Honestly tho it's been downhill over there. I'm getting old reddit vibes here and I'm cool with never posting on reddit ever again.

And some variety in the userbase as well. This is quite the echo chamber. Not that reddit wasn't but Lemmy is even worse in that sense.

Fuck reddit for several reasons, among them that it's too big.

Reddit as a site is superior to Lemmy, but ever since all the trash have flooded that place, I decided to leave. What I’m saying is that I would pbviously choose Reddit if we’d ignore the kind of people that are frequenting it, but since you can’t really ignore them when it comes to a social media, I use this site instead.

This is me. But fuck Reddit.

I use Lemmy on mobile and (old.)reddit on desktop. They both serve their purpose and I have no complex about it.

I prefer the content, but reddit as a service is absolute garbage. I still check in on it every once in a while because there's a question or something I see the answer to after googling it and I can't stand browsing there for more than a minute or two.

The sponsored content and ads are just everywhere and disguised like user accounts making a post or comment and it's infuriating. You can't even use reddit on your phone unless you download their app, browsing the web version is practically impossible because "they can't confirm you are over 18 for some of the content" as if they can confirm your age through the app and they don't care if you are on desktop.

Reddit is a garbage company when it comes to their users, they quickly became one of my top most despised companies up there with nestle

I think the usage of all drugs should be legal, but I don't think the sale or the production of all drugs should be legal.

Stop arresting people who are addicted to the stuff and just arrest the people who are spreading it around.

And no arresting people for "intent to sell" just because they have a lot. Do some actual detective work and catch them actually selling it.

I am with you on this. Never tried any, and have absolutely no interest. And yet, the prohibition does more harm than good.

This. It's the easiest way to find intolerant individuals. Those individuals are very rarely just anti-LGBTQ from my experience. They're most often intolerant of everyone not like them.

Something just clicked for me after reading this. The reason people always say things like "don't shove your gayness in my face" is that seeing gayness forces them to think about their intolerance (and of course stirs up fears about they themselves being gay).

This is a very relatable comment. I think a lot of the reason I am so angry is how selfishly people act though. I think it makes me a worse person to observe that kind of shit. I'm sure the anger makes me more selfish too, ironically.

And the fact that Donald Trump won the election in America kind of proves how pathetically selfish a huge swath of Americans are. This and 2016 and 2020 shouldn't have been anywhere near close, 10% of votes is the highest number of votes he could've gotten without making me upset. But people don't give a shit about the harm to others, as long as they think they're not being harmed...

until we live in a society where being pregnant and giving birth does not endanger your health, security, and social status, prohibiting abortion simply can't be an option.

I'm with you on this one. I tell the truth even when it's potentially harmful to me. However, it also holds you accountable because it prevents one from doing things they would have the urge to lie about in the future.

Also, not lying doesn't mean radical honesty. Just that you don't say things that are untrue. I think lying is only acceptable when used to prevent violence - kind of like violence is also acceptable when defending yourself. So if there are nazies on the door asking wether you have Anne Frank on the attic, it's okay to lie.