• Elkot@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 hours ago

    I got banned permanently off Reddit just for supporting him, that’s what pushed me to find an alternative

  • sheetzoos@lemmy.world
    56·
    1 day ago

    Reddit moderators doing a 31 billion dollar corporation’s bitch work for free.

    Not only that but they’re protecting the interests of people who make more money in a single year than they’ll make in their entire lifetime.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      for free

      I absolutely assure you that Reddit is getting paid for this shit. Spez doesn’t lift a finger without a string attached.

      they’re protecting the interests of people who make more money in a single year than they’ll make in their entire lifetime

      They’re the loyal dogs of the corporate elite because they get the scraps thrown from the table. And when you’ve got a $25T table, those are some very nice scraps.

      • Hydrogen9932@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        The company is but the moderators are not employees of the company, they’re volunteers

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          the moderators are not employees of the company

          A great deal of the moderation of popular communities has been captured by affiliated parties. The folks modding /r/marvel and /r/starcraft and /r/conservative aren’t just schmoes who got to those handles first. They’ve been auctioned off to third parties with a vested financial interest in a particularly kind of moderation occurring on those communities.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
      28·
      1 day ago

      Surely this would be the Reddit admins banning the subreddit? I can’t imagine the mods banning their own subreddit, if that’s even possible.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    50·
    1 day ago

    I’ll probably get downvoted for this but I feel like Lemmy is like the salty friend who can’t get over their ex and gets off on the issues going on in their life without them.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Ehh, more like were are all hanging out at a local bar and the owner all of a sudden got a case of assholeism. Started going fucking nuts, screwing with food/drink quality and availability, started fucking over the servers and bartenders. We hate him and want all the good people to get out and the place to burn to the ground.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
      17·
      23 hours ago

      It’s not that simple. People want to participate where communities are, some are still largely on reddit. There’s also the free labor active submitters do regarding submissions, and they decide on what platform they participate in.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 hours ago

        People want to participate where communities are, some are still largely on reddit.

        So much of the community atmosphere of the site has been undercut and replaced by automated accounts that generate content from historical human conversations. Like, straight up, whole content threads get lifted and shifted between posts to create the illusion of participation. If you’ve been on the site for a while, its downright surreal.

        Between that and the militant banning of anyone who isn’t an empty-headed twit or a reflexive cheerleader, there’s very little human activity left on the site to speak of. You’re not in a community, you’re in a graveyard. Most of the people you’re talking to are digital ghosts.

        There’s also the free labor active submitters do regarding submissions

        Less and less by year. Again, it can’t be stressed how much of Reddit is entirely automated. A handful of accounts, often directly or indirectly managed by the source of the content, are doing the lion’s share of the posting and commenting. Real human interaction is being minimalized. Reddit’s real money isn’t in posters anymore, its in lurkers. You’re supposed to look, not touch.

    • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      27·
      1 day ago

      It’s not weird or particularly unhealthy to look back at the person you were close to, but betrayed you, and realize that all of your interactions with them were actually them being an asshole, and the people who still support them are assholes too. Nor is it particularly unhealthy to have a bit of schadenfreude about the suffering of those who chose the asshole over you, while hopefully still having some sympathy and hope that they escape.

      It’s how I feel about Taylor swift fans, at least.

      • slowcakes@programming.dev
        3·
        17 hours ago

        Not to be rude or anything, but it sounds like you’ve got an unhealthy relationship with social media. I still use reddit for the subreddits I’m interested in, I don’t read other subreddits anymore just because the content is bad. Like I don’t care about what reddit does or what Lemmy does, if I don’t enjoy it, I’ll leave, it’s that simple.

        You don’t have to commit to anything, you are also allowed to enjoy the communities of reddit, even if you feel like Reddit did you wrong. It’s not worth spending your energy on something you can’t control. Reddit is shit, that is the only reason why I only check in once a week or something, and to be frank those communities are dying if they aren’t already dead.

        For me it’s only about if I enjoy it and that includes how it’s being run. But anyways things tend to become bad when they grow large, I will probably spend less time with Lemmy when it has become bigger. And then I’ll have find another social media platform.

      • BigBenis@lemmy.world
        10·
        1 day ago

        I don’t disagree with you. However, when I see a post like this every day it gets old to me. Though to be fair, Lemmy content doesn’t come from a single person and everyone on here is at a different phase in their journey.

        • jackiemeaiii
          7·
          1 day ago

          And it’s not like reddit isn’t still relevant to us, you know? We also get bsky and twitter posts on here

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      In this case, the ex is an influential person with millions of friends, so what they do matters.

    • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 day ago

      Honestly I like these kinds of posts as it lets me know that I made a good choice to not go back to Reddit. Plus I can show these to people I know who still use Reddit which might push them away as well.

    • CafecitoHippo@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      It’s honestly a big part of why I don’t spent as much time here. Half the posts are just complaining about what Reddit/Elon are doing.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Most of the posts about Reddit are on the dedicated community.

        They get usually downvoted to oblivion anywhere else, you’re not the only one feeling that way.

        Musk is another story, but unfortunately he seems to be in too many news. You can always filter his name in your app or web client like voyager (https://vger.app/)

  • Emerald@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 day ago

    Posting violent content? Aren’t there literally gore subreddits over there where you can watch people get tortured?

      • SoftTeeth@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 hours ago

        r/ActualPublicFreakouts has shootings and decapitations uploaded there daily.

        It’s the current r/WatchPeopleDie

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
    54·
    1 day ago

    Reddit has long ago passed the tipping point between content and commercial interest. They’re only interested in being profitable, safe, and inoffensive for marketing partners. The life has gone out of it, it’s just a product now.

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      It has NEVER been a real place.

      I was there from day zero… to give some context I mailed spez his own source code when his server was misconfigured for VERBOSE error reporting. This was when he was trying to program a user registration system.

      The very first conversations had on Reddit, and I’m including myself in this, were all squabbling about useless horseshit.

      Reddit has always been a shitshow. Bacon, narwhals, and so forth to convince people that there’s some kind of community there, when there is not and never has been.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
      2·
      23 hours ago

      At least they shot themselves with the API changes, because before that a lot more people had trouble seeing what they had become.

  • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    1 day ago

    Im surprised r/freeluigi and r/luigemangionejustice havent been banned they banned r/mariosbro and r/freeluigi2 as well as some others. Our corporate overlords are pissing their $5,000 pairs of designer slacks. And look at the loosers on r/fuckluigimangione it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad https://imgur.com/gallery/rbqSckH

    • RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world
      2·
      19 hours ago

      That one infamous lemmy troll who created all those troll police communities like ThankThePolice and that one rdrama satellite community is also a mod at fuckluigimangione.

    • spireghost@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      r/fuckluigimangione is definitely a parody sub. It might chance being the only one left after the bans

      • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        It actually isnt, spend an hour browsing through it any post that asks if its a parody sub gets an auto-mod response

      • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        The response that they are pressuring their owned puppets to start a special 911 style emergency line for the 1% says otherwise

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Didn’t the r/jb mods just add him as a gag? I didn’t think he instilled himself or actively moderated it.

      Lots of reasons to hate on spez, but being added as a mod to an ephebophile sub against his will isn’t one.

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    24 hours ago

    The chance of that being setup by the actual Luigi Mangione is 0%.

    Other than that, nothing about this says anything about why it was banned. If they were posting beheading videos with CEO faces plastered on top and details on where those CEOs live and go to work, it would be weird if they didn’t get banned.

    Not on Reddit, not on Lemmy, not on any social media that is at least halfway decent.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 day ago

    As much as I want to say that Reddit’s rules against glorifying violence are cut & dry, I cannot blame anyone who sympathizes with Luigi Mangione especially when the system is outright crooked. I get the frustration when nearly every Reddit post about Luigi ends up getting locked because the mods are either overwhelmed with or are too fucking lazy to moderate comments (I theorize the latter.) Brian Thompson has been responsible for far more deaths due to him employing AI algorithms that have trebled UnitedHealthcare’s rejection of insurance claims, but the difference is that the American people are expected to put up and shut up with his antics. You can’t vote with your wallet because good luck suing a corporation that brings in twelve figures of annual revenues for a wrongly-denied claim. Nor can you literally vote with your ballot paper because both the Democrats and Republicans are corporate bootlickers that have enabled widespread anti-consumer behaviour in the first place.

    Not saying that Brian deserved what he got, but these are the actions of someone who had been brought to the end of their tether by the health insurance system.

    Things can go either way for Luigi. He faces the very real possibility of jury nullification, but also, maybe the justice system is going to mess with the legal process so much that he’s gonna end up going through what is effectively a kangaroo court.

    On the subject of Reddit, throwing Ellen Pao under the bus and bringing back that Tintin-looking cuck as CEO is probably the worst thing Reddit’s board has done. Spez has been nothing but poison for the site.