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Here I'm going to criticize the right real quick.

The right is so boring. Jeeze. Always hysterical. They don't like information that is rooted fact. So culturally hitlerist.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm beginning to suspect that my odd sitewide ban after 10 years on reddit was intentional

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No doubt mine was. Not that I was a loud voice just I didn't follow the pack. I deleted my main which I could post anything anywhere, no questions ask. Rebooted and was fine hopping around as soon as I started pressing "left leaning moderates" they tossed me. They were fermenting and alt left after years of alt right have nothing to normalize them. Landed right in the hot bed when I got here on lemmy.

Sad thing is what they did to twitch. I mean, just chatting ruined it years before but it use the serve a purpose. Now it's a political shit show. I saw it coming and banked a twitchnews tag, I forgot what it was but I wouldn't done anything with it any way.

[–] Lemminary 114 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"The left is boring"

Damn, imagine picking a side based on your need to be entertained.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago

The way I allways think about it when someone talks about politics being boring.

I compare it to a nuclear powerplant.

I don't want to live next to an exciting nuclear powerplant, if I had to live next to a nuclear powerplant, I want it to be as boring and as dull as possible.

Same with politics, I don't want an exciting government, I want a boring and predictable government.

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[–] pivot_root 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"They are completely uninterested in information that counters their views"

Oh, the irony.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Flaired users only

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You have been banned from /r/conservative

[–] dragontamer 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reddit is not our friend. But I guess us Lemmies already knew that.

But Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok are not our friend either. We need to consider the current social media landscape as right wing moving forward especially as more media moguls bow to Trump.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 28 points 1 week ago

We have to accept that the ones weilding all the power right now are accelerationists themselves. They want the government to fail and they want to install their own. Unsurprisingly, they also own all the tech companies you just listed.

[–] DarkFuture 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  1. Those are amateur numbers. The conservative sub has never been able to get upvoted posts even close to the top upvoted daily posts on Reddit.

  2. Most of us are here because it's become clear to us that Reddit is quickly devolving. 3rd party apps banned. Sub mods with enough power to get your entire account banned site-wide. Subs that auto-ban you simply for commenting in other subs they don't like. A new block system that changed to block your replies entirely, instead of just preventing the blocker from seeing your replies, so you cannot correct anyone's misinformation for others to see. And the propaganda and misinformation is simply off the charts.

Reddit is becoming a social media cesspool like so many others before it. Time to jump ship.

[–] Cikos 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

lemmy is better but not that better.

i always downvote AI stuff on lemmy and i noticed i cant downvote on main AI instances anymore recently. i never say anything, never comment.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i noticed i cant downvote on main AI instances anymore recently.

If all you ever did was to downvote content, maybe the mods did indeed ban you. We had a discussion recently on [email protected] on what to do in such situations.

I never say anything, never comment.

Seems like it

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why not just block the pervasive communities or instances? I get pretty annoyed with the AI content too, but it feels so much easier/satisfying to block the comms and know I'll never see them again lol

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[–] mesamunefire 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's very strange to see that subreddit on the front page every day since the election.

Before it would only hit once in a blue moon. It's too bad reddit did away with the up/downvote count a long time ago. To think you could actually get the real score on reddit. Now I have a feeling their algorithm is promoting certain posts like this one.

But that's why we are on Lemmy/pixelfed/etc.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe it's a good thing because it might signal left leaning people leaving but I think it's more likely they are seeing artificially boosted.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah it’s 100% astroturfed man fucking hell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The usernames alone make me suspicious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it looks formatted doesn’t it - word / hyphen / word / hyphen / number / lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s the Reddit default username generator. I always assume that they’re spam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

🤦‍♂️

Like to be honest probably pretty safe to assume about half of what happens on the internet is just bots talking to other bots*

*editors note: the author is well aware of the optimism in the idea that only half of internet traffic is bots, but whatever

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

All the actual left wing Redditors came here. The only thing left are the conservatives who don't hide being conservatives, and the nazis pretending to be leftists to troll.

[–] glimse 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's not true at all. I know a lot of lefties who still use reddit because their niche communities do not exist in any real capacity on lemmy

[–] chuckleslord 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can confirm. They're the only communities I still engage with back there (namely cremposting and wetlanderhumor)

[–] theherk 2 points 1 week ago

Tai'shar Malkier

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[–] douglasg14b 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

All the actual left wing Redditors came here.

Lemmy has 0.005% (no, this is not a typo) of the active users. For every million Reddit users, there are 50 Lemmy users. To try and put this in perspective, if reddit was the entirely of the United States, Lemmy would be a town of ~17,000 people. Or about 1/10th of a square mile of Manhattan during the day.

Let's not make up wild, inflated, statements like this . We aren't even large enough to make up a single medium sized reddit community. Nevermind actually affect change on Reddit by way of user migration.

[–] Doomsider 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, and it is everything I ever wanted it to be already. It is almost like having millions of users isn't the good thing everyone wants it to be.

[–] douglasg14b 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wasn't stating that it was.

Just stating the facts. In threads where delusioned Lemmy users act like they are having a big impact on Reddit.

We should focus on our community, how to grow it organically, how do we avoid bot hell? How do we foster something better? Instead of inflating egos and trying to stick it back at reddit, when we are but a blip.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

How many be bots tho

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Its gotta happen, right? Where the astroturfers are wasting time on friendly fire. Like two catfish meeting online?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They deserve each other

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[–] Freefall 21 points 1 week ago

Conservatives are so mad that the world is left-leaning. The denial and self-delusion is almost sad to see.

[–] x00z 20 points 1 week ago

I hate it that all these people call it "left wing" because there's censorship.

This censorship is actually right-wing censorship to protect their website from trouble from the left-wing. It's as simple as that.

Companies like Reddit and other social media don't care about the content. They only care about money and a reasonable good image.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tired of reporting this thread? Debate us on Discord instead!

That bot speaks a lot about the quality of the typical r/conservative thread

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Spoiler alert: they will just ban you on discord

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reddit is not real life

Funny, neither is Conservatism

[–] krashmo 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They won the election and made large gains with pretty much every demographic so in a very real sense, yes it is.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I assumed we were upvoting them to laugh at them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Reddit made Trump. Change my mind.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think the_donald gave him some more runway but really I think it was him calling into Fox and Friends that solidified his base.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

The media made Trump. That includes social media.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Really? Reddit? Above 4chan, FoxNews, Andrew Taint, Elon Musk and Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok and Instagram? Reddit???

Dont like that site either but this is absurd.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are so mad rn it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always upvote their posts in r/all so everyone can see what morons they are and laugh at them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Best to keep yourself informed so you can see all this madness and lack of empathy and critical thinking. They've been in their bubbles too long. 2025 polls show that they are becoming increasingly unpopular. They are so mad lol.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

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[–] LovableSidekick 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reality has a liberal bias that conservatives only overcome by rigging the system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Awww, one of them thinks they learned something..

[–] Treczoks 6 points 1 week ago

If you fail to locate the downvote button, don't complain.

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