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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 57 points 7 months ago

the only reason everyone is here still is because there isn't a viable alternative yet. (and no, the broken "fediverse" concept isn't viable)

😂 You're allowed to not want to leave. But just because you refuse to learn something new/have Stockholm Syndrome/etc doesn't make the fediverse broken!

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago

That should’ve been the post: a screenshot of that with the link given (was too lazy to find it again)

Yeah very silly takes on the fediverse. Right about one thing: the hivemind is strong. To offer a nuanced opinion, you have to go in hard at least sarcastically about the far-left view, then you can share how it could be theoretically questioned by a reasonable person. (Can and should. Echochambers will leave our minds feeble, so we gotta duke it out with the uncomfortable stuff.)

What’s the benefit of the hivemind? Should be harder for nazis to offer _non-_nuanced takes framed as questions (JAQing off). Wouldn’t be tolerated for a second; no one has time for it here. We take the good with the bad.

I would, though, love to subscribe to a conservative community with exclusively social-justice minded posters, but who still offer unusual or right-of-center framings. Like imagine if (heh, if) the US supports a terrible leader in the Middle East, but we actually couldn’t just cut communication with them tomorrow or something even worse could happen. And maybe we all here offer unwavering criticism of the US support b/c it’s so obviously the correct thing to do, but someone right-of-center can ~~akshually~~ actually us in a nuanced way that leaves us smarter. And more able to call out the correct plan of action too (e.g. cut off support in six months, not tomorrow, after a structure is in place). (…this example sucks)

[-] halva@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 7 months ago

they're... not wrong y'know

[-] eleitl@lemmy.ml 51 points 7 months ago
[-] db2@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

At this point regardless of the quality of your ass it would be a vast improvement.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 26 points 7 months ago

Reddit is basically a free media content farm & astroturfing paradise, at this point.

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

u/Ehcksit

Yesterday I clicked on All/Rising and 20 of the top 25 posts were 9 year old accounts with no karma each announcing a different subreddit that was created an hour earlier with no posts in them.

suspicious.

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago

I wonder how much could I sell my 12 yo reddit account for with 0 posts

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago

I tend to try to open their eyes from time to time, not sure if it is worth it.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

The fact that you used Imgur for this comment strikes me as ironic

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Not my fault, I tried twice to upload the image here and it did not work, perhaps for the aggressive limited storage size of my instance... Anyway imgur is the only app that I have for quickly upload shit.

[-] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Imgur is such a fetid pit of 'engagement'

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Advertise Lemmy there. It's barely mentioned in the discussion.

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 14 points 7 months ago

They are a bit late to the party aren't they?

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Isn't this more of a consequence of reddit's user count? How is Lemmy less vulnerable to bots?

[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

every single report by a user matters more as they're sent to every federated instance

For example:
As a user of instance 'a' if you don't like your moderators' actions/inactions, now you can easily jump to instance 'b' which still provides you access to the previous communities that you were subbed to

due to this interconnected complex system, instance admins and moderators are more likely to take reports seriously and attempt to provide their users with the most reasonable services and logic

all of which means that bot accounts are highly scrutinized than regular users

sorry for the long explanation but I hope this helps you understand how and why🤗

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Feels like watching ants' colony get destroyed

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