This is what made me finally bite the bullet and switch to lemmy.
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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Too much to ask for an "anonymous" social media platform.
You're probably already aware, but it bares saying for those who aren't; it's not anonymous.
I see the rationale, dead internet theory and all. But I 100% believe that if this happened, Reddit would form a partnership with the US government or oil companies to put bots on their platform and spread misinformation.
Or? I think you mean and. Then throw several more ands in there, including AI platforms, surveillance tech, right wing PACs, and overall enshitification and misinformation.
Well, Lemmy is not hidden, it's out there for reddit users who search for alternatives... It has challenges to solve and llm agents might be one of them.
You have to pick a server.
I promise you, that's why
/r/rats and tv show discussions for me
This is basically all I use for now. Lemmy doesn't have the infrastructure for every TV episode and movie I watch.
yeah. and even in the generic tv show communities there are maybe a couple people discussing a new episode, if at all.
Compared to thousands for a popular show.
heck, even star trek is barely active compared to reddit. and they did an official migration in the beginning
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Unless it's THEIR AI bots, right?
Fuck reddit. I've been hanging on for too long until they banned me 3 times in 72 hours. I guess they don't like criticism of the current regime. Fuck reddit.
The moment you state a fact or something that the folks at Reddit don't like, you'll get banned. And it will be a deep ban. You create a new account on same device without sanitizing it , use same network without VPN or join the same subs right after signup, you'll get another ban.
Best way is to signup on a device, browser and network you never used before, use VPN if you use the same network. Use an email that you've never used before. Stay low for 10 days, join random subs here and there and make some subtle comments, maybe a few posts to act genuine. Then for five days, make your 20% activity without VPN, don't cut VPN entirely because that raises the flag. Keep using the same device and browser for at least 30 days.
Then you can start casually switching to your main devices and network. Stay low for 10 more days when you switch back before joining the same subs where you got banned. This often beats the automated checks and the system doesn't connect the dots for links between your banned account(s) and new one.
Yeah, gotta 👉🏻👌🏻 the algo.
It took a lot of customer abuse to break Reddit's stranglehold, but they are perilously close to a Digg like migration off their platform. Spez can take a hike into bankruptcy.
Just already made his billions, what does he care
I actually made my account here recently because of that post. I'd be surprised if I'm the only one. We may not get everyone on reddit, but a sizable chunk leaving and review bombing them in the app store could gain their attention.
get ready for an influx of users to Lemmy I guess.
What are we supposed to get them for a welcoming gift? Was it beans or something?
Nah, we give them well thought out insults for not joining us sooner.
This is what "faces of atheism" came to end
Maybe they realized that most of Reddit is like Moltbook
You know if you have a printed piece of paper, a magazine. Or even a TV with a face on it, that a camera can't tell if it's a real human or not.
a big reason people won’t come to lemmy is the content is a political echo chamber and defederation is confusing as a concept to most people. i agree with most political opinions i see on here, but it’s kind of annoying to just see politics every time i open the app. maybe i just need to get better at tuning my feed, but most of the popular subs are political in some way.
politics is at lemmy's core, it was literally created by communists & socialists to serve as an online community for leftists; not rightists like liberals or conservatives.
Plus...there is a LOT to talk about these days, and most sane takes have been effectively banned from all large platforms lmao, with people helping all this along by voluntarily censoring the DUMBEST FUCKING WORDS in their memes, even, just to further their own reach within those shit holes.
So. Yeah, Lemmy be political.
most sane takes have been effectively banned from all large platforms lmao,
Buckle up, it's about to get a lot worse when you won't even be allowed to use social media until you submit to a face scan like op was trying to share.
And every person too busy or just aloof to bother learning about any of this stuff will just glibly hand it all over, lovely stuff headed our way.
Yes and I got it earlier; it's just hard to resist responding based on stereotypes. Lol
You said fucking. Bring me my fainting couch. Fuck I don't have one.
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