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
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.
Yessss.
Was that AI generated? That is fucking sick, my dude. I’m gonna save it
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.
All the people praising Luigi say “this does nothing” when someone suggests an alternative to just shooting CEOs. Well you know what did nothing? Shooting Brian Thompson did nothing. United Health Group just hired a new CEO to run his division, and the real oligarchs continued looting the country even harder than before.
So no, they don’t feel threatened. The top oligarchs like Elon barely even registered it. If you wanna know what they’re afraid of, look at where they spend money - buying politicians and opposing attempts to regulate them and break up their monopolies. Lucky for them there is no well funded lobby for consumers, people denied health care, or even the poor and middle class generally. Tell the next Luigi to work on that if you really wanna scare these people.
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.
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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Welcome, hope you will enjoy your stay as much as I did. Water is just fine over here
Strangely reminds me of the Always Sunny episode where they convinced people that a water stain on their kitchen wall was the Virgin Mary, and Charlie started blessing people. On a serious note tho, portraying Luigi Mangione and Donald Trump as saviors seems equally fucked up to me.
I doubt most people see Luigi as a savior, just a symbol of retribution in a world that lacks justice
Yeah I think the two portrayals seem equally fucked up, not equally popular.
IDK. The guy definitely has saintly vibes about him.
Go on Amazon or ebay , select print a custom garden flag.
Upload this picture.
Plant nice garden flag in your yard.6-10$ max
Boycott Amazon. Thiel sold his PayPal shares so he shouldn’t have a significant stake in eBay anymore so I don’t know if they’re worth boycotting.
Look. People been saying that for a decade per my memory. And nothing was done - this tells me your little boycott ain’t gonna work.
No - do smarter.
Get a gun.
Fund WFD.
Fund eff. Call your rep and tell them you are doneIf you think giving Bezos money to fly a flag is praxis and boycotting isn’t, I don’t really know what to tell you.
The Romans felt threatened because of Jesus.
Well he was super violent.
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
Upvoting that probably gets a ban now.
I like the line by Killer Mike (“Walking in the Snow”), which I think he says he got from Dick Gregory:
“All of us serve the same masters, all of us nothin’ but slaves / Never forget in the story of Jesus, the hero was killed by the state”.
Powerful stuff.
Edit to add: honestly that whole track rips and is super relevant right now.
why would you leave reddit just to talk about reddit
Because we can’t talk about reddit on reddit
If you’ve replaced the functionality of reddit in your life, and reddit itself is heading in a direction you don’t approve of, why continue discussing it?
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It is amazing how much fear Luigi has put into the establishment.
If I wanted this on my bathroom wall, what’s the best website to get it ordered?
Vistaprint.ca is Netherlands-based and prints all kinds of marketing materials like flags, banners, stickers, flyers, business cards…
While Etsy is a US based platform, there are still small business owners from Canada who can also provide digital printing services on any kind of merch you want.
Amazon is dead to us, there is always an alternative.
Thanks, I’ll try their outdoor paperstock for water resistance.
Go on Amazon or ebay , select print a custom garden flag.
Upload this picture.
Plant nice garden flag in your yard.6-10$ max
Both will collect your data, Amazon will sell it to the highest bidder, and you’re ultimately supporting a big corporation. DIY
I’m sure we have some competent silk screeners here in lemmyland.
aww Murderers deserve the same end but he’s going to rot in jail with his rage instead. Good for us all.
