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People who think Lemmy is too political and refuse to join is good. (beehaw.org)

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https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/140vbey/launching_rlemmymigration_what_communities_have/jmxnzsh/?context=1

Look at here and the people who complain about it being too hard to figure out are the ones complaining about "I can't use muh slurs, this is awful."

"The left of today is very much in favour of censorship to avoid “harm.” This makes those of us in the middle very wary of signing up to any partisan media." /u/decidedlysticky23

/u/misshapensteed claims he isn't far right, but explictly only posts on PoliticalCompassMemes and TheLeftCantMeme and KotakuInAction.

If they are too stupid to figure out we know they're lying, they're too stupid to figure out lemmy.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Voat was a school project that blew up in popularity and became infamous after the Nazis decided to use it as an easy platform to fester. It was not created as a response to anything reddit may have been doing at the time. It was just another link aggregator with comments that had user overlap with reddit.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If that is all true, the logic behind advertising it on Reddit at that time, and sticking to the position of "free speech absolutism" is kinda questionable. Maybe don't plug your social media site when all the reprobates from r/C***town are looking for a new home. For your own good.

Another site was founded by a former Reddit admin over at tildes.net, but he was very explicit about what he was trying to do (2019 announcement - tldr: ban assholes, shun low-effort posts). It never had the problems Voat did.

There is a big problem with all these tech bros where they think an algorithm or a piece of software are what makes a community. They have no concept of society. No thoughts about what diasporas or social milieus they are trying to assemble. No thoughts at all about what the purpose of the thing is in the first place. They are very bad at this shit. I can't count how many times I've seen someone be like "What if we did something like Reddit, but on the blockchain?" without even asking, who is this for? What problem does it solve?

[–] OverfedRaccoon@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize it had been around to that. I guess "its sudden rise in popularity" might have been a better phrasing then.