• Shape4985@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)

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    6 days ago

    Well the apps and interface is better for sure.

    I still doom scroll reddit I’m somewhat ashamed to say, but I only post on Lemmy. I do rather enjoy the smaller base here to interact with.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.

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    Most of all: it’s run non-for-profit. There are no ads, donations are optional (I have the means to chip in a bit each year) and its not VC funded and therefore has no intrinsic pressure to enshittify like reddit repeatedly did. Lemmy does not exploit me.

    I’ve been able to make (very minor) improvements to the codebase.

    I could download and host an instance if I thought there was one my hobbies needed.

    I can move around pretty easily without missing much if admins are moderating in a way I disagree with, or kowtow to corporate interests or garbage national laws. And some of the reddit admins (not merely subreddit mods) were abusive.

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    5 days ago

    lemmy doesn’t let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.

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    5 days ago

    Reddit’s culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.

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      5 days ago

      It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of “experts” absolutely sure that the future is communism and “stupid you brainwashed fool” if you don’t get it.

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        5 days ago

        Oh I remember that, lol. It was a bunch of people giving long, well thought out explanations of their position to you, and you responding by ignoring them and insulting them.

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        5 days ago

        Communism is the logical progression of society. It isn’t a certainty, but the alternative in the long-run is disaster and barbarism.

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          4 days ago

          Sure, but there’s a lot of side paths to Communism that have resulted in genocide and environmental destruction. People need to be more skeptical of the flag bearers of Communism rather then treating it like a sport were they pick a side.

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            The vast majority of Marxist-Leninists don’t treat it as a sport where we pick a side. MLs are fully capable of recognizing progressive movements like Cuba, the USSR, and PRC, and recognizing faux-communism a la the Gonzaloite terrorists of the Shining Path in Peru or Pol Pot the mass murderer. These latter two were not successful applications of Marxism, but deviations far beyond the norm.

            Communism remains to be the logical progression of society. As production continues to centralize and class struggle heightens, the more necessary revolution and sublimating property into collective ownership and a common plan becomes. It’s as much economically compelled as it is morally. The alternative, again, is barbarism as capitalism crumbles under its own unsustainability.

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        4 days ago

        .ml and shit talking communism.

        As far as I understand that’s about as stupid of a move as you can make.

        Your basically on the literal communism is awesome instance.

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          .ml and shit talking communism.

          Actually the worst appears to be hexbear that I blocked entirely.

          Quite frankly I don’t care much. I actually enjoy being exposed to different views, and I can ignore extremism quite easily.