Are you doing your part?
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There is discussion but the userbase's interests arent super wide so at the moment its techy and politicsy. Which is fine at least we arent following reddit which started out with racists, atheiests and child porn.
I've recently been checking out reddit to see discussion on a few topics not covered here, MMA and beyond all reason. I'm shocked by how low quality the comments are. I can open a 900 comment thread and not see a single comment that discusses the thread topic or discusses anything.
Atheists are way less likely to create child porn than a catholic priest.
Don't make me pull out citations and evidence based data in this thread. I'll do it.
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A platform without ads or evil corpo ownership? Yeah, I'd scared too.
Like I get the meme, but maybe rethink it? It’s also giving
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Reddit tracks things like the hardware associated with an account so you'd need a new IP and new phone/computer and email adress.
I happened to move. And in theory, Cromite's anti-fingerprinting should hide that, but it's possible I accessed it with the wrong browser some time...
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This site is just way too diffuse and has too few real people actively participating. It is also missing some very basic things that would accelerate engagement. Right now, your profile doesnt tally your upvotes. This should be a pretty simple fix and would promote visibility into who the top contributors are and the perceived quality of their upvotes.
Organized events would also keep momentum going. I remember back when reddit had AMAs that were actually interesting and fun instead of thinly veiled opportunities to plug a recent project while talking to someone's PR manager.
The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage (blech), but maybe something that fills the screen by default, and improves readability? Comment sections are less easy to follow than on pre-IPO reddit. Native hoverzoom would also be nice. Is there anywhere to actually have an exchange with the people running Lemmy?
You might try piefed? It's a fediverse platform so still links/syncs etc with lemmy and everywhere else but the UI is nice and I think it does a lot of the stuff you mention (except for the ama style stuff.) I followed PugJesus here (and am using Piefed right now) and exported all my feeds etc so the switch was relatively painless.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions etc. I probably won't be able to help but uhhh, I'll commiserate?
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The movie doesn’t give you enough info. It’s just entertainment. All you know is Earth is being attacked by bugs and there’s sort of a desperation to beat them. The “draft” for citizenship is really the only indicator something is off about society.
You could listen to the teacher in the beginning. Or notice the constant jingoistic propaganda. Or watch any voice of reason be shouted down.
To each their own but especially these days, it's important to notice that the road to authoritarianism isn't a wild swerve from thr status quo but a slow, gradual drift.
Personally, I quite enjoy a movie that respects its audience enough to not have to have the bad guys murder babies for a reasonable viewer to catch on to the what's going on.
It was fine as a adumb tits n ass action movie when I was 12, realized "hey, this is an actual movie" in my 20s. And that's fine, if it is somehow too subtle for people, well, so is authoritarianism.
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I guess? I only heard about it long after I quit reddit. It's banned now and it may have been banned even before I quit for all I know. Someone here mentioned it a few weeks ago and that's the only way I knew it ever existed.
Pepe memes talking about how they wanna be frens with frens and people who aren't frens aren't welcome?
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Atheists are way less likely to create child porn than a catholic priest.
Don't make me pull out citations and evidence based data in this thread. I'll do it.
you can pull out all the citations you want but it wont be relevant. Early reddit was rife with cp.
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There is discussion but the userbase's interests arent super wide so at the moment its techy and politicsy. Which is fine at least we arent following reddit which started out with racists, atheiests and child porn.
I've recently been checking out reddit to see discussion on a few topics not covered here, MMA and beyond all reason. I'm shocked by how low quality the comments are. I can open a 900 comment thread and not see a single comment that discusses the thread topic or discusses anything.
Which is fine at least we arent following reddit which started out with racists, atheiests and child porn.
What are you on about? There's tons of atheists still on reddit now. They don't spread child porn.
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you can pull out all the citations you want but it wont be relevant. Early reddit was rife with cp.
And there's no reason to assume modern reddit now is somehow less atheistic than early reddit.
