this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Lemmy Shitpost

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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

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2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

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3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

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4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

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5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

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6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

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If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


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9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


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[–] unrightful 247 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Goodnight Apollo, my sweet prince.

Hello Memmy 🫑

[–] garretble 96 points 2 years ago (24 children)

You may have already seen this, but there is a web app for Lemmy that looks and functions very similar to Apollo:

https://wefwef.app/

I’ve been trying it today, and it’s pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

WTF! i been on lemmy for 2 weeks and this is my first time seeing this! Thanks

e: This is friggin amazing!

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[–] Clbull 123 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

I think a lot of moderators are just going to back down and return to business-as-usual from tomorrow. Reddit will suffer as a business but this isn't going to downright kill the site. Unlike say... Tumblr or OnlyFans, Reddit has a far more diverse clientele and many of them couldn't give a shit about third-party apps.

These half-arsed protests staged after the 14th June have told me that most of Reddit's mods are fucking cowards who are more afraid of losing their status as internet janitors than all the third-party apps.

Reddit's moderators could have easily brought the site to its knees if they just collectively stopped enforcing rules (including site-wide ones), removed Automoderator, unbanned everybody, then told the community to just go nuts.

The mods of /r/interestingasfuck had the right idea by encouraging users to post NSFW content, since this would have chased away advertisers in droves.

I mean the whole "sexy pics of John Oliver" protest that /r/pics had isn't going to chase away advertisers and was something that Spez could easily ignore, but having your content displayed alongside a flood of explicit pornographic images definitely will.

[–] AndreTelevise 41 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I'd argue it will become like Facebook, with the younger and more intelligent crowd leaving the site.

[–] veroxii 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Excuse me! I'm older and more intelligent, thank you very much.

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[–] ssorbom 110 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Even as somebody who has never used, and will likely never need Apollo, I am really grateful for what he did. However unintentionally, I think he ripped the mask off how rotten the management structure was. It's one thing to sell ads and collect hidden metadata. Pretty much all the apps do it. But the whole way Reddit treated him was beyond despicable.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid 78 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. When I saw the Apollo thread, my first thought was 'Nah, not even spez would do this' but I choked on that very fast when I saw the e-mails, the audio recordings and everything. It was so blatant, so asinine, so horribly fucked up.

I've never used the Apollo app, but millions of people did and in stead of thanking him for all his work, reddit just stabbed him in the back. Can't believe there are people still taking reddit's side on this, it's crazy.

[–] LUHG_HANI 26 points 2 years ago

undefined> Can’t believe there are people still taking reddit’s side on this, it’s crazy.

The AMA where Christian called his bluff was just magical.

[–] Cornpop 103 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Sure hope things take off here. Fuck reddit.

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[–] kaseijin 90 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Over a decade lurking on reddit; never posted. Just made a lemmy account. I don't need lemmy to be "the next big thing"... just need it to not be overrun by bots and astroturfing. Hopefully some of the smaller subs I visit move over.

[–] Famko 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yeah, my least favourite part about all of this is that I had to abandon most of the smaller subreddits I was active in.

Oh well, they'll reform here, I bet

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[–] VaidenKelsier 79 points 2 years ago (20 children)

I just joined Lemmy today after uninstalling Reddit Is Fun. It was absolutely surreal just how much habit was in pulling out my phone and pressing the space where RIF used to be. Decided I'm kind of mostly done with Reddit other than quick information look ups on the website.

So here I am! First post! The only constant in life is change. Hello everyone, I hope we all get along! :)

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[–] TheVampireSaga 79 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Holy shit this is about to be the top post for the instance, welcome, everyone who's new!!! be sure to check the Communities page for World.

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[–] shrootfarms 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Reddit refuge here. I hope it doesn't crash!

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[–] Cere 62 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Was sent here by RIF. Thanks for everything buddy your app was perfect

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[–] ConfuzedAZ 59 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Big ol fuck spez. Sync just closed down. I'm done with Reddit.

