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  • DrFistington@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    He said it was due to the prevelance of violent content…coming from an unelected illegal immigrant who cheated to get someone elected who literally pardoned hundreds of violent felons, WHO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED IN VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

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    14 hours ago

    I think every lemmy instance should create a daily/weekly (depending on size) “Welcome!” thread, so we can greet all the newcomers.

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      Of course it is, especially in this new era of censorship and restricted speech, brought to you by a self claimed free speech absolutist.

      From my point of view, it seems like the only solution is to move away from corporate social media, and to federated foss platforms that are much harder to stifle on a global stage.

      It’ll be interesting to see if the world will shift in response to continued encroachment on liberty, or if we just continue to take it.

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      23 hours ago

      well yeah it’s been straight the fuck up AIDS since Obama bounced and it was certainly staying the course

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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      15 hours ago

      We’ve seen an uptick in sign-ups. It’s nothing like Pixelfed’s day in the sun but it is noticeable but may only be obvious in the numbers over the longer term.

      This isn’t the only sub being shut down (obvious ones like r/iselondeadyet are also gone) and we may be days away from Rexxit 2.0. It’s something I’m planning for with the other Admins on our instance.

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        Good to hear!

        Yes, I do think (hope?) that will be another migration wave. Hopefully one that can kickstart organic double digit YoY MAU growth as well as getting total MAUs over 100K.

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      Give it some time. It took a while for people to “get” reddit, it will take some time for people to understand federated social media to the point that they feel comfortable using it.

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      Good news! Reddit is starting to ban porn so there might be a user wave on its way!

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      17 hours ago

      eh, quality > quantity. As long as we can support and improve the platforms we’re good.

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        I agree. That’s why I’ve largely moved off reddit and deleted my twitter accounts.

        I would even go as far as saying that the architecture of the fediverse with multiple instances, multiple platforms (Lemmy vs. Piefed vs. Mbin) and multiple frontends has the potential to offer more innovation, a better user experience and better content/communities.

        But that being said user growth (via a competitive federated model) is necessary.

        It would enable expanded coverage of niche topics of interests and other languages. Potentially more funding for development and administration.

        But the most important point is that it would allow the global community to take back digital social interaction from the criminal oligarchs, the marketers and shills and undermine nation state digital propaganda and subversion efforts.

        I am talking in abstract, aspirational terms, but still, from my perspective this is all part of getting quality content/discussions.

  • Auli@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    So did reddit suspend anyone who posted stories about the federal workers information.

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      Basically. Usually it was a tweet that was either funny or being made fun of. For some reason there was a separate subreddit for tweets made by black people. Possibly to make fun of racial segregation?

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      21 hours ago

      I used to think it was releated to racism due to the name.

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        I was screenshots of people basically being mental or entitled on twitter. You’re classic “white Karen” etc. stereotype. There was or is a black twitter too…wonder if that’s banned. That’s definitely more racist.

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          No, it wasn’t. Nor is it racist for black people to want to have a community that can talk about black issues without Nazis harassing them in the comments.

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            Oh I thought it was people making fun of black peoples posts. Which I thought was bad.

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              Nah, though people obviously tried to do that a lot, thus the mods having to lock comments pretty frequently when it would trend and the racists would pour in.

              Realistically what they should have done was make it a private community after it got big enough.

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    I know we are all here because of our distaste of Reddit.

    HOWEVER in a capitalist system the only thing to speak volumes is the people who speak up.

    If there is a way for us to email or blast the admins of Reddit then we should. Not for Reddit but to start a backlash. If we stay silent then nothing changes.

    I bed of you all to actually report false information. There has been no law broken. There has been no laws passed only executive orders thus far.

    https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001103212

    I’m not asking for the sake of Reddit. I’m asking for the sake of everything else.

    When you find things like this, take 5 minutes, that’s it. Research the company find the place to complain and do it.

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      The only thing that speaks in capitalism is money. Want to hurt reddit? Leave. Reddit makes money with your data, stop giving it to those asshats. Your emails will be ignored until you start talking in the way that can hurt them.

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        I clearly failed to make my point. This isn’t about Reddit. It’s about a company folding based on bullshit. A law has to go through Congress and be signed by the president before it becomes law. An executive order is not a law. And only elected person like mosque, saying something is not law.

        If we let companies fold here about absolute nothing then it’s just the peak. Everything else fails after that.

        Edit: Actually, no I didn’t fail to make my point you’re just ignoring it. I said multiple times is not about Reddit.

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          I didn’t ignore your point, I countered it. The only way to make a company that’s driven by money to listen to you is to hurt their floating line.

          Reddit (and most if not all big techs) is only worried about one opinion: the conservative opinion. And since we are complaining about them folding to nazis, do you think they will listen? But sure, write an email, spam them with email about how being a nazi is bad.

          Subs are banning links from xitter and what’s doing reddit? Closing subs because poor elmo got his ego hurt. I’m sure a strong worded email will make them listen.