i left reddit for good today with their obvious attempt at controlling the narrative like the rest of big social media. long live the lemmy federation
It’s not so much the guy they’re afraid of, they’re afraid of what his actions could spur others into repeating. They’re afraid of what can be done to them if multiple people follow suit. And y’know what? Maybe that’s what we need now. Enough of us fearing them, and them fearing us. We don’t need them. They need us. And it’s well past the time to give them a reminder of that. Through force, if necessary. Preferably without bloodshed, but at this rate it doesn’t look good. They’ve shown time and again they don’t care about how many of us lose our lives to preventable circumstances, so it’s time to MAKE them care again.
They have successfully jailed the alleged killer. They are trying to also imprison the idea he represents.
Luigi Mangione 💚
This was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I remember seeing something a while back on r/coolguides about alternatives for various sites, including Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Today, I saw the writing on the wall and decided it was time.
The worst isn’t just the Luigi thing, it’s that in the future, they will most likely expand it to include any topic that the administration disapproves of.
Absolutely. Actually it’s already here. I got a permanent ban last week. I suggested that Luigi had the right idea, and that we needed more like him.
I still lurk on reddit, mainly on the trans subreddits. But I could see those being banned from the site in a few years.
my sentiment exactly. this is just the start of it. once they became a publicly traded company, it was no longer a social media for the people. may free speech live on ✊
welcome! it ain’t perfect here, but at least it’s decentralized and harder to manipulate in favor of the oligarchs.
I am new here, and I actually like everything about it. It’s very simplified. But the fact that it’s decentralized is the key reason to why I moved here.
Butt fuck pastries for elfs!!!
See, that sentence may not make sense, but we have free speech here, so I can say it as much as I want!
BUTT FUCK PASTRIES FOR ELFS!!!
Ooh ooh I wanna try one…
Billionaires should be shot in the street for fun like carnival games. 3 shots for a dollar!
Also, I just anally fucked a pastry for elf’s. Creampied a Danish.
Three shots for a dollar??? There’s going to be more lead than body after we shoot 3 billion+ times!!
Welcome to Lemmy, hope you have a great time.
Reddit has only one consistently-enforced rule: don’t sass the nazis.
Sass the nazis, I say! Sass them to the grave.
Welcome!
Welcome! We are few, but the bones are good.
Same, the site is no better than facebook or instagram now.
Fair, I’ve always been aware of Lemmy as a paranoid schizo, but I think that I won’t want the right to use Google before they become a tool of the government to find people who speak out.
Yessss.
Was that AI generated? That is fucking sick, my dude. I’m gonna save it
Yeah, another db0 user has posted it in a chat and I snagged. Amazing job on it. I was floored
oh shit my fellow db0 instancers, i’m here too!
Nice!
Here’s the original in higher quality and less cropping: https://i.imgur.com/XzgU9AS.mp4
The watermark in the bottom right corner says KLING AI 1.6
This is so cool! Did you do some kind of reverse image search?
Nah way dumber than that. I had the original Imgur file saved locally from when it was posted a few weeks ago, but I forgot it was from Imgur. I just searched Luigi Mangione and the name of the file and found one hit on Reddit using the URL lol
I sorta prefer the lower quality tbh. It hides some of the big tells that it was AI generated.
noooooo i didn’t realize it was ai 😭😭😭
This is absolutely amazing!! I love it.
Good use of AI
Yeah, this is one of the few (in relation to the vast amount of slop) where it’s just awesome and I’m happy the tech behind it exists. It’s a great combination of several people’s work (original photo, edited photo, the makers of the AI itself and the person who put it all together), and it’s easily one of the most flawless animated AI things I’ve seen. No uncanny valley like there usually is. And the coolness of Luigi portrayed like that just by itself. Just superb on so many levels!
Here’s the original in higher quality and less cropping: https://i.imgur.com/XzgU9AS.mp4
Do you have it on any other mirror or site like Imgur that doesn’t block VPNs?
I don’t unfortunately. I also had that issue, and I had to switch my VPN to a random European country so I could even view the original URL to confirm I had the right link before I shared it.
Oh damn! Thank you!
Any other source for this? It doesn’t load for me…
Unfortunately I don’t know the original creator.
Thank you, that’s great!
Here’s the original in higher quality and less cropping: https://i.imgur.com/XzgU9AS.mp4
Remember, they’re not threatened by Luigi. They’re threatened by the fact that so many people love Luigi and what he stands for.
This. He’s basically a martyr at this point.
Luigi reminded the people that we have power. We don’t need to be subservient to the whims of corporate interests. We can choose to go a different way. He’s in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO who is devoid of empathy or ethics (which is all of them). Anyone could be the perpetrator, anyone could be the target.
It’s like a large chunk of the USA is now part of anonymous. Expect us.
(And for anyone who binds anonymous with 4chan, you don’t understand anonymous)
Agree. Agree. Agree.
He’s in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO
Let’s be real, all it takes is one person struck by tragedy who no longer has anything to live for choosing to go out this way rather than going quietly. Maybe their kid was killed in the nth school shooting of the year. Maybe they’re dying of cancer due to delayed treatment. Maybe they’re financially ruined by medical debt. Like you said Luigi reminded people of what is possible, and there’s plenty of tragedies that can be correctly attributed to the choices of the rich that happen every day
Kill one rich guy - complete and utter censorship.
