Tbf, the fediverse isn't private at all and holds no pretense that it is. Yeah your instance isn't selling your data or doing the creepy profile-mapping that meta does, but it's important to be aware that this is very much a public forum

You're truly the purest among us

Much the same. As soon as I got a whiff of them selling everything to whatever, I found a plug-in to delete all my comments & posts, then deleted my account.

My favorite mod @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website moved here but also fuck spez.

EDIT:

The only one that nobody anywhere has is the middle right.

I just hate American mega corporations and like to keep my personal data, well, personal

Got banned from Vancouver subreddit for calling those antivaxxer flag-waving idiots, “flaggots”.

Then got permabanned for trying to evade the ban (using alt account). Every account I tried to make since gets banned.

All my round-about ways to use a third party app and just lurk also stopped working recently.

I still dont think calling those crazy fringers and convoy antivaxxers, “flaggots” is not that big a deal. I’m not insulting gay people, I love my homios!

Too many unironically racist and sexist people in reddit.

a narcissistic former reddit mod definitely made that bingo card

There was one exchange I recently had with an obvious Israeli.

Guy just kept saying didn't understand and such any time I asked why European colonizers had any right to middle eastern land, without involving an imaginary sky man.

Then he/she shut up when I asked about the cultural genocide and infant stealing inflicted on the Mizrahi Jews, and the involuntary birth control given to Ethiopian Jews.

Fascism is an ever shrinking circle.

Top row, left column for me. I've actually been around since the third party app ban, but lost my first two accounts: VLemmy -> lemm.ee -> lemmy.zip

Where's the, "I hate everything proprietary, and regularly check for foss alternatives option"?

I used Apollo, got the lifetime membership, about 6 or 8 months later it gets shut down

So say we all!

I say hateful things to normies for the luls

The 3rd party app-ocalypse made me create an account here but it was the reddit ads that eventually made me quit the Reddit app. At some point I realised more of my feed was taken up by autoplay video ads than actual content. The slow decline in intelligent conversations really accelerated after they killed the apps too.

So far I like it here, there's less content and that can be a bit disappointing but it's probably healthier that I can't scroll endlessly. It's also nice to feel like your posts don't get buried under a torrent of other content the moment you make them.

Same, but just lemm.ee to lemmy.zip.

Oh nice. Thats a cool project.

...its the cheapest expensive hobby i swear. You get one device and then keep getting more and more.

I score like, 6 of these.