/r/rats and tv show discussions for me

And every person too busy or just aloof to bother learning about any of this stuff will just glibly hand it all over, lovely stuff headed our way.

This is basically all I use for now. Lemmy doesn't have the infrastructure for every TV episode and movie I watch.

yeah. and even in the generic tv show communities there are maybe a couple people discussing a new episode, if at all.

Compared to thousands for a popular show.

heck, even star trek is barely active compared to reddit. and they did an official migration in the beginning

Yes and I got it earlier; it's just hard to resist responding based on stereotypes. Lol

This is what "faces of atheism" came to end

I think the downvotes are proving you right 😉

That's part of why I made my account here. Might as well start getting familiar with the alternative. That and the mods on Reddit are out of control handing out bans for jokes about violence. Like the other day, I joked we should shoot robot dogs and got handed a site wide 3 day ban.

Unless it's THEIR AI bots, right?

Yeah, it's become crystal clear that they just multiple data warehouses and server side tracking to identify people.

It's clear that the leftwing left wing left reddit a while ago; so that leaves behind liberals, conservatives, and moderates that still can't make up their minds about Trump somehow.

Too much to ask for an "anonymous" social media platform.

Or? I think you mean and. Then throw several more ands in there, including AI platforms, surveillance tech, right wing PACs, and overall enshitification and misinformation.

Well, Lemmy is not hidden, it's out there for reddit users who search for alternatives... It has challenges to solve and llm agents might be one of them.

The moment you state a fact or something that the folks at Reddit don't like, you'll get banned. And it will be a deep ban. You create a new account on same device without sanitizing it , use same network without VPN or join the same subs right after signup, you'll get another ban.

Best way is to signup on a device, browser and network you never used before, use VPN if you use the same network. Use an email that you've never used before. Stay low for 10 days, join random subs here and there and make some subtle comments, maybe a few posts to act genuine. Then for five days, make your 20% activity without VPN, don't cut VPN entirely because that raises the flag. Keep using the same device and browser for at least 30 days.

Then you can start casually switching to your main devices and network. Stay low for 10 more days when you switch back before joining the same subs where you got banned. This often beats the automated checks and the system doesn't connect the dots for links between your banned account(s) and new one.

You're probably already aware, but it bares saying for those who aren't; it's not anonymous.

Have you considered changing instances?

They want to turn Reddit into a rightwing echo chamber. Lately there are so many comments on lemmy about people getting perma banned, including myself, for breaking rule 1.
However in most cases, like myself, only made a comment without any harm or even a reference to violence. I only commented that ICE can forget about their payments and bonuses and that in 3 years time, they'll be sucking immigrant cock behind a Wendy's.
That got me a perma ban after 15 years on Reddit.
All these tech bros are bending the knee and getting taken from behind. Such short term thinking will become their downfall.
If this happens, it'll be a good thing for Lemmy.

Most likely, they will. They are not elikely to infect larger instances. Smaller instances will spot them and ban them, I hope.

IIRC they IP banned people for publishing their bots in a filter list.

Funny……funny thing…….dont seem to really need Reddit anymore. I like this place and cyberspace more anyway. Zuckbook too. ✌🏻I’m out.

You're probably right and this is the first time I've felt kind of glad for the "speed bump" that picking a server on the fediverse has become.
We'll get another influx before too long; maybe a "you need to be this clever to ride the ride" checkpoint isn't such a bad thing.

Yeah, gotta 👉🏻👌🏻 the algo.

That’s the spirit!

Dude……..nobody was gonna tell me there’s an app? I’m over here on brave just chillin. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Steve, ain’t we glad to have ya! Welcome :)

Yeah….this is the internet…..I ain’t showing face. Ass yes, face….not a chance!

Why do you expect they will be unlikely to infect larger instances?

Thank you

There's Jerboa (the official one), Sync, Voyager, and over a dozen more different front ends.

Just search for Lemmy on Google Play or FDroid and you'll find options

Not nearly as much financial incentive for the admins to look the other way

More lowkey polymarket advertisements.

Why is it the only place I see polymarket is on Lemmy screenshots?

I dig it. TY

well done. sign up for a piefed instance too.

well clearly that’s because we should disable them and dismantle them for parts.

get with it, raider. arc don’t play.

Im not sure reddit is worth that much effort.
Meanwhile folks saying stuff reddit likes be like

Goodbye 99% of reddit users.

Oh no, how am I going to pick a server?! That’s even harder than choosing a shirt to put on!

Yea I prefer to get my Reddit news from a gambling site that facilitates bets on human lives.

It's weird, but that shit intimidates non technical people, and there are a lot of them. It would need better if it says something like 'Click on the flag of the country closest to where you live' or something like that.

Linux seems to have managed to do this - I recently did I mint install on my laptop, it was all GUI, no arcane jargon, no need to use the console, really well optimised for the non-technical folk. You'd be surprised how many people see 'server' and think 'I don't have one of those, and I don't think I want one'.

That's what I thought when I initially signed up but I'm realizing we lack diversity baaaaaaad. I'd wager 90%+ of users are tech people and we are infamously antisocial, which is rough for a "social media"

A year or so ago I also got a permaban on my old reddit account. I never did find out the reason for it, as to my memory none was stated. But I immediately stopped using reddit and after a while started using lemmy when I realized there were better alternatives. Just now I tried to log in to my reddit account to check whether I missed the permaban reason, but now my account is simply "locked" and I need to change my password. The notification message is not the same as it was back then.

This is rich.😐

Selecting a server wasn't an issue for me. The RIF app told me to go to .world and I quickly decided it was the right instance for me to start.

I moreso had to adjust to the slower pace and less engagement on Lemmy compared to reddit, the lack of niche communities, my favorite subs not having a perfect equivalent here.

I was super pissed off with reddit and am still salty, so my anger committed me to making the commitment to Lemmy. I was addicted to reddit and they took away the app I was using for over 10 years. I wasn't ready for the breakup and was scorned. I was highly motivated to make Lemmy work for me.

Users need that level of anger and outrage to motivate them.

I'm so used to ignoring who tweets are from that I didn't notice till you mentioned it and scrolled back up, lol

As someone with a problematic relationship with alcohol, from a family of the same, i get addiction, but I don't get gambling. The way it's become normalized by society is so weird to me.

Yeah they have really gone over the top with enforcing R1. Upvoting is already enough to get banned as it falls under sharing and it doesn't have to actually mention any harm to the individual, just reference R1.