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That's definitely an improvement, I'd hate to see Lemmy get co-opted, but I guess it'll happen in various ways if it gets big enough. One concerning trend I think I've noticed is bad faith arguments (trolling, in a word) against leftist talking points. Could just be sincere disagreement and I'm chasing ghosts, but I've seen some stuff that looks REAL fishy.
Agreed. But another problem is that some people think anyone who disagrees with them is a troll.
Just today, I got banned from two communities. The reason? According to the mod: “known zero-sum narcissistic troll/spam user.” Which is wild, because I’ve barely posted in either place. I never said anything political or controversial as far as I can tell—and none of my comments were even removed.
And I think the last time I posted there was a few weeks ago?! LMAO.
The only thing I can figure is that some mod or admin saw me posting elsewhere, remembered they hated me for being a Socialist, and made up a reason to ban me. Totally random. Totally ok, their community. Their rules. Just like my community, my rules (as in I ban serial downoters).
No real loss—I rarely comment there anyway, and apparently nothing I said was bad enough to delete. Still, banned.
Lemmy’s a strange place. The echo-chamber mentality might be what kills it in the end though. If it turns into Reddit 2.0, what’s the point? And I am adding to the echo chamber by banning serial downvoters. So, meh...
I love Lemmy, but I can totally see it withering if it becomes harder to navigate and more toxic than Reddit. That said, I refuse to be bullied off the platform. I’ll be here until the servers go dark.
But I'm on PieFed, and really loving that platform too. So no big loss if Lemmy goes away, because I'm already on the Lemmy replacement. :)
Apologies I'm so late, didn't really have anything to add. But I've noticed your comments since this wee little exchange more and more, esp. on db0, and I like how you get down.
Sell me on PieFed if you feel like it!
haha, thanks, friend!!
Careful though, saying that you even kinda like Universal Monk on Lemmy these days puts ya at risk of "guilt by association." lol They'll probably just say you're an alt of me and that I'm talking to myself, so...
I see soooo many people accuse of being an alt of me. Someone made a list of names and said, some variation of, "Here's a list of all Universal Monk's alts so you can pre-emptively block:..." And none of them were me. lol
As for selling you on PieFed. Hmm, I don't really have the knowledge base to do that. I do like it though. It uses much less resources/memory. Community is growing. And it's a good backup for when/if Lemmy fails. It does the same thing faster and quicker.
I personally don't catch as much hate there, and the admins seem to be much more "as long as you aren't breaking any laws, you do you" in attitude.
Way more options for organizing your the communities you follow, what you wanna see when you log on, etc.
I think if you do a quick search for "piefed vs Lemmy," you'll get much better feedback about both platforms than I can give you.