ScrubblesEveryone I've talked to about joining Mastodon/Lemmy/The Fediverse
LostCauseI went to Reddit for the first time this month to speak up in a relevant thread about it and got a bunch of tone deaf replies about they‘d rather join Threads cause "its popular and you sound like crypto bros with the decentralised stuff" and also some "Lemmy was made by tankies" and so on.
You know what, I don‘t care, don‘t want these short sighted people here, let them get screwed a few more time by the corpos.
Yeah, I read stuff like that a while back before threads, but there was a turning point. Used to be Reddit was the place you’d downvote any post about meta, insta, or any other huge social media to hell. Now tiktok videos are upvoted to the frontpage.
And Lemmy’s founders may not have views I like, but then again neither does Meta’s founders. At least with Lemmy if their views ever make it into code we can fork off of it
Funny thing is my comment was about kbin, I just mentioned Lemmy and Mastodon as an interaction, but that is their main talking point, the other one was "too complicated" and "looks shit" and some more. They clearly don‘t have any understanding of open source or forking, so I didn‘t even bother to explain. Also I don‘t even wanna know what spez or Zuckerberg think, probably something fascist too and TikTok is also owned by tankies basically, anyway no sense in fighting that, just glad I got this space with all of you to enjoy.
proleSteve Huffman (spez) is a well-known, big time doomsday pepper.
newyorker.com/…/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
Some of his quotes in this article are incredibly cringe. For example:
Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
Ew
Makes sense, he does seem like he’d have an inflated sense of self-importance and he can see all the eat the rich type of stuff on Reddit.
The rich are the least useful people in an emergency. Lacking basic skills and not relating to normal people enough to lead a group.
Right? “Bro, you’re not treated like a leader because you have leadership skills. You’re treated like a leader because you have money and power, which would be largely useless if this political/social/economic system collapsed. Plus, you just made clear that you’re looking forward to a future with slaves. Maybe try therapy?”
SanctusBut we do want people here. We’re extremely social creatures. Its natural we would want to recreate our virtual social spaces in a place that cannot be overrun by monetization. Keep trying! Water cuts through rock not with force but with persistence!
I don‘t feel like it myself, but feel free to try to get through to them of course. I do want more people here, but I‘m also ok with it not being that many and especially not all the thick headed ones who need a billionaire to tell them what to think.
BeigeAgendaSlow growth is the key, there’s probably some left in Reddit that needs to be fed up, or new Reddit users that join and then end up here.
people_are_cuteEh, I’d rather only have people genuinely interested in exploring and sharing knowledge here. Makes it closer to the purer internet of old before “Web 2.0” came and fucked it up.
Yeah, not sure I really want all of those low-effort shit posters here. Let them pollute another community.
My vernacular is a bit dated, not sure if I’m a tankie, pretty sure I’m not a corpo.
Either way, I’m perfectly happy with the community here as it exists, and if it leans toward the geek crowd I’m all for it.
For sure, if people are looking for an alternative, and are interested, I’ll recommend it, but I don’t think we need to advocate for Lemmy to drive the masses here.
Tankie is authoritarian communists, so basically China/USSR/dictatorship fan. Corpo is from Cyberpunk to mean like businessmen/executives, but I like to use it for these kinda consumerist people too.
I personally do think there is more to people than their political ideologies usually, even if I get upset with some of them a bit.
I agree and I do have a feeling like it‘s a geekier crowd, similar to Reddit 10 years ago when I first went there.
not sure if I’m a tankie
What are your thoughts on the mass internment of Uyghurs? Complete denial? You may be a tankie.
Reddit’s life blood is arguments for the argument’s sake, even when you don’t have a flu what you are arguing against or for. So it doesn’t really surprise.
Besides, Reddit’s been heavily moderating positive comments about Lemmy so it may be that bias showing
No, it is not.
Dude, if some country did some crazy shit in the past, that doesn’t mean that entire nation is shit. You can’t apprentice people like that.
If people will, they will talk about wars in America, Russia, Iran, Europe etc…
STOP DISRESPECTING PEOPLE FOR THEIR BELIEFS, IDEOLOGIES, LOCATION!
I also don‘t think the entire nation is shit about China by the way, mainly the way they repress wrongthink and block half the internet and kill people for protests is from my perspective SHIT. Now, judging by your style of "discussion" this will upset you even more, so I prefer to block in advance. Have a good one.