this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Bye Reddit

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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.

https://byereddit.com/ <—- here it is in case you’re interested

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Well, I assume a lot more people are gonna be showing up any minute now. (retrolemmy.com)
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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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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome!

There are rules here, but you can say fuck and also post images in the comments, which is kind of neat:

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You can't post images in the comments on Reddit?

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

you can post links to images, but you can't post actual images AFAIK.

[–] SolidSky@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Came here after the moderation tool censoring of 'eat the rich' and 'Luigi'. That's some billionaire protective bs.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 minutes ago

Keep in mind, a couple of instances including lemmy.world have removed what they consider calls to violence when it comes to Luigi. So general support will be fine, but if you ever end up crossing a line, remember that there are plenty of other instances which allow you to say: Brian Thompson had it coming, kill the billionaires, hang Musk in the town square, and the only thing wrong with doing a Luigi is that random acts of terror against the owner class just aren't sustainable (see Propaganda of the Deed assassinations in the late 1800s/1900s), you need an organized movement to support this kind of action.

[–] Francois_vd_W@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Came here from Reddit.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There's dozens of us!

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

This supply closet is getting rather crowded!

[–] TheChickenOfDoom@lemm.ee 15 points 4 hours ago

Reddit has loved that asshole forever. We forget that back in 2016 Reddit allowed a huge subreddit full of upvoting bots and trolls to post the most atrocious lies and slander and bullshit (/r/the_d**ald) on the entire site and it got so bad that it was the ONLY SUBREDDIT ON THE FIRST PAGE OF /r/all FOR AT LEAST A WEEK.

They pulled back when they saw their profits declining and the massive backlash going on but now that we're in full fascism mode, reddit is going all out again.

Fuck that place.

[–] BoJack@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

We should advertise lemmy more often on reddit. Lemmy and mastodon are the mother of all social media and we should all switch to it. Ditch the billionaires owned profit driven social media!

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 61 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

I came here when all the API drama happened, and I didn't even use third party apps, I just decided that I didn't want to help make that greedy little pig boy any money. Even still, I'm actually shocked that they've cracked down this hard. It's hard to take serious, because it seems like they would destroy their userbase with this, but they're doing it.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

I came when Apollo died. Found Voyager and stayed.

[–] tbs9000@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

I also came here when all the API drama happened. I also checked out Sqabblr, which had a different name at first. There wasn’t much here and I was confused by the fediverse. I went on Facebook and that was a hot mess of garbage.

I went back to Reddit recently and it’s noticeably worse - probably a combination of chasing away great mods and our world just being what it is makes for people being awful at each other rather than at problems.

I’ve just come back here this weekend and there seems to be more resources to help me understand the nature of the fediverse. Ideally I won’t be back to Reddit.

Sorry to ramble, hope you have a great week!

[–] misteloct@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

You did god's work being here this whole time. Thanks.

[–] blorps@lemmy.world 35 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

I finally made the jump. Hi all.

[–] Fabian@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

All the commenters sitting in the circle replying in a monotonous voice: Hi Blorps!

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget to offer them a can of beans on their way in!

[–] TrippaSnippa@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago

I use Arch, btw

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, please stick around. Do not let the small number of subscribers demoralize you. The communities are small but active.

[–] misteloct@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I tried coming over during the API drama, but seems like there are way way more users here now!

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, that’s what caused me to switch. I’m pretty happy without reddit. I might open it once or twice a year or when Duck Duck go sends me there for my trouble shooting question.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago

Welcome!

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

oh its been fun, yeah

i love seeing spez fuck himself into a corner

[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't want to see that.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

i turned myself into a corner, morty

[–] sweddit@lemmy.world 29 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Got perma-banned from a 15 year old account for joking about Elon Musk needing to get Luigi-ed. Fuck that place. Never going back.

[–] misteloct@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Similar situation here. Nice to see all the like minded folks though!

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Elon needs to have a come to Luigi moment. Welcome to the free internet, sibling. Btw fyi, .world tends to be a little more aggressively moderated than some other instances like .ee; it's nowhere near Reddit, and I wouldn't even say it's problematic, but folks have taken issue with their moderation before.

It's a bit of give and take, but I doubt you'll encounter a problem. If you do, just hop servers.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

And watch out for .ml of course.

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