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I'm sure Orwell didn't really expect telescreens to become a real thing, but we have very literally welcomed surveillance devices into our lives and homes. Now, it's just a matter of who starts actively using them as a monitoring device.
Let's be honest, reddit has been going downhill since at least 2014. It still exists, and will continue to, but it's such a hollow shell of what it once was.
I’ve seen this statement like a dozen times over the last 15 years but never before has an alternative been quite as robust as Lemmy been available. Might actually see it happen this time
Probably not, reddit, like all modern social media platforms, is essentially "too big to fail". They have captured and cornered their markets and will continue to dominate indefinitely.
Throughout all of these things reddit's user growth has went up, not down. Daily Active Users grow, month over month, more than 20x the entire population of Lemmy., just think about that, there's more growth to the daily active user count on a monthly basis (not the totally user count), then the entire population of Lemmy, x20.
It's depressing to think about. But it's also reality. And reality fucking sucks.
All I can hope is that lemmy and similar continue to grow.
I was considering getting an account after being off Reddit for almost 2 years just because there are some pretty large active transgender communities then I saw this.
Adios Reddit. Well hello Fediverse. I will switch back to lemmy. First, they took our third-party apps. Now, they are actively censoring. Farewell Reddit. Fuck u/spez
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Welcome to Lemmy! It's much, much slower here, but a lot of people (myself included) see that as a plus.
Please don't be discouraged if your niche hobby isn't represented here. I'm not one to talk, but if the community for it doesn't exist, go ahead and create it! 😁
Why are they even making a show of this? Couldn't they just show you different numbers, they're fuzzed anyway, or shadow ban you, or any of the other ways to make your votes disappear?
The show is the point. Users are supposed to self-censor out of fear, which is far more effective than any form of automated censorship. Reddit just implement the "chilling effect".
Now I'm starting to think that getting banned from reddit and them not telling me why and instantly denying my appeal was just a test. What a garbage website and moderation.
This is new. I have never seen this before. Reminds me of mods of groups banning people just because they are subscribed to other groups that those mods don't like. So much for free speech