Be a rich guy who is a twice impeached convicted felon presidential traitor making decisions resulting in casualties over the thousands - whoah, now, wouldn’t want their feelings to be hurt!
State of the world in a nutshell.
Welcome, hope you will enjoy your stay as much as I did. Water is just fine over here
thank you! free speech for everyone!
There’s still lots of moderation on Lemmy, but thankfully it’s all public. The lemmy.world modlog can be found here https://lemmy.world/modlog.
Theres still lots of moderation on Lemmy*.world* go to a smaller instance more aligned with anarchist free speech and you can say all the no-no edgelord things.
I havent seen a lot happen if a mod goes off the deep end though. If a system can be broken in a way, its inevitable it will be. This place wil be captured by the same special interests reddit has, I’d bet money on it. But, I’ll enjoy it till then.
Its so much easier to jump ship to another ship than a whole other platform though. on top of that the instances rely on community support to run past a certain size.
Oh, I mean, power tripping moderators has always been a thing, even in my phpBB forum days when I was a teenager. I’m sure some of us older than I will have similar stories about it happening on certain BBSes. But the user base and therefore impact of that moderation going to shit was much more limited in most cases.
It is amazing how much fear Luigi has put into the establishment.
He “allegedly” killed one of them. So they should feel threatened.
Oh don’t worry - Lemmy will soon have people posting child porn, gore, or other things en-masse before reporting the site/domain. I’ve seen it on almost every Reddit alternative since Digg shut down.
They’ll run hit pieces against this place for being extremist, they’ll do all sorts of nasty shit.
So first they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.
I wonder how resistant to that Lemmy will be, with the whole federation thing. Harder to ban it when it’s not just one domain.
Yeah, I mean I barely understand this federated stuff. To my understanding, each instance has their own rules. I can’t post nudes on my Lemmy.ca to my understanding. I think if there’s an instance that is running “afoul” then the instance I connect with can block the entire instance?
Yep, that’s how we roll. Others can tell you the details. I’m just an end user. On my end I can block nazi’s, or anyone I don’t like. u/universalmonk was one, acted so surprised when I blocked and didn’t want to explain why. Funny thing, if you can block someone for being an asshat, suddenly they are less encouraged to do that, and have to find a more socially acceptable way to be. Cheers.
u/universalmonk was one, acted so surprised when I blocked and didn’t want to explain why.
Links to that? Because I’ve never seen Universal Monk act surprised when someone blocked him/her.
In fact, he/she often recommended blocking them if you didn’t agree with what they said.
daily reminder that you can just use they/them in place of he/her she/him pronouns because that’s literally a designed feature of the english language.
You should know, right Monk?
Bingo!
All I did was ask for a link showing that UM was surprised or upset that you blocked her/him, because I’ve never seem them question that before. I always seem to remember them suggesting blocking them, not being upset by it.
I didn’t say you were incorrect; i was just asking for proof cuz I’ve never seen it. It’s not like I am super concerned about it or anything. But I don’t live on lemmy and have no investment between your feud–or whatever it is–with that person. not a big deal to me either way
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Dude… you’re not fooling anyone.
Reddit has CSAM on it. Reddit has a subreddit selling porn that is now known to feature CSAM. I along with a few others tried to kill it. We’re all here now.
Lemmy has already had CSAM instances.
how well known is the sub? Are we talking like, 30 users, or like 300k users.
Small which is likely why they never killed it.
yeah that sounds about right, im guessing it’s not exactly public facing either, probably an off platform thing if i had to guess. It’d be wild to be posting that shit directly on the sub though.
I remember growing up we’d be graded down on our writing papers if we used an acronym without spelling out what it meant the first time.
child sexual abuse materials
Permanent prison sentence
very gross, some of the medical subs were getting close to CP because minors were asking about “skin conditions” and they were showing thier private areas, and perverts were rushing into dming those people, i think the mods shut that down very quickly.
Already happened to world iirc
reddit did have problems with that in medical subs. i dont think most of them are heavily moderated(i think there is more moderation now) because minors were being contacted by perverts to show them more. and some users were shocked that there was a part-time teenager modding that NSFW sub, also theres significant amount of self-harm glorifying posts too. the 2 subs i know that are very restrictive is askdoc and dental on what you can even comment or post.
No, not because of that guy. Because of us. They are afraid of us. They should be.
Not sure. I’m still surprised things are so calm, considering the widespread availability of guns in the population.
I think that it was more the fear in that he was the closest thing to bring so many of us together since, i don’t know, maybe ever? We can’t agree on who controls the price of eggs, but we all get fucked by healthcare and rich people!
waking people up to a class war issue which is the real ISSUE, isntead of the CULTURE WAR bs, that trump news is being pushed reddit, and i pointed this out and it was met with deaf ears.
For sure! I could tell a while ago that it was happening at Reddit (autism level recognition of slight changes). There are more and more posts from places like r/Conservative making the front page. I’m sure they have help, because they aren’t ever the highest quality posts. Not that much is on the Reddit front page these days lol
It’s the Luigi overpowered as can be.
Naw, ever see A Bug’s Life where the Crickets only bully the ants because it’s to distract them from realizing a thousand ants are stronger than one cricket?
Yes but in my version it was grasshoppers and not crickets
DAmn, that’s the version where Flick doesn’t have the most amazing tits. He’s still male in mine, he just has great booba, kinda like “TheyCallHimCake”
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