Redlib if you must keep using Reddit. If not, alternative forums, fediverse included, invite you.

*thou

I tried it. Unfortunately it is wrong in several of statements about my machine. Since it cannot detect the specifics of my machine nor its settings, one can conclude that either this website is wrong or my settings for protection work well. Hard to fingerprint someone when their are inaccuracies.

Culture in what communities? Because I mainly subscribe to tech and games and haven't noticed a difference.

Same on reddit where people here talk about how they've been banned, but I just follow tech, games, and niche hobby subs there and not the big subs.

But, if someone is engaging in news related communities I could see how culture might be more negative. But, that's been the case for all social media for that matter when it comes to heated topics.

We defederated the NSFW instance because they allow a fauxbait community.

What is fauxbait, you may wonder? Well, you've probably heard of jailbait, which is nudes of children who look like adults. Fauxbait is faux jailbait. It's nudes of adults who look like children who look like adults.

And often these are regular consenting adult porn models, who look like adults, but some pervert went "nyehehe these women look like children" and posted them to this community. And I think that's degrading and harmful to these women's livelihoods. I wouldn't want someone to look at My boobs and decide I looked like a kid.

Furthermore, according to Australian law, framing a picture as child porn (or fake child porn) makes it child porn. It's kinda the same problem as the 4000 year old dragon who looks like a little girl.

Is it better than r/jailbait and all the pedo shit on Reddit? Sure. But it's still pedo shit, and I want a social network with zero pedo shit.

VPN works for now, but I am mostly online on my work-laptop (yeah I know 😂) and I am not allowed to run a VPN on that one ...

ah! That explains why I had day-old posts suddenly creep up in my feed, I was already wondering about that ...

VPN works for me so far, but like I said in another comment: I use reddit mostly on my work laptop and am not allowed to use VPN there ..

it definetly is for me ... spent the whole afternoon yesterday to pass on ownership of all my subs to other mods ..

I already made this account a while ago, but never really got into Lemmy so much, since it's so damn hard to post videos here - that is the main reason I still used Reddit more - you can just drop videos there without having to use other video platforms that require you to make an account too,...

not able to use that on my company laptop sadly ...

Can you not install browser extensions? I can on my work laptop (on either Edge or Chrome - they don't allow other alternatives), but obviously they're all locked down differently

Yet you can use reddit?

no, not even browser extensions or even different browsers - it's pretty restricted

yeah, I was also surprised but it works. I guess I could also argue that I would need it for research ;)

is it reddit doing something drastic recently? seen an uptick .

nsfw especially on reddit filled with bots more than other subs.

the individual users who spam, would have a bunch of device they operate with multiple(dozens) of accounts each using services to host multiple browser instances at once, to seperate accounts from each other, so they dont get immediately connected by reddits filters. also multiple IP from different sources at once,, and yes they spend money to do this, and this seperate the propaganda bots/spammers you hear done by countries.

cool.

thier purges last year did a huge number on thier engagement thought, they overcompensated, and then open-ai and google stopped scraping so now they are tyring to force logins so people can be datamined again.

2018 is when propagana bots/troll farms started to appear , and thats when they started banning significantly even for the slightest misunderstanding, it obviously got worst overtime.

they are too forgettable to memorable, the only ones i missed were the ones in a niche sub, now defunct.

reddits own bot/slop tells them what they want to hear thats why. i think the thing is reddit still has niche subs, that hasnt been impacted by the bots that much, hence its better than some ways. lemmy is too small and the largest communities are politics mostly.

reddit definitely made a change months ago , that shows you old post. they want people to engage with older posts, that are useless.

on mobile they are far more intrusive, when you backspace they reload the page, and sends you to the top of the feed on old mobile, and zooms in for no reason, its designed to make old reddit as unpleasant as possible so you are forced to use the new reddit UI, which is worst, because in the newer one, it eventually slows the loading page for so long you have to close the browser to reset it. they eventually want people to use the APP, so they can datamine your device as well.

the new UI is the doom scroll addiction nonsense, that reddits is tried to force.

on mobile you can. i use sinkit and old reddit, and you can force reddit to be usable in old format on your page.

thats not all they do, they look at your browser , timezones. how long you linger on a page on reddit and if you are scrolling or commenting, up and downvoting.

you can block those instances, and communities. tankies are the worst, and a few instances for some reaso blahaj will ban you for anything too.

no niche communities here, plus other large subs have no equivalent here.

