this explains why so many people have their funny R*ddit cake day today

  • 🏳️‍⚧️ Elara ☭M
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    I predicted it the second my friend introduced me to r/GenZedong. I even said “They should start a Lemmy instance because I guarantee this sub is going to get banned.” Then I saw someone mention lemmygrad and joined. Three months later, r/GenZedong was quarantined.

    The past year has been very interesting for me, to say the least. I became an ML, I finally got out of the hell known as the US educational system, I was diagnosed with ADHD and Autism, and I finally stopped denying that I’m trans. Lots of major events in very quick succession. By giving me a greater understanding of myself and the world, all of you were a big part of those events. Thanks, comrades. o7

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      That’s how I did it except I had a Lemmy account from the ol Chapo days and had forgotten about it.

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    My favorite part was how the Quarantine didn’t stop us whatsoever so the admins stepped in and made the sub impossible to access.

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      Is there another sub like it? SLS seems the closest but they keep it within Reddits limits, which is fair what can you do but genzedong was a lot of fun.

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        r/thedeprogram, r/dongistan, and r/tankiesandtankinis? I haven’t been on Reddit much since a couple weeks after it was quarantined. Edit: r/sendinthetanks is still a thing

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          Yeah I basically just don’t use Reddit these days and that’s probably for the best but GZD was something special.

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    Aren’t there actual hateful subreddits still permeating the site?

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      The fact that the ‘fascism reclaimed’ and ‘true fascism’ subs still exist speaks volumes about Reddit lol.

      Freeze peach absolutism when quarantining a far left sub but keeping the fash ones alive lmao.

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        I’m sure once those subs get too much bad press, Reddit will get rid of them… alongside some communists subreddits

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      2ironicallyracist4u subs continue to proliferate.

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      Plenty, but actual hate typically doesn’t threaten the capitalist status quo.

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      Even if I wasn’t perma’d on reddit for somethign stupid, I’m certain this Ukraine shit would’ve done me in. Especially considering how absolutely rabid reddit was for those first 6 months.

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        I don’t even remember why i was banned, i think something along the convergence line between ukraine war and that crazy patsoc hysteria back then when people there were jumping over their heads to prove how orthodox they are in two or three directions at the same time.

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        i was permad for calling biden a pedo + advocating violence against the rich + hating ukraine + “actual reason” being saying that a chinese weapon was to kill fascists.

        They get you for the tax evasion, kids, not for the big deal.

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          Yeah Reddit reacts poorly to caling people fascists I’ve found. That’s how I lost one of my alts.

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    Deeply pathetic and sad that they’re happy about banning the only sub against US foreign policy.

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    We were banned for literally no reason. I was on the sub and following since 2019, we were at peak when we were quarantined while we just started getting bigger and bigger. Who knows how many subs would we have today. I never thought that Lemmy could replace the reddit sub, but it proved otherwise. We’re still quarantined and I don’t know if we’ll be back or just straight banned one day. And yes, all of this while racist, incest, real gore, pornographic, fascist and nazi subs still exist openly and no one is saying anything about it there.

    Many old mods and members disappeared for some reason, like Grace, Environmental Data, Stalin’s Spoon etc, I don’t know what happened to them and some of the others here on Lemmy, but tens of thousands of users didn’t come here for some reason, what happened to them?. I came here after the quarantine and suspension of reddit account, but suspension was lifted and I planned to stay there until we eventually get banned, but rddit being rddit I was perma suspended months ago, this time for good and without a single explanation, just ‘‘multiple violations of reddit policy’’, nothing else. So I went off and since then, idk what’s happening there.

    Even if we get unquarantined somehow, at this point it wouldn’t be the same and I think that we’re better off even if we still don’t have user base in strong numbers. I was assaulted on reddit and few other social media a couple of times just because of being myself, I never saw a community so accepting like here, thank you guys!🖤

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      joining here was difficult, and many just didnt feel like commiting to yet another platform.

      Part of genzedong was mockign reddit and providing an alaternative, tbh.

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      “What happened to them”

      I’m sure there are a lot of people on the Genzedong and tankie bunker discords that aren’t on here. Also plenty are still on r/thedeprogram, r/sendinthetanks etc. Edit: the subs have 15.9k and 16.3k respectively, in the top 5% of subs

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          They probably haven’t heard about Lemmygrad. It’s rather difficult to post invitations to this site and get anyone to see it. I guess a lot of people didn’t see the original gzd post recommending places for refugees to go. Last I tried I got maybe one in a r/thedeprogram post while the rest stayed at neutral in karma. Maybe we should collectively reach out, collectively promote a single call to join so it looks more organic?

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    oh word that’s why i have a cake day

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    Where actually did the last year go, feels like I barely got anything done smh

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      Existential dread sets in every year I feel like I got nothing done.

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    My interpretation of the quote: “It is only hateful when it is the truth that the spoiled childish free riders with very fragile ego in the Pax Americana order do not like it”

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    Happy quarantine Anniversary :(

    But at least it got me to move to Lemmygrad :)