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Everyone I've talked to about joining Mastodon/Lemmy/The Fediverse
(poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
yeah but if you join, and your friends join, and they're friends, you know what nevermind
[Edit] holy shit people I get it, people like it small, take it easy it's just a meme, don't need to keep commenting and DMing
I 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 times by the corpos if they enjoy it so much.
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 anyway, the other ones 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 ideology spez or Zuckerberg subscribe to, probably something fascist too and TikTok is also owned by tankies basically, anyway no sense in fighting that and I regret I tried, just glad I got this space with all of you to enjoy.
Steve Huffman (spez) is a well-known, big time doomsday pepper.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
Some of his quotes in this article are incredibly cringe. For example:
Ew
Not a far leap, based on things he's said, that he's an accelerationist who is just itching to put his luxury apartment in a decommissioned missile silo to "good use." Fuck all of these people.
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?”
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.
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 kinda hyper consumerist/capitalist 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 for it.
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.
What are your thoughts on the mass internment of Uyghurs? Complete denial? You may be a tankie.
I'm perfectly fine with this sort of hierarchy as the mainstream platforms inevitably become terrible.
I was quoting someone else
You getting so triggered over me merely using the word tankie shows you‘re not just about "talking about wars", but something more nefarious, which I don‘t really care for or about.
I also don‘t think the entire nation is shit about China by the way, mainly the way the government 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.
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.
But 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!
Eh, 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.
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 of the thick headed ones who need a billionaire to tell them what to think.
Slow growth is the key, there's probably some left in Reddit that needs more time before they get fed up, or new Reddit users that join and then end up here.