And not the semi-tolerable sports communities either. Nah, just the obsessively anti-communist ones. I still can't understand why they left reddit in the first place when they so strongly identify with that culture that all they can aspire to do here is replicate it.
I agree, I honestly don't know why they left a pro-capitalist, capitalist-created space for Lemmy which they know is a pro-Communist and Communist-created space just to complain about how it's so Communist and try to get all the other Communist instances, like Lemmygrad and Hexbear, defederated. I came here after reddit specifically because I wanted a Left space.
It's like me joining Stormfront and complaining about there being too much Nazi propaganda and too many Nazis.
And that analogy is perfect because these (former) redditors taught me there is no difference between Nazism and Communism.
I mean it has to be at least in part a disinformation campaign, right? That would be the best way to mitigate the fediverse, seperate the instances and have em bicker.
Indeed, it's easy to bait us into exhausting ourselves bickering with bad-faithing neolibs, too, so it stands to reason they would do that too
It's like me joining Stormfront and complaining about there being too much Nazi propaganda and too many Nazis.
That'd be funny if enough of us did it, though.
PS:
Yea I think a lot of people came here after getting banned from politics for saying Biden wasn't pro union or from worldnews for saying nazis are bad (speaking from personal experience) and created an actually cool left space. Then all the liberals got upset about ui changes so they left to come over here and immediatly start trying to recreate everything that killed reddit.
Literally saw a .world post earlier where they were discussing how to make things more like reddit lmao.
I hate the lemmy.ml ones most. The ones who have come in and completely paved over the existing culture and just scream and whine about the mods because they can't use Chinese slurs.
"Mods! Mods! When I called that user a 'wumao c***k I was clearly saying that they were a weak point in the armor of the Chinese intelligence apparatus!"
how to make things more like reddit lmao
They don't need to plan for that. They're naturals.
They left reddit over issues with functionality not culture, then they exported it to lemmy.
when the hexbear in front of you falls, pick up his keyboard and continue posting
Hesitating to join the next human wave of posters, suddenly I feel the barrel of a Hexbear mod's gun against the back of my head.
reddit still has its uses but i dont contribute as much anymore.
There are some niche subs still worth visiting but for the most part it's a cesspool.
for sure, the biggest subs are really trash and i dont follow them. i like the baseball one though cause i like baseball, and some gardening subs.
Maybe so, but now I don't even have to fetch bucketfulls of Reddit to pour into the dunk tank. The buckets are brought here and all I have to do is pick them up and pour them in.
I ain't of no persuasion kind sir I am just a wayward hog inspector tryin to do da o'lawds work here in the netspace and beyond
Thankfully I can't figure out how to post in other instances with my account and I can filter out the posts that make it to Hexbear with the local tab. I've slowly become conditioned to check usernames whenever I see a bad take.
None of the redirects consistently work anymore, I can maybe view three threads before it errors out.
