Your presence will be missed on Reddit

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Damn… We’re absolutely going to miss you and your contributions in the subreddit 🫡

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I was without internet for a few days, thank you for the assist with the newest episode 🫡

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How is everyone? :)

Personally, I have been away from social media recently because of some ongoing changes in my private life. And my mental health is not appreciating those changes either lol so I need to be mindful of where I direct my energies for now. I’m trying to use those energies to fix those changes as soon as possible.

I’m extra thankful for the support group I have in these moments, so I really hope you are all taking care of yourselves as much as possible ❤️

A user wrote this very helpful guide that talks about everything.

And we also had this thread with more useful information.

Think of defederation as blocking. If you block a user, you’ll stop seeing what they share and their comments. It’s similar to what happens when an instance blocks another instance

I think it is great we have y’all here on the grad! It’s also cool that it serves as an alternative/complement to chapotraphouse in our sister instance Hexbear (love you all too my dope ass shaped queer comrades!! 🫶)

Honestly I think the automated comments are very useful…

Completely agreed! And from what I have seen so far, I think it would be possible to have an automated reply here on Lemmy too (that is my personal suspicion at least 😅). But I wanted to have such a post first to gauge the community’s opinions before investing time and resources into an automated reply. Especially because, considering one of the skills of the users of r/TheDeprogram was to dunk on the occasional libs who decided to be toxic, I would very much like to give them the same type of tools to be effective dunkers on Lemmy as well lol

I’m removing this post simply because it’s a duplicate. Thank you again for your effort in writing this!

Excellent guide! Thank you for sharing this

That’s incredibly accurate. On a personal note, it also makes my own browsing experience more pleasant when I can interact with well intentioned users who are simply chatting about theory and sharing memes.

I like having a safe, moderated communist space

Thank you for the clear answer!

Not a consistent deprogram listener or subreddit user

just a commie

Funnies aside, my personal opinion is quite similar to yours, especially the “Keep the agitprop on one side, and the fun hang out space and theory discussion here” part.

On Reddit, the Deprogram sub operated in a very similar fashion I would say. We frequently had new users who were just checking out the sub (maybe after interacting with a leftist post on Reddit or after listening to the podcast) as well as a portion of our users who were more familiar with theory and were there to answer questions and share memes.

It could be argued that Lemmy.ml - being the largest openly leftist instance that hasn’t defederated from most liberal/reactionary instances - would be the closest thing available on the Lemmyverse to Reddit as a whole (no offence to Lemmy.ml of course. I’m not trying to insult this platform by comparing it to one openly defending Zionists and their genocide).

And I’ve often seen your excellent reading list here, just like I’ve seen it being used by users that were not from 1 of those 3 main leftist instances. That level of usefulness and reach is in part what inspired me to write this whole post

I was waiting for the moment when you showed how uninterested you actually had been in this conversation because you only wanted to share your incorrect opinion.

And now, when faced with actual pushback, you started relying on the only thing you could think of in your ignorance on the topic at hand: namecalling.

We all knew you didn’t care to begin with