I'm quite certain that reddit has millions of bot accounts that repost old content and leverage AI to make human sounding comments. They serve two purposes, to simulate activity and interaction, and to disrupt discussions that reddit doesn't approve of, such as those about Lemmy or certain political issues.
Why wouldn't they? It's a very simple decision for them, they need to protect their money and the shareholders money, and they'll do whatever they have to in order to accomplish that objective.
Aside from what Blaze mentioned, that's also not really the kind of publicity that we want. Better to just respond to individual users and encourage them to try Lemmy out.
DM me about it or make a post in another community if you disagree with what I said. This thread isn't the place to have that discussion, it's off topic and drama-stirring.
Just let the community keep running and see what happens. I'll help moderate it.
It'd be a shame to lose one of the few major communities on Lemmy not hosted by one of the major servers, imho. If midwest.social admins keep making unpopular decisions, then this community will probably wither and the db0 one will take over. But I feel like that ban was pretty funny even though I disagree with it, so I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
The alternative could also occur, if some shit goes down on db0 and the new community actually implodes. I have no reason to expect that to happen, but you never know. Best to let things play out, I'm subscribed to both communities anyhow and crossposting is also something that is quite simple on Lemmy.
Also there's about 1000 posts and 10k comments on this community and it's mostly good content, built up over like 2 years. I just hate leaving all that behind and having to start over. I think of new users viewing by top posts of all time and this is one of the better Lemmy communities for that.
I appreciate the openness but it's almost certainly a matter of time.
Keep your finger on the lock button. It's somewhat underutilized on Lemmy imo, simply locking a post that has devolved into a shitshow without removing said post is frequently the best course of action.
Yeah I dunno why hexbear appears twice but it's always been like that on fedidb.
Lemmy.ml does have 52.7k total accounts, but again it has always just displayed the active users on the total user count on fedidb. No idea why.
There's a couple other sites that track fediverse stats, but they're also a bit wonky in certain aspects. The second one is really fucked up now, it only seems to display a handful of servers. Used to work better a year ago. But definitely useful to cross reference when fedidb is inaccurate about certain things.
Moreover, full defederation is the greatest act of censorship.
How so, comrade? Explain to me how defederating a violent and hateful server is more of an act of censorship than... literal, by the book censorship.
You are a hexbear user, so it'd make sense that you have a better experience within your cult than outside it. Hexbear is more bigoted than any other Lemmy server, by a wide margin.
That's completely incorrect, there are hundreds of hexbear users commenting on this thread right now, using the alt accounts which they are allowed to make here. Or am I expected to believe that the 400 comments on this thread were simply normal Lemmy users who felt like defending hexbear? Give me a break.
Any hexbear account (or federated account) that expresses a disallowed opinion quickly gets banned and the comments purged, so that hexbears can maintain their echo chamber. What an absurd argument, claiming that defederation is in any way comparable to active censorship of content. You don't even get to see the comments that get removed on hexbear because they purge them, leaving no trace. No comment removed by mod, nothing in the modlog.
Don't fucking equate my instance to hexbear, I can see right through you, charlatan. You can run and hide from the truth all you like, but it will come for you eventually.
Hexbear removes any questions or opinions they don't agree with. They heavily censor the discussion and consider it a feature of their community.
Other Lemmy servers allow a diversity of thought and opinion. They allow people to question and disagree.
It's not about sides of the story, it's the difference between free discussion of individuals versus a standardized party line that cannot be questioned. The former tends to expose the truth, while the latter tends to obfuscate the truth.
I always just say Lemmy, it sounds much more appealing than the fediverse for the uninitiated. Also I don't really use any other fediverse platforms, so Lemmy is basically the entire fediverse for me.
But I still think the fediverse is a decent name/cool concept (federated universe), plus it's already got a decent amount of brand recognition so it would pretty rough to start over with something new. It's a fine name for people who are already familiar and have been using it for a while, it just sounds kinda weird when people first hear about it.
imaqtpie @ imaqtpie @sh.itjust.works Posts 19Comments 1,264Joined 2 yr. ago
Please link this thread too for context and screenshots.
https://lemmy.world/post/24558150
And give old.reddit link, I can't even fucking use that shitty UI they have now, it's so bad.
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only
Thanks