There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.
- They've basically banned anonymous accounts. Their whole thing was anonymity.
  
  They seem to be blocking access from certain IPs and VPNs (if not logged in?) Which is funny because some of these VPNs are not really hiding anything. Like my work VPN which I would think makes it pretty obvious which company I work for. Annoying when search results link to reddit content.
  
  Wait first I'm hearing of this one. What happened now?
  
  Without anonymity it is in fact pointless. Pseudo anonymity is extremely useful I basically won't go anywhere without it. That's definitely a feature we should advertise to people, you can actually be anonymous
- Reddit has become very strange.
  Shadowbanning sucks when your on the other side of it.
  Forever mods that have hundreds of default subreddits act like dictators. Banning people from all their collections of subreddits without anyone knowing.
  Removing the ability for users to see actual number of votes up/down.
  And now with the whole "don't upvotes certain content or you will get a strike". Never mind that isn't how the site works at all.
  They haven't come out with a feature that people have wanted in the last couple of years.
  
  Getting rid of coins/rewards just to empty everyone's stock and then bringing them back again without 1:1 compensation and forgetting everyone who gave their coins away before they would vanish
  
  It's been a while since I've been on and everything I'm hearing is that it just keeps getting worse. Eventually it'll be completely unusable and probably shudder but by then the real conversation will have moved elsewhere
- Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol
  
  Is Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn't updated in a while
  
  Boost gang!
- I'll still check sometimes on Reddit when I'm at my desk if I feel like it and I've got time, so like barely anymore.
  When 3rd party apps died I moved here.
  After them saying that if you upvote enough banned content you'll get banned, I'm just waiting to catch ban over there.
  
  i still lurk a lot. i have a rule against posting there though... which admittedly i did break recently, but only to plug lemmy. otherwise no posts/comments there in two years
  
  Use Reddit Enhancement Suite. You'll thank me later.
  makes red it much more usable and easy on the eyes.
- I'm more oxi clean of reddit myself

Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday
- Welcome!
  If you're new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing "all". There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse "all"...
  
  https://sub.rehab/ is also good.
  
  Block the weird communities if you dislike them so much.
- Welcome! It's a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.
  In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
  
  The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it's no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we're seeing things pop off more than it used to.
  
  still feels a little bit like the old internet.
  Yes! I miss it.
- Welcome!
- Welcome!
  There's a ton of good apps that use the API.
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .world account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  We have an entire instance dedicated to popular 1960s television show Star Trek (don't go there)
  
  In terms of sorting the "tankie triad" least bad to worst though it's definitely: ML, Grad, then HexBear. At least I sometimes have decent interactions with people from ML, can't say the same about the other 2 though.
  Edit: Actually put this as a reply to the correct comment this time. :/
  I deleted the other one as I replied to the wrong comment.
  
  !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  Keep in mind that subscribing to this community means that it'll take over your feed.
  /j, but it's also true
  
  Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
  
  the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear.
  aka where the good posts are hidden, if you want news outside of the mainstream liberal echo chamber a lemmy.ml account works well

- Just got so sick of reddits smarminess. It’s also just astroturfed corporate BS at this point anyway.
  I’ve been boycotting Amazon for over a year (and quite frankly won’t ever stop), won’t shop at Target and won’t visit super corporatized social media.
  Reddit has proven time and time again they’re just a whipping boy for corporate interests.
  
  Yeah I knew it was bad but this last round of suppression was the final straw.
  
  Are you me from the future? This is literally my mindset right now. Just started boycotting Amazon, Target, etc.
- just a heads up, the instance you're on is pretty controversial.
  
  very good way to put it
  
  Is lemm.ee chill or should I be making a new account?
  
  Controversial? How come? I’m new to the Fediverse so I’d love to learn as much as I can. 🙂
  
  Why?
- Don't worry about the other posters trying to dissuade you from lemmy.ml. It's a very chill instance. It gets flack because it is run by and has a majority leftist base, but that shouldn't be an issue if you consider yourself a progressive. The "tankie" slurs are frankly b.s. and disingenuous. I wouldn't call the sub "pro-Russia/China" by any means, the users are anti-imperialist and realistic in the nature of US propaganda depicting other states as bogeymen. Just because you question the mainstream US-centric narrative doesn't mean you're shilling for China/Russia etc. There's a lot of liberals and centrists, that despite their progressive sentiments they may hold, are still very beholden to the narrative of American exceptionalism in a lot of ways.
  
