• Pamasich@kbin.earth
        1·
        4 months ago

        This really isn’t true. Specific subreddits do, because their mods want to buddy up to the admins. With OP’s search settings, I do get one of the posts they got (only one though), and most of the results are drowned out by posts about some guy called Lemmy. But sorting by New, there’s plenty of results even from today and the past week. Subreddits announcing their fallback instance, a canadian subreddit discovering lemmy.ca, people asking questions about Lemmy. Lemmy-specific subreddits also show up without a problem. And everything I saw, except for that one post from OP’s image, was positive about it.

        I think people who have fully left Reddit are falling for confirmation bias when they hear that a post got removed for mentioning Lemmy. While plenty are still up despite doing the same. It’s either because of the other contents of the post, or because of the subreddit it was posted in. If it was about promoting Lemmy alone, all posts that promote Lemmy would be gone, which isn’t the case.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        5 months ago

        I’ve been lurking reddit lately, to see what propaganda the normies in the US are exposed to, and I found this thread fucking hilarious.

        Every comment is complaining about how this will be the death of reddit. None of them realize Reddit already died years ago, and they’re just getting high off the ashes.

        • PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          Using “normies” unironically is one of the reasons Lemmy is a huge turn off. Normal people don’t talk like that, and it makes you look stuck up.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        4 months ago

        no wonder they wanted api gone as well, it allowed people to ban evade, since its not using the site directly.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Search manipulation or just shitty Reddit search?

      Google search for “lemmy” site:reddit.com/r/redditalternatives provides different top results:

      https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/18x59m7/its_time_to_admit_lemmy_has_won_the_the_biggest/

      https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/151v9vo/lemmy_explained_in_a_nutshell/

      https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14ier24/for_anyone_wondering_how_lemmy_works_and_is/

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
        0·
        5 months ago

        they made a post, got tons of downvotes, then complained about downvotes which also got downvoted, got caught by automod because of downvotes, appealed, got unbanned, then deleted account or got purged because nothing even shows in modlog. the account was on sjw, posts were to communities in .ml and lw

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        this is my first acc on lemmy, i had no idea that was a seperate login. whats ML?

        • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
          01·
          4 months ago

          Lemmy.ml is a lemmy community primarily composed of socialists. Because socialists are highly critical of racist behaviour, white supremacist tropes, US exceptionalism/western chauvinism, imperialist attitudes (many of which bleed in well-meaning liberals), and capitalist countries, they don’t tolerate such things in their community and are very critical when they see such things in other communities, which is often met with distrust and dislike because nobody enjoys being confronted. .ml are very confrontational and they get met with confrontation. There are also some legit problems with a few moderators expressing transphobic beliefs, which is why i personally choose hexbear as my main community. Kinda sad that people here have such a red scare as if it were communists and not fascists in governments all over the western world right now and increasingly so.

      • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
        01·
        4 months ago

        “Tankie instances” don’t tolerate transphobia or western exceptionalism or Zionism. Lib instances don’t tolerate questioning of US State Department propaganda (been banned from many comms for questioning the validity of Wikipedia articles on geopolitically charged topics) but will tolerate Zionism (downvoted but not banned). I’d rather have the former

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        4 months ago

        they went after the OF accts recently, if people wanted OF porn, they go to non-PH and thier affiliate sites.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      Hell yeah! Consider sticking around for a bit. Don’t forget that you have the power to block individuals, communities, and even entire instances if you’re having a bad time. Not sure if reddit gives you all that power, but it has its uses!

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
        0·
        4 months ago

        Not sure if reddit gives you all that power

        It does not. Was one of the reasons that I abandoned it when they blocked third party clients. I resent being forced to view right-wing propaganda, rage-bait, and ads as well as being forced to short by opaque algorithms that are clearly intended to manipulate.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          01·
          4 months ago

          same, reddit is slowly turning into FB, with all the right wing narratives, 90% of the post is about trump, its the same thing MSMs did to get him into the WH. while it maybe “center right” it mostly gives avenues for right wingers to “see what we told you guys”, i pointed that out on many subs. people are just lapping all the bs thats comes out, liek trump did this goof, like it matters. despite them being critical of trump, it actually gives 24/7 coverage outside of X and MSMs.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      01·
      5 months ago

      Possibly landed in Hexbear. In combination with Spaz’s purge of all things Lemmy encouraging.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      so small and bitter but you just smile through it and say “it’s so good! 😢”?
      maybe I don’t know how to grow stuff…

      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        You kind of just tipped your hand at your gardening ability. And also that you’ve never had a real tomato.

        • DNS@discuss.online
          0·
          5 months ago

          I argue mostly everyone here never had a real banana. No, the ones in the stores aren’t the original flavor.

