• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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      Same. This place is great, even with the tankies from lemmy.ml and the fascists from hexbear, at least we somehow still get along.

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        Not all of us are tankies fwiw, I just wanted to be on the largest and most well-supported instance with generally the least amount of downtime.

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            That one isn’t the largest, no. The largest is .ml and it’s run by the two Lemmy maintainers.

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              I am confused, every statistic of .world seems bigger. What am I missing?

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                Looks like I was mistaken, then. Looks like .ml isn’t the largest, it’s just the one run by the two Lemmy maintainers, which for me (combined with .one keeping going down when I was actively using it) made it my home instance.

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        What’s the deal with having a .world user complain about ml and hexbear in every single thread lately?

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          It’s crazy. Almost like we all have the freedom to say whatever the fuck we want, including complaining, because we fucking can.

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          I’m not from .world and also complain about it sometimes. In my opinion, it’s a legitimate reason that makes Lemmy less attractive, as a consequence, you have to set up blockers to keep your sanity which is a hassle for the average user.

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        Having those arround adds some flavour to my feed. I’m like “ooh so that’s what they are up to” I wish that smaller communities thrive but well.

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          They are heavily biased towards China and Russia, two countries with fascist governments. That kinda speaks for itself, even if they claim to be communists or socialists.

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            Don’t confuse authoritarian regimes with fascism. China is an authoritarian state running a diluted version of communism, but it’s not fascist. Russia under Putin is leaning more towards fascism these days for sure, but they’re not fascist outright yet.

            Maybe what the hexbear folks gravitate around the most is the idea of authoritarianism. The flavour doesn’t matter as much.

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              a diluted version of communism,

              Is there still something communist in their economy? Are the people working 9 am to 9 pm 6 days a week, owning their means of production?

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            They share the same positions on global politics as pretty much every Marxist-Leninist political party on the planet. You may not like those positions, but trying to characterise them as actually far-right extremist is absurd horseshoe theory nonsense.

            Liberals & social democrats on lemmy.world acting like NATO, the US Democratic Party, and capitalism are the real bulwarks against fascism is amusing.

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              Once you get into Leninist territory the difference between the far left and the far right blurs into meaninglessness.

              Stalin made a deal to carve up Poland with Hitler

              Steve Bannon cites Lenin as an inspirational figure.

              Communist regimes have historical brutally repressed religious, sexual, and racial minorities.

              I could continue but you get the point. People obsessed with control and domination always end up acting the same

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        Lemmy was better before the Reddit exodus last year, when people started insulting others by calling them tankies and fascists. Before that, it was much more peaceful.

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          It was still full of tankies though, lemmygrad was the second biggest instance and you’d see it everywhere

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          They were tankies and fascists before anyone ever came here and found out that they were.

          Calling them such didn’t create them.

          Basically… A tankie isn’t not a tankie just because theres no one there to accuse them of being one.

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      I honestly believe that Lemmy is cool, but it either needs more content or I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed “better”. At least it’s not that addicting, and the “small community, small town” vibes gives charm to it.

      I’ve been here since August 2024 or so.

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        I agree, so I’ve been posting photos and things. What we don’t need is a bunch of autoposting bots.

        If you want to find the busy threads though, sort of Active and All. And just see what is going on across the lemmyverse

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          If you want to find the busy threads though, sort of Active and All. And just see what is going on across the lemmyverse

          Yeah, this helps, but it’s not always topics that really interest me. We kind of need more diversity of content around here.

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            I prefer scaled to active sort for that reason.

            I agree though, more content and more content diversity would be great.

            The small percentage that contribute content regularity in social media platforms instead of just consuming are great.

            I’m too boring to have much content that would be good for anything other than microblogging myself though.

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          Lemmit bot was one of the first things I blocked. Idk if it’s still around. It would copy like every post and comment from Reddit lol. It clogged my feed so bad. If it’s still a thing, block it, you’ll be glad you did.

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        On Reddit, everyone is trying to get a million votes and just brutally murder with words everyone. It either gets really hostile, or just lots of bots posting bot shit.

        On Lemmy: Even the posters I disagree with, I have a lot of fun with them. We say stupid shit all the time and accept the upvotes/downvotes with our shitposts.

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          That’s been my experience as well. I’m using a Lemmy client that allows me to tag users, and I’ve been tagging people who have posted comments that annoyed me. A few are obvious trolls, but the rest have posted many comments that I liked or agree with since I’ve tagged them. It’s been refreshing to see, actually

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        Lemmy is nice, but the content on it is quite niche. If you want something less tech-oriented, you’re generally out of luck, for example.

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        I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed “better”. At least it’s not that addicting

        Lemmy’s feed is intentionally (or I think it is intentional at least) worse in this aspect than Reddit’s feed, in order to not be as addictive. Take that how you will.

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      This place feels like old reddit. When we could have actual discussions and not just be downvoted by bots. It’s so much better here

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        And you can still tailor it to yourself. Instances have different mindsets to different topics and things they allow or don’t and there’s tons of people to agree with or disagree with but everyone is cordial.

        I just don’t have a reason to go back

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      It’s so much better. Personally I don’t hope it grows much either. Satisfies my content itch, have still had some good quality convos here, seen some great comments threads. Absolutely none of the bullshit that Reddit purposely encourages. Plus most of the zeebs and the chronically offended seemed to have stayed with reddit, and I’m super OK with that.

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        I’d argue Lemmy is turning into its own echo chamber. I’ve seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit. I erroneously thought people would learn from past mistakes, but sadly this is not what happened.

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          Then just go to a different Instance. I agree the powermods are a headache, but at least with Lemmy they have way less power. You can start a new sub with a matching name on a different Instance, and draw people away from the power mods. People get pretty sick of the power mods, pretty fast.

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          I’ve seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit.

          The difference is that when that happens on Reddit, you can’t go anywhere else. On Lemmy, you can go to any other instance and do it better if you feel the mods elsewhere are bad.