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

  • @Lancerllott
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    They have successfully jailed the alleged killer. They are trying to also imprison the idea he represents.

  • @vios4d
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    Follow the money—because that’s where the power is. The elites crave control, and to grow their wealth, they must control society. Any social group that could challenge their narrative is relentlessly suppressed. Reddit, once a space for free speech, has transformed into what Facebook was—a corporation that bends to their interests. Now, Reddit is just another part of the network they control.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    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?

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        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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    Well, Trump said that they will push to get the death penalty for drug dealers…

    Lock and load, folks.

    We’re hunting pharmaceutical CEOs.

  • @Fingolfinz
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    Yeah the banning for upvotes thing was pretty final straw for me. It’ll be a conservative shit hole like Twitter soon enough

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      isnt it already, only allowing some center right content to be on it to “seem balance” but allowing right wingers to astroturf all the subs.

    • @[email protected]
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      522 hours ago

      People up voting Luigi posts got banned? Yeah I’m glad I’m not on there anymore. Lemmy seems like my kind of community. Honestly feels like how reddit used to feel like. Good honest people.

      • @Fingolfinz
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        They’re receiving warnings and stuff it’s been pretty fucky the last week with them so I’m out. I’ve heard of some bans for some odd stuff but I suppose some of it is hearsay. Yeah I’m really digging Lemmy it feels much more like the earlier internet where algorithms didn’t dictate everything and you can just find stuff organically

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        upvoting is ridiculous, but from what ive heard another site, Upvoting, in general flags your account if its new on certain subs, i think they are just expanding it to sitewide.

  • @surph_ninja
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    No, not because of that guy. Because of us. They are afraid of us. They should be.

    • @[email protected]
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      Not sure. I’m still surprised things are so calm, considering the widespread availability of guns in the population.

  • @AWittyUsername
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    I got banned from late stage capitalism for questioning why they have a hard on for China.

  • @IdiotsEverywhere
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    I left reddit for good yesterday as well. To hell with their censorship.

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      I hear you. They banned me permanently for being pronouncedly anit-Facist anti-Trump anti-Musk. Reddit is a joke. A decidedly right joke.

  • Rymrgand's Daughter
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    They are afraid of copycats, but they had months to try and stop them by just loosening their strangle hold on society. I heard another exec got offed last month in his home in Oregon. it’s starting

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      Their strategy instead is to announce wars and terrify every 20 minutes so that the news cycle is too full of other crisis to remember this guy.

      • @MrMcGasion
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        The thing is, I think our attention spans are too cooked to be overwhelmed like that anymore. A new crisis every 20 minutes? I can get through 40+ tiktok videos in that time, and half of them will be about something they are trying to terrify with (trans rights, science defunding, bird flu, racism, palestine, the oligarchy, luigi, etc.)

        The old media can’t keep up, but I’m in my mid-thirties and even my old brain can handle being pulled in dozens of directions and still think about/remember Luigi, unprompted, multiple times a day.

      • Rymrgand's Daughter
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        Yeah that’s not going to work when they’re inorganically doing the suppression

  • @LovableSidekick
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      416 hours ago

      1 is not the same, trump is treated as a god emperor by his followers, and he can do no wrong despite what he has done. the other being showing what was wrong with the society and backing why he did it.

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      I doubt most people see Luigi as a savior, just a symbol of retribution in a world that lacks justice