          • bss03@infosec.pub
            1·
            5 months ago

            Well, the one in the stores are real bananas. They aren’t Gros Michel bananas, but that’s because Gros Michel went extinct before I was born (and I’m not exactly young anymore.) We might lose the Cavendish before I die.

            Supposedly the “banana flavor” in candy is closer to a Gros Michel than to a Cavendish.

            • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              Also: Gros Michel bananas have slippery peels. Cavendish do not! That’s where the weird trope with no remaining connection to real life comes from.

  • inbeesee@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Lemmy feels like seeing Reddit grow from nothing with the small community and more serious tone.

    This time however, it’s ours.

  • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    I don’t get the hate this place gets. It’s been really interesting watching Lemmy’s growing pains over the last two-ish years and all the changes it has undergone. The whole concept of the Fediverse is fascinating to me and has been a genuine delight to explore.

    • murmelade@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Agreed. I never even had Instagram or twitter but I’ve become a pixelfed and mastodon lurker after enjoying Lemmy for 1+ years. The comment section here is miles ahead of reddit, where you get repost after repost and the same old tired jokes in every comment section.
      The fediverse is fantastic and I’m happy to be a (very minor) part of it.

      • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        I’m almost 40, this place reminds me of the early internet in a good way. Like, people connecting and sharing ideas… what even Reddit used to feel like. Sure, sometimes there are arguments but, due to the lack of an “outage” algorithm to juice engagement, you usually only hear about it unless it’s something you directly follow. With the lack of profit motive on the side of the platform and hosting end of things, it appears that trolls and clout chasers have a genuine hard time monopolizing everyone’s attention.

          • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 months ago

            I mean, tbf, joining the military IS what made me start looking into the concept of Socialism and what it means.

            Is the military socialism? No, us Enlisted have no power and the Officer corps is the “owning class”, but we have good, tax payer funded social benefits that I believe everyone should have access to.

            It’s like a gateway drug into anti-capitalism idealogies. If the US is never going to go full socialist (or at least not in our lifetimes), then I think raising taxes and giving everyone TRICARE, VA Loan benefits, tuition assistance, and a pension will go a long way in solving most people’s biggest fears/relieving a metric fuckton of oppression caused by capitalism.

            Also, having been to the Middle East and seen firsthand the stark difference of people driving around Ducatis and Lambos, parking in front malls inlaid with real gold, while 10 minutes up the road whole communities had built their shack homes in the desert with random odds and ends and thrown blankets over their windows was…I cant really describe the feeling I got. Dread, anger, immense sadness, just a whole myriad of negative emotions. Couple that with the intense religious fervor that is rampant in the region, and yeah, I have no idea how a military member can look at all that and be like “This. This is what America needs.”

            Granted, yes, unfortunately a lot of our service men and women are still unfortunately extremely pro-Capitalism/Trump and Elon Musk fanboys…I just don’t know how.

            Either way, my comment got long, but when people start in on the “The Army is Socialist!” Dont be mad. Educate! They’re at the very least coming from a place of “Fuck, we really could make everyones lives better if we give everyone these benefits that we enjoy so much!” And that shows compassion for others, which is something so fucking desperately needed right now.

      • Guidy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        Can confirm - I’m new here and when I see pieces of shit who’d be right at home amongst the people my grandfather killed in WWII (AKA nazis) it doesn’t make me more interested in sticking around. At this point IDGAF why they think they way they think, they can fuck off into the sun. At some point I’ll see whatever blocking thing there is and it will get better. Still an improvement over reddit.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        5 months ago

        they already have thier safe spaces on r/consevative, conspiracy, and trueunpopular opinon, but they whine on other subs that th ey are still get censored, or the so-called left is in an echo-chamber ever since trump won. even though those sub is mostly run by russian state owned bot system.

      • Iceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        5 months ago

        I blame the anti-tankies. Like this is the only site i even see the termed even used and it looks like a weird hysteria for most. The community is already smal so it looks relay wired. Even this whinny attitude of blocking every one on this tiny space give real off vibes.

      • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
        02·
        5 months ago

        I imagine that less-determined redditors will take one look at this place, see a liberal-bashing post, and then immediately fuck off

        Good. The last thing we need is more stormfront brainrot.

        Also, quite the ironic comment.

  • Cpo@lemm.ee
    1·
    4 months ago

    Vile? What’s so vile on Lemmy?

    Can someone direct me to the right communities? 😜

  • Barsukis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Honestly I had some really bad experiences here on Lemmy. I So bad, that in fact I contemplated going back to Reddit because it didn’t feel much different. I surely went from recommending my friends to delete Reddit to towards more of a “just quit Reddit altogether but there’s no good alternative”

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    0·
    5 months ago

    My beef with Lemmy:

    • It’s weighted towards politics
    • Not a lot of niche sub critical mass yet (though this is not its fault at all)
    • But holy moly, it’s a political purity test! Like, I think of myself as pretty socialist, way far off center, but I feel totally alone veering off certain topics or even acknowledging certain things! I’m (mostly) not getting banned, and I am not leaving, but still.
    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      Lemmy Leftists feel like that old Emo Philips joke at times.

