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A memorial for the front page of the internet. If you have left reddit or is considering leaving then this community is for you.

There’s also a blog documenting the rise and fall of reddit as well as news and thoughts on the whole issue.

It serves as an archive for posts and topics in case reddit decides to delete anti-reddit posts within its platform.

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Well, I assume a lot more people are gonna be showing up any minute now. (retrolemmy.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just got a ban for "encouraging violence". Someone asked "what will you do to celebrate when he dies?" Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they'd put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians' careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.

So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.

And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It'll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

forgot my old login to here so made a new one, but my reddit got banned for 3 days for "violent threats" after talking about Luigi in r/europe.

reddit chose their side. goodbye reddit and twitter, hello Lemmy and Bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's important to recognize that these changes to reddit, like inserting more ads, banning subreddits, shutting down the public API and excessive restriction of expression around Luigi, are partly a result of pressure from the people who own reddit, the financial backers, who are the kind of owning-class mega-rich who are threatened by the idea of Luigi.

BlueSky is also ultimately beholden to venture capitalists, it's only a matter of time before they must start making back that money by appeasing the owner class and following their demands. So, like others have recommended, I recommend trying to find a good Mastodon site if there's one that suits you. Just like Lemmy, it's a federated group of sites which can share content with each other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bluesky isn’t much better. May I suggest Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've already given mastodon a shot, functionally it felt more like Tumblr. aside from that, Mastodon did not get picked up by the artist community that used to inhabit Twitter. the UI and layout is much the same, things are about where we expect them to be, and it's not a complete format change in the way that Mastodon is.

what a lot of people wanted was the old Twitter back, with no more AI or Elon, and a functional block system. that's why Bluesky started to take off where Mastodon and Hive didn't.

maybe this guy will turn out the same way Twitter did, there's no way to know for sure. for now though, it's what people wanted, and it's certainly what I wanted. small artists and creators don't use Mastodon because it's much harder to get outreach on there, you have to specifically join communities and follow server groups on their to expand your feed, and it's just overall a different layout that doesn't make it inviting to transfer from Twitter.

most people that were on old Twitter don't want an alternative social media to Twitter, they just want old Twitter.