There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!
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There is an entire instance for the Midwest. Have a look to check if they already have an active community
+ also @[email protected]
Beware of that one, it's got... "issues", and is not a great recommendation for someone trying to get away from the exact same type of stuff happening on Reddit.
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That's unfortunate, hopefully more instances with more centrist views pop up eventually, I might have to make the first of many. The irony is that the extreme lefties online think that centrists are extreme-right-wing somehow. Boggles the mind.
That would be great! Avoidance of not just leftists but extremists of any persuasion is the chief reason cited by so very many people for refusing to come over to Lemmy. Which by turning away content creators, leaves Lemmy stagnanting.
Nobody wants this place to turn into a safe haven for the Alt-Right, yet for some reason so many people do not bat an eye at what I've started calling the Alt-Left here.
It really would be great though to be able to check in on politics as needed, but then for one brief period even if only for ten damn minutes be able to turn all of that OFF!:-) Which I can on PieFed, but I see so many people on Lemmy begging for that, not knowing how to accomplish that (bc on Lemmy, you can't, and even on PieFed - well... look at this very post here, no separator is ever going to be perfect:-).
Tbf, from the perspective of someone who is THAT far left, I'm sure it does sorta all blend in to look the same:-). Even so, that is no excuse to remain in willfull ignorance. I don't have to agree with any particular position to understand it, nor to respect either it or the people who believe in it (especially if their set of facts differ from mine - not everyone has the luxury of sorting all of that out, at any age and social status and time period in their personal life).
I've flat given up posting content such as Fareed Zakaria, and barely bother to post highly leftist but somehow still not leftist enough content such as Innuendo Studios' The Alt Right Playbook.
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Do people using RSS readers contribute to these stats at all?
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Unfortunately (?) on Reddit a lot of the comments are from bots - not even just the "everyone I do not agree with must be a bot" mantra but demonstrably as in it is word for word repeated from a duplicate post made often years in the past, presumably resurrected to increase "engagement" and therefore profits.
^THIS. And my ax. I also choose this guy's wife! => all counts as "engagement" from the perspective of an advertiser.
And the humans are toxic AF. I resolved to leave Reddit regardless of whether I came here or not, bc I didn't like what all that argumentation was turning me into. Conversations are just flat better here.
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Do people using RSS readers contribute to these stats at all?
Nah voting is the minimum threshold for activity
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Uh... in the terminology of the show, Reddit would be The Good Place. (Obligatory fuck spez)
That's fair, I didn't think through my joke very well lol. Honestly Lemmy is wonderful but let's face it it's kinda an eco chamber with a few trolls, so I guess it would be kinda like the fake Good Place
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Welcome!!!
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Welcome !! ^^
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The equivalent to a Reddit "sub" is a Threadiverse "community" (Threadiverse or Forumverse, or maybe just Verse now?, anyway meaning the subset of the wider Fediverse, so like the latter includes Mastodon but the former is only the community-based Lemmy, Mbin, and PieFed).
The anarchy & communism instances are slrpnk.net and lemmy.dbzer0.com. Beware the fake communism, "tankie" triad of hexbear.net (or wherever they moved to, after they forgot to renew their own domain name), lemmygrad.ml, and lemmy.ml. Actually the former 2 should be defederated from you on Lemmy.world already, while the latter is sometimes okay, yet also batshit insane at the same time. You'll see... and if you ever forget to follow one of their entirely unwritten rules (not kidding), you'll be banned from every community on the entire instance, including those you've never even heard of.
Happy explorations!:-)
Beware the fake communism, “tankie” triad of hexbear.net (or wherever they moved to, after they forgot to renew their own domain name)
they managed to keep the domain in the end, I think they transferred to a different DNS landlord
Also it's not fake communism, it's pretty normal for anyone outside of terminally online circles, like I'm active in anarchist organizing and I've had plenty of comrades who would get called a tankie by you lot like it's some thoughtcrime
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I wasn't aware England had badlands
Like any country there are good and bad areas.
In England. never, ever, go to Slough.
You seen deliverance?
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I see it differently but understand your argument
I'm against the death penalty in all cases. But if the law of the country admits the killing of someone for killing people is a little cynical to blame someone for doing exactly the same the government does.
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Like any country there are good and bad areas.
In England. never, ever, go to Slough.
You seen deliverance?
Oh, I was thinking literal badlands
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Welcome! We've got memes on deck at [email protected] and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got [email protected] to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at [email protected] or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful [email protected] or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like [email protected] and [email protected]. [email protected] is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account and they do federate with .ml and lemmygrad but not hex iirc, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check [email protected]
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Np! If you have any specific interest, feel free to ask and I can probably find some good comms for you
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Welcome!!!
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That would be great! Avoidance of not just leftists but extremists of any persuasion is the chief reason cited by so very many people for refusing to come over to Lemmy. Which by turning away content creators, leaves Lemmy stagnanting.
Nobody wants this place to turn into a safe haven for the Alt-Right, yet for some reason so many people do not bat an eye at what I've started calling the Alt-Left here.
It really would be great though to be able to check in on politics as needed, but then for one brief period even if only for ten damn minutes be able to turn all of that OFF!:-) Which I can on PieFed, but I see so many people on Lemmy begging for that, not knowing how to accomplish that (bc on Lemmy, you can't, and even on PieFed - well... look at this very post here, no separator is ever going to be perfect:-).
Tbf, from the perspective of someone who is THAT far left, I'm sure it does sorta all blend in to look the same:-). Even so, that is no excuse to remain in willfull ignorance. I don't have to agree with any particular position to understand it, nor to respect either it or the people who believe in it (especially if their set of facts differ from mine - not everyone has the luxury of sorting all of that out, at any age and social status and time period in their personal life).
I've flat given up posting content such as Fareed Zakaria, and barely bother to post highly leftist but somehow still not leftist enough content such as Innuendo Studios' The Alt Right Playbook.
Seems like a safe haven for the extreme leftists who trespassed, vandalized, and stole various things off my neighbor's yards this last election season. The left are 100% fully unhinged now and will commit assault, and many other crimes simultaneously like a child throwing a temper tantrum, except they are more dangerous than a child. It's unfortunate to witness in my own community. But this is where the leftist extremists tend to huddle together it seems.
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Part of the problem is many of the users just don't get jokes.
You can post something that is blatant, obvious satire, and no matter how obvious or ridiculous, someone will argue about it.
Much of the userbase is fundamentally unable to understand humour.
Or they upvote anything that aligns with their political views, regardless of quality, see the posts of Pizzacake comics as an example.
Being early adopters many people here are tech or autistic people. There are also a lot of conscientious people who left Reddit, so many people tend to be more introverted and reflective.
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Nah voting is the minimum threshold for activity
that's actually crazy because it means we're getting alot more usage. I know I just migrated and loving having the sync app again. reddit is a cess pool
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Use the sync app worth all my pennies
