this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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Hello new Lemmy friends!

Word on the street tells us our community is regularly making it the all page. While this is very cool news to hear, we can see how the sudden emergence of our posts in your feed might feel jarring and probably raises some questions. And also how, without knowing the backstory, our community might appear less than virtuous, so here’s a very brief introduction which hopefully will clear a few things up.

The woman we’re discussing is a body positive influencer and media personality who has gained fame and wealth by lying, manipulating, exploiting her children for content, plagiarizing BIPOC creators and blaming her BIPOC content editor for it (thereby ruining her career), among other things. Her fraudulent behavior is no different (I’d argue worse) from the likes of Jay Shetty (google him if you don’t know who he is or what he did). She’s the latest in a long line of grifting influencers who are abusing their power, taking advantage of their position and exploiting their followers. The difference is that she’s Canadian. Our laws around social media and advertising aren’t as clear (and where they are she’s disobeyed them), add to that, our mainstream media has protected her from those who’ve tried to expose her grift and silenced/intimidated anyone who’s tried to speak out.

Our Reddit sub was taken down due to reports of copyright infringement, which is unfounded and categorically untrue as no one ever tried to steal her work and pass it off as their own. The mods have made an appeal. While at first glance it may seem like we’re just “shitting on her” the sub has been more devoted to investigation and posting proof of her lies than just bitching for the sake of bitching. The reality is that she’s hurt, manipulated and let down a lot of people. She stole intellectual property and employment, caused mental distress and has repeatedly told lies to boost engagement and profit off her audience, so people are understandably upset that their voices are being silenced.

We’re grateful to have been welcomed so kindly by so many of you, and to those sticking around to watch the drama unfold, we’re glad to have you!

**all posts are alleged.

Rules:

-Please follow Lemmy content guidelines. See https://lemmy.ca/

-Minor's Right to Privacy: No posts about the children whatsoever. No mention of full names and no photos. Minors must be completely removed from all photos/videos. No exceptions. This goes for ANY child. No just TBP's.

-No snarking on the character or appearance of any of the children. This is a site dedicated to Sarah Landry.

-No posting information that is not readily available online/NoDoxxing: Influencers post an abundance of personal information online. Examples of doxxing include:

-Comments Regarding Mental Health: Jokes or Snide remarks about mental health or unaliving oneself will not be tolerated under any circumstances. No armchair diagnosing.

-Do not post or solicit communication with TBP or related influencers: This includes screenshots and references to 'this is what I commented.' Please message a mod if you would like to share anything anonymously.

-No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, body shaming or other ism/bigotry.

-No TBP crusaders

-No commenting with the sole purpose of being rude/insulting: while criticism/debate is welcome on the page, being purposefully mean, insulting and rude is not.

-No brigading/incitement of mass harassment. Do not post links to affiliate sites, or incite members of the sub to brigade against TBP/related parties (this includes brands).

-Fact check and do your homework: Make sure to research before posting. If you are posting photos or videos that are filtered/photoshopped, make sure it is blatantly obvious. No rumours. no speculations (example Ozempic use).

-No overly vulgar language.

-No advertisement of any kind

-No duplicate posts

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Welcome new members! Please take a second to read the rules located in the community sidebar.

We are doing our best to appeal the Reddit ban. In the meantime, we thought it might be nice to have a new safe space to snark and have made lemmy.ca our new home.

Please bear with us while we figure the new site out and please let any former TBP Reddit users know we are here!

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[–] mumoftwolittles@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I RAN here!!!! I had to read the post on Reddit twice I thought the lemmy.ca was a joke lol

[–] No_really_why@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just in time too - JH and AMcC subs are deleting and locking the TBP posts - which I get, but I wish they'd just let us direct people here first!

[–] douevengohere@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ya I tried to share on Alicia. I figured it wouldn’t last long but had hoped a few people would see it. They were quick to remove. I’m soured to that group after how sanctimonious they got over TBP shutting down and “this is why we do things the way we do over here” 🙄 like gtfo. There wasn’t NEAR the pressure and eyes on an Alicia Mccarvell sub compared to Birdie and her questionable affiliates.

[–] lightweight@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Same! I don’t go on that sub because they do say some pretty nasty things about her on there and name calling for sure. I have no idea why they got all sanctimonious over there but also not surprised.

[–] lightweight@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Me too! I was like what is Lemmy??? Now I’m wondering how long it’s been around…never heard of it until today 🤣

[–] Thefrogsbanana@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hadn’t either. I pretty much googled ‘best Reddit alternative’ and here we are! ;)

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago

Welcome!

If you want mobile apps, there is https://www.lemmyapps.com/

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are multiple mobile apps and web frontends available for Lemmy too

https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#mobile--desktop-apps

https://old.lemmy.ca for that classic reddit UI :)

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago

As an alternative, https://www.lemmyapps.com/ has filters

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

A lot of us have been here from the Reddit protests last summer. A good number of people just didn't go back to Reddit, or didn't go back in the same way, and instead we've been working on setting up something better on this side :)

Feel free to explore and ask questions, you'll find that people are happy (and excited) to explain more

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

My first Lemmy account is 5 years old, and it was close to the beginning.

It mostly grew up in site with the shutdown of third-party apps for Reddit (also known as the APIcalypse) and the selling of content to train AI.