I lost my 11y account for the audacity of song lyrics that a random mod classed as hate speech. It had a rude word 😑.

Fuck them. It's thankfully more authentic here and a lot less bots. I've yet to see a haiku.

Here by choice not by force. I left Reddit when they chose to fuck up by abandoning the API for Ads. Haven't missed Reddit one bit. If you aren't already, you'll be happy somewhere in the federation. Sorry about losing history, hopefully you are okay with your transition to the future.

I had a reddit alt that disappeared for what seemed like 2 years, then all of a sudden I was able to find it and access it again. 🤔 I stopped posting over there around the time of the API blackout and now I have a whole process of sites I go through before I cave and check if something is on reddit.

Welcome to the real world, Neo.

Hi, welcome! Sooooo, maybe this is new info. Maybe this you already know. Either way, as a Lemmy newbie, allow me to fill you in on some lingo and details around here.

So, subreddits are called communities, but it's the same thing.

What's not the same is the core functionality. Lemmy has potentially an infinate amount of servers. I say potentially because you can start your own Lemmy server right now.

These servers are called "instances". It's just a server where you can host your own lemmy account, or your own communities.

So, you can do whatever you want on your instance. You can tell all your friends to join your instance. I could sign up for an account and be hosted by your instance.

Now I'm not saying you need to do that, or even that you should do that. I'm just saying you can. It's possible.

Now, let's talk federation.

Think of each instance as a circle. Now imagine a line connecting two circles. That connection between the two circles means they are "federated", or connected. You as a user on an instance can interact with all other federated instances. This is why you'll see topics on lemmy.world and users hosted lemmy.ml.

Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml are two different instances, but they are federated. So Lemmy.ml users can interact with Lemmy.world communities/topics/users.

Your instance is ani.social. I'm not firmiliar with which instances you're federated with. Clearly federated with Lemmy.World.

But imagine you found a problematic instance. Like what if you found somethink like nazis.online for an instance. You might want to cut ties with them.

So now imagine that line between ani.social and nazis.online is cut. You don't want to talk to nazis, and neither does anyone on your instance. So ani.social defederates from nazis.online, and now the nazis can't see, nor interact with you, or any communities on your instance.

However, user@nazis.online can still ineract with Lemmy.ml, and ani.social can still interact with lemmy.ml. So you still may see users on other instances that you're both federated with. In that case, you can block user@nazis.online.

And Lemmy.World, and Lemmy.ml are both Lemmy. But you may see users from an instance called piefed. What is piefed? Well it's a totally different service, with its own instances, with its own communities, run by different people that can still federate with Lemmy and other instances within the fediverse. But how is this possible?

Well, the fediverse is all services that use something called activitypub. Now, I'm a bit out my own element in knowing the finer details, but the over simplified version is that if a service uses activitypub, it CAN be part of the fediverse. I say "can" because I've been told that bluesky does run activitypub, but they choose to limit their own federation to just bsky.app. Meaning there are no other bluesky instances, and no other service is federated with bluesky, even though they totally could federate with mastodon.

Bluesky is almost a 1:1 carbon copy of pre-musk twitter. Mastodon is more pre-musk twitter inspired, but also fully part of the fediverse.

Bluesky has limited interaction with mastodon. I've never tried it, despite having both a bluesky and mastodon account. I've heard you need to bridge the accounts, and it's a whole thing. So I never bothered. I hear it's clumsy, and not worth it.

And there's a whole bunch of fediverse services.

Lemmy/piefed are like reddit.

Peertube is like youtube.

Loops is like tiktok.

Pixelfed is like instagram.

Friendica is like facebook.

And when I say all this, there's one giant elephant in the room we haven't addressed yet. Corporate interests.

Lets say you're still on X for some god awful reason. Well, you probably notice that they push their own agenda on you. They make money by getting you to follow the agenda. On the fediverse, there are no owners.

Like I said earlier, you can run your own instance. If Sony wanted to advertise on Lemmy, it would be damn near impossible. Because they could advertise on Lemmy.World, but only Lemmy.World users would see the ad. Because when you interact with Lemmy.World, you personally are not on Lemmy.World. You're on Lemmy.World via Ani.social. So you're actually browsing all this from Ani.Social. You never actually leave there. And if you try to go directly to Lemmy.World, you'll find you're not logged in. Because they have no login credentials for you. But if you go back to Ani.Social, you'll find things just as you left them. Still able to interact with Lemmy.World but still technically browsing Lemmy.World via Ani.Social.

I know thats a lot to throw at a newbie, but I promise it's only complicated in the begining. Once you get it, it's like second nature.

One last thing, despite being called the "fediverse", there's no need to worry. It has nothing to do with Kevin Federline.

I got a site wide permaban for saying Putin should be executed for war crimes.

On r/ukraine

I got banned - after 13 years - for reporting hate speech.

Turns out that is “report abuse”.

Got my 7yo account banned for not verifying my mail.

