There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!
-
I also broke free from Reddit. Hopefully in lemmy we are not limited to only post things that agree with moderators point of view.
For sure. There can also be a problem of too little moderation, though. There is a balance to be struck between censorship of opposing views and getting rid of off-topic spam.
For instance, there were a few regional subreddits that were obviously intended to be for thing like "Which restaurants are worth a 30 minute drive to go to" and "Come to my band's concert at the waterfront this weekend", but had turned into basically nothing but off-topic spam wars about national level political topics.
The mods refused to do anything about it, so I just left because 90+% of the content was stuff I didn't come to that subreddit to read. Keep that shit on r/politics.
-
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 so you only have to worry about .ml, 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]
-
Is Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn't updated in a while
-
Sounds like some very positive changes in your life. Glad to hear that you've been improving yourself.
My wife and I recently had to make a difficult but necessary change in our own lives, fleeing from the US to live in France while we wait to see what shakes out of the chaotic situation there over the course of the next year. Been starting in on the language learning, but it's been slow going.
How was that process? Is your wife French? I wish I had dual citizenship anywhere.
-
AFAIK, voting counts as active.
For this reason if I go on Reddit for a niche item that's not here yet, I only lurk, no voting, commenting, nada.
Thankfully, I'm having to do that less and less.
-
Don't worry about the other posters trying to dissuade you from lemmy.ml. It's a very chill instance. It gets flack because it is run by and has a majority leftist base, but that shouldn't be an issue if you consider yourself a progressive. The "tankie" slurs are frankly b.s. and disingenuous. I wouldn't call the sub "pro-Russia/China" by any means, the users are anti-imperialist and realistic in the nature of US propaganda depicting other states as bogeymen. Just because you question the mainstream US-centric narrative doesn't mean you're shilling for China/Russia etc. There's a lot of liberals and centrists, that despite their progressive sentiments they may hold, are still very beholden to the narrative of American exceptionalism in a lot of ways.
Guessing it's coming from shitjustworks people. Politics mod over there doesn't like anyone pointing out the Dems weak ass "resistance" even if you are lauding another Dem(Rep Green) at the same time lol.
-
This post did not contain any content.
-
As much as I love Sync, it has been almost a year since the last update.
I'm using Connect (on Android, dunno if it's on iPhone tbh), just had an update yesterday. Very solid interface, reminds me a bit of bacon reader
-
Same. My boost app finally stopped working so I had to switch over. Seems basically the same here just less comments
-
I bring receipts just a couple days ago
okay racist/chavinist or ableist you're right I forgot one
-
What happened 2/12?
Hey everybody! This guy doesn't know about 2/12! Let's all laugh at him! Ha ha ha ha ha!
.........I have no idea. Does ANYONE know what happened?
-
I'm the "9" of the 90-9-1 rule (aka: mostly comments)
hope that counts
Who has time to put in the effort to post posts?
-
What happened 2/12?
It was President's Day in the US, but I don't know why that would impact Lemmy.
-
How was that process? Is your wife French? I wish I had dual citizenship anywhere.
It was not as big a deal as you might think. In order to get a visa that we can renew each year, we basically had to prove these things:
-We have valid passports and identities
-We are not going to take a French person's job
-We have health insurance (so that we don't end up stiffing the French healthcare system)
-We won't be homeless on arrival in France
-We have enough savings to support ourselves for the time of our Visa's validity (because we're not allowed to work for a French based company while we're here, see second point)I've been saving 50+% of my gross pay for the whole time I was working, and my wife is doing the same, so we had plenty of money available to buy plane tickets, pay lawyers to advise us, buy health insurance, and get help with the application process. Honestly, the lawyers were not needed and we're very expensive I would not use lawyer again. I used them because we needed to get out fast and I wanted to make sure that the first application would be successful. The instructions on the website for the French government were clear and straightforward and we could have done the application ourselves without major difficulty. There were even versions of the application forms available in English with checklists of documents to bring.
My wife is not French, but my mother, my stepfather, and my three step-siblings are. Unfortunately my mother naturalized here after I could have gotten French citizenship through her (I was 23 when she became a French citizen).
-
Just got so sick of reddits smarminess. It’s also just astroturfed corporate BS at this point anyway.
I’ve been boycotting Amazon for over a year (and quite frankly won’t ever stop), won’t shop at Target and won’t visit super corporatized social media.
Reddit has proven time and time again they’re just a whipping boy for corporate interests.
Yeah I knew it was bad but this last round of suppression was the final straw.
-
What happened 2/12?
Probably a bot instance being removed
-
Who has time to put in the effort to post posts?
Thankfully, [email protected] and [email protected]
-
okay racist/chavinist or ableist you're right I forgot one
So let me get this straight, we can't call Drump "the dumbest president of all time" otherwise it's abelist, is that right? LMAOOO you guys are hilarious sometimes lol
-
This post did not contain any content.
I didn't realize that was only 50 thousand users. Muddy have been only 5000 in 2023 during the API Exodus.