  Guessing it's coming from shitjustworks people. Politics mod over there doesn't like anyone pointing out the Dems weak ass "resistance" even if you are lauding another Dem(Rep Green) at the same time lol.

A lot of folks here are talking about Reddit being shitty but I switched because I'm in Europe and I don't want to enrich especially US Companies off of my personal data.

2025 is the year of the Lemmyverse!
- The more people that transition over here the better it'll be (outside of some of some subs). I'm hopeful to see more community engagement.
  
  the more and more reddit increasing thier filters to ban or remove comments we will see more. it going to take permabans for people to come here in large numbers. sooner or later reddit is just a clone of FACEBOOK.
- *threadiverse, we don't want to exclude other software
  
  True, but this graph only shows Lemmy users, right?
  
  I'm excited to see where software development is going to go. It seems like every major microblogging platform has a few different flavors and there are multiple platform choices available. What were using is just the beginning, the software can only ever get better really. It's not like the corporate world where they make shit worse on purpose to make more money. And as the software gets better than use might increase as well since you can do more and do it easier and more elegantly

Greeting new Lemmings!
Please wipe your feet, we don't want anyone tracking in any spez.

I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won't put money in spez's pocket, arrived a few days ago.
- This was me during the APIcalypse. Since joining Lemmy, I have:
  Realized I'm trans
  Procured a Steam Deck
  Started pirating again
  Been on HRT for over a year and counting
  Developed a chronic dependency on Yuri manga
  Lost 50-60 lbs
  I hope you have a good time here as well!
  
  Sounds like some very positive changes in your life. Glad to hear that you've been improving yourself.
  My wife and I recently had to make a difficult but necessary change in our own lives, fleeing from the US to live in France while we wait to see what shakes out of the chaotic situation there over the course of the next year. Been starting in on the language learning, but it's been slow going.
  
  If you're not daily driving Arch, btw, did you even join Lemmy?
  I know you're not daily driving Arch because you didn't mention it.
  (Jokes, obvs. Congrats on the self-discovery!)
  
  Give us good yuri manga recommendation 👀
- I just arrived today myself, after being temp-banned for 7 days for some bullshit reasons that the appeal team agreed were bullshit so they unbanned me, but not before someone else perma-banned me for violating the rules on 'my other accounts' -- I've had a single reddit account for the entire 14 years I've been there, I don't even make throwaways, so, even more bullshit. I appealed that one too, but even if it's overturned I'm not sure I'm going back. They've gotten real fucking fashy all of a sudden with the censorship, banning people for upvoting shit and calling it 'inciting violence.' Fuck 'em.
  
  Yep and when you're perma banned you're fucked. They don't look at the reasons, they don't engage with people... it's ridiculous
  
  i heard about that situation, some people were getting temp banned, and then when the ban was lifted, they were permabanned. I think some mods mentioned reddit, or the sub does not reset thier filters once the bans was lifted so the filters automatically assume you are EVADING A ban.
- Welcome!
  
  Thanks, glad to be here. This place seems way more welcoming than I remember reddit ever being. But I was a little late to the party on Reddit, I joined in 2016.
- I also broke free from Reddit. Hopefully in lemmy we are not limited to only post things that agree with moderators point of view.
  
  For sure. There can also be a problem of too little moderation, though. There is a balance to be struck between censorship of opposing views and getting rid of off-topic spam.
  For instance, there were a few regional subreddits that were obviously intended to be for thing like "Which restaurants are worth a 30 minute drive to go to" and "Come to my band's concert at the waterfront this weekend", but had turned into basically nothing but off-topic spam wars about national level political topics.
  The mods refused to do anything about it, so I just left because 90+% of the content was stuff I didn't come to that subreddit to read. Keep that shit on r/politics.
  
