I happen to like it very much.
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The people here are my people. However, Lemmy needs a bigger user base, and at the same time I fear that Eternal September
I find a lot of the people here to be extremely bitter resentful people. But I’m willing to give it a chance.
I had originally upvoted this comment but then I saw this gem you posted below:
Give me a break and stop huffing your own farts please.
Really classy.
acting like going through post history is discourse, like this, should merit a sitewide ban for 36 hours
I literally saw it three or four posts lower and recognized the name. I didn’t go through their history stalking them.
Full of commie rats
Agreed. I’m a liberal and I wouldn’t consider myself a “moderate liberal” in every respect either (I support universal healthcare and think public universities should be free), but lefties who think communism is actually a good idea mystify me. Every single country that’s gone down that road has devolved into a dictatorship, and that’s by design, not merely a flaw in execution. Communists are as bad as fascists; they both aim for authoritarian rule.
Don’t confuse communism with the tankies, as much as the tankies would like you to.
A tankie once told me that “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” was problematic. That’s when you know you aren’t dealing with a real communist and are in fact dealing with a Red Fascist.
I’m not. I know what communism is and why it sucks ass. Tankies are another breed altogether.
Why does communism(not tankies) suck and why are your politics better?
I believe I already explained that. Give me an example of a country going communist and not becoming a dictatorship.
My politics are better because they don’t result in that.
Every major power is sinking into dictatorship. Every major power is contributing to climate change, which will result mass deaths and displacements.
Oh, please, that’s got to be the biggest false equivalence I’ve heard in a while now. Every single communist nation has rapidly become a dictatorship, because that’s literally what’s supposed to happen in the transition phase. That’s totally different from real democracies being eroded by far-right extremists—and plenty of the world’s democracies are still fighting those extremists and their democracies are still alive. Stop hand-waiving away these stark differences with bullshit generalizations like that.
But what about ponies?
I still see and experience blind down voting and people missing each other’s points, but much less than on Reddit. Overall I’m more aligned with the viewpoints shared here, especially because the vibe on the other site has really changed a lot after over 10 years.
I definitely use lemmy a lot less for mindless scrolling, due to the lack of content, which is great to be honest.
I spend more time researching stuff through articles, forums, YouTube, and yes, also the other site still when it’s through specific Google searches.
I still see way more US centric content than I’d like but there’s definitely a good European presence, and it’s also on me because I’m still browsing basically the whole unfiltered feed at this point.
I am suprised, this is so overran by communist scum. Not much different from reddit.
Lemmy is all about community, most people here are from middle or lower class family and they don’t like riches bcz they have seen exploitation by them(mostly by big tech company), that’s why they oppose capitalism and hate capitalists but saying them communist(in the bad sense like the gov in russia and china) i think is wrong.
You can say us communist if you want to show the good things from communism ideology like caring about labor(all the hard working people) and stopping few people from gathering all the money and power(this is where russia and china failed).
Look, if i said about what was happening in my country during socialism, which we had before 89, I have got downvoted by butthurts that are ignoring history and facts. That regime lived of oppression of other people and anyone who defend it is communist scum. If i say I am againist any kind of racism, and that includes any color of skin, black, yellow, red, white, hell, even green, I am for them one that is racist, without any further evidence, because “racism against white people isnt possible, because it lack systematic oppression”. Hell no, they are again some neo marxist scum and therefore included in first category. I get they are usually just entitled ignorant american brats, but it is, what it is.
Politics flow out everywhere. ‘Republicans did that, (some other politic word) did that’ etc. Compared to reddit, at least my feed was from things I enjoy, not some ass-ham complaining about his problems.
Everything is political. “Apolitics” is apathy, which accepts the status quo, which is a political position.
It completely replaced Reddit for me. I love the project. It is getting better and better.
For better or worse, me too.
same :)
It is great since there is not a lot of content , I’ve had a lot free time for me to learn new things.
How do you get not enough content? I can scroll for hours.
I can scroll for hours on all or something, but when it comes to subbed magazines/communities I’m actually interested in, and then content within those I’m truly interested in engaging in, it gets trimmed down significantly
What i do is use Subscribed New and then once i am done with that i go to All Top past 12 hours to get a gist of what everyone else is talking about.
Not content that I care and I only use the subscribed and I am okay with it. I am not complaining.
Way better the Reddit, just wish my city subreddit would move over.
I’m glad mine didn’t. r/chicago is cesspool of casual racism.
You can encourage a parallel/sister community setup :)
Some of these communities won’t move over completely, but over time you can grow the more open & accessible choice
he was a great musician🤘
Hell yeah! I feel like a chill new pub opened up in my neighborhood. I found a new place where I belong
I like it a lot. I check it every day, several times a day
Discussion is difficult. This place feels like a club sometimes, and if you don’t subscribe to the exact same ideals, you just get shouted down. I’m here for discussion, and dissenting opinions, but it just isn’t allowed to exist here.
To add on to this; Smugness is rampant. It reminds me of Linux user Groups in college. More than half the time was spent shitting on Windows (Reddit), and if you dared to ask a question you were ridiculed for not knowing it, or people who put more effort into telling you to look it up yourself than it would take to answer you in the first place. I can echo the same club mentality as I’ve on more than one occasion described why a particular political idea isn’t viable based on votes in Congress only to be dismissed without any counter argument as “I don’t understand _____”. So there really is no discussion, it’s essentially just shitposting and piling on, and if I liked that I would have stayed on Facebook.
We need more kind diverse people.
At this point, I don’t even care if they’re kind, I just want discussion.
I often delete comments before I even post them, knowing that it just isn’t worth it most of the time.
Deleting before I post is something I’ve done too. Sometimes you just need to type it up, but it doesn’t need to be sent. I get it.
I cringe when I see new messages. Aw fuck, who did I piss off now?
Yeah I had a few times where I’d take a week off just because I didn’t want to be angry looking at my inbox full of furious 18 year old trans tankies defending Stalin/Xi
This comment chain has given me multiple bouts if anxiety for the exact same reason. Thankfully everyone is being nice so far.
shitting on Windows
Let’s start. Windows 2000 when came out had more scalable networking than Linux.
To be fair that was true on Reddit too. And is true on spaces such as twitter as well. I think it’s just a symptom to anonymity that people treat each harshly and consider others’ views less than their own. There are just trigger topics you have to avoid because there doesn’t exist an online platform where productive discourse is going to happen.
It was similar, but on reddit there was enough people to occasionally get someone interested in genuine discussion. This comment chain is the most productive conversation I’ve had on Lemmy. In fact it’s the only one.
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I enjoy all of Mötorhead, not just Mr. Killmister.
Oh wait, that’s not the Lemmy you ment.
