• nutsack@lemmy.world
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    what a goddamn shithole. the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it. it’s where the most users and content are. so many communities were completely erased during the mod strike and it didn’t matter. they knew they would be completely fine. the future is an authoritarian world effectively governed by companies like this.

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      the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it

      That’s what many social media companies have said, lol.

      But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.

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    While I do miss the subs with thousands, and the very obscure subs for my specific interest, this shit makes me glad I got out

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      Don’t worry, won’t be long for thousands join Lemmy when Reddit tries the Musk way of running a company into the ground :)

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      What makes me sad is how a lot of niche communities moved from websites to Reddit, and now they are going to die.

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    Fixing reddit search? Just insert a 2021 google search bar on old.reddit. I just saved you millions you dingus. Thank goodness Aaron Swartz doesn’t have to see what happened to his joint venture.

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      Remember when they tried to pretend he was not really involved? And then the time the removed his name? Insert pepperage farm meme graphic.

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      If there’s one thing that united the Internet, it’s don’t fuck with our porn. It’s how Tumbler died, pornhub lost over 95% of their videos, and it’ll put the final nail in reddit if they try it.

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    Left Reddit over a year ago, haven’t been back once. It was surprisingly easy, and a year on, it’s getting easier for others too.

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      I miss some of the more casual subreddits, and somehow Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is, but otherwise yeah, Lemmy is fine. Especially with the Photon frontend.

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        It makes sense, those that backed off Reddit were more than likely against Corpo greed while conservatives cheer it on. Lemmy was created by leftists supposedly and more left leaning people joined after leaving reddit so it’s no surprise. Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left so we were sort of destined to be an echo chamber unfortunately.

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          Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left

          sigh…

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        Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is,

        Yeah I really miss the trumpers responding constantly to anything about him with absolute bullshit lies. That really added perspective to my worldview. Now, if we could only get some more people to join Lemmy who despise Linux /s

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          There are centrists and even conservatives out there in the world who have valid perspectives and values but who are not Trumpers.

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    Oh cool so we’re gonna get another wave of users joining lemmy, it’s nice that they keep fucking up at such a regular cadence

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      I don’t think there’s really going to be some noticeable influx, but I hope so. Even though Lemmy isn’t nearly intuitive as it could be, but it did improve atleast by some degree.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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        We say registrations go from 1 or 2 a day to 14 (other instances saw similar upswings). Just on this news. If they do implement it we’ll see another Rexxit with similar big numbers.

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    Cool, I’ve heard that people love paying for access to their own content that used to be free.

    This is a good time for anyone still on the site to share some Lemmy links.

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        “Lemmy CEO teases users with cookies and free subs” would be removed from reddit in 1 second

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          Yes, because one is saying positives and the other is saying negatives. “Trump promises project 2025” isn’t a trump ad even if “Harris promises a fucking break from whatever weird bullshit trump said today” wouldn’t be allowed on truth social

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            Ads are about exposure too. The word “lemmy” is probably banned on reddit because they don’t want you to even mention a competitor or people would know.

            When the frontpage is all about trump/harris any party that isn’t them lose because they get 0 coverage.