  Uh...........
  (unfortunately, that's just human nature, but there are a variety of ways in which things can become better here - e.g. the ability to create a new community on another instance, and then certain apps and PieFed, though not Lemmy yet, offers the ability to combine all of those communities into a single Topic, called a "Feed", see recent post about this)

Subjectively, Lemmy's communities are much more robust and have a lot more content than they did during the Reddit API exodus. I imagine there will be more people who choose to stay this time around.
- Yep, I discovered let me during the API Exodus, and then came back recently with this last wave. They're definitely feels like there's a lot more here than last time!
  Also finding a lot of value in reading and actually interacting with comments and content, on Reddit I just felt kind of drowned out and a lurker
- Yeah working a lot of OT seeding this joint!
- The problem is that communities feel dead if they're below a certain critical mass of users and the resulting content. If we can hit that critical mass it will take off on its own
  
  Yep we all need to get posting and chatting to encourage others

Woo more people to join our cult. Everyone will get their robes in the mail
- Wait, I've been here almost 2 years, where's my robes‽
  
  You know what you did
  
  You and I will be considered the early adaptors. People will guess as to why we migrated so early.
  
  What's the password?
  
  The real robes were the Caroline's we got DMed by along the way.
- Well at least Nicole from Toronto in their inbox.

2025 is also the year of Piefed. :)
- The year of PielemmbinBB
  
  The entire fedi is going up with new users. We keep having wins.
  Kinda easy when traditional keeps hitting itself over and over.
  
  Year of the Verse
- Is there a mobile app yet? I made an account because I was interested in the new Feeds feature, but I spend 100% of my time on the Threadiverse using my phone.
  
  No. However there are two mobile app in WIP :
  a fork of Thunder : Pferd. (only for testing and i love its logo)
  Interstellar, they want to support Piefed
  I use daily Piefed as an app. The mobile website works well :
  you open https://piefed.social/ with your browser.
  Then click on add a shortcut and it will work as an app.
- Our year comrades.

Left Reddit as soon as Boost stopped working
- Same. My boost app finally stopped working so I had to switch over. Seems basically the same here just less comments
  
  omg samee 😭
  I replaced boost for reddit with boost for lemmy
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  I signed up for hexbear out of morbid curiosity, that place feels like an insane asylum.
  
  Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
- Boost can still work, though - ReVanced is a great project
  
  Let's just leave it 😅 I'm happy pretending Boost doesn't work so that I have no reason to go back to Reddit.

Nice. Might as well leave my first comment here. Hi!

Reddit's auto moderation has gone haywire. You can't say anything bad about nazis now.

What happened 2/12?
- Hey everybody! This guy doesn't know about 2/12! Let's all laugh at him! Ha ha ha ha ha!
  .........I have no idea. Does ANYONE know what happened?
  
  hexbear lost its domain and went offline
- Lemmy was for while like 50% bots, which is why you see random shifts generally.
  Could be something else though
- Probably a bot instance being removed
- Hexbear lost its domain and went offline
- It was President's Day in the US, but I don't know why that would impact Lemmy.
  
  US workers had the day off to do other stuff than scroll Lemmy at work

Speaking of users, whatever happened to Flyingsquid?
- Idk I was just thinking that last night, hasn't been active in like 2 weeks. I hope they're ok
  
  He got out of the US recently-- I'm sure there'll be periods in setting up in a new country where he's too busy to be on lemmy

Hopefully even more people will join as Reddit gets shittier and shittier.
- got permaban on 5+accts because reddit did what similar pornhub did, sanatize the site and only corporate content was left. it was getting increasingly hard to comment as anything other than right wing comments.

I gotta say, I respect what Lemmy does and hope it succeeds, and I think it's a good place for discussions and such (and I will remain), but good god if this place isn't unfunny as hell. I'm struggling real hard to find some place with actually funny content on here, which leads to me getting exceedingly riled up by politics.

Is anyone else just enjoying seeing people create actual user names again and not just using the automatically generated ones reddit has done for awhile?

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!
But seriously this is good news and I'm glad to have you all here. Lemmy is in a pretty good position right now in terms of having a critical mass of users and decent traction within popular communities. At the very least it feels self-sustaining here.

And I am glad I am one of them. Not because of an anti-US sentiment (as in: towards American citizens) but as more pro-Europe move.

This is my first time here. I do not abide thought policing. Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.
- its thier OVERPOLICING that was the problem, it wouldve been fine if all they did was ban actual BOTS, you know the propaganda ones, but nope they went after everyone more aggresively than they did the above mentioned bots.
- Welcome! To the good place
  
  Uh... in the terminology of the show, Reddit would be The Good Place. (Obligatory fuck spez) 😁
  
  Thank you.
- Me too, fck reddit, it’s no longer a board for broad discussions from all view points but instead an echo chamber of moderators curating their own narrative.
  