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This site is just way too diffuse and has too few real people actively participating. It is also missing some very basic things that would accelerate engagement. Right now, your profile doesnt tally your upvotes. This should be a pretty simple fix and would promote visibility into who the top contributors are and the perceived quality of their upvotes.
Organized events would also keep momentum going. I remember back when reddit had AMAs that were actually interesting and fun instead of thinly veiled opportunities to plug a recent project while talking to someone's PR manager.
The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage (blech), but maybe something that fills the screen by default, and improves readability? Comment sections are less easy to follow than on pre-IPO reddit. Native hoverzoom would also be nice. Is there anywhere to actually have an exchange with the people running Lemmy?
The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage (blech), but maybe something that fills the screen by default, and improves readability?
I don't get this. old.reddit, whilst functional is dated. People use it because they're used to it - but I wouldn't characterise it as an amazing design.
new.reddit is appalling. Piefed and Lemmy are by no means perfect. No site is. I think people really overstate the necessity of having an amazing aesthetic or user-interface.
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Wait. Why did it get banned though?
In r/RedditAlternatives they explain that the mod, while still an active account (reportedly posting a lot in r/Lebanon), basically has left r/Lemmy unmoderated. (You can find more details about what happened by visiting r/Lemmy using old reddit, it would seem) So it makes sense actually.
The fact is, anyone interested in Lemmy isn't going to be talking about it to Redditors on Reddit in a sub dedicated solely to Lemmy... anymore.
The Threadiverse won that battle, as much as it can, and now development continues forward with PieFed that is even more highly received and recommended by Redditors (Reddit hates tankies far more than we do here). Thus there is no more need for a r/Lemmy.
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We're curious. What's wrong with CS Lewis? If you want to say.
He just legitmizes religion via decorated logical fallacies. The go-to intellectual for religious people.
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Time to open r/notlemmy
Ewww... then you'd have to use Reddit, gross! 🤮
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And there's no reason to assume modern reddit now is somehow less atheistic than early reddit.
I dont care for this point, I never intended to claim that it has less atheists now. I only wanted to describe how reddit started.
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I dont care for this point, I never intended to claim that it has less atheists now. I only wanted to describe how reddit started.
What I am getting at is that your insinuation that atheists spread child porn specifically is pretty baseless. If atheists are just as numerous on Reddit as a proportion of the userbase now as they were in the early days of reddit, and there's less child porn on there now - then they were obviously not the cause.
Moreover, I would guess that a majority of the Fediverse are atheists.
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Lol I get it, so no need to apologize. I just think we did it all wrong. We get angry because something is missing from our approach. Like there's some injustice. I'm not saying people need to be out there every day engaging with toxic assholes or bots. But I do think we all should recognize that not doing that, is helping the spread of these fuckers. One thing I noticed is people of the left had different goals and then people on the right and that burnt them out. The right approached online spaces like they were meeting friends to make fun of and pick on the left. The left was only reacting to things as they happened. They weren't having fun with any of it.
if that’s not good enough for you, you can also rot with the nazis
E: don’t take it personally
The Left and the Right share a lot more in common than either side is willing to admit. The Left eats its own, and tells others what to do exactly in an analogous manner as to the Right. Just looking around at the calls for casual murder, I am reminded of having seen the same from the "other side". I've given up any hope of a rational dialogue with virtually everyone on the internet, but kudos for trying to speak truth rather than give up the good fight. We need more of that imho.
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What I am getting at is that your insinuation that atheists spread child porn specifically is pretty baseless. If atheists are just as numerous on Reddit as a proportion of the userbase now as they were in the early days of reddit, and there's less child porn on there now - then they were obviously not the cause.
Moreover, I would guess that a majority of the Fediverse are atheists.
yeah i never made that point. I was vaguely mentioning the popular topics on the site at the time.
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yeah i never made that point. I was vaguely mentioning the popular topics on the site at the time.
Okay then, you put 'atheists' alongside racists and child pornography which is what would get people's backs up.
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They're super easy to start here
I was born to follow and lurk, not lead.
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Not true! you can get into arguments with random people about Marxism AND Linux!
You can also ah... uh... well....
