I guess they'll go after r/Lemmy next.
It seems reddit still haven't learned what a Streisand effect is lmao.
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They hit r/LemmyMigration and it's creator once already, right before they announced the Spez AMA. They were quietly unbanned after a while with claims of it being a "mistake".
I have a feeling they'll try a much more thorough purge soon, despite all evidence showing how disastrously that would backfire.
I’m getting 8-10 year old accounts that haven’t commented for months jumping on any post I make where I mention Lemmy. So far, Lemmy is apparently a place for “CCP apologists” and “tankies”.
I’ve yet to run into any of these individuals. Sounds like some people at Reddit are not so happy.
I mean I like the lemmy-verse, but the main devs behind Lemmy are totally tankies. It's the reason why a lot of people are hesitant in joining
This is the main developer (one of the only two developers) - if the avatar wasn't enough, have a look at the "essays" repo in his account... https://github.com/dessalines
Just seems kind of silly to avoid a whole platform over the personal ideology of the creator. No one seems to have any problem with some of the extreme anti-human ideologies that a lot of social media ceos have.
The devs run lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml. The admins on both remove anything which is negative about china in any way, even if completely truthful like the genocide they are commiting against the uygurs and about the imminent succession crisis, for "orientalism," something not even listed as a rule, and yet openly criticise the US government. They allow content approving of the uygur genocide. A person coming in to join-lemmy will see lemmy.ml as their first instance. Some of the other major instances have defederated against both if not only lemmygrad.
When I joined I checked out the mod log and saw a few mentions of “orientalism” as a reason for removing comments which I thought was weird.
It sounds like a huge waste of time removing mention of an ongoing human rights crisis. I guess it means a lot to them to have a little safe space on the internet where they aren’t reminded about painful things.
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look at any thread over there about the Russia-Ukraine war...it'll turn a lot of people off for sure
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they looked at lemmygrad
It’s literally one section of a very wide website/community. It’s like looking at /r/conservative and then thinking all of Reddit is a right wing cesspool
sadly, that's more than some people do.
Yeah, I got a bad taste of crazy tankie stuff on my first venture into Lemmy when I decided to check it out. Luckily I've not seen much extremist rhetoric once I joined. I do see where it's scaring off a lot of people from reddit, that said, I've seen lots of people promoting non-communist instances specifically, as well as the idea of federating/defederating as an antidote.
If you recall, reddit used to have that as well. There was a time (5+ years ago I think?) when communities dedicated to teen porn and upskirts and legit hate groups were regularly on /r/all before they all got banned. It comes with the public forums/community aspect. In a big diverse forum where there are communities you like and connect with there are bound to be those tou don't like...and then some you really don't like.
Full damage control mode
The more damage control they do the more damage they do too
It can't happen any other way when you're acting in bad faith. Sad to see the site go, but excited for the future!
It’s a controlled demolition.
This is exactly what happened when the folks behind the hostile takeover of freenode started banning people for talking about libera.chat. And we see precisely how well that went for freenode. This is what happens when business people make decisions.
Freenode went down the crapper? Dang. I used to use them a lot back when I didn’t know anything about Linux
Oh, yeah, it was this huge, frankly surreal, thing. The founder of Private Internet Access decided he wanted his own IRC network and bullied his way into being in charge, along with a team of cronies and yes-men.
This behavior generates backlashes, People will be interested more in the alternative and the talk about Reddit alternatives will be more active
You can't make this shit up
This is so deeply pathetic on the part of reddit tbh. CEO's gotta power grab i guess.
What exactly is the difference between kbin and lemmy?
They're just different softwares that communicate over ActivityPub. They're both link aggregators, so they'll be similar in functionality.
For an easy comparison using established names: One is Reddit, one is Digg, but they can communicate with each other and show each other the same content, and you can just pick which one you want to use.
The Fediverse allows people to just choose the platforms they prefer, and then talk to everyone else on the Fediverse regardless, instead of having to create multiple accounts all over the place to talk to specific people.
Honestly I hope this implosion gives more people a push to move discussion somewhere that isn't monetized so heavily with awards, NFTs, and other crypto junk.
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One nice thing about kbin is that it isn't run by pro genocide, North Korea loving Tankies.
Can you elaborate? Genuinely. I've seen this take a few times now.
Here's a Mastodon thread with the basic facts, here's a post calling out pro-CCP moderation on Lemmy with screenshots and all, and finally here's a Raddle post with much, MUCH heavier accusations that I'm yet to fully confirm and which would make this even worse if true. Either way I'm considering Kbin more instead of Lemmy.
Do remember that the OP is on beehaw.org which is NOT run by genocide denying tankies. It just runs their software and the tankies don't have any control over that code its explained well in the docs.
Yeah that's the beauty of federation! If you don't like the team that runs one Lemmy instance, you can just find a different instance to use.
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and finally here’s a Raddle post with much, MUCH heavier accusations that I’m yet to fully confirm and which would make this even worse if true. Either way I’m considering Kbin more instead of Lemmy.
while i'm not sympathetic to lemmy's moderation i happen to know about raddle, and: it's probably worth noting that the person who runs raddle is a known, serial sockpuppeteer who has repeatedly, violently threatened and stalked users on reddit he doesn't like and used sockpuppets to troll and harass users on raddle itself. i would accordingly not consider him a particularly reliable narrator, and heavily doubt anything he has to say about anyone. he is just not a trustworthy figure in general.
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Definitely a shame to see this. But with all new communities it's important to be vigilant for that kind of toxicity, and I'm definitely gone the moment I get a sniff of it seeping in over here. Not like reddit was any better, you could barely go a week without a random subreddit being taken over by awful people.
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kbin is PHP, lemmy is Rust.
I've joined both in hopes of seeing which one thrives the most in terms of users in the niche communities that made Reddit worth visiting for me, personally. So far, they seem largely similar. Points to Lemmy for having an Android app ready to go. Kbin has one in early, early beta that is (according to the GitHub) lacking in certain functionality.
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Not surprising. They’re looking to prevent another Digg migration. It doesn’t look like it’s working.
I mentioned that subreddit was banned in one of the top post on Reddit and it seems like they suppressed my comment.
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Have they not heard of the Streisand Effect?
Spez and his band of corporate stooges are looking more pathetic by the day.
This shitshow just gets funnier every day. I’m SO glad I got out of there!
and now more people migrate to kbin :)
Joined kbin today. Been on Lemmy for a few days. I just want to be where the community is. :')
All the alternative I've tried in past exoduses have been mostly fine as far as platforms go, just seriously stale and lacking due to lack of users and interactions. One thing I loved about Reddit was there always being enough people that even super niche communities had active users.
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streisand effect is imminent. reddit is absolutely not immune to it. the admins are idiots for this
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