  Where have you been the last DECADE?
  The regime intervened from the time Reddit exploded and it became a too important medium to let exist uncontrolled.
  https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/
  Same as they did before:
  https://mronline.org/2022/07/14/meet-the-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebooks-content-policy/
  Looks like lot of people are mad bcs now also their other side of the US regime is being targeted.
  Not a peep from them when Reddit furiously removed and banned mild criticism of the Palestinian genocide, same for other topics.
  I have a lot of questions about the f people complaining now.
- don't worry, you have that here too. A lot less but still.
  
  Only in communities though. Oh and also instances:-P. BUT, a LOT less, as you said, and more ways around it.
- If you're concerned about that, you may want to join an instance with broader federation than Lemmy.world, such as Lemm.ee or Lemmy.ml.
  
  Or one with the broadest possible federation like lemmy.sdf.org, though they are US based if that's a problem for you.
  SDF does not defederate. The blocklist is empty. And it's small enough and chill enough that it's unlikely to get blocked by other instances much.
  They're a non-profit that's older than the web and offers a variety of network and retrocomputing services including most famously a public access Unix server. They started as a dialup anime BBS.

I’ve had enough of reddit
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  hey cm0002 why are you on lemmy.cafe now?
  
  Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
  
  I'm new myself, thanks for the recommendations. While you're at it, do you happen to know of any good political/religion debate .. subs? what are they called here? I'm going to call them subs for now. Maybe some Anarchist and non-tankie Communist subs?

What happened around the middle of February that caused that slight but sharp drop-off?
- Hexbear going down, !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
  
  A slightly different graph from Fedecan shows the user growth more clearly without the Hexbear blip
  Highest daily growth since 2023 at 1.2k per day the past few days.
  
  Ahh okay. Thanks.
- For the story, if i recall correctly, part of hexbear admins were aways so they got a paiement problem.
  Their domain reseller put a bid for hexbear.net domain. It skyrocketed to 2500$. I'm glad they didn't have to pay those corpothieve.
- thats about the time when reddit was upping thier ban purges, my hunch is people who have lemmy mightve stop using temporarily to find out what was going on/repealing thier bans on reddit?
  for a several days i dint immediately go to LEMMY after my permabans, but trying to find out the reason behind all these purges ? some people have multiple reddit accounts

I will shitpost harder.
I'm doing my part!

I am ready to give up Reddit, we need more communities to move here!

I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit's MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.
Regardless, this is nice to see and I recommend everyone check out !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if they are interested in helping to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit.
- I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit’s MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.
  On the other hand, Reddit's reported users numbers are way too high for the actual activity on the website. I follow /r/BuyfromEU quite closely since the sub blew up, and it's definitely not that active for a place with supposedly 150k subs
  
  Great point, absolutely! I don't subscribe to the "dead internet theory" but my time on the Fediverse has also convinced me that all of the corporate platform's traffic numbers are almost certainly heavily inflated (probably to justify higher ad prices).
- It's possible that early adopters (ie: the current Lemmy population) as a population subset don't fully conform to the 90-9-1 rule.
  
  I would imagine that we're all more motivated than average considering we've made the conscious choice to travel the path less taken because we have standards

If you are here and want lemmy to succeed, please consider donating. The devs used to get by mostly on nlnet foundation grants but are trying to shift to a more sustainable donation based model. You can see how they are doing on the join-lemmy website when you scroll down to the bottom, there are also links to their liberapay (preferred option) paetreon, etc.

Always happy to see the Fediverse getting more popular! 😃

Just noticed that it shows how many days ago I joined. The babies are taking over this thread. This is a baby-thread now.

I just really wish there was more active communities for things I like.
I made the Path of Exile community which is currently empty.
There's no Burning Man community yet for SOME UNKNOWN REASON
All the EDM communities are dead including the one I made.
Send Help!
- Did you make content for the Path of Exile and EDM community?
  I also think more general communities (gaming, music) are what we need now, then later given enough growth, they will break into more specialized ones.
- Without a critical mass of people, niche communities tend to have very few posts and comments. I wish there were more general communities like the early days of reddit instead of going straight into hundreds of dead communities.
  
