Don’t really frequent it all that much. Not sure when this happened
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Fuck reddit
Interesting. I didn’t know it was active really. People tend to use r/fediverse or r/redditalternatives.
Yeah it is interesting. Hopefully it was just due to mod inactivity. At least those other subs are up.
It wasn’t, the ban message mentions Reddit guidelines. That means there were mods and they were considered active (account/mod activity within the last 6 months)
It was pretty active.
probably, maybe people are getting banned, censored so often they are probably looking at alternatives of reddit on reddit.
Lemmy happens to be the most free social network at the moment, which is enough to raise the ire of every other billionaire owned fascist social network.
I await the week of dreadful news when they start using their immense wealth to take down instances via DDoS attacks, one by one…
And we will rise like the fungus we are!
There’s dull Gus, and fun Gus. Together they are the fun guys.
Cut off one head, three more rise in its place…
I don’t know; I have neither the interest nor time to run one, and I have seen at least one go down recently (Lemmy.one) partly because of how complicated the whole system actually is. Individual enthusiasts may not have the resources to keep up against the long-term might of Meta, Reddit, etc. if they develop dedicated attack teams.
Hope springs eternal, though.
I think lemmy.today has been getting hit by bots. I remember someone mentioning the attack increasing over time.
Yeah its a bit slower sometimes during the attacks but seems to stay up. Admin posted they blocked some chinese ip ranges due to massive bot crawlings so maybe someone got upset. :)
They don’t want people jumping ship. How else are the billionaires supposed to control the narrative.
50+% of the users are bots on reddit anyways.
Any only ~1% actually post.
Sooooo 0.5% are bots?
A better way of phrasing it would be that 50% of content and conversation is bot generated.
Why are you sucking reddits dick so hard?
Any amount of bots posing as humans is not cool
Im not, and you can take your Reddit flavored conversation back there with you please!
Where instead of actually engaging in a topic, you instead resort to personal attacks, and then followup with something that doesn’t even address the original comment to begin with.
Begone with that bullshit.
Ive been using Lemmy on a number of instances for over a year and honestly, Reddit should be scared.
I love Lemmy, if we want it to survive and thrive we also need to be realistic with ourselves.
Should Reddit be scared? No, no they shouldn’t, laughably.
We’re talking about 0.01% of the active user base. Lemmy has ~ 40-50k mau, if we’re being incredibly conservative, Reddit has ~400 million MAU . Reddit gains about an entire Lemmy worth of new users, daily.
It’s a humbling number.
“Well it’s all bots” you say. Well… Given that ~ 1% of reddit users actually post, it would seem safe to assume that non-content posting users would not be bots. Which doesn’t really change the numbers much here.
Why would it be safe to assume non-content posting users would not be bots?
What profit incentive is there for bots that don’t interact? (There are edge cases, scrapers and such, but that’s a minute amount of traffic for large services)
Bots in this context are a tool for manipulating opinions and facts for political gain, marketing, personal benefit, or some other social or economic benefit.
They cost money to operate and maintain, and generally need a clear benefit to be used at scale.
That said, bots have only gotten complex in their language capabilities over the last couple years.
My point still stands regardless, use pre -LLM numbers if you want, it doesn’t necessarily change the picture all that much.
I would argue that most web traffic is bots. Scrapers are everywhere, all the time, constantly. The uptick of LLM search tools is bringing ever more of them online, too.
Whether that kind of web traffic has an account on Reddit, probably not. But Reddit bots surely could upvote/downvote/report to influence things rather than just posting?
What profit incentive is there for bots that don’t interact?
I always figured they trigger ad views, which financially benefit Reddit itself.
Vote manipulation?
Spoken like a true enthusiast 🫂 🤝
fuck u/spez
Who cares about spez?
Is there a piefed sub?
Yes but it’s empty. I made it just so someone else couldn’t.
I crossposted the v1.2 release there so it wouldn’t be empty, just in case anyone stumbles on it
Thanks, I was thinking that’d be a good use of it!
They’re scared of us
Ngl this is like YouTube is scared of Vimeo, they don’t care at all. Lemmy is such a laughably small percentage of their user base that they probably couldn’t care less.
Why even bother? Let them fucking die in Reddit. They choosed it, not us!
“But, but, but Reddit has communities that we don’t have here” make one and promote it.Ps: talking about Reddit when we said we gonna abandon it, does the opposite.
How many people here learned about Lemmy through Reddit? I did. Can’t use Lemmy if you don’t even know it’s an option.
Its way better than it used to be. I don’t know if that’s just because there’s less drama happening right now regarding reddit, but I didn’t get a flooded front page when reddit’s chatbot citations started plummeting which is a huge improvement over the past.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4501843-reddit-bulls-react-chatgpt-citations-fall
I don’t think we should never talk about reddit, but I think it gets really annoying when people start clickbait spamming with Reddit headlines which hasn’t happened in a while.
It’s because the election season is long over already.
talking about Reddit when we said we gonna abandon it, does the opposite.
Yeah, but I still like watching the shitshow.
Can’t argue with that. 🤷🤷🤷
Good point.
relevant discussion on Reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1nzbt8b/reddit_has_banned_rlemmy/
[–]vernes1978 4 points 4 hours ago
This is reddit.
Nobody has to explain anything here.[–]eccsoheccsseven 1 point 4 hours ago
It’s basically Stalinism
I’m glad they cleared that up, if people believe this shit, and the spooky stalin stories why are they still using reddit? Won’t stalin find out? I hear he’s got spys everywhere, maybe even in this thread!
I mean
occumsOccam’s Razor, are we sure the mod(s) didn’t delete their accounts leaving the community unmoderated or something?occums razor
Get your mind out of the gutter.
are we sure the mod(s) didn’t delete their accounts leaving the community unmoderated or something?
does that result in this error message?
This community has been banned for violating the Reddit rules.
No
*Occam’s Razor
I like how you guys promote Reddit! Bravo!
Lmao block this idiot
Spez moment.
Have they given any explanation/justification?
This community has been banned for violating the Reddit rules.
