So I’ve tried Mastodon, Pixelfed and didn’t like them. Mastodon is nice if you wanna ”tweet”, but that’s not for me. Pixelfed was dead.
I quit Meta because of tech bro fascism, and hated Twitter even before it was X because, let’s face it - nobody has ever changed their opinion on anything because of a Twitter conversation (I know I’m exaggerating, to get my point across). I was in Reddit for a few weeks, and the conversations there seem mostly friendly and constructive, but I decided I don’t want to have anything to do with social media corporations. Besides, I noticed I could scroll endlessly. And that’s not good for me.
Lemmy seems nice. There are still some topics I’m interested in that don’t have active communities, and I’m still learning on how to have my feed from multiple instances. But still, this is the way to go for me.
Against algorithms, against fascism, for free internet. Thanks for coming to my boring Ted talk and have a nice day.
Imagine being too far to the right for reddit and then thinking that you will be met with enthusiastic agreement on lemmy.
Nah not really, I just said kill Elon musk for impacting German politics. Not because of anything he said, but because he's not an elected European.
Impacting EU legislation, tsk tsk tsk.
Me being extreme right to extreme left depends on the topic.
Most people are politically, economically and financially illiterate.
They just have their brand (insert your preferred ideology) and just question themselves: is this what my brand wants? Then they do ☺️ or 😡
I vote for social democrats (freedom of expression is important to them). But clearly not everything I say is viewed as leftist.
There's a lot I say that would get me to vote for other parties. I just vote what I find most important in society. But I still will heavily criticise it.
You're not a Belgian if you don't criticise the government (every single political ideology). It's our national sport. We complain. A lot. Like the Italians, but without the passionate gestures and intonation.
I'm not sorry that elon isn't far enough to the right for you either.
As I said, most people are politically, economically and financially illiterate. That's why I can have a job providing such services. Which is a good thing. Even though it seems really easy to me. I like money, so keep it coming.
So we're just making random statements now instead of responding to what was actually said?
But you gave little to no content. All you said is that Elon isn't right wing enough for me. What does that even mean? Only if you give enough clarification, then I can communicate to you that you're correct or mistaken
That doesn't stop you about nonsensically yammering about IS.
I still don't know why you think I'm further right wing than Elon musk lol
Are you trying to brand me evil so that my opinion is to be censored? 🙈
Because you've done a poor job of hiding it.
And what did you see, exactly? I'm a staunch supporter of transparency. It's literally my job.
I haven't been hiding anything, just tell me which part of the massive amount of information I give available to you has led you to believe I'm further right wing than Elon musk.
What does Elon musk do and why is what he does less right wing than what I have done?
This is an EXERCISE for you. Critical thinking. I'm giving you an opportunity to become better.
I'm an astronaut, doctor, lawyer and actor. But what I really want to do is direct. I can lie about my job too.
The very first sentence:
To a rightwinger, I suppose it might look that way.
Become less condescending.
It's easy to be condescending when I am better (if you take this serious, you make my day)
You could lie about your profession, but let's say you're a doctor. Then you're quite great at everything that the human body is about. Viruses, medicine, etc. You also need to be quite good against stress and be able to withhold a lot of information. Likely take drugs while doing exams.
Lawyer, that's great. You're a bureaucrat that does the work of the governments. You make it so that national and international law is utilised correctly.
Astronaut.. idk shit bout that
Actor. Oi, you're the opposite of transparency, bad.. bad
Ah so because I say Lemmy is a left wing echo chamber, I cannot be a leftist?
Is it not allowed for leftists to criticise their own?
When you try to validate an institution's information might be correct. A good question to pose is: what were you wrong about?
If they give you an immense amount of info, then that's brilliant.
If they say that they never were wrong (hello .LM), then well... I'd take my distance.
I mean, don't worry, being an accountant isn't really that difficult. Nobody really wants to do it. Boring to a lot of people. But I find it interesting, as you can see.
Admitting to trolling. Goodbye.
I'm indeed entertaining myself because you don't provide content
It's not my responsibility to entertain you, troll.
I don't think you even have the ability, which means you lack skills 😢
Go away, troll.
Bro I am using Lemmy for the same reason. And honestly here people won't understand your concerns either
I was IP banned in reddit for saying that gender neutral laws should be implemented in my country. And here I'm banned in a community for saying communism won't save my country.
There is no difference as such between these two platforms. The only good thing about reddit is that it had more relevant subs and users
A good thing about Lemmy is that you can change instance/make your own and do and promote anything you like. That's the fundamental difference.
You can be banned from a community, from instance, even. But not from Lemmy as a whole.
A fundamental shift may occur when more people of the same views start alternative communities where such pressures are absent.
I'm getting banned on a lot of communities here on Lemmy, I'm just taking it for a ride.
Fediverse is a great step forward. But it really creates echo chambers, even more so than on Reddit I feel.
On Reddit you have for example capitalismvsocialism or purplepilldebate.
Places that people come together to talk out their differences (or yell at eachother, 70% of the time).
If there's an open source platform where people can create communities but can't ban people on them. I'd join it in a heartbeat.
But then the problem would be things like CP.
So I suppose that's just not going to be possible.
There's always going to be abuse, difficult to find a middle ground
Yeah you're right.
But the difference is that you can create your own instances too if you don't like their ideologies. Or even make your community. So it's slightly better
Btw have you gotten any better alternative of Reddit?
No I have not found anything else, haven't been looking either to be honest.
Mastodon has 1 million downloads, but it's a twitter alternative. Can give that a go
I never really liked the twitter like apps, at this point I'm even banned from X where people literally say any shit which comes to their mind
I'm searching for a reddit like forum and till now Lemmy is the one which I have got
Please let me know if you find another alternative. Forum social media is my favourite too.