At this point, it doesn't make any sense to use Reddit at all. Just go to the Lemmy and the fediverse.

Or if you hate yourself, you can also try 9gag, there's not much difference now between that and Reddit.

It's like the boiling frog problem

I know two people still using it. Thing is, quite a lot of gaming communities are pretty much dead here, while there are still enough flesh and bone users on reddit (plus eight times as many bots, but there will always be someone to respond within a day if you have a question).

Of course it's not like there are only these two options and nothing else, but where would you go to for decently paced discussion? Honest question: I had left reddit a long time ago, but I won't find pre-existing answers on Lemmy for a good number of games, and most of the communities here seem to be bone dry.

I literally don't understand how you could just come out and say the stupidest thing in the world ;)

Yeah lemming's brains are melted. Literacy in the bit.

Commenting on an article without reading it should carry the penalty of a day in the stocks.

People like that exist, but I just block them and move on and i really can't overstate how much that changes the experience.

Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn't have great mechanisms for avoiding harassment or toxicity - the ethos of free speech prevents the creators from wanting to allow users to hide their posts from others (a common solution implemented on other platforms).

Because of that, I get inbox notifications from blocked users sometimes (that I can't see unless I unblock them), so I just -> Mark all as read. Negativity gone.

On the flip side of toxicity, I've found fewer toxic mods that rule comms like their own little fiefdom to arbitrarily police (only a single one so far) - on Reddit it was pretty common to encounter.

you need to take a photo of your balls to use reddit now and new accounts cannot login to old reddit as this feature is now restricted to only existing accounts that are older

they are continuing to digg their own grave.

no porn for you 🎻

I guess you haven't read the text under my screenshot - this doesn't happen on NSFW subs or posts anymore, I cannot access ANYTHING anymore, the complete account is blocked unless I verify.

The oldest redditors got shadow banned because their posts were too valuable to the IPO to show up as blocked or deleted user (the story varries, but my friend ended up getting banned for joking about putting a lock on one of those uhauls full of proud boys (back when they were renting uhauls before Uhaul said they couldn't anymore)

Those of us here originally, are the ones who deleted their accounts, contrary to what reddit believed would happen.

I know at least one of you will read this, and I am here to receive a powerful high five.

Remembering other people is something I only had on the old forums before everything got piled into one huge site. Back then the group was small and you actually talked to the same people regulary. Now I don't even notice usernames anymore.

🙏

My idiocy is on full display. Thanks for the correction.

Better late then never. Welcome to the party.

Create those communities or post in other existing communities with a similar topic.

I know it's annoying if you are the first one and no one react to the content but someone has to start.

Welcome to lemmy!

Yeah I fully agree re: blocking at an individual level, but I'm just saying I also understand why someone may encounter the fediverse and be turned away at the prospect of putting in so much work just to even see if they like it. Admins need to step up too.

Everybody reading this: IKR, those idiots are so frustrating.

Yeah I get it. I dunno what the balance is. It needs to be fun for admins too - else they get burned out and you get the Reddit style power-trip types as the ones that stay. I'm generalizing heavily.. But my point is I guess if the community takes the lead in reporting and blocking bad users we can all help the load of the mods, while working around the limitations of Lemmy's design.

Hopefully it will improve in time, because Im not disagreeing that those elements exist and are a deterrent to newcomers.

01/01/1901

There's no use in interacting with posts, say, 8 hours old or so. Maybe less. Everybody has already moved on.

Edit: that's why I like the slower pace of the Fediverse, it's like the old messages boards I grew up with, with posts that simmered for days/months and there wasn't endless scrolling to steal your attention.