Created a few more accounts with temporary mails, got banned by 'unauthentic activity'. Then I gave up all and begun to use lemmy. I try to interact on everything to create engagement

I got a 3 day ban for a really innocuous comment. Done by "AI", of course... I was so annoyed that I didn't even appeal it and just deleted my account. Should have done it way before, of course. Haven't been back in 3 weeks. All I said was that Elron Musk hates poor people, and their shit AI said that was threatening harm to someone. Okay.

I got a 2 month ban on worldnews in a thread about Tesla stocks going to shit and Elon Musk crying about it. My comment was "Hahaha, may he suffer" and apparently that is harassment and inciting violence.

Right after Melon Husk bought Twitter, I posted something about Howard Schultz (CEO of Starbucks) while he was questioned about his anti-union activities in front of Congress. I wanted to slap the smile off his face into next Tuesday. That got me a 7 day ban. I didn't log in for a month. When I came back, my feed was just as nasty. I moved everyone I followed to Mastodon if they had an account. Same with Facebook. That was over 2 years ago. When BlueSky started using their posts for LLMs, I deleted my account.

Mom told me this story about a little old man that a reporter saw praying against the Western Wall (of the original Temple) in Jerusalem. The man was there for over a week during the morning and afternoons. The reporter wanted some insight into this man's devotion, so he asked him about it.

The old man pondered the question then said "In the mornings, I come and pray for peace. Then I have a bit of a nosh and come back in the afternoon I pray again for peace."

"Well, given what's happening right now, what's that like?" asked the reporter.

"It's like talking to a wall." said the old man sadly.

I had to go shortly after the "He gets us" Jesus ads made their appearance.

The API price increase and Apollo shutting down was my breaking point with Reddit.

Two weeks shy of 15 years and got permabaned last October.. Sniped by a bot. Oh well. Found old.lemmy.zip a few days later, signed up and learned how to sub to the communities on other instances and have never looked back.

Am not even angry about it anymore, since it's waaay more laid back and chill here. Like Reddit was before 2012 or so.. Do a lot more reading, which has brought my game up and also, no rage-bots.. so that alone is pure delight.

Welcome to the party, it's low-key but once you find your groove, and learn to sub across the various instances.. it's a blast!

Welcome aboard! About a year ago my 11 year old Reddit account was banned. I don't even know why I was banned since I'd lost access to the email account I used to create the account long ago. For a day or two I was just really confused why I couldn't log in anymore.

Oh well, Reddit had been on a down hill trajectory for a while, but I do miss some of the smaller niche subreddits I used to frequent. We'll eventually have communities like that as Lemmy, PieFed, etc continues to grow.

Shame you didn't get banned for exposing a pedo ring. Yes they call that one harassment

My perma ban was liking a comment. Turns out that goes against rule 1.

It was a comment making fun if R1 under a security video of a therapist abusing an autistic child.

individual sub bans for simply joining other subs

This is nucking futs.

At least I feel I'm not engaging with endless bots here

Can't wait for the day Reddit advertisers finally realize they're advertising mostly to bots. I'm building up my stockpile of popcorn to watch the shitshow.

Greetings! Hope you like your stay!

If you'd like to also explore options, there's Mastodon for followinf Twitter-like posts (and also PixelFed, NeoDB, WordPress, etc.), Friendica and Mbin for following both Twitter and Reddit-like posts, and PieFed as a direct alternative to Lemmy specifically.

And tip, Lemmy has a native per-post, post-hiding feature, at the 3 dots of a given post. Mastodon has too, and most softwares I've tested work well with Ublock Origin filters and/or scripts for hiding posts (e.g. if liked/disliked).

I also had a 12 year account that got banned. I do miss some of the more specialized subs, but I enjoy the casual scrolling here.

I'm not banned but I haven't participated much there for a couple of years.

I've heard that Fediverse wasn't much better, but the fact that Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon and pretty much any other Fediverse platform are open source, and completely ridden of ads, and data collection from giant corporations is already a HUGE difference.

Sure people are just people and you're gonna find toxic communities everywhere, but at least here you don't need to "fear" getting banned because you can choose an instance that has core principles you share, and through them you can access pretty much any community you want, and keep active.

On Reddit, you have no other place to go. You either shut the fuck up and accept their terms, or you, if you get banned, there's nothing you can do about it.

Also, a lot of communities here in Lemmy/Piefed are very active. I don't need to be drowned on an infinity number of posts when most of them are just silly repetitive memes or karma whoring, with zero meaningful discussion.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy Lemmy :)

Welcome. I also was banned for pointing out some dumb shit on a conservative subreddit. They really have such thin skin.

I had an account that was prob 10 years old at the time. After Trumps 'shooting' during the campaigns I just posted on an article about the fireman that allegedly died from a GSW. Just said 'Damn Corey, was your Nazi rally really worth showing the world your brains?'

Welcome!

Welcome to the party pal! Honestly, it feels like old reddit here and I love it!