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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"this is almost as good as reddit"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a good one. Lemmy is good, but not being able to create avatars or give wholesome awards to posts kinda makes me want to go back

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the gold kind stranger

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

(I had to forcibly remind myself that we're upvoting what we'd normally downvote. Good work!)

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t see any reason for me to use Linux

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're already using OpenBSD, sure!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I think Spez was just misunderstood.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

"We should federate with Threads."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

"Israel's actions against Hamas are completely justified."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You can post anything and it will get down voted. Lemmy is as toxic as reddit and people use downvote as a tool to suppress what they don't like, regardless of the merit of the comment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

You can post anything and it will get down voted.

I disagree. Downvoting...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The more I use it, the less I like it. For some reason, it feels like a majority of the people here are already angry and argumentative, and they are happy to snap and make me their current problem.

The hive mind aspect is also ~5x worse than Reddit. People love to cover their ears here, even in constructive conversations. It's a real shame.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of users here were pushed out of other communities. They carry the toxicity with them.

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

Downvoting doesn't really suppress anything.

Also you can effectivly disable it by switching to a frontend that hides votes and sorting by new. I think that's even the default for some instances.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think you fell for the comment that would be guaranteed to be downvoted.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

This just feels like rage bait

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I'm currently commenting on all the Linux communities - "I don't have this problem because I use Windows" and they're not seeing the irony

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All the failed examples of communism that people say "that's only because it wasn't really communism" are really proof of why communism can't work at all. If a system is what it does, then communism always creates facism.

Edit: autocorrect originally changed it to "racism". Still got upvote lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Every country that called itself communist claims to be working towards this, none have achieved it, most seem to have given up and instead settled on some form of authoritarianism and/or capitalism while claiming they are still working towards this goal.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Taylor Swift is the first ethical billionaire

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

R.I.P. Kissinger

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I'm going to get downvoted for this, but...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Firefox sucks.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Reddit did nothing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Isn't Facebook free software, since it doesn't cost anything?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Elon Musk is right.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Cars are awesome! Everyone should own at least 3 or 4 of them!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Anywhere on lemmy? That should be easy. Basically go to any niche community and shit on their central theme.

For example explain how windows is the superior OS on a linux instance. Or say you use chrome on a privacy instance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just say “macOS master race” anywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Loving Israel, Reddit and capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Politically I lean ever so slightly to the right.

Almost perma ban right there.

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

This is just a trick to make me look bad if someone looks through my profile.

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

Firefox bad, chromium good

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

Israel did nothing wrong. Ever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Tbh I'd just say some racist shit. I'm not gonna write the racist things I would say I legitimately believed it would save my wife's life. I am from the deep south. I have all that shit in a neglected shed in the backlot of my brain. Not thoughts and opinions, just hurtful words. And I can't forget them because I was an elementary school vocab whiz when I first heard most of them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All you meatflakes should go vegan, and if you don't you're a cruel, horrible person. The only reason not to is you're a selfish piece of shit.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Spez 4 prez

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

4 day work week? I did my own research as a manager and find that actually a SIX day work week is better for workers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Allying with Putin will fix all of America's problems

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump's presidency was the best thing that ever happened to this nation

Bill O'Reilly had a lot of great points

Programming isn't hard at all, it's just \<\this> and anyone who is not able to grasp that is immediately stupid

Basically anything creationist in nature stating it as fact

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
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CEOs are vastly underpaid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If this comment gets to 10 upvotes, I will donate a Windows PC with Chrome installed! And with Reddit bookmarked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

😎👌🌞🤗😂🥰😵‍💫💯💥🎉

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