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[–] [email protected] 180 points 9 months ago (42 children)

Imo Reddit has been the winner of the 3rd party apps and fuck spez protests. The users came crawling back. A few of us went to lemmy and formed quality communities, but for the most part, a large majority are on there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

It's also not really a place for normal people.

I'd never recommend Lemmy to anyone that isn't used to dealing with tankies and delusional zealots

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, way better to stay on Facebook and Nextdoor and deal with actual literal fascists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On the subs I visited on reddit I've encountered virtually no fascists. I don't need to discuss politics all day and even then the takes were way less extreme than on here.

It might be difficult to imagine for some of the zealots on Lemmy but I don't want to be stuffed to the brim with Chinese and Russian propaganda. I don't need to hear how bad the west is and how it has to burn, die, whatever. I don't care how superior the communist ideology is and why liberals are the root of evil.

It literally reads like a bunch of absolute idiots and edge lords thriving in their bubbles, be it hexbear, chapo stuff, political memes, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Agreed. During the pandemic, I adopted a policy of unsubbing to any subreddit that made me angry. Usually this came in the form of people bringing up trump/capitalism/whatever out of completely nowhere. luckily the Beehaw people seem to be pretty good about actually having conversations and not just devolving into mocking trump every second. But whenever I venture into some of the other instances, I see some of Lemmy's true colors. Chronically online people completely out of touch with reality kinda run shit around here.

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