Being owned by venture capitalists is pretty much an assurance that they'll turn it to shit as much as they can get away with. The entire reason people abandoned digg for reddit in the first place was because it was selling out to ad space and shill accounts and manipulation. The venture capitalists will want big returns on their investments.

Competition is good. Also the less data Reddit has, the slower A.I. models can be trained.

That’s a fair point. Reddit has been openly hostile to its own users these past several years. It might help moderate that to have another alternative on the table, even if it too is a soulless corporate enterprise.

Dunny. I've mentioned it a few times. I don't think they're still removing them but I bet they are still suppressing them

I heard that was highly community-dependent - the more high-profile a community the more likely for it to be removed.

Idk, but now that you mention iy, I got a 2nd violation, for threatening violence that did not do so or even come close, to the point I think it was ad hoc in bad faith, to say for other reasons. I did mention lemmy not long before.

If they are advertising on Digg may work.

I'd like to see this place just a bit better

I have a link to my Lemmy profile on my Reddit profile and not even shadowbanned 🤷

We can have both, thats allowed :)

What's piefed? I looked at it and mostly saw lemmy instances.

Haven't tried piefed so I can't say.

Such as?

Doesn't piefed have that controversial hardcoded blocklist? I've heard that meme communities and similar are filtered out using hardcoded keywords matched aganst community name.

Why hardcode this??? Imposing your preferences on everyone seems like a bad idea.

Piefed and Lemmy are basically the same thing on different websites

They're all in the same network

That's what Usenet was.

That would be nice. It can probably be done by blocking images at the browser level. Wouldn't be the same as a text only site though.

I felt this place was a ghost town when I first started - maybe 10 posts a day. Now, there is plenty to read. Partly due to me finding more communities and overall more people here.

“Hi I wasn’t paid six dollars on Fiverr to post here” (does increase costs obviously but marginally for high-margin/volume products)

I got banned from reddit last week for "threatening violence" basically because my comment contained the word "die." It wasn't a verb.

Reddit is super aggressive with this shit now. If you say "Don't drink bleach, that would kill you." Their AI bullshit just sees "kill you" and bans you for threats.

Site is fucking useless, don't even bother at this point. It's mostly robots talking to other robots at this point anyway.

Ah I see someone else suffering the same shit as myself. Inciting violence for comparatives is what happened to me. No, neither side should celebrate violence. Human life is invaluable.

I have been permanently banned from Reddit for wishing for a natural disease process to occur in a certain individual. If only I were that powerful of a manifestor our world would be a better place.

"I run faster with a knife!!"

Mistakes may happen, but I'm sure they won't do any evil shit on porpoise.

When was that? Based on life events I've reconstructed this timeline of my hangout sites

• late 1990s to mid 2000s was slahdot
• around 2006ish digg came into my life and was great for a some years. At least for memes and generic dopamining on funny pictures. I think I hung around until about 2014 or so, while spicing it up with cracked.com
• 2014ish 9GAG started having more of my type of content. After a few years 9GAG became just automated reposts of r/funny, and talking about that got you censored. Kinda like what reddit is doing now.
• 2017ish I switched to reddit, when 9GAG just became too embarrassingly bad.
• july 21st 2023 I started trying to figure out lemmy. BTW u/spez is a pedophile piss baby.

Maybe I was just trailing behind you others. Was I the one to ruin your experience? Why would you accuse me of that you insensitive clod? Anyway, in that case I'll go eat crayons in the corner and shitpost on .ml

Sorry

-A Slashdot to Digg to Lemmy refugee

Before Reddit and everything was forum sites. I use many of them today.

Digg based the voting off of a simplified version of Slashdot's. Except they let everyone vote. Reddit then took that concept and added user generated categories and user moderating.

Before Digg was Kuro5hin and Slashdot

even their tagline the frontpage of the internet is digg's and they took it back

Normies can't seem to help but flock to corporate websites only.

and maybe a place that takes more of reddits traffic