where I live, literally everyone I know in real life uses it

      • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Really? I go out of my way to search on duckduckgo when looking for products and filtering out Amazon.

        Its been easy for me. My hatred of that man makes it worth the effort.

        • arakhis_@feddit.org
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          17 days ago

          to you, the 9 other likers and the one disliker:

          I’d argue “under unregulated capitalism” and would love to hear how Im wrong here: When you buy an apple from a farmer in EU thats local to your small town, I’d say thats pretty ethical? Isnt it??!

          • untorquer@lemmy.world
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            17 days ago

            Your example is fine. It’s not an option for most people to be able to source everything they need where the supply chain doesn’t rely on exploitation of labor and resource extraction somewhere along the process. Whether it’s in the materials used by the producer, the logistics in goods transport(oil & gas, shipping, warehousing, etc), or manufacturing of goods (labor, production house, etc…), the chain relies on exploitation somewhere along the way.

            Buying the apple from your local farmer still relies on the oil industry to run farm equipment or transit of the product. By and large this is minimize when buying local from independent producers. Those, however, are often more expensive.

            The consumer is the last step of exploitation. Where the profit stems from. Again, your local farmer probably isn’t extorting you, but your local grocery store probably is.

              • untorquer@lemmy.world
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                17 days ago

                Sure regulate it then, effectively, and cut out any international trade which allows for the procurement of goods through a non-regulated system. Find a common agreement of what regulation is and find a way to ensure no one has an incentive to break that regulation. Find a way to ensure that a capitalist cannot accrue such wealth as to influence politics (or skirt whatever law you want against it).

                The only people I’ve heard who want NO regulation are AnCaps and yeah lol no - (and also they still want property rights ig).

                People just want a better system than what we have now. Which is laissez-faire capitalism. Beyond that there’s the political philosophical aspect that “capitalism” can and does effectively mean rule by the wealthiest.

                Lot’s of people would be happy with a market system in a socialist society. Lots of people want Anarchism. Lots of people want Communism(the good or bad kind depending on who you ask).

                • arakhis_@feddit.org
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                  17 days ago

                  Id just love to see more corporations being like Mondragon(spanish) in the top ranks (i.e. stock corpos) but I would not want governments specifically to gain ownership forcefully.

                  So I’d call it regulated capitalism - as you said, just not paleo libertarian laissez-faire as we clearly see how that doesnt work once all markets are established (and even the competition phase was, as we all should know, pretty questionable historically cough imperialism cough)

      • Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Could always pick up piracy. Hard to beat a 100% off coupon.

        Simply pick up uBlock Origin and browse some community-vetted streaming sites on FMHY. (Short for Free Media Heck Yeah, a site that showcases community-vetted sites.)

        That’s just streaming, no downloading. Simply find streams of whatever shows you’re invested in and binge as usual!

        I’ve even gone as far as taking old laptops of mine and having them full screen these sites on startup. Then, I simply hook the laptop up to my TV via HDMI, plug in a Bluetooth keyboard, and binge away!

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        18 days ago

        That is the one that’s killing me too. I just received an email that my subscription date is coming up. I want to cancel, at least my soul really wants me to cancel. But my broken body, limited $$, and limited mobility makes me feel like it would be cutting of my nose. It is really difficult to get to, never mind around, local stores.

        • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
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          17 days ago

          If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power (I’m not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can’t recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I’m afraid).

          The only major advantage that I’ll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.

          But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.

    • misteloct@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      I’m only here because I saw it posted on Reddit over the years. Keep doing it, it’s working…

  • nectar45@lemmy.zip
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    18 days ago

    Look…I know we all hate reddit cause they kicked like half of us for no good reason but like…spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is

    Then again…X is arguably still a better social media platform than reddit is…

    Ok nevermind

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      No. At this point Reddit is evil because it’s censoring anti-fascist content and organizing. It’s becoming a Nazi bar just like the rest of them.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Spez is only less evil because he doesn’t have enough money to be in the oligarch club. He’s just one of their toadies. He’d absolutely be the same way if anyone actually gave him the power they have.

      • FrostBlazer@lemm.ee
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        18 days ago

        Reddit has about soft power for a while now. Ever since they scapegoated Ellen Pao, imo. They’ve been changing things relatively slowly compared to Twitter in terms of enshitification, and being more careful about who they piss off at any given time. They’ve become more emboldened ever since they allowed bot farms and bad actors that commented on their behalf, mostly around the time they killed 3rd party apps.

        Reddit could be seeing tons of users leaving the site daily, but they’re for sure replacing them with bots to paint a better picture and drive engagement. The same thing applies to Twitter as well. It’s why on BlueSky for instance, I don’t see ragebait dominating my feed due to the more robust moderation tools compared to Twitter and Reddit.

        Lemmy has avoided most bots due to the manual approval processes from what I can see. I think Lemmy should strongly consider implementing BlueSky’s moderation tools though.

    • Sibshops@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      18 days ago

      It’s just a shitpost. It’s poking fun of people being on reddit, with a screenshot from reddit. There’s no deeper commentary than that.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I use Twitter and reddit for porn, nothing else anymore. People/communities I follow are ghost towns elsewhere. Everytime I point this out, people get butthurt, yet none of them link to their porn profile.

    Post the (adorable, lanky, femboy, who has glasses and a thick uncut cock) porn, and as the saying goes, ‘they will cum’.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        18 days ago

        It’s hard to find places dedicated to foreskin (the /c is just crickets), cbt, estim… tons more. Even harder to find ones that aren’t just shells for their onlyfans. I’ve been checking every few months for the 🐦 I follow to hop to bluesky or mastodon, and only around a quarter have done so thus far. For reddit, where else can I find a vast array of kink content that is getting fresh stuff daily? Like actually, where? I’ve been searching the internet for a long time, and besides FurAffinity, e621, reddit and occasionally twitter, it’s table scraps for any sort of quality kink content.

    • Sergio@slrpnk.net
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      18 days ago

      Spez would be very disappointed to hear you say that. He would immediately shoot another DM to Elon telling him he’s trying real hard to be just like him.

  • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Twitter got abandoned 1 month after the fascist bought it. Account deleted 6 months ago.

    Reddit is on transition right now. I’m still checking it, but the time i spend there is much less, since i made a Lemmy account.

  • SpaceCheeseWizard@lemm.eeEnglish
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    18 days ago

    A lot of the niche content I like is still on reddit, however I like the people and experience over here on Lemmy more.

  • x3x3@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    Arguably there is now more censorship on Reddit than on twitter.