  I love the critical mass metaphor for Lemmy. Posts and comments are the neutrons that knock free other posts and comments after reaching other people. If we spread out our fissile material into hundreds of tiny pails, then the neutrons just fly away into the air without having any effect.
- Make sure to promote your new communities at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca - Lemmy doesn't have an algorithm so getting off the ground will take some effort. Beware that we're still at below critical mass for easy sustaining of niche communities, so if you desire for one you will probably have to be the one doing the majority of the posting yourself for a while.

This is probably active ones too, so the ones that don't comment (like me) don't count.. except this time. I would say it would be around same size as the active ones, but I have no data to prove that.

Been checking and commenting on Lemmy everyday since I made my account. Its my new first opened app of the day now
- and its so much better than trying to do that on reddit witha new account, they make it very hard engage with a brand new acct.
  
  Especially PieFed, with its onboarding wizard asking the user what topic areas they are interested in, and then subscribing to relevant communities. Also it asks how often someone wants to hear about Musk or Trump - never, a little, or no filtering. And then the categories of communities, which are now user-customizable and shareable, further aid discovery. Plus (omg it really does just keep going!) PieFed now knows about all communities on all instances, regardless of whether anyone on the PieFed instance has ever subscribed to it or not.

One of my largest pain points with Lemmy is that there are multiple active communities for the same topic, causing quite a few duplicate posts to show up in my feed that is difficult to filter. Hopefully there comes some kind of solution, outside of userbase, this is (what I believe) one of the larger issues compared to Reddit.
However, I still switched over to Lemmy for my primary 'Reddit'-needs.

Hi I’m new! Finally created an account

I’ve been trying all the open social options and Lemmy is by far the most entertaining and active.
- You're welcome

I created an account a while back now, but it’s been mostly inactive since then. I’m liking it a lot more here!
- Yeah, what the other guy said. lemmy.ml is run by tankies. best to move
  i moved from .ml about a year ago because of their moderation... "policies"
  
  Oh shit, I had no idea! Any ideas where I should move to? What kind of policies??
- Welcome back! Just...be careful about what you say on the instance you're on LMAO
  
  Never heard anything about this, are you able to elaborate or provide any links?

Reddit, when the walls fell

Lets make this a new reddit but better!

I just deleted my 12yo account over the censorship. Reddit has become a draconian shit hole and I no longer want to be a part of it. I'm happy to be here.
- Same with me. Deleted my 13-year-old account and finally joined Lemmy yesterday. I actually found an app that looks a whole lot like Relay for Reddit back in the day. So now I'm totally comfortable here.

What happened around February 12?

I'm the "9" of the 90-9-1 rule (aka: mostly comments)
hope that counts 👀
- Who has time to put in the effort to post posts?
  
  Thankfully, Stamets@lemmy.world and The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
  
  I went through a phase where I would find good posts on reddit and then just copy the link and post here.. but as of now, reddit is like 95% anti-Trump posts so it's all noise. Lemmy is fairly noisy with that lately too but not as bad. I need to figure out a better way to filter out politics because it's ruining online discussion even in non-political threads, somehow it devolves into "orange man bad" somehow at some point and it's just tiresome going over the same topic over and over with the same talking points. Musk nazi, orange man bad.. when you see it 50000000000 times it just gets old after a while, with RES I am able to filter out subs which helps immensely but I don't think that's possible here. But like r/pics, r/interestingasfuck, r/lotr, r/lego, r/technology, r/news, many many others.. 90% political now, so the majority of the site is useless to me now. And it feels like it's majority bots now, probably LLM-generated discussion through an API, dead internet theory is in full speed ahead mode.
  
  Effort? Nah the typical post is as effortless as a comment

Ha, I knew setting up my own server would attract more people!!! /s
But it is a great development, happy to see it 😀

I'm one of the new users. Hi. Reddit suspended my account after I posted my indie game. No reply to my appeals for 3+ months. Gonna give Lemmy a try now
- You haven't posted anything about it here yet, share deets!
- Welcome!

Greetings everyone

Lets just have each of us 50k post about Lemmy over on Reddit.
- Can't. Banned for a 3-month old post supporting Luigi.
  
  Clearly the inferior Mario brother.
  
  they went after your acct of 3month old post? im not surprised i find if i dont delete some comments some user was going into Old POSTS AND reporting it.
- I got one person to try it! In eattherich. I thought about deleting my 15yr account but that is a much better use of it
  
  I should have used a code to change all my posts/comments to an advertisement for Lemmy. What are the going to do, ban me??

