Yeah, for me it was just on step too far. I was trying to ask questions on a board about a niche topic for my book and I was deleted. I messaged the mods and they told I was leeching off of them for free buzz and I wouldn’t get approved. Meanwhile I posted on another board about the same topic and everyone was super friendly and was really excited a normie was asking questions. I realized that over my time on reddit, I’ve developed this massive anxiety about posting. Most of these subreddits I frequented have hundreds of rules, and dozens of sub rules under each.

So I’d inevitably get deleted and harassed by the mods because of things like, having the tags on the wrong side of the title, posting more than 3 times in a week, including the three dots thing (…) somewhere in my post, or my favorite, referring to the users as ‘the hive mind’. That last one got me banned from several subs by this power mod. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve spent all night trying to get approved to no avail (I’m very persistent when I need information). Just to when I finally arrange all of the words to be in the right order for the tyrants to approve me. Just to get downvoted into oblivion and people spamming me with all manners of insults and treating me like an idiot. Fuck spez and fuck reddit.

Phew! Sorry, didn’t mean to dump that on you. Like I said, today was the last straw for me. Anxiety is dropping, finally.

Looks like the assholes are coming out of the woodwork. That’s gonna happen when a bunch of new users come. What a geekezoid amiright?

I would love to know what you said?

I’d definitely subscribe to an instance like that. Especially if Lemmy posts scraped from reddit would start appearing in google searches which could possibly boost web traffic to Lemmy!

What the fuck happened with Supernovae?! Is this trolling? How the hell can he not see that he’s selling everyone down the damn river. Meta is not to be trusted! We all left cesspools like Facebook to escape the Zuck. Why in the mf is Supernovae even considering this much less actually doing it? Can someone please tell me he’s just trolling, please?

What does FediAct do?

Thank you! I just looked it up in the mobile web version but I’ll be sure to use that.

I’m glad you’re having a good time! This place does feel different doesn’t it? In a good way.

Yeah that’s a valid concern. I was thinking of making a blades in the dark community but a lot of people pointed out that there already isn’t much content on these rpg communities as it is. So splitting it up would be pointless.

That’s a cool way to look at it! “Sssk this is the SS Lemm.ee hailing the SS Behaw over, over.”

May I ask what you mean by the “food truck version of Reddit”?

Ooohh I didn’t think of that!

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Wow! That is a lot of history on the web to have actually lived through. I started on Facebook of all things, my parents lied about my age to get me an account where I mostly just played games. I was on and off for years, trying to connect with people, share opinions and ideas, and get chased off the site by the mobs of angry people would would harass me whenever I posted something.

I messed with Twitter, and Snapchat (both were as brain dead as Facebook) nothing really connected with me, until I found Reddit. I found the site in my early teens after watching channels like EmKay and I subscribed to all of babies first Reddit subs. I used the site for many years but it was frustrating. I would ask questions or share my opinion on something, and basically just get ignored, or attacked by deranged users who wouldn’t even answer my question but insult me for being a n00b or just debase my character based on an opinion (stupid stuff like if you like Darth Vader you’re a n@zi) or there were so many rules, SO many rules! There were certain subs I frequented that had over one hundred rules, and I would try to post over and over and over again but there would be some rule that I broke, like having the tags on the other side from the title, or misspelling tags, or not using the official mandatory start word like aita, or my favorite, referring to the group as the ‘hivemind’. Whatever!

It just felt geeky and tyrannical more so than Facebook even. I got tired of getting downvoted into oblivion post posting basically anything so I left, only coming back a few days ago to find the crap show going on. I had heard people say that the Fediverse is a nicer place than Reddit so I went here and I’m not regretting it in the slightest.

I never experienced the internet during the old king of the hill days, with AOL and IRCs (though I wish I did) but this place has a nice, retro feel to it that is just delicious. My parents used to talk about their time on AOL and how everyone was nice in those days. They’d get random people wishing them a happy birthday, just because, imagine that! I missed those days even though I never lived them (try to figure that out) and I think this is my equivalent.

Thanks for getting back to me so quick! Yep I did that I know the rules now. Very simple, I like them.

I have a really strange question. How do you access the sidebar on the Jerboa for Lemmy app? I really want to read the rules but can’t find them. I’m sure it’s easier on desktop I just don’t have access to that right now. If anyone could help out I’d really appreciate it!

On behalf of all the refugees out there I can’t thank you enough for creating this instance. I was shocked that subreddits with millions of followers, were willing to shoot themselves in the foot and jeopardize their userbase and the years information they contained just to play slackivist. It got to the point that I couldn’t use reddit because of my subs were privated. If people really want to stick it to the man at RedditHQ, leave. Reddit was supposed to be about the people and the community. I guess we forgot about…

Enough about that, thank for making a place for us Reddit expatriates and refugees.