This is it right here. Whoever controls social media controls minds.

Yesterday I browsed "/r/all" for the first time in like 3 or more years (I stopped using reddit altogether a long time ago). Holy shit I felt like my brain would melt, there was so much ragebait and misinformation that asks for primal engagement. The links I opened that seemed interesting lead to nowhere and the comments were so fucking dumb. Despite all that I kept scrolling looking for that sweet hit, I must have spent at least an hour of my time that I threw away. Thank God I jumped ship when I saw the direction it was heading.

Feed it to the bots

pretty much code words for "we need more fresh humans to login , because we just have bots running the site now"

At best people will learn something; at worst we’ll get a show.

You'll just end up with r/anime_titties situation.

Just because a login is required will not help with bots.

that will not stop botting at all, bots already can make accounts very easily because they dont care how much gets banned if they can create more, they can automate it. but normal users cant do that, because they will get banned very quickly. what spez saying is a lie anyways.

also reddits have shown to preference not to filter out most propaganda botting anyways.

most users are lurking because they dont want to have account ban.

I got banned for being pro-choice (pro-abortion really) and thinking women are people. They got all my accounts.

Pathetic website.

reddit/spez mostly sucks musks Knob now, and by extension trump and the gop. dont forget that in 2016, they did the same thing, by banning many subs.

Yep I use voyager and can barely tell a difference. I will admit lemmy from browser is still a bit confusing

It's extra frustrating because I created cosmetic filters for uBlock Origin that allow me to access individual Reddit posts (so I can still read Reddit posts that I find through a search engine) but not any of the feeds so that I can't waste time scrolling. I can't use those on the app.

forums i understand, im in one other one about "earning money on reddit"

log in with google is way worse. now you are sharing your data with both Google and Reddit

also the new UI for reddits very cumbersome, and very intrsuive and not very intuitive to use. you can use extensions to remove the ugly sidebars with random stuff on it, but now you are left with 2 giant empty white spaces in between the doom scroll feed.

they apparently lost alot of actual users enough for reddit to become desperate to force logins. i think thats why Facebook did it too, gotta keep those boomers/genxers using it for thier right wing slop. certain health groups(describing thier own diseases) are sitll on fb, but i would not touch it.

i saw a graph somewhere the recent traffic drop was from open AI not scraping anymore.

With all due respect to you and the user above as people, fuck the defeatist attitudes. We're going to make and keep this little part of the Internet fun, no matter what corporations say. I've had a great 3.5 years on Lemmy despite the occasional dramatic event. And I'm counting on myself and every one of us to continue to make it so.

Entropy is also inevitable, but that doesn't mean we can't keep a small space of less entropy than average while we're here.

A similar fate will befall Lemmy at some point, so enjoy it while you can.

press x to doubt.

Seriously, there's a low chance for that.

• lemmy is not a service but an open source software
• public lemmy services are ran like a "public service", for the benefit of the public. an instance cannot just lock down its access to users without exiting the federation. and if it exits the federation, it will become worthless basically, as they'll lose all the external content. yes lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are too big, which is a problem, but I don't think they could pull it off easily either.
• lemmy developers are loudly marxist, they oppose capitalism. so both the software itself, and the lemmy.ml instance are unlikely to change in the way you tell

Got banned for telling a colonial apologist and nazi to fuck off.

Welcome!

Just remember Lemmy is only part of a larger network called the Fediverse. If you find you don't really like it, there are other alternatives like Mbin and PieFed. They're all pretty good I think, but Mbin is probably my personal favorite. There are also custom lemmy interfaces like old.lemmy.world, as well as lots of different mobile clients.

All the different instances and platforms can tall talk to each other, so you can subscribe to communities you like from any of them, as long as they are connected (aka federated). So somebody on https://kbin.earth/ (an Mbin instance) could subscribe to !micromobility@lemmy.world (a community on a Lemmy instance) and post there, browse, etc. even though they're different websites.

You can sign up for any instance you want and if you hate them all, you can even make your very own.

Sweet, welcome, I'm glad you could make it!

Welcome!

Welcome!!

And self hosting, no less. Pretty sweet. Welcome!

i came from a ban, at the time i remember lemmy was remember during the API crisis, then i just made account, on instance, when it got shut down i went to another instance.

Pretty much the entire internet is already account-gated.

Already account-gated and increasingly human-verification-gated as well.