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Why are people saying this was Reddit’s april fools? It clearly says it’s made by /r/gamesonreddit, not the admins.

I’m confused about what you’re trying to say here. You got warned for violent commentary after making a violent comment? That sounds like it makes perfect sense to me. This isn’t a Luigi situation, breaking someone’s fingers IS undeniably violence.

Swiss/Allemanic German. Specifically I speak Zug’s dialect.

That’s perfect, exactly what I meant to say.

Mer chönd das scho probiere, aber denn müsst mer ja di ganz Ziit en Übersetzer zur Hand ha, wär denn doch nöd die best UX würdi säge. Das würd d’Neuakömmlige nur no meh verschüüche.

unless you want to create a nazi robot supervillian

That’s just Musk.

Reddit didn’t remove it, the moderators did. On Shreddit, there’s a note:

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/YouShouldKnow.

It’s still available on your profile, I can still see it there. So clearly Reddit didn’t do shit.

Edit: While I’m looking at shreddit, looking at the rules in the sidebar, I think it was removed due to rule 3:

YSKs regarding Reddit, Facebook, Twitter or any other social media are NOT ALLOWED.

I personally disabled voting. Can’t get banned for upvoting “violence” if I don’t upvote anything in the first place.

No one gets banned from Reddit for promoting Lemmy, it’s just some subreddits (like /r/technology) which are overzealous. But not the site as a whole.

The link seems broken somehow on kbin.earth (don’t know if Mbin in general), so for anyone having the same issue, here’s the actual link taken from Lemmy.

Also for context for Lemmy users reading this, this is the link I see: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1jf1dy5/https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1jf1bxy/private_messages_will_be_replaced_with_reddit//

I just turned off my adblocker and can’t get a single ad on Bing no matter what I try. The link there has zero ads for me.

I did look at the article, and I don’t understand how those can be classified as ads (edit: my bad, didn’t see the “sponsored” label in the screenshot; still, not a single “sponsored” result for me), but I don’t even get those either anyway.

Edit: what I do get:

• an ai-generated box giving some general advice (with sources)
• links to guides on how to do it
• websites of companies which deal with garages
• several videos on how to do it
• websites of car repair companies because it ran out of local garage repair ones and has to fill in more related links
• websites of general repair shops
• a list of related searches to try

None of those are ads.

It’s a lot better nowadays than Google, so I do, yeah.

The website doesn’t work for me, the request times out.

Words have multiple meanings. Looking at Wiktionary:

1. Delayed; delayed in development, hindered; impeded. [from 17th c.]
2. (psychology, sometimes offensive, dated) Having mental retardation; mentally deficient or underdeveloped.
3. (psychology, sometimes offensive, dated) Specifically, having an IQ below 70.
4. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extremely stupid; obtuse [from 20th c.]
5. (physics) Designating a parameter of an electromagnetic field which is adjusted to account for the finite speed of radiation. [from 20th c.]

I’m interpreting OP as meaning the first one here, which isn’t marked as offensive.

Probably because of the Adblock Plus mention. It’s mired in controversy because of its acceptable ads toggle and requiring ad giants to pay for it. So I can imagine people downvoting comments that put it in a positive light compared to other adblockers.

Thanks! Does Lemmy display something when people have their cake day so it’s easily visible? Mbin (which I use) doesn’t, so I wasn’t actually aware until I saw your comment.

They mentioned the flaws of both platforms.

In our case, it’s no established support for moving accounts.

I’m a bit confused as an Adblock Plus user, why did the ublock dev drop those features? ABP uses manifest v3 too and it still has all of those. So it’s clearly not about them being impossible.

I’m an Mbin user.

Mbin is a fork of kbin. Kbin’s dev didn’t really trust people much, so he wanted to have sole control over what code gets added to kbin. Which led to issues when he wasn’t available and development just came to a halt for months because no one could accept changes anymore. The other devs wanted more control so they could actually get shit done, so they decided to fork the project instead.

How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

I think the biggest difference is really the fact that you can subscribe to not just communities but also users. This is where the superior Mastodon compatibility comes into play by allowing us to see posts that don’t mention communities. Lemmy only sees Mastodon posts if they mention a community explicitly or an Mbin user has interacted with it.

There’s also other stuff like public upvotes, boosting, tags, reputation (karma), and custom community CSS. I don’t really know Lemmy well enough to give a full list of where they differ.

They don’t. Some subreddits ban it, not Reddit itself.

I think a big problem I see with several pro-lemmy comments in that thread (but also other threads) is that they completely miss the point of the user and just try to shove down the same message that isn’t actually relevant to OP.

Like when OP complains about the user experience with the example of accessing a not-yet-federated community, clearly a mechanical problem that can’t easily be fixed by a redesign, and the replies advertise alternate Lemmy frontends or apps. Those don’t help with OP’s issue at all.

Or when OP says that they’ll probably just leave social media entirely when Reddit goes bad, and people tell them to use Lemmy apps…

It honestly feels sometimes like I’m reading bot responses. Imo this is just turning people off even more, the ads need to be more context aware.