They are censoring a post over on r/technology about the fediverse.
Honestly. That is good news. The last time people came here from Reddit, Lemmy became way worse with more insufferable users.
If we expect to build a mature and sustainable platform, we have to learn how to deal with the negative aspects of what new people of all backgrounds bring with themselves.
Ya I mean the people who were here before the APIcalypse aren’t exactly the most amiable group either, to say the least.
Also the guy you’re responding to made his account June 15, 2023, he was almost certainly part of the original wave of reddit migrants. Not sure what he could be referring to about the last time people came from reddit, I don’t remember any big waves since the original one.
It’s like those people who move to NYC from a different region of the country and start complaining about gentrification and suburban commuters after living in a highrise for 2 years. Like bitch, you are the gentrification, and those suburbanites are a hell of a lot more familiar with the city than your ass even if they don’t live inside its limits. Sorry if that’s unrelated, I just hate gatekeeping.
This feels like such a Post-Reddit Migration Lemmy response. You are trying to invalidate what I am saying by calling me part of the problem I am talking about.
I had a Reddit account, but I actually deleted my account in March, prior to the announcement of the API changes. I was then convinced to join Lemmy by a third party on Discord in mid-June, thus my account creation date. The first real wave of Reddit joiners took place shortly after June 30, as this is when the API changes went into effect. One month later in August, the Hexbear instance would be created. Around this time, there was a flood of CSAM posts in every community on the .world instance. To say that the quality of Lemmy as a whole went down when this happened would be a massive understatement.
My account creation was coincidentally two weeks before the Reddit API changes took place, but that does not make what I said invalid just because I used to have a Reddit account.
Applauding that.
Gatekeeping is never good, it doesn’t really matter who perpetrates it. Lemmy and Fediverse as a whole should be welcoming places for newbies to get into, not the barren battlefield angry to be disturbed.
But this conflict is as old as time - think of Eternal September, for example.
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Sure it wasn’t a pissy mod? They are control freaks after all.
Reddit deleted it? That seems underspecified. Was it actually the company / admins?
So that means they feel threatened by us, that’s good news!