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[–] creed10 51 points 2 years ago (15 children)

just got a 429 message from RiF. there it goes

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[–] KijinSeija 49 points 2 years ago (17 children)

It’s already begun - I’ve been getting β€œunable to fetch posts”-type errors since this morning. Hang on tight folks, it’ll be a wild ride as we welcome the flood of new Fledditors!

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[–] denemdenem 44 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I didn't think infinity would be finite but tomorrow we'll reach the end of Infinity for sure

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[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fellas, it's been an honor

drowning noise

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[–] BetaRebooter 43 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Ahoy, former RIF user migrating over. I hope this place grows to be my new internet home!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One more day until Reddit Isn't Fun... :(

It's been a good run, but without RiF the site is worthless.

That being said, it paves the way for the Fediverse to grow, so rather than celebrating the end of an era, I'm enjoying the birth of a new one.

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[–] renrenPDX 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, if you told me a couple months ago, that I would stop using Reddit, I wouldn't believe you. I've been on it over a decade. It took Spez ONE MONTH to undo everything and make that a reality.

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[–] berno 40 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Excited for Lemmy.

Reddit was it was good while it lasted, but it was just a container for online communities. The AP protocol is superior to a centralized model in every way.

Onwards you beautiful nerds!

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[–] decadentrebel 40 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm a Relay user which is one of the few apps that are going to stick around, but I still opted out of Reddit anyway. As a mod, spez arrogance offends me.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (14 children)

The vibrant ecosystem of third party apps is what made Reddit, from what I've heard even the official app is a reskin of what used to be a third party apps. Pushing that ecosystem to Lemmy (I have 7 actively developing Lemmy apps installed on my phone) could spell eventual death for Reddit, and was a very unwise long term decision.

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[–] Finnagain 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Already seeing high latency for our instance. Guessing everyone realized the impending doom and created accounts on one of the easier instances to join. Welcome, fellow lemmings!

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[–] Prior_Industry 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The mods need to start moving across and recreating the communities.

[–] elskertesla 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We can all do our part! If you miss a subreddit, create it. Then just crosspost and add as much as possible until we get a critical userbase.

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[–] DoZzeRr 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I hope Lemmy will be successful, and maintain healthy communities.

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[–] MooseBoys 32 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Hello there, fellow refugees!

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

RIF was part of my life for a decade. It's crazy how emotional this experience has been. It feels like losing a home, a community, everything because some fuckface won't find a compromise.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Just joined the Lemmy-verse and getting everything setup. Hope u/spez rots in hell

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)

i'm doubting there will be a large exodus... why wouldn't they be here already?

[–] CavalierAlbatross 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There will be some but I doubt that it will be huge enough for Reddit to care. People will use their app, generate ad money. People willing to have ads in their experience probably have a higher tolerance for low quality posts, so any moderation changes likely won't be killer. That's my pessimistic take.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's about time for something better than reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Highly recommend purging / editing your comments before you go. I used PowerDeleteSuite for my main and alt accounts and it worked really well. If you've got thousands of comments and heaps of data it'll take ages, but it's an important step, leave them with nothing they can monetize

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[–] TheFriendlyArtificer 26 points 2 years ago (10 children)

First comment. Looking forward to the new(ish) community full of familiar faces.

I have a weird request to the other Redfugees: I had considered going through and nuking my entire post history for all of my accounts. But then I realized that a lot of the advice that I've given on /linux and /python would be lost. I'm not a master at either, but I like to think that I've helped people out.

So before deleting everything as a (justified!) middle finger to a terrible CEO, take into account that what you've written is a part of a tapestry of internet history. 99.99% is trite. But you never know what future generations will find interesting or useful.

Just my $0.02.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

another RIF user checking in. Good to have a place to come to. Let's hope this turns into something really good

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[–] Coskel 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And ladies. We are here as well. I started an audiobook sub for those who are interested

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