Reddit

It’s kind of a rush picking a username knowing most are still available.

Let's be real, we ain't touching grass, let alone take action.

we are ~~legion~~ squad.

Every time I end up on Reddit the amount of ads makes me recoil. You’re free now!

Yeah, shows my image editing fu. Thanks for pointers! I did do a search but turned out my fu is not particularly strong there either...

Welcome! It's nice and comfy here, if a little less of an infinite content-hose compared to Reddit. You might need to do a little more heavy lifting yourself in terms of posting and commenting, but on the plus side - people actually read what you post, instead of being drowned by a deluge of spam and bots! And discussions are mostly friendly and civil!

Well, I didn’t expect us to have an existential crisis today, but here we are.

Looks like ~53k monthly active users, I think that's a better stat, since it doesn't include people making new alts and abandoning their old accounts.

Big things are happening in the world right now. I know that it sucks.

I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to "win" against reddit.

Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don't like. I don't like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.

I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It's daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.

Blocking all of the political and news communities can help

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca has a pinned post without active non political communities

Lemmy and Mastodon are like "PBS" social media.

"This is brought to you by people like you."

nazis can stay the fuck out, though.

Same!

Yes they started banning thousands of active users for “inciting violence” if you say things like “fuck Elon musk” or “my favorite character in super Mario bros is Luigi”

Reddit recently started doubling down on far-right actions. Like making it so you can be banned for just upvoting a post that breaks the rules, or banning you for saying the name "Luigi."

Personally, I recently got permabanned for being truthful about fascists.

For me I left Reddit recently and switched because Reddit made a change that broke the Boost app.