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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
Based on the registration applications, I think getting banned is a lot less common than people think. Most people are checking out the fediverse because of other problems on reddit, whether its the ads, bots, monetization related changes, hateful content, privacy concerns, manipulation, trump related concerns, etc
We do get the occasional "I'm here because I got banned", but the vast majority is "I'm curious about what this place is like".
Now isn't hard evidence on its own, but I'd also bet that when the first category joins, they're often looking for a place to vent about their ban. When the second category joins, they rarely announce their newness.
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.
I know exactly why I was banned: I reported a few instances of disinformation in r/conservative, and the admins suspended my account for "abusing the moderation system".
Just to reiterate: the Reddit admins sided with the fascists to create a safe space for propaganda and lies, and kicked me off the site for attempting to report it.
Mine isn't there as an option, the internet was designed and built to be a free and open decentralised place. power, data, and control over the internet shouldnt be concentrated in a small number of corporations or governments. Instead, infrastructure, identity, content, and money should be spread across many independent nodes that no single entity controls. The fediverse is the return to what the internet always has been and always will be, just there was a small blip over the last decade or so where we lost our way.
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.
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.
Also switched over during the API drama, but I think only my first account (kbin.social) is lost. I did stop by lemmy.world for a bit, and think I also tried piefed.
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!
I like this one! I used to use better reddit + rif + small community reddit (less than 2000+ total members on some communities). It was fun while it lasted. Now im here! Hope you all enjoy for a while. Speaking of which how goes the mesh @[email protected] ? I have a new meshcore and tastic node that im hoping will get better reception.
While nothing ever lasts, I hope that the fediverse can give you all happiness while its here!
That was a last winter project that kind of plateaued. I keep my everyday carry node with me and I built that NWS/EAS Alerter relay a month or two ago, but I've mostly been working on getting my PV system installed since spring.
For the vast majority of Fediverse users, it was either Elon Musk's announcement in February, 2022, to buy out Twitter, or Elon Musk's actual Twitter buyout in October, 2022.
Followed by a tweet that must have looked something like this:
As for me, I joined the Fediverse long before there was Lemmy, long before there was even Mastodon, even before it was named Fediverse. I stumbled upon a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to Facebook that even had features beyond Facebook.
Someone who's as convinced that the Fediverse literally is Lemmy as more than half of all Mastodon users are convinced that the Fediverse literally is only Mastodon?
Someone who wants Mastodon and PieFed to disappear so that the Fediverse is only Lemmy again? >Implying that it has ever been only Lemmy.
Technically I got banned from multiple subs by auto-editting every comment I ever made to advertise lemmy, then to warn people that they're being used to train ai and finally a probably useless attempt to poison the ai's data with nonsense velociraptor meme-speak.
That was after they walled off their api and forgot blind people exist (their mobile app didn't have any accessibility features, probably still doesn't). Shitheads.
Got banned from Vancouver subreddit for calling those antivaxxer flag-waving idiots, “flaggots”.
Then got permabanned for trying to evade the ban (using alt account). Every account I tried to make since gets banned.
All my round-about ways to use a third party app and just lurk also stopped working recently.
I still dont think calling those crazy fringers and convoy antivaxxers, “flaggots” is not that big a deal. I’m not insulting gay people, I love my homios!
Reddit became too stale for me after a while. Sometimes I still post memes there or look up something, but otherwise my main way of getting information became kbin, later Lemmy once Ernest disappeared, though it was helped by Xitter also becoming an unreliable astroturfed garbage with CSAM generator integrated.
Let's all be grateful for Elon Musk! Bringing people to the Fediverse is the biggest thing he has accomplished in his life and that's the only thing he did on his own.
Much the same. As soon as I got a whiff of them selling everything to whatever, I found a plug-in to delete all my comments & posts, then deleted my account.
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Long live Apollo.
I used Apollo, got the lifetime membership, about 6 or 8 months later it gets shut down
Yeah pretty much
It woulda been close to a year but damn I’m happy that’s how I get to remember Reddit features
Me, too. Not even mad. Christian earned it.
So say we all!
But did you know, Apollo was born of Zeus, the Thunder-bearing god?
none of these say anything about moving due to privacy concerns and I feel like thats a huge market here.
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
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.
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.
Column 1 straight down Team!
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.
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.
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.
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.
The API change and the general tone they took towards the community when they implemented it.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
It's still up on old reddit
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.
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.
Ah right, RES, plus all the apps had their own options. Man, I bit killing third party apps really cut the features for people.
I was device and IP banned for saying Americans needed to have the Guillotines in the streets.
I stand by what I said lol.
Bottom right huh?
Well played lol.
Dude why did you delete your original reply. I wasn't being serious and your original reply perfectly mirrored the mood.
Lol noted, after reading a few chud comments in other threads it made me suspect you weren't joking lol. My bad.
