• Toga77@lemmy.world
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    I was device and IP banned for saying Americans needed to have the Guillotines in the streets.

    I stand by what I said lol.

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        You can still use RiF through unofficial patches. I do. I’m here because the bots and hidden account history is just too much to know if I’m even talking to a real person anymore.

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          I still have a reddit account, but I mostly only use it to look at video game development stuff, and even that is getting less useful with all the AI slop out there.

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      The 3rd party app-ocalypse made me create an account here but it was the reddit ads that eventually made me quit the Reddit app. At some point I realised more of my feed was taken up by autoplay video ads than actual content. The slow decline in intelligent conversations really accelerated after they killed the apps too.

      So far I like it here, there’s less content and that can be a bit disappointing but it’s probably healthier that I can’t scroll endlessly. It’s also nice to feel like your posts don’t get buried under a torrent of other content the moment you make them.

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        I dont know if it’s bots or culture or whatever but the comments on reddit just slid into repetitive blither over a handful of years. This is the internet so I dont expect all interactions to be thought-provoking prose, but I do expect people to at least have their own thoughts. Here on Lemmy, for example, I can find that good ol’ home grown, individualistic blither. Just the way the internet intended.

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        I agree about the content and really think that it is healthier this way, too. But I also think that the content here is somehow less negative. And as you say, posts do not get buried. I am way more engaged here because of that and had a lot more interactions.

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      I will never use the official app. It’s just so bad. With the API changes one month ago I can’t use rif anymore so I’m here.

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    none of these say anything about moving due to privacy concerns and I feel like thats a huge market here.

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      Tbf, the fediverse isn’t private at all and holds no pretense that it is. Yeah your instance isn’t selling your data or doing the creepy profile-mapping that meta does, but it’s important to be aware that this is very much a public forum

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      Middle left.

      Also, the fediverse is, in some ways, worse for privacy because of the types of information that need to be shared for federation to work.

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        Middle left specifically mentions reddit, I’m not here because of anything to do with reddit. I’m here because I prefer open source platforms that preserve more privacy than proprietary ones that will eventually start asking for gov’t ID.

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      Thats technically the first box, when Reddit walled off their API to third party vendors all the good apps were killed… kinda. I’m still using Boost, they use to proxy for Reddit but now they implemented Lemmy for the past 4 years.

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    You don’t have one for “Longtime lurker who used reddit for their daily dose of catching-up-with-the-world but found that the r/all was increasingly showing reality tv discussion subs that they had no interest in”.

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      Yeah, they finally just killed r/all completely, which is why I’m here. I fucking hate how reddit became this corporate cesspool. It used to be just a regular cesspool with some content I liked.

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        Yeah, they finally just killed r/all completely

        It’s still up on old reddit

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        Same for me. I browse this stuff for fun, and Reddit just stopped being any fun. I do not want some “curated” experience, where algorithm tries to feed me stupid sport news, if I refuse to sell my soul to the corporate shits.

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      It’s been three years so I can’t remember, but does reddit not have a way to block certain subs from r/all (at a user level)?

      A key part of shaping your lemmy experience is that you can just block any community you aren’t interested in, while still getting the benefits of an All feed.

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        I used to rarely, if ever, actually log in to my reddit account. Reddit used to have a good set of defaults and I had a list of my favourites in my head. Then I started using RES to block some of the subreddits I did not want to see. Eventually, it got so bad that maintaining the RES blocklist became a hassle. Lemmy has much better defaults and this time I’m actually making an effort to engage with people.

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          Ah right, RES, plus all the apps had their own options. Man, I bit killing third party apps really cut the features for people.

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    I like it more here because I don’t get banned for saying I think more conservatives should drink raw milk so they’ll get listeria and die

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    I only ever accessed reddit from the mobile web, but I left and moved in solidarity because of the API shit. Told me it was somewhere I didn’t want to be anymore.

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      There was one exchange I recently had with an obvious Israeli.

      Guy just kept saying didn’t understand and such any time I asked why European colonizers had any right to middle eastern land, without involving an imaginary sky man.

      Then he/she shut up when I asked about the cultural genocide and infant stealing inflicted on the Mizrahi Jews, and the involuntary birth control given to Ethiopian Jews.

      Fascism is an ever shrinking circle.

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        Yeah it’s almost impossible to convince people on the Internet of anything, nevertheless to get them to see things from other people’s perspectives.

        The worst part is if arguing against genocide won’t change someone’s mind there, then nothing would. People are so into their own little bubbles nowadays, that they’ve forgotten how to change their opinions based on new facts presented to them and just say they were wrong. It really sucks.

        Everytime I want to prove a good point, I end up deleting the reply and think “what’s the point? They won’t listen to me and will just go back and forth with me without budging even a little bit”.

        Lemmy isn’t perfect or anything, but it’s not even close to how fucked up Reddit comments can be. Which is crazy because Reddit is usually pretty strict nowadays (at least it was a few years ago before I left with the API changes)

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    Bottom left. I was curious. Also I thought maybe, just maybe europe.pub would not be 90% posts about USA and Trump. How naive I was! Turns out I just found a second reddit, and it’s occasionally good!