X, Facebook, threads, Instagram, Whatsapp, Amazon Prime, Reddit
How can you convince anyone to get off these ? Everyone I've showed lemmy to is terrified it's a virus, and what chat platforms are there besides messenger that we can convince anyone to go to? Maybe I need smarter friends, lol.
What you’re describing is intentional. Keeping people dumb about the tech they’re using while maintaining messaging like “Facebook works day and night to keep you safe” was the point all along so that people don’t understand what they’re doing. Granted that extends far beyond social media, but still
It is a very big ask... For chat i moved to Signal and convinced my closest relatives and friends to humor me and get the app, but they didn't let go of Whatsapp. It's lonely but i enjoy the quietness, and do not miss the endless groups!
Maybe some government officials will keep you company by inviting you into their war-plan discussions.
One of my phone browsers has warned me that one Lemmee instance is a scam, that doesn’t help if it is happening to others.
Name and shame. Which browser and which instance?
And is it just something like an SSL error (i.e. the instance screwing up), or is it specifically some kind of anti-Lemmy disinformation?
DuckDuckGo, and .ml.
Well, keeping people out of .ml is basically public service
Amazon Prime is the only one that's been hard for me to kick...
No ethical consumption under capitalism.
EDIT: I should specify I'm not saying that you shouldn't try to boycott where you can, just that sometimes doing business with these evil corporations is unavoidable unless you want to live off the grid.
Out of those, the only one I use is Whatsapp... kinda hard to get away from it where I live, literally everyone I know in real life uses it
"your're"
Hmmm...
An impressive amount of incorrect.
That's piratephobic!
A lot of the niche content I like is still on reddit, however I like the people and experience over here on Lemmy more.
This has been my experience. I still lurk certain communities there but I simply never log in or comment.
I just logged in to check /r/audiobooks.
The sponsored thingies are intolerable. Fuck that.
If you're still on Lemmy... Welcome! The more the merrier!
I use Twitter and reddit for porn, nothing else anymore. People/communities I follow are ghost towns elsewhere. Everytime I point this out, people get butthurt, yet none of them link to their porn profile.
Post the (adorable, lanky, femboy, who has glasses and a thick uncut cock) porn, and as the saying goes, 'they will cum'.
Or use Amazon (I'm guilty), or shop at Walmart (sometimes guilty, but not often), or shop at Target, use Tiktok, use Facebook (reunion coordination only - but still guilty, I guess), use PayPal (very guilty), use LinkdIn, use Google (guilty).
It's really difficult to live a modern life, without being guilty of using anything exploitative of something. Of course, all the things (and many more) mentioned above are made to make people reliant on them by design.
Amazon operated in the red for over 7 years, before turning any profit, often selling and shipping items for a lower cost than they purchased the items for. But after that 7 years, they'd driven much of their competition out of business. Now there are fewer choices with regard to finding some items, because Amazon drove everyone out of business. The cheaper prices on Amazon? Nothing like what they used to be - they don't have to compete.
How many small towns have Walmart as virtually the only place to shop and/or the only employer?
It's very important in our modern, separated society, for people to return to basics....get to know your neighbors, stick together, become friends, and help one another out. Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, "Your co-workers are not your friends." I wondered if many people ever looked past that, to ask if that's how HR wants things. How do you ever achieve solidarity in the workplace, when you walk in with that attitude? I've certainly had my share of hated co-workers, but much more often, I have been friends with many of them. Co-workers are a great resource to vent, problem solve, find out what's going on behind the scenes, and if there are problems - a great co-worker can be honest and let me know if I might be the problem, or not.
But, separated and isolated within our own little tribes/families, too busy working too many hours, for too little money, trying to keep up with too many financial obligations, is exactly how they get us exactly where they want us.
Twitter got abandoned 1 month after the fascist bought it. Account deleted 6 months ago.
Reddit is on transition right now. I'm still checking it, but the time i spend there is much less, since i made a Lemmy account.
I just occasionally go back to shill for Lemmy. Pretty sure that hurts them more than helps. :D
Things i have stopped using- X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Lays, McDonalds, Burger King, Netflix, Walmart. Things where i have minimized consumption - Amazon, Best Buy, Steam, YouTube. Things where I am tied in and can't make a difference- Android, Windows, AWS, Gmail, Intel/AMD, MS Office (official productivity tools). Actually i don't mind going minimalistic to F over US companies.
If you’re still online…
If you're still breathing...
I literally just got permabanned from Reddit after over 13 years and 200k karma! Lol
I got banned for being "anti-immigration" during a housing crisis in my country. Its ridiculous to pretend additional demand doesnt raise prices, its become like a 1984 Newspeak and gaslighting.
It doesn't, and you are wrong, and if you got banned on Reddit for that, your stance is probably so atrocious I don't even want to hear it.
Look...I know we all hate reddit cause they kicked like half of us for no good reason but like....spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is
Then again....X is arguably still a better social media platform than reddit is...
Ok nevermind
No. At this point Reddit is evil because it's censoring anti-fascist content and organizing. It's becoming a Nazi bar just like the rest of them.
You know what? You are right
Fuck Spez
Spez is only less evil because he doesn't have enough money to be in the oligarch club. He's just one of their toadies. He'd absolutely be the same way if anyone actually gave him the power they have.
Reddit has been about soft power for a while now. Ever since they scapegoated Ellen Pao, imo. They’ve been changing things relatively slowly compared to Twitter in terms of enshitification, and being more careful about who they piss off at any given time. They’ve become more emboldened ever since they banned 3rd party apps, as now they are allowing bot farms and bad actors that commented on behalf of the admins.
Reddit could be seeing tons of users leaving the site daily, but they’re for sure replacing them with bots to paint a better picture and drive engagement. The same thing applies to Twitter as well. It’s why on BlueSky for instance, I don’t see ragebait dominating my feed due to the more robust moderation tools compared to Twitter and Reddit.
Lemmy has avoided most bots due to the manual approval processes from what I can see. I think Lemmy should strongly consider implementing BlueSky’s moderation tools though.
spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is
Nah thats just wrong. Spez has been following Musks orders, so he is exactly as evil as Musk.
I actually said “bye Fash-licia” to Reddit last week. I thought about trying to get banned for something stupid, just for the story. But instead I just quietly deleted the account.
Well, I still wouldn't consider using Reddit to be near as bad as using Shitter.
I'm trying OK! 😭
yeah....have you tried growing a community here? its fucking hard....
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yup I got shadow banned from that hell hole after saying something mean about the orange in chief it's so pathetic, it wasn't even super bad I commented 'welcome to Trump's america' under a post about inflation skyrocketing I was on the site for 12 years no problem
it's crazy to me I didn't know they were so beholden to the right. it used to be the fascists got mad reddit was banning them. to.be banned over simply light jokes is so dystopian
not to mention.. their ban detection system is fucking 1984 shit
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