Made a similar post yesterday on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com , nice to celebrate again!

New guy here. Signikg up was a removed but glad to be here :)
- What made it a removed? Genuinely curious.
  
  Instances - what are they and how does it work together. Also slow password reset emails. I have three accounts now.
  I still don’t really understand but i am in 🤷‍♂️

What is the reddit drama this time?
- Getting in trouble for upvoting restricted material. If you continually upvote stuff that reddit deems not allowed on the site you get banned.
- Well out right ban on the american hero's name along with pandering to alt right and their parasite owners.
- It's the ever enduring brain melting Enshittification... I heard you can now buy decorations or something similar for your sub. I don't have a source for this, but afaik they have been adding new features for reddditors to spend their money on.
- Tension over there is huge. After I turned a little more political in my comments, it took me only 2 months or so to accrue 3 temp bans. The appeals were not heard, they are wrong and don't care. The last appeal got me booted forever. Prepare for way more users.

Just joined in too!

What’s that dip on 2/12? What happened?
- The hexbear.net instance went down, because the admins forgot to renew the domain name
  (Technically the server was still running, but ~~federation~~ lemmy-stats-crawler works via domain names)
- Hexbear went offline as the domain expired, went to auction and the domain admin was MIA. They've been restored as the domain admin (unfortunately) came back and reclaimed it

Hey look! I'm a statistic! Not the one I expected.

Shaddow Banned from Reddit for making some Luigi Mangione prayer candles got thousands of likes and bam old high karma account banned forever. No response from Reddit. Noticed on the shadow ban page that tons of people getting these bans everyday and no response from Reddit . Suggested we protest at Reddit headquarters in SF and now I’m banned from Shadow page ban lol. Nice to be here though
- reddit has been going hard in being anti-luigi site recently. the 3 main subs are know that is controlled actively by admin is the shadowban, reddithelp, help, and by extension modhelp.
  
  It's a bizarre thing to go after. I really don't like the pro luigi posts cos he murdered someone and that's not ok... but people are allowed to have their own opinion and most of it IME is tongue in cheek. There's far more important issues they could look at (Russian interference, reddit being used for crime etc) but no... luigi. Ffs.
- At least a protest outside their HQ you can hold up pro Luigi content.

I can't remember one instance of a company being bought out and then made better by investors. That's why I came here. I just don't like people like that. I hate how everything is about money.
- Yeah, it's textbook enshittification.

I didn't realize that was only 50 thousand users. Muddy have been only 5000 in 2023 during the API Exodus.
- 50 thousand users
  Active users, so vote, post or comment. Lurkers aren't counted.
  
  Yeah but fucking still. I never would've imagined i was surrounded by more peers at any given Bills game than there were people accross the whole world contributing to Lemmy on avg. That's sooooo fucking wild.
  It's also so crazy how in a stadium of 70,000 people from US and Canada I will see someone i know every piss or beer break. Whereas Lemmy is half that amd I am 100% positive I've never interacted or saw a comment/post on Lemmy from anyone I know. It's just crazy to see the perspective of seeing the odds of being 1 out of 70,000 vs being 40,000 out of 6 or 7 billion. Obviously I'm intentionally ignoring all the variables at play for the real reason I know people at bills games vs lemmy but it's still the quntificatikn that I found amazin.
- Literally seems like 1/4 the comments of Reddit, 1/1000 the userbase. I think between API lockdown and "violence" banning, the entire commenting community of Reddit came here lol.
  
  when they allow so much astroturfing from the right, and anything remotely try to use a neutral word to describe a controversial ones, eg demographic instead of the POC actual race, will get you banned.
  
  Unfortunately (?) on Reddit a lot of the comments are from bots - not even just the "everyone I do not agree with must be a bot" mantra but demonstrably as in it is word for word repeated from a duplicate post made often years in the past, presumably resurrected to increase "engagement" and therefore profits.
  ^THIS. And my ax. I also choose this guy's wife! => all counts as "engagement" from the perspective of an advertiser.
  And the humans are toxic AF. I resolved to leave Reddit regardless of whether I came here or not, bc I didn't like what all that argumentation was turning me into. Conversations are just flat better here.