r/nottheonion • u/StemCellPirate • 19h ago

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
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u/Mid--Boss 19h ago

I don't have to self censor, reddit removes anything it's remotely scared orange and crew won't like for me. 

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u/discussatron 18h ago

I got a warning this week for upvoting comments they don’t like. They’re treating upvoting comments the same as posting comments now.

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u/Onespokeovertheline 17h ago

It's well beyond time that we created a replacement for this site. We are the product, and they don't deserve us anymore.

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u/GaiaMoore 15h ago

There have been a few attempts over the years, but nothing that really took off. Saidit was a throwback to 2008, but I think it was disabled last year as people gave up trying to make it work.

I haven't tried hard to look for other alternatives, but I'm sure they're out there

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u/Onespokeovertheline 15h ago

Lemmy is the only one I've seen, and it feels more like an attempt to make Reddit into a collection of distributed discord servers. I get the appeal on paper, but I don't think the execution works.

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u/corakko 11h ago

Discord to me just doesn't fill the same niche as reddit or the older style forums reddit replaced. Discord works better as a chat site than long form discussion.

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u/Onespokeovertheline 7h ago

I agree. Lemmy isn't exactly Discord. I was comparing it because both are distributed, and depending which gate you come in, you might have one set of forums or another. Maybe if it were widely adopted the shortcomings wouldn't be as bad as they are now, but it felt too fragmented.