We no longer have the productive capability.
There are plenty of people who could build a guillotine in their garage. It's not complicated.
+50 .ml credit! Good job, comrade. Nutomic is proud. /s
RIP, Apollo.
RIP RIF
Long live Voyager
Everything except getting b&
Based on the registration applications, I think getting banned is a lot less common than people think. Most people are checking out the fediverse because of other problems on reddit, whether its the ads, bots, monetization related changes, hateful content, privacy concerns, manipulation, trump related concerns, etc
We do get the occasional "I'm here because I got banned", but the vast majority is "I'm curious about what this place is like".
Now isn't hard evidence on its own, but I'd also bet that when the first category joins, they're often looking for a place to vent about their ban. When the second category joins, they rarely announce their newness.
Yup that all sounds right to me
Too many unironically racist and sexist people in reddit.
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.
Third party apps did it for me and most of us with accounts around 3 years old.
One thing that sucks about switching servers is that you reset your bragging rights.
Same. That's when my original account was created here.
Fuck ****.
I know I don't have to censor things on Lemmy, but I don't want to be rude anyway.
I know exactly why I was banned: I reported a few instances of disinformation in r/conservative, and the admins suspended my account for "abusing the moderation system".
Just to reiterate: the Reddit admins sided with the fascists to create a safe space for propaganda and lies, and kicked me off the site for attempting to report it.
Dang, plenty of marks but no bingo for me. I should have been banned before leaving
Favorite mods? lol
a narcissistic former reddit mod definitely made that bingo card
Bottom right, but I did get back on reddit. Their IP bans are clown shoes!
But then I started liking it here and found some subs that have decent interaction so I stayed...
Where's the, "I hate everything proprietary, and regularly check for foss alternatives option"?
My favorite mod @[email protected] moved here but also fuck spez.
EDIT:
Mine isn't there as an option, the internet was designed and built to be a free and open decentralised place. power, data, and control over the internet shouldnt be concentrated in a small number of corporations or governments. Instead, infrastructure, identity, content, and money should be spread across many independent nodes that no single entity controls. The fediverse is the return to what the internet always has been and always will be, just there was a small blip over the last decade or so where we lost our way.
This. I came here to say my option is not here.
Does wishing death on Elon Musk and Trump count as a good reason, or a 'good' reason?
Hey, your comment is still up. Looks like a good reason to me. Thank the gods the lemmings agree with you
I used the Reddit is Fun app for like 15 years. The second they took that away I was gone.
Same. Rif was the only good way to browse reddit on mobile imo
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.
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.
What’s Spez?
The greedy little pigboy in charge, Steve Huffman.
Thanks! Actually non of the bingo things apply. I just like the fediverse.
You're truly the purest among us 🙏
That was his Reddit username, wasn’t it?
but.. like.. so — theoretically — what happens when someone looses miserably at bingo with a perfect score of 0/9? Asking for a friend.. of a friend..
Top row, left column for me. I've actually been around since the third party app ban, but lost my first two accounts: VLemmy -> lemm.ee -> lemmy.zip
Same, but just lemm.ee to lemmy.zip.
Lemm.ee to Lemmy.world
Also switched over during the API drama, but I think only my first account (kbin.social) is lost. I did stop by lemmy.world for a bit, and think I also tried piefed.
Does this feel like lawful good to chaotic evil to anyone else?
And I swapped when they killed my favorite app.
Is it the ordering of the options? I just put them in top to bottom, left to right (except the free space) as I thought of them.
I started to do a 5x5 one but the text ended up being too small to read, and I couldn't think of that many things to fill it in with.
I think so, for some of them. The last one is very much chaotic evil IMO 🤣
And it's a compliment!
I still have RIF installed on principle. I'm still angry about that
Top left for me. It was the clear sign I needed to see that Reddit was on the fast entshitification route.
Same. The moment Apollo stopped working is the moment I stopped using reddit
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
Left column and fuck spez!
X O O O X O O O X
But also FUCK SPEZ!
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!
I still have RiF installed 🤷
I didn't get a bingo, but;
Apollo for Reddit died
Reddit is Fun too :/
I think the reddit sync dev actually died
Markdown links without the protocol are interpreted as post IDs, as it turns out. There's no post ID "redlib.catsarch.com".
6/9 also the algorithm change in r/popular was the most damning. Reddit says that ICE is suddenly cool?
Shouldnt the top middle be the free space?
Paranoia over AI accounts. Bots. Bots. Bots. Astroturfing.
None of those, I just heard about this on r/degoogle and came over.
I have a homelab and it wants to R U N
They took my app dammit. Twice actually, I'd been on alien blue. I'd rather put up with you people than their awful app
Left column.
Stayed because of the far better discourse.