      Apparently anyone not wanting to live in a grey soviet tower block and have all their worldly possessions be redistributed by the state is a “fucking Lib”

      • btaf45@lemmy.world
        01·
        4 months ago

        People who call themselves “leftists” and hate “liberals” are almost always Stalinists or Communists. “Left” is actually a word that covers an entire spectrum of left of center: liberals, ultraliberals, and radical.

        The irony is that the Stalinists are using a misleading inclusive word “leftist”, but historically Stalin and Lenin considered all the other leftist parties in Russia to be their main enemy, not people on the right. Members of these 2 leftist parties were their very first victims. All of them were killed or sent to the Gulag. And then later Stalin made an alliance with Hitler.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Revolutionary_Party

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensheviks <— this party was originally the very same party as the Bolsheviks and was the majority faction.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      5 months ago

      .ml and hexbear are full of rancid dogshit, on the same level of mental illness as r/conservative.

        • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
          0·
          5 months ago

          I don’t know if it’s funnier or sad how many .world people seethe at people they’ve never even federated with

          • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
            0·
            5 months ago

            i moved to .world from .ml because of the annoying ass tankies. it’s not what they were saying that annoyed me it was their attitude. they acted like 14 years olds that just discovered atheism and think everyone else on the Internet is Catholic.

            but also, the intense defense is Russia and China was pretty dumb. i get hating America. that’s fair and valid, but to do so while pretending that these other imperialistic super powers don’t also suck is pure denialism.

            • FinnFooted@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              4 months ago

              I get down voted from the .ml crowd for informing them their support of Trump, either direct or inadvertent, isn’t going to save Palestine its just going to get trans people killed and this gets me either blocked or banned. These people see an authoritarian and they can’t help but get a boner.

              I’m a socialist. But I’m an anti authoritarian first.

              • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
                01·
                4 months ago

                “I am a socialist, that’s why my political activity consists on calling people who oppose genocide trump enablers”

                • FinnFooted@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  0·
                  4 months ago

                  If you oppose genocide then you’d do everything you could to prevent as much genocide as possible. Enabling Trump by not voting and encouraging others not to vote is going to get a lot of people killed. It’s going to get people put in concentration camps, deported to counties they’ve never been to and will struggle to survive in, result in the erasure of trans people, get women killed in childbirth, get people killed on the job as workers safety rights diminish, get children killed as child labor laws disappear, expand the power Russia has over Ukraine (a country they have commited genocide on before), and still get Palestinians in Gaza and the west bank murdered. It honestly makes “you” almost as bad as the fascists in my opinion. Maybe everyone who didn’t vote because of Palestine can go vacation in Gaza after Trump has built a few hotels there and see the real true work all those protest votes helped accomplish.

                  I’m not absolving dems for being involved in the genocide in Gaza. Their support for Zionism is obscene. But a lot more damage is going to be done now that the power is strengthening in the executive branch under trump and it’s extremely privlidged to act like a protest vote was the morally superior option.

                  But I’m a socialist because I also think that the means of production should be owned by the workers.

            • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
              01·
              4 months ago

              Arguing that either China or Russia suck comparably as much as the US as current things stand is crazy. Most criticism of China is made-up anticommunist propaganda, criticism of Russia is often coated in russophobic tropes originating in Nazism and highly chauvinistic in nature (yes, Russia is on a downwards spiral of concerning fascist trends in government, but so is the entire west, literal Sieg Heil in US president inauguration and fascist parties in Germany and Austria).

              Westerners focusing their criticism on countries doing a fraction of the evil their own countries do is simple western exceptionalism and nationalism. Neither China nor Russia have anything in their recent history remotely comparable to the genocide in Gaza, the invasion of Iraq, the carpet bombing of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Korea, the history of coups and support of fascist regimes, and the history of colonialism of the west.

              • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
                0·
                4 months ago

                i never said they were as bad as America lol. why do you have to go so far out of your way to defend two of three largest and most antagonistic countries in the world. they all suck, splitting hairs about degrees of evil isn’t worth the time.

                don’t be expansionist.

                don’t be imperialist.

                don’t hate people for how they were born.

                don’t antagonize ethnic minorities.

                all three countries are failing at more than one of these right now. they all suck.

                they really don’t need the help either…

                • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
                  01·
                  4 months ago

                  Saying that Russia is on a downward spiral towards fascism is defending it?

                  My point isn’t that you should be defending Russia or China, my point is that there’s a very disproportionate amount of criticism of Russia/China compared to the US in the west, especially flagrant if we compare how actually harmful each of these is.