Genuinely curious
I have been a Reddit user for 15yrs and got banned 48hrs ago for for suggesting that some dog owners should die because of their deliberate inbreeding to create dogs with traits that are ultimately bad for their health.
For context I am in the UK and we have a deeply ingrained love for dogs over here so seeing a picture of some Americans that are gushing over their inbred dogs made me angry and emotional.
I’ve been to the UK and there’s British people that also breed dogs… It’s not an American thing. I also don’t think the love of dogs is something specific to the UK, people love dogs all over the west 😭
A decent sized portion. This has been discussed many times and often mentioned in the political communities in the comments about reddit censorship.
Based , how do you deal with finding all the niches communities that are on reddit you used to use or asking questions on communities that only exist on reddit for your hobbies. I’m kinda freaking out about that
Yeah so I’ve also seen a lot of people talk about this.
Many of us miss our niche communities. Most of the subs I subscribed to were niche or medium level.
there just aren’t enough people on Lemmy for a ton of niche communities to stay active.
But I’m also okay with rarely-active niche communities.
One of my favorite reddit subs was “I’ll be your guide”. Only a handful of posts a year but good stuff. Basically videos or guides that were funny or absurd. I recall posting a video that was a legitimate guide on how to poop in the woods.
Yeah advice and help hobby/general communities are incredibly useful and so I have some thoughts about those.
When I first started using reddit I went to r/photography and asked some questions about an old film camera I had just got and was told I couldn’t ask thoe questions there and had to go to the film camera sub. Which I found a little annoying. R/photography (over the 13 years I subscribed to it) mostly became places for only fans photographers to post naked women. Call it art. To the point that was a large portion of photographs posted.
But I couldn’t ask about film. And novice and amateur photographs would just get downvoted with little to no comments.
I recall when I posted on r/sewing about a problem I was having with sewing vinyl, I Was told I needed to use the fabric/textiles sub. (Or something like that). You could only share things you made. Not ask for help. I thought that was so weird. (Also the textile sub was basically inactive so I got no help)
I think it’s a situation that further division of communities into designated “advice/help” oriented subs/communities is only needed when there are a lot of people asking questions all the time and other content isn’t getting seen. If that isn’t happening, we don’t need to separate people posting their projects and people asking for help.
I recently posted on a PC community here about needing some help with using streaming software but wasn’t sure where to ask. People on that community helped me. I didn’t need a dedicated community for that question. There is no such community on Lemmy. Probably because it’s not needed.
That wouldn’t have been acceptable on reddit and I certainly would have gotten told “don’t post questions here, you need to use the sub for specific streaming services”.
There is an Enshitification that happens when platforms become too big. Too popular. They will always then be used to market and manipulate . And it just spirals down. No solution.
There are tradeoffs with using smaller platforms. We get less spam here. Less bots. Less sock puppets (but these do exist here too). When you comment and get replies it’s much more likely it’s a real person and not a bot like reddit.
The conversations go slower. By that I mean if I see a post that’s a day old and make a comment. Other people see it. I get replies. Unlike reddit. 1 day is old news. No one is looking at 1 day old posts on reddit.
I quite like this slower pace and feel like I’m having more genuine interactions instead of just lurking or making a comment no one is ever going to read. Which encourages me to be more active. And I’m sure other people feel similar.
This is getting long so I’ll let you reply before I keep rambling forever.
Can you suggest some alternatives to reddit for writing or tech questions, like hobby places to go too
Facebook groups.
They got 10 groups for every topic. I use a lot for hobbies and games.
Some better than others.
Are they better than reddit ?
ive been on lemmy for almost 6 years, jesus christ, i feel old
I came here because I didn’t like the censorship (of others, not me) on Reddit. I stayed because I love the lack of advertising.
Everyone on here seems chill and people on reddit often bait you to try to get you banned or poison the well in discussions , it’s just a shit site that’s tonedeaf man
I’ll jump back over to Reddit on occasion if I need to look something up. The adverts are super jarring.
You can use an extension like Libredirect to redirect you to a redlib instance. Minimal format frontend for reddit, no ads. Here is a list of instances.
On Android mobile, you can install the Libredirect extension on certain Firefox versions like IronFox. There’s also apps like Stealth.
I joined hexbear almost 4 years ago after being banned for suggesting a that a brick would be a far cheaper solution than a guillotine for dealing with the British royal family.
I checked lemmy out a bit just before I got permabanned for pointing out that calling Russians “ork” is extremely racist and dehumanizing.
Based
Never been banned I just find Reddit use users insufferable and while sometimes lemmy isn’t that much better it’s definitely not as bad as Reddit has been. Especially lately.
Whoa, like… our matching handle sensibilities
Well there’s your TWIN <3
I deleted my account and left reddit after it turned into nothing but bots and frothing at the mouth fash. Redditurds really love looking for any excuse they can find to use slurs.
I was never banned; I deleted my account as I was frustrated with the increasing surveillance. Someone had mentioned Lemmy in one of the degoogling or privacy subs and I decided to check it out. It reminded me a lot of how the internet used to be before it was filled with bots, so I stuck around.
This was it for me too
The only reason Lemmy was started in the first place is because Reddit banned communists and their communities. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy
Based the volume of people asking this question over and over… I guess way more than anyone thinks.
Yeah, got perma banned and couldn’t circumvent the detection algorithms that kept shadowbanning new users or at least the effort required to keep testing wasn’t worth it anymore.
Me too. And my comment wasn’t even horrid. I told a woman that she looked “drop dead gorgeous “ in the Dress sub.
“drop dead” R1 violation. Yeah they have really gone overboard with regulating.
Ill never forget I got banned from some sub that hit the front page for saying “the housing market is insane right now”. I was being ableist guys, apparently…
I got banned for saying health insurance should not be able to deny any procedure. But I guess that’s too political for the gen x sub . Then got perma banned because I didn’t pay attention to where I was posting from other accounts. Fuckers
Reddit gave me a choice to either doxx myself to them over a “suspicious activity” flag or walk away. Since I am in fact a bot and have no proof of humanity, I was forced to return to the mothership.
I left Reddit when they threatened to remove 3rd party apps and started closing down sub-reddits that weren’t advertiser friendly.
When they closed down the API for third party apps I packed my things, I thought reddit would be different, but to me, at that moment they proved they were not different.
Lemmy is not perfect and the whole dev team has some pretty insane views. But you know, it’s FOSS, so it’s not about the devs as much. Perfect is the enemy of great, and Lemmy is a healthier choice then Reddit imo.
Yup, the death of 3rd Party Aps did it for me too. It made me sad because I had to leave behind a lot of the niche subreddits I enjoyed, but I could see the writing on the wall.
