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Nice. Might as well leave my first comment here. Hi!
Welcome
Howdy!
Probably we can thank king Trump and the magnificent 7 horseman.
Welcome all
Is anyone else just enjoying seeing people create actual user names again and not just using the automatically generated ones reddit has done for awhile?
Your name here isn't auto-generated? :P
They were doing surveys with the mods to see if they could tell between real and bot posts. I half wonder if it's by design and they seed their own bullshit with llms. That is my tiny tinfoil hat for the day. I do the surveys and feed them bad data then tell them they suck in the comments and they somehow have not banned me yet from them lol.
I hate them.
I run a cryptography forum on reddit (now here too). On reddit it's /r/crypto. Before the random suggested usernames every spam operation had to make up their own random username scheme. They ended up being mostly distinguishable because they used patterns normal people didn't. Now? A ton of users with limited activity are now indistinguishable from bots. So the subreddit has to be in restricted mode so only approved users can post, and for anybody with ambiguous post history I have to send them a request for more detail to be able to keep spammers out while still allowing genuine newbies to join to ask questions. Otherwise the spam volume just ends up being way too intense.
This is smart. I would take that advice, but right now my subs are in maintence mode as a form of slactivism. I don't post I just check in to delete a spam bot every few days.
I'd be here more if I didn't need to re-log in every few pages. It's annoying, and I haven't found a solution.
"What?! Logged out again?! Well, screw it, at least Reddit doesn't log me out every time I refresh a page."
This is what happened when I joined obviously
Reddit's auto moderation has gone haywire. You can't say anything bad about nazis now.
I legit got permabanned for implying that fascists deserve the fate of Mussolini.
Insane.
They can nazi how bad that is for them either
Ready for this
A lot of folks here are talking about Reddit being shitty but I switched because I'm in Europe and I don't want to enrich especially US Companies off of my personal data.
Same here: Deleted my 13y Reddit account along with every other US tech account except Google, as I need that for my livelihood.
Censorship wasn't the motivation, I rather want to permanently remove my support for the US economy in any way possible, given the shocking geopolitical events of this year and the way they are treating Ukraine.
Besides, the Federverse feels like going back to the internet's roots and I'm here for it!
Then you'll be happy to know that Lemmy is 100% EU funded.
That's really good to see. But it will be far more interesting to see what the numbers are a month and longer are from now. If they don't stick, it's pretty meaningless.
Historically, many stick and many bounce off.
They won't all stick. That's just the nature of things, no site/game/service/what-have-you boasts a 100% retention rate. Hell, not even heroin does. But with every MAU bump, some amount of them do stick around, and with every such increase to the baseline MAUs we get closer to critical mass.
If you are here and want lemmy to succeed, please consider donating. The devs used to get by mostly by nlnet foundation grants but are trying to shift to a more sustainable donation based model. You can see how they are doing on the join-lemmy website when you scroll down to the bottom, there are also links to their liberapay (preferred option) paetreon, etc.
I donated monthly for almost 2 years, and they never even added me on the donator page. Petty reason, but at this point I don't even know how much they care.