• Ada@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    11 days ago

    Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn’t willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.

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      It wasn’t just that. I used the first party app so the API changes didn’t affect me. It was how bad they handled the whole situation that made me lose faith that reddit was going in a good direction. That thread “addressing” the changes and concerns was brutal.

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      Yup. I still miss my rif app. It just felt like such a bad decision. Especially limiting NSFW. I needed to try something else.

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    Reddit killed third party apps and I refused to use their shit app. It all just stinks of enshitification. So I spun up my own instance of Lemmy and haven’t looked back.

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      You seem like a high initiative individual. Congrats. I lack technical sophistication to even buy a domain name lol. How much do you pay for lazysoci.al per year (the domain name)?

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        It’s about £10 a year. I’m lucky though as I run a small side business which has some hosting capabilities. So there is already an enterprise grade set of servers ready to deploy Lemmy. I don’t need to look for hosting costs or be worried about performance as the servers are paid for and are top spec.

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    Reddit ban for a R1 violation.

    Apparently if you say punching a nazi is a form of self-defense they’ll say you’re inciting violence.

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      That is sooooo annoying! Like, ok ban my account. But ban ME for ever? Ridiculous. Sincerely hope Reddit dies

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      I’ve tried to make a couple of anonymous throwaways (for privacy reasons - I’ve never been banned) and they vanish pretty quickly, seemingly as soon as I share a link. Yes, even when not using a VPN.

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    Corporative social media pushed me out, ActivityPub seems a great solution to those problems.

    Then Reddit and Communism

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    Reddit’s bot detection bot banned me for being a bot. The irony was too much.

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    Because reddit shut its api access off and “rif is fun for reddit” stopped working, duh.

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    Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid or will get their sign on bonus. And that after 3 years they will be back sucking immigrant cock behind the Wendy’s. Apparently that is violation of rule 1 inciting violence. Which is total BS. Other people post much, much worse and actually death threats. Reddit definitely also bend the knee to the US authoritarian regime and any view other than nazisme is banned.

    Anyway lemmy feels a much more positive place here except the formula 1 lemmy. That sub is so incredibly toxic.

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      Same, broke R1 and the last breaking of it was rather vague link. I just upvoted a comment that made fun of R1 under a post showing child abuse. Turns out that goes under it as well.

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          I was on my last warning, maybe they ramp up scrutiny then or they have just ramped it up recently.
          But yeah that was the post that was linked when they gave the reason for a ban and It was rather fast as well. Less than few minutes after upvoting. I was still in that thread trying to explain other person what R1 was.

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      Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid

      Did you get banned from a subreddit or from the entire Reddit?

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        Entire Reddit because it’s run by right-wing cry bitches. I almost wanted to say Fuck u/Spez.