I’m just curious why some people come here; in my case, it’s because it’s not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.

  • rslogix89@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Reddit has just been steadily declining in quality the past few years.

    The bullshit with the api and 3rd party apps was the start of it for me. I use to love alien blue. Then came the censorship… I’ve gotten two warnings so far within maybe a year of each other about upvoting, not making a comment or a post that would be offensive, inappropriate, or alarming but a fucking up vote. Apparently it violates a Reddit rule. Best part… they won’t even fucking tell me what I upvoted that was so egregious.

    That was the final straw for me.

    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I can help you spoof the API and get your favorite third party app going again, if you really want. I was using RIF up until a few weeks ago. Still works too, I just got banned and decided it wasn’t worth it to start over.

  • percent@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    Less corporate, less centralized, open source tech. I don’t quite fit in here, but I guess I’m weird enough to stick around anyway 🙂

  • BranBucket@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Got pissed at corporate social media for the way they’ve accelerated the damage being done to our already degraded public discourse but I still needed somewhere to doomscroll and find… gifs… of… nothing in particular…

  • 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I remember I was talking to a dev who worked for Facebook and he mentioned that big tech shadowbans users and suppress posts which can affect them or the ruling government and nobody will notice it and eventually all thr outrage dies down.

    Gave me an example of how people have accepted phones without headphone jack, microsd etc. And are now okay with it.when apple and google wants something to sell, they shadownban and suppress posts that create outrage.

    Another example was Facebook pays billions to ISP in 3rd world countries to lobby their government and then pays phone manufactures to preinstall Facebook so it never gets banned even after toppling government, fake news, killings , terrorism etc.

    So basically using decentralised apps and avoiding apps controlled by single entity especially built in US us the only way you don’t get brainwashed.