With previous Rexit’s like the API debarcle etc. many users were left looking for an alternative, but with decision fatigue and bad UX etc. most did not find the Fediverse a viable option.
What needs to still improve, how can we be ready this time?
we need more hornyposting and leftist infighting
Let’s be honest, go to any left wing party and you’ll see most people are dating liberals hahaha
the toxic AF perpetually online among us here (e.g. hexbear and Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml) are likely not dating at all.
Lemmy.ml only claims to be for marxist-leninists - for actual real ones you may prefer e.g. slrpnk.net or perhaps lemmy.dbzer0.com. The lemmy.ml admins are (in)famously authoritarian, banning people from communities that they’ve never so much as heard of due to comments made elsewhere, citing a rule that does not exist - nowhere is it written down, yet everyone knows that you are not allowed to criticize Russia, China, or North Korea (or not praise them hard enough?). Mind you, they are free to do as they please, but to enforce an entirely different set of rules than the publicly announced ones… yes that generates much friction across the Threadiverse
I wouldn’t recommend dbzer0. Since the AI purge, where many users who were critical that you can’t be pro-AI and anarchist at the same time were banned, the instance has been largely taken over by tankies. Even their own admins are self-proclaimed tankies, and all their popular users are tankies who have accounts on Hexbear. They’re, at the very least, openly a tankie bar.
Lemmy.ml was created by the lemmy developers following the quarantine of ChapoTrapHouse on reddit. ChapoTrapHouse was the largest tankie subreddit and extremely toxic.
Following the development of Lemmy, lemmy.ml split into Lemmygrad, where Lemmygrad is where they hold their more extreme opinions and lemmy.ml is supposed to be the more presentable side. However, the users are largely the same. One’s mask-off, one’s mask-on.
Lemmy.world is literally just the US of the fediverse. Showed up one day from Reddit and started acting like the Fediverse police
Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a surprisedly high share of users from Ellington just as with Reddit.
That means Reddit is
feddit.uk is dubai
I like the bit where they say ‘some instance was good but they got rid of all the pro AI slop people and now it’s only anarchists and tankies’ You didn’t have to sell me on it twice
They got rid of the anti-AI slop people.
Lemmy.ml was created by the lemmy developers following the quarantine of ChapoTrapHouse on reddit.
I never saw the subreddit and literally started browsing chapo.chat in its infancy because I was already on lemmy. It’s so impossible for this person to imagine the devs being passionate about decentralization and not about being on reddit that instead they’ve written a narrative where the developers get a working alpha running overnight because of some subreddit drama.
jfc please don’t come here
I smell another grand de-federation on the way
Also critical support to dbzer0 I guess for banning some of these shitlibs
Also critical support to dbzer0 I guess for banning some of these shitlibs
Noted authoritarian tankies, uh… «checks notes» … anarchists?
I feel like it’s been happening a lot particularly since october 7; anarchists who are principled about opposing war and genocide just get lumped in with marxists because they express negativity about US empire and electoralism.
Eventually, every leftist tendency will discover that “tankie” applies to them too.
We need to find two more random leftists instances, with like… some Dengists, and and an instance that’s just two dudes who think Malenkov single-handedly saved the Soviet Union.
Then, along with db0, we can be the Tankie Hexagon.
Wait, this isn’t the Dengist instance? Does that mean the libs were right and China isn’t socialist anymore?
Silly tankie, Xi Jinping made it socialist again
Let a hundred Lemmys bloom
The only people that are going to leave reddit over porn are people that fediverse sites would be better off without
they love CCP and russia for example in its current state. thier go-to instead of woke, is calling things 'shit-lib"
But those countries just have a sign out front that says “communism”, with little to no actual ideological communism taking place inside. Surely those alabaster pure ideologues seek out the Platonic form of perfect ideology, rather than this DPRK-like fun-house mask covering up an entirely different ideology.
thier le ownedNo one here loves russia in its current state, we even have
My position on Ukraine was decided in 2014.
Russians bombing Soviet buildings is as absurd to me as Ukraine bombing them. Neither country in their current form would exist if I had my way, there would just be more Soviet buildings being constructed by Soviet engineers in the Ukrainian SSR which now looks like modern Chinese cities. Shame that liberals got their cake and it’s giving them food poisoning.
You are now banned from 1,048,576 subreddits.
Reason: Hating freedom and democracy in Ukraine
now I have to go to each and message the mods “I would kiss hitler on the lips+mouth” to get unbanned.
Anything south of saying Russia is the worst country in the world is Kremlin propaganda for libs.
USSR 2: The Bolshevik Bogaloo when?
Consequences of calling lemmy the
alternativeLemmy.ml was created by the lemmy developers following the quarantine of ChapoTrapHouse on reddit. ChapoTrapHouse was the largest tankie subreddit and extremely toxic
UX is the main reason I left reddit lmao.
Most of the Lemmy UX concerns really just seems to be people hating on federation (and it being transparent to the user). Which tbh I don’t think is entirely invalid (but I still consider it a net benefit).
Reddit ux is garbage. Honestly, forums and social media: please go back to UBB. Yes my tastes are also garbage.
Ahh the ole Reddit exit, ironically a pretty clear example of how purges work regardless of ideology
I’m probably dreaming a little bit and making it out to be a bigger than it was, but a part of me still wonders how far cth thought would’ve spread if it wasn’t banned. Like damn they even banned the n word count bot too
But considering how many people I know use Reddit today while mocking it when I used to be active, another part of me says that it would’ve had some impact on changing people’s minds. But yeah there’s got to be some truth here, it’s like a micro instance of Obama making calls when Bernie was gaining steam lmao
is reddit actually interested in age verification or does wannabe slaveowner steve huffman just want an ego boost?
Usually it’s just a legal compliance thing, whether on the part of the site or, for example, banks processing payments to the site demanding they do something about it.
