My previous comment: Exactly I’ve never needed a gun I think its purely marketing and social expectations causing Americans to default to “muh guns” when someone’s mentioned self defense. Like if ur up against guns js wear body armour at all times rather than trying to be john wick.

Editing to add my other comment which adds why it acc worsens tyranny: I’ve been stabbed too. Ive never felt the need to carry a gun. I face a lot of risk anytime I leave my house esp rn acc due to political unrest essentially I still don’t feel the need for guns yet the government do feel the need for arming trained police (known for corruption and violence where I’m from) who I think are a lot more likely to kill me than someone w a knife. As I mentioned tho I still don’t feel the need to arm myself against those people infact doing so would worsen the situation as I’d be more of a threat and could be further used for the narrative justifying the arming of police in the first place

Edit: if an unarmed person is shot by police even if its attempted to be covered up the people who were there will know what happened. if I try to shoot the police because im threatened and they shoot back that’s going to worsen things. I don’t see how its better to carry a gun in this situation

Everyone else is. It’s the subject of this thread.

I know. I’m not saying Lemmy is perfect. But the only censorship I’ve experienced was on .ml (surprise surprise) and I haven’t been banned, not even from an individual sub/instance.

It’s got problems but it isn’t Reddit levels of trash.

Lemmy allows me to support our Constitutional rights. That alone makes it better than Reddit.

i personally don’t mind, but i think some communities have rules about not reposting from reddit

Would people appreciate it if I were to repost a bunch if things from reddit all the time? I don’t want to start spamming

They would if the content hasn’t been posted yet on lemmy.

I guess that begs the question, is spending the majority of your time on a generally censorship free site like Lemmy, but continuing to spend some time on the most popular site of its kind that does censor, in order to combat misinformation, defend our rights, and promote a better site morally wrong? Is it worth conbributing to their ad revenue? When you know the site is so popular it isn’t going anywhere anyway?

Either way, this is a Lemmy sub about Reddit and you can’t really know everything that’s going on with Reddit unless you’re logged in and contributing in some way.

Personally, I believe correcting misinformation and spreading awareness about our rights is worth continuing to login on a sporadic basis.

Yeah, I’ll share it right here. It’s just a script you copy/paste into your browser’s console. Basically, you’re on a page that lists all your subs with a “join” button next to them. The script tells the browser to click the “join” button then move to the next one and click “join”, so on and so forth.

• Visit https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/ using your old account

• Copy link address of “multireddit of your subscriptions” you can see on the right side near the top.

It will give you a link address like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/[subreddit1+subreddit2...+subredditN]

• Visit that link using your new account.

• Open the console in your browser by pressing F12 and then click the console tab

• Paste the code below and press enter (everything I put between the =====)

================================================

const sub = () => {

           let btn = document.querySelector(".add.active");

           if(btn) {

                          btn.click();

                          setTimeout('sub()', 5000);

           } else {

                          alert("You have subscribed to all the subreddits successfully");

                          return;

           }

}

setTimeout(‘sub()’, 5000);

=============================================

Like I said, it can take a while if you have a lot of subs because of that 5000ms delay between each “click” to prevent Reddit from detecting you’re adding too many subs too quickly. So just leave that tab alone for a while. Then, make sure you refresh that tab when done, because sometimes there will be a few subs that the script didn’t work on for some reason and I just have to find them in the list and manually click the “join” button. Worked fine with every sub on the new account I created yesterday though.

So when I’m banned I just copy that big “multireddit of your subscriptions” link and paste it into a notepad window temporarily. Then I reset my browser, open it back up and open a private browsing tab, create a new Reddit account, and continue following the steps above. I also have a browser (Brave) set aside specifically for Reddit. That way I can reset my browser and not really care about clearing settings for other sites.

I just create a new account on Outlook.com every time. Takes like 60 seconds, if that. Once I create it I only need it to get the Reddit confirmation email. Then I never need it again.