At least everyone who was actually banned for no reason will believe the other people saying they were banned for no reason
I like this one! I used to use better reddit + rif + small community reddit (less than 2000+ total members on some communities). It was fun while it lasted. Now im here! Hope you all enjoy for a while. Speaking of which how goes the mesh @[email protected] ? I have a new meshcore and tastic node that im hoping will get better reception.
While nothing ever lasts, I hope that the fediverse can give you all happiness while its here!
By the wayside LOL.
That was a last winter project that kind of plateaued. I keep my everyday carry node with me and I built that NWS/EAS Alerter relay a month or two ago, but I've mostly been working on getting my PV system installed since spring.
Oh nice. Thats a cool project.
...its the cheapest expensive hobby i swear. You get one device and then keep getting more and more.
For the vast majority of Fediverse users, it was either Elon Musk's announcement in February, 2022, to buy out Twitter, or Elon Musk's actual Twitter buyout in October, 2022.
Followed by a tweet that must have looked something like this:
As for me, I joined the Fediverse long before there was Lemmy, long before there was even Mastodon, even before it was named Fediverse. I stumbled upon a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to Facebook that even had features beyond Facebook.
These are all lemmy-related. What brought me to the fediverse was Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.
I was using Mastodon long before I started using Lemmy.
first they took tweetbot
then apollo
never again
we shall remember them
YATZEE!
Old reddit for me was the last straw. time to move on. if we don't make a stand and move elsewhere, the status quo remains.
I don't understand, old Reddit still works for me?
I was banned for goading the Whitehouse Reddit into nuclear War with Iran so we could all stop seeing press conferences of Caroline Levitt.
Just a reminder the fediverse isnt only lemmy 🫤
Who's downvoting this?
Someone who's as convinced that the Fediverse literally is Lemmy as more than half of all Mastodon users are convinced that the Fediverse literally is only Mastodon?
Someone who wants Mastodon and PieFed to disappear so that the Fediverse is only Lemmy again? >Implying that it has ever been only Lemmy.
No bingo for me :(
Only two somewhat fit and don't allign with the free space.
None of these, really; I just wanted something open-source (I guess bottom-middle might qualify for that but I don't plan to run anything).
Technically I got banned from multiple subs by auto-editting every comment I ever made to advertise lemmy, then to warn people that they're being used to train ai and finally a probably useless attempt to poison the ai's data with nonsense velociraptor meme-speak.
That was after they walled off their api and forgot blind people exist (their mobile app didn't have any accessibility features, probably still doesn't). Shitheads.
Got banned from Vancouver subreddit for calling those antivaxxer flag-waving idiots, “flaggots”.
Then got permabanned for trying to evade the ban (using alt account). Every account I tried to make since gets banned.
All my round-about ways to use a third party app and just lurk also stopped working recently.
I still dont think calling those crazy fringers and convoy antivaxxers, “flaggots” is not that big a deal. I’m not insulting gay people, I love my homios!
We are all kind of tech hippies here, right? Isn't that kinda important?
That's because the far-right instances are defederated with us. It's a feature!
Reddit became too stale for me after a while. Sometimes I still post memes there or look up something, but otherwise my main way of getting information became kbin, later Lemmy once Ernest disappeared, though it was helped by Xitter also becoming an unreliable astroturfed garbage with CSAM generator integrated.
I guess I'm neutral good. Wait, is this not an alignment chart?
It's a Nolan chart, tankie.
Why exactly am I a "tankie"?
neither. the privacy and degoogled posts are better cause of the lower level of auditing.
\ BINGO \
Let me assure you though that it's entirely possible to get banned from Lemmy as well. Not quite as permanently though, but still.
1, 2, and 7 for me. Map it like a phone dialer.
But honestly, 3 was never in my mind lol. I hardly know big redditors to the point they left and went here
Let's all be grateful for Elon Musk! Bringing people to the Fediverse is the biggest thing he has accomplished in his life and that's the only thing he did on his own.
A3
Wow, 9 reasons on the card, and none of them are "rampant bigotry and bootlicker propaganda being pushed to the top page on a daily basis"
Middle left for me. Selling our comment history to train AI was the last straw for me to delete my account.
Much the same. As soon as I got a whiff of them selling everything to whatever, I found a plug-in to delete all my comments & posts, then deleted my account.
I score like, 6 of these.
Fuck spez, I wanted to try something new.
I'm column one down team as well!
It's like a frustrated old lady in the church basement on a Friday night ... I can't get bingo. I can almost get bingo twice. But no luck.
....the last one, lmao.
I say hateful things to normies for the luls
So i got everything but the mods and creator field in the top right.
The only one that nobody anywhere has is the middle right.
API change.
Which does somewhat filter down to cells 1 and 2
right across the middle for me
I just hate American mega corporations and like to keep my personal data, well, personal
I guess number 9: Inciting violence includes against yourself too, apparently.
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