I told someone, that I hacked their IP and it is "127.0.0.1", as a joke.
I was permabanned for doxxing...
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2021
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Wait I thought that was my IP address! How did you find it?!
I was banned for commenting on r/mademesmile. There was a video of a guy nursing a baby doll (a literal toy) while his little daughter was doing something else, i don't remember. I commented "can we call the cps on her?" That was it. I was banned for commenting to call the cps on a TOY.
I don't. I use Lemmy and Reddit alongside eachother
I've started using Lemmy, but I'm still mainly on Reddit. I like the open source, open platform, and federated aspects of Lemmy. There's also the greenfield aspect, because most of the best community names are unclaimed. At the same time, Reddit has a lot of niche interest subreddits that I've joined over the past 11 years of me being on there, including a medium sized subreddit that I moderate. I'm not giving that up.
Reddit is too hostile to its users AND moderators. You join but can't post anywhere because low karma... And nobody tells you that.
As for mods we had to deal with abuse every day (took admins years to introduce the mute feature) and we received news about site wide rules the same time you did. Then were left to enforce them despite not understanding them, as their rules are really loosely defined. But if you don't enforce them, you could get your account or subreddit banned.
So yeah miss me with that shit. I'm not an employee of reddit, I'm a volunteer. It shouldn't have to be a job.
I left some time last year after being suspended and never went back. Best decision I made - you don't notice how negative that place is until you leave.
Also too many fascists on there that reddit still doesn't ban after several blackouts and open letters. Guess there must be fash in the admin team.
I hear ya, former mod here too, and its the most stressful guessing game after reddit gives you a warning to try to not get your subreddit banned... you even end up having to censor posts with richard spencer getting punched.
Meanwhile every 3rd comment on the reddit mains is "nuke china!", or "unpopular opinion here, I don't want black ppl in my neighborhood" (10k upvotes and 50 flairs.)
Leans more left-wing. More welcoming community. Similar layout.
As someone who has been there back in Usenetβs heyday, I think the Internet works better when it uses decentralized and non-commercial servers. This allows people to post content which is beneficial to readers, instead of content which benefits corporate interests over what helps the small guy.
By using pure open source technology, the board belongs to the community, which means everyone wins, not just whatever corporation βownsβ a Lemmy instance.
Because I'm tired of Reddit. Also, with my own Lemmy instance I want to be a part of building a proper Reddit alternative.
It's open source, it's decentralized, and for lemmy.ml specifically, there are a lot of leftists here,
Because reddit sucks and lemmy doesn't.
Reddit has been in a slow and steady downward spiral for years now. Off the top of my head: the terrible new UI redesign, Aimee Challenor, rampant censorship, nepotism in general. I mean, heck, there were so many controversies on reddit over the years, Wikipedia has to sort them in chronological order!
Lemmy doesn't seem to have those problems. And even if it did, one can always spin up their own instance due to its federated nature.
- Big corporate web 2.0 walled gardens are trash
- I like the devs' politics
- People here give me their precious upvotes πΌ
bc of leftists
reddit trying to force their app down my throat.
I'm using both. Trying Lemmy out of curiosity and because FOSS. Seems alright, some weird China apologism here though even from admins. It's weird as fuck and definitely a putoff
Because lemmy is tor user friendly at the moment. What about in the future?
Lemmy-UI ( this web client ) is very much my creation / thoughts on what a lean front end should be. But this doesn't preclude anyone from building other web or smartphone clients with their own unique designs, and I very much encourage it.
We also have sorts like New Comments, that can turn this functionally into a forum... I believe there's even an open issue for someone to create a forum-like front end to lemmy.
Three reasons. Reddit:
- Increasingly forcing email upon registration
- Some subreddits are unavailable to mobile web-browsers. Forces the app instead.
- UI has become insane terrible these last years. Can't use markdown anymore, cant copy paste when writing comments.
- Has censorship issues. Even groups like r/nonewnormel get taken down as if they're doin something worng.
I have to issues:
- i haven't found any subreddit that forced me to go to the web browser, everything runs ok from the app.
- r/nonewnormal was a pit of missinformation that puts people's lives in danger, just look at how many unmask, unvaccinated people are dying in the us and how many people are dying cuz covid patients are filling all of the hospital beds. So I'm ok with r/nonewnormal being banned.
There's a lot of confusion, you're right. People are being deceived.
However, I know of 15 people who died from the experimental vaccine. It's our duty to share information and help others. Sad they disallowed the community.
In case 15 people died because of the vaccine, ok, me myself advocate for "If you have a certain medical condition, please go to your doctor for his advice if you should take the vaccine, and if you can't, at least get the rest of your family vaccinated and wear a mask" That was actually the case for a few of my friends. But thousands of people are getting vaccinated, and they are just fine, im vaccinated myself and I'm fine, as well as my mom, and my 85yo grandpa. 15 out of thousands and thousands of people is a very few number, considering that the vaccine has already been proved to prevent covid, and if you get covid, your survival rate is almost 100 per cent, unless you have other medical condition. NOT taking the vaccine is way more risky, and irresponsible, since the virus evolve in the bodies of the Unvaccinated. r/nonewnormal was advocating for NOBODY to get vaccinated, or wear masks, and spreading conspiracy theories, it was actually harmful, since a lot of people might die because of it, so, again, im glad that was shutdown, but anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and conspirationists will move to somewhere else.
It's alright to believe such. However look at how many people are being injured and dying from the vaccine. Just this fb post got swamped with desperate comments https://www.worldtribune.com/unexpected-and-heartbreaking-thousands-flood-abc-affiliates-facebook-page-with-vaccination-horror-stories/
These are real people dying from an experimental vaccine. That's mostly what nonewnormal community was sharing. Then they got censored.
World tribune is an extremely far right biased news source with absolute no credibility. Also, if your sources are FACEBOOK comments, then it's bullshit. And again, it's r/nonewnormal was putting people's lives in danger. So it's good that it's gone now.