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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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Dude... Like....
Duuuude...
I don't know how to phrase this, but Reddit was getting filled with... Normal people? Nongeeks? The socially adept?
I'm sooo glad to be back with silly peeps. I missed that sense of critical self awareness haha. And I've been able to express some controversial opinions without getting locked and banned, which is mellowing as fuck.
The first part of your post is really confusing. Why would you talk like you're using English from 1930s? Is English your second language?
Kind of hard for moderators to know that maybe.
I would just not use those words to not be misunderstood. :)
Seems you were intentionally trying to seek attention by saying shit people actually don't want to hear and claiming it's fine based off a technicality. Your so edgy bro. Don't call other people stupid just because they see beyond your attempt to be clever.
Did you just call somebody's language you inherit a technicality? I swear to god you yanks are something else with your lack of education and common sense. I guess the only way to afford thousand of ICBMs is to defund the school. Bless you
We speak the same fucking language. Your metafore of Spanish and negro is irrelevant. You guys seriously run around, on what is an AMERICAN platform and think that the word of choice for a cigarette, a smoke, a stogey, is "faggot"? Not fag, but faggot? That is the word you want to use? Even though you have many other choices of words, that is it? And you are surprised?
I remember elementary school when we laughed about fag meaning a cigarette. Then I turned 8.
No but like seriously, I guess maybe I am missing some perspective. You guys just like use it in commonplace? Like, "Hey Benedict, I'm gonna go suck on this faggot over here" or "Hey Charles, it's time for my fag break"
Wait until you hear about faggots and peas
The fanny pack never did take off in the U.K....
There are many of us with similar stories. No genuine means of appeal, and the most over-zealous and ridiculous interpretation of the rules leading to a site-wide, permanent ban.
I got banned for making a joke on a comedy sub. Literally that. Someone made a comment that they and their wife had been the only people in the theater for the premiere of Bert Kreischer's 'The Machine', and that they had fun and enjoyed it.
I replied that we all knew that was a lie, that nobody had any fun and that his entire relationship was a farce: just grinding out the next 40 years pretending to enjoy mediocre comedies that nobody else bothered to show up for.
Something to that effect anyway. Well, I guess not sharing the same sense of humour was grounds enough to delete 10 years worth of tech reviews, Linux how-to guides and assorted other long-form bullshit. I'm much more careful about where I host my content these days.
That's the exact kind of nonsense I can't stand. People are SO scared of the prospect of a counter opinion we lose the ability to actually have discussions.
I got a 7 day site wide ban for saying "you can still kill yourself" in a discussion on Canada new assisted sucide policies. It wasn't a threat, it wasn't bullying, it was a relevant point of discussion.
That's the thing. A faceless corporation doesn't have any accountability.
This is true with all forms of social media. I remember when Twitter was starting out, and one of the main complaints was "Everyone was sharing pictures of what they ate for lunch", and my thought was "Don't follow those people". Reddit has a lot of crappy areas that won't be missed. There are a lot of dumb admins that only use the site to have a power trip. But beyond that, there was a lot of GOOD admins, and GOOD subreddits that were filled with interesting discussions and nice cultures.
This is why I am excited about the Fediverse. There will be servers run by meglomaniacs and trolls. There will be servers and communities filled with racist, misogynistic assholes. But you don't have to go to those. They can be blocked at the community and server levels.
I don't think it will be a problem as we get more and more people here. Having a bigger user base will allow for a better experience for everyone in that more exposure will make it easier for more tools to be developed. More people means more communities, and finding ones that cover more niche topics, which will make the platform more useful.
What's your point of reference? If you're talking about how Reddit was 2 years ago, sure, but if you're talking like pre-2016 I don't agree.
Reddit is less pedantic, less skeptical, and more conformist then it use to be.
I completely disagree 🤣 I absolutely am that special 🥰
(2023 - 6) > 2016
When you and I talk about Reddit we're talking about different things.
I was permanently banned/ suspended for posting a link to Google Streetview of a public layby.
Hows **that **for random and arbitrary!
When they first started joining Reddit, I thought of them as FaceBookers fleeing their parents and grandparents.
That said, I am part of this new wave here. I have tried 3 separate times over the last few years to join the Fediverse but always ended up on instances that lacked content that was relevant to me. It almost went the same way this time when I joined kbin.social but I decided to try lemmy.world also and found a lot more communities that interested me here.
Incidentally, as I understand it kbin.social should have been fine for me but was temporarily suppressing the feeds from other instances to help deal with the new wave.
The real first wave were Digg refugees, but there's some truth to that. Millennials made heavy use of Facebook but largely abandoned the platform when their parents showed up. The only people I know who are still using Facebook are my boomer-aged parents and their friends.