i left reddit for good today with their obvious attempt at controlling the narrative like the rest of big social media. long live the lemmy federation
This was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I remember seeing something a while back on r/coolguides about alternatives for various sites, including Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Today, I saw the writing on the wall and decided it was time.
The worst isn’t just the Luigi thing, it’s that in the future, they will most likely expand it to include any topic that the administration disapproves of.
Reddit has only one consistently-enforced rule: don’t sass the nazis.
Sass the nazis, I say! Sass them to the grave.
my sentiment exactly. this is just the start of it. once they became a publicly traded company, it was no longer a social media for the people. may free speech live on ✊
welcome! it ain’t perfect here, but at least it’s decentralized and harder to manipulate in favor of the oligarchs.
I am new here, and I actually like everything about it. It’s very simplified. But the fact that it’s decentralized is the key reason to why I moved here.
Butt fuck pastries for elfs!!!
See, that sentence may not make sense, but we have free speech here, so I can say it as much as I want!
BUTT FUCK PASTRIES FOR ELFS!!!
Welcome to Lemmy, hope you have a great time.
Same, the site is no better than facebook or instagram now.
Welcome!
It’s not so much the guy they’re afraid of, they’re afraid of what his actions could spur others into repeating. They’re afraid of what can be done to them if multiple people follow suit. And y’know what? Maybe that’s what we need now. Enough of us fearing them, and them fearing us. We don’t need them. They need us. And it’s well past the time to give them a reminder of that. Through force, if necessary. Preferably without bloodshed, but at this rate it doesn’t look good. They’ve shown time and again they don’t care about how many of us lose our lives to preventable circumstances, so it’s time to MAKE them care again.
Remember, they’re not threatened by Luigi. They’re threatened by the fact that so many people love Luigi and what he stands for.
This. He’s basically a martyr at this point.
Luigi reminded the people that we have power. We don’t need to be subservient to the whims of corporate interests. We can choose to go a different way. He’s in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO who is devoid of empathy or ethics (which is all of them). Anyone could be the perpetrator, anyone could be the target.
It’s like a large chunk of the USA is now part of anonymous. Expect us.
(And for anyone who binds anonymous with 4chan, you don’t understand anonymous)
He’s in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO
Let’s be real, all it takes is one person struck by tragedy who no longer has anything to live for choosing to go out this way rather than going quietly. Maybe their kid was killed in the nth school shooting of the year. Maybe they’re dying of cancer due to delayed treatment. Maybe they’re financially ruined by medical debt. Like you said Luigi reminded people of what is possible, and there’s plenty of tragedies that can be correctly attributed to the choices of the rich that happen every day
It is amazing how much fear Luigi has put into the establishment.
Kill one rich guy - complete and utter censorship.
Be a rich guy who is a twice impeached convicted felon presidential traitor making decisions resulting in casualties over the thousands - whoah, now, wouldn’t want their feelings to be hurt!
State of the world in a nutshell.
Welcome, hope you will enjoy your stay as much as I did. Water is just fine over here
thank you! free speech for everyone!
There’s still lots of moderation on Lemmy, but thankfully it’s all public. The lemmy.world modlog can be found here https://lemmy.world/modlog.
I havent seen a lot happen if a mod goes off the deep end though. If a system can be broken in a way, its inevitable it will be. This place wil be captured by the same special interests reddit has, I’d bet money on it. But, I’ll enjoy it till then.
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Luigi Mangione 💚
Yessss.
Was that AI generated? That is fucking sick, my dude. I’m gonna save it
Yeah, another db0 user has posted it in a chat and I snagged. Amazing job on it. I was floored
Here’s the original in higher quality and less cropping: https://i.imgur.com/XzgU9AS.mp4
The watermark in the bottom right corner says KLING AI 1.6
This is so cool! Did you do some kind of reverse image search?
Nah way dumber than that. I had the original Imgur file saved locally from when it was posted a few weeks ago, but I forgot it was from Imgur. I just searched Luigi Mangione and the name of the file and found one hit on Reddit using the URL lol
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No, not because of that guy. Because of us. They are afraid of us. They should be.
Not sure. I’m still surprised things are so calm, considering the widespread availability of guns in the population.
All the people praising Luigi say “this does nothing” when someone suggests an alternative to just shooting CEOs. Well you know what did nothing? Shooting Brian Thompson did nothing. United Health Group just hired a new CEO to run his division, and the real oligarchs continued looting the country even harder than before.
So no, they don’t feel threatened. The top oligarchs like Elon barely even registered it. If you wanna know what they’re afraid of, look at where they spend money - buying politicians and opposing attempts to regulate them and break up their monopolies. Lucky for them there is no well funded lobby for consumers, people denied health care, or even the poor and middle class generally. Tell the next Luigi to work on that if you really wanna scare these people.
BCBS reversed their decision to not cover anesthesia like a day after Thompson got deposed. It turns out direct action is actually effective
The top oligarchs like Elon barely even registered it.
Elon admitted to Jon Rogan a week or two ago that he’s using his kid as a human shield to protect himself from an assassin.
If you wanna know what they’re afraid of, look at where they spend money - buying politicians and opposing attempts to regulate them and break up their monopolies.
Actually, mob justice and dying actually does scare them. It’s the one thing they can’t just buy their way out of.
Welcome! A few pointers to help you settle in
Feel free if you have any questions
It’s the Luigi overpowered as can be.
Naw, ever see A Bug’s Life where the Crickets only bully the ants because it’s to distract them from realizing a thousand ants are stronger than one cricket?
Yes but in my version it was grasshoppers and not crickets
I left reddit for good yesterday as well. To hell with their censorship.
He “allegedly” killed one of them. So they should feel threatened.
Well, Trump said that they will push to get the death penalty for drug dealers…
Lock and load, folks.
We’re hunting pharmaceutical CEOs.
