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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I can’t fathom setting that possibility of some negative encounters as a higher priority than lemmy becoming a viable platform in general. Users can still block people. I totally get that welcoming diverse communities don’t want to get brigaded, and sometimes it’s fine to want a retreat or friendgroup where you don’t get questioned too much and people have your back. But this just looks like unreasonable levels of fragility and inflexibility to me. Just for a couple of weeks mod more people and encourage users to block quickly instead of making the whole fediverse look like a joke.

    Ending this on a little confused rant. In general I don’t even understand wanting a full safe space version of every aspect reddit, a couple of identity or politics or friendly-chat focused subreddits should be enough for “recharging”, but afterwards it’s time to go back out in the real world with different people and some disagreements.







  • these are the main things I care about, until a reddit alternative can provide this I’m going to stay mostly or frequently on reddit.

    -somewhat reliable news headline feed from relatively neutral, serious center-right to center-left sources with little to no bad reporting/framing.
    -reliably hear about social trends, but with some distance to them
    -news discussion with some degree of different perspectives, some expertise, so it’s not just all left to the popularity of the headline.
    -discussion of movies and tv that is neither too fanboyish/popular leaning nor too indie/arthouse exclusive.
    -collections of helpful pro-consumer information and resources, up to date megaposts in hobby communities
    -a search function that will often enough lead to some helpful comments for most topics, googling “reddit xyz” was my go to for many years
    -feeds for some types of videos, like publicfreakout, livestream clips.
    -some communities that are more personal to me, like from my country or a political meme community, for venting and in-group discourse.
    -control over what i see in my feeds, most recommendation algorithms and trending tabs just don’t work for me
    -control over where I engage with content and in what form it’s presented, often I take a break from scrolling social media except for seeing some top posts in my rss feed. at some point I just want AI to read out summaries of all that stuff to me and actually visit website interfaces way less often myself.