I don’t know if this is the right community, but I suppose it’s close enough.
You can’t even make posts like this on Reddit anymore, Reddit has become such a hog on the internet traffic it’s ridiculous. It wouldn’t be a problem if Reddit didn’t take such precious internet space.
They censor people, regular people who aren’t even doing anything too controversial. Reddit’s automated filters constantly remove people’s posts, only conformist content is allowed there, and so nothing of value remains. Just generic conformist post after another generic conformist post.
Why is this platform still popular is honestly just beyond me at this point. No really, can someone please, please explain to me why do people keep using this broken website anymore?
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I’d say the network effect is a big part. A lot of the established communities are there, so people stay there.
I do my best to stay off there, though. One thing that helped me drastically cut down on Reddit interactions is donating an Euro to PieFed for every comment I make on Reddit. (besides, either it works, or I help keep the fediverse running and improving. It’s a win-win :P)
That’s a genius idea, I love it
Ok but the most effective way to cure ourselves from reddit is to get so permabanned that every whisper of our likeness gets rejected from participating over there.
Yep that’s exactly what happened to me. I’m still really fucking bitter about it. I didn’t even do anything bad. Just absent-mindedly posting from different accounts to a sub I had been banned from. Didn’t even think about it honestly and boom Perma band
Me too. I’ve seen many people with the same story. They set AI to do it and AI is bad at it.
Also, stop using X. Like why do so many foreign companies even still bother? Drives me nuts.
Network effect. You want to reach people, then you go where people are. It’s self perpetuating.
It’s a daily vice I’ve used since 2013 with my very first smart phone. It was tough, but feels good to kick it in 2026. Damn, 13 years of scrolling. It’s a terrible addiction. I’m telling myself I’m using lemmy differently bc I’m interacting more. Thanks for reading!
I miss the nfl meme war subs, but to be honest a lot of it is recycling the same posts over and over with some possible corporate sprinkling.
I mentioned I am fat on Reddit and had a bot admonish me for being insensitive. I guess I should ostracize myself.
On another note, reddit is only against inciting violence via comments.
Posting videos demonstrating it, however, is completely fine.
Honestly for the love of sanity you should probably also stop using Lemmy, for similar reasons. Many of the large communities heavily censor, and many communities are super toxic.
Reddit is occasionally still useful for getting answers to questions because they actually have a user base to support niche subjects. I never post, but there is a good chance someone has already asked the question I have and there is an actual answer, unlike here.
I browse Lemmy like once a week, but I try to limit actually posting or commenting like once or twice a month, because the engagement is often so vitriolic that it causes anxiety and is generally bad for me. The benign communities are usually small and boring.
I just caught a seven day ban on a post that was a shitpost about how theres lots of guys named Dan Sullivan in Alaska. I caught a ban for making a joke about Dan Sullivans being an invasive species with no natural predators in Alaska and they missed their chance to cull the Dan Sullivan population and now they’re, as the phrase goes, “Breeding like Dan Sullivans.”
So fucking stupid.
Lemmy doesn’t have a Timberborn community.
I miss r/nursing. I’m lucky if I get 1-2 commenters on memes that used to get 100+ upvotes and 20+ other nurses commiserating with me about some common work frustration. Tbh a big part of the problem is that a lot of nurses aren’t crazy tech literate so the barrier to entry for fedi in general is higher plus when they get her they have to content with the “I Use Arch” types.
I’ll be honest with you. I prefer everything about Lenny’s technology and ownership/maintenance structure. However the only topic I know I can get consistent substantial input on here is communist revolution.
For literally everything else, Reddit has captured people who know things. They are enshittifying it to be sure but until I can post a picture of a coffee table on Lemmy and have someone tell me if it’s finished with lacquer or shellac, this will be the answer.
We don’t have to like it, and we should hope to change it. But please don’t pretend you can’t understand it. Critical mass of community investment builds up in one place, in Reddit’s case over decades, and it doesn’t quickly migrate away, even under some enshittification pressure. Perhaps in time.
What can you do, other than complain? You can start a community on some topic of substance here and build it up. Moderate. Post. Recruit key individuals away from Resditnwirh private messages. Wait.
Oh, does that sound like actual work? That’s because it is. Did you want to change things? Or just complain?
It starts with a communist revolution
I have already built my own community. But no one shows up. nightash.net if you’re curious.
It’s hard to get an online community going. I’ve worked with many of them through my job and you’d be amazed how many of them got their start when “another similar forum went offline for several days and everyone migrated here.”
Certainly it’s not a case of “build it and people will magically show up.”
Honestly atp the censorship isn’t even the worst of it. Go to Lemmy.ml, say anything bad against China and see how it goes. Many Lemmy communities are no better.
No the worst of reddit is the fact that it’s a data-mining operation at this point, with age checks and a complete Mishandling of your user data (everything is indexed and easy to search even if you set your profile to private…)
Even better: don’t go to any ML instance and enjoy increased happiness and mental wellbeing.
I haven’t found it (if it exists) is there a way to block all posts and comments from Lemmy.ml users? I may start my own instance to do so
It’s possible on piefed. Literally the first thing i did after signing up.
