If you're still on Lemmy...

If you're still on Earth...

If you're still on Lemmy...
...you're supporting the solution!
- I do not see how Lemmy helps with anything other than allowing people another excuse for escapism and scrolling on the internet over actually developing life skills, seeing new sights, socializing with humans, getting better at understanding people, and actually making an effort to communicate with others, doing some small part to make the world better.
  
  I think the 'problem' the meme is referencing is supporting centralized social media run by corporations. I think the 'problem' you are talking about is more along the lines of tech addiction. Something can fix one problem without fixing every problem.
  
  Then why are you here?
  
  Sounds like a YOU problem.
  
  I actually enjoy talking with others on here. My worldview has expanded because of it.
  
  with reddit the CEO ad shareholders control what gets promoted or silenced; with Lemmy they don't have that power. that's how it helps
  
  Link aggregate sites do perform an actual function outside of the use case of doom scrolling. It's a way that I engage with my niche hobby groups, aggregate news, and troubleshoot niche tech issues. There's a reason why you Google a question then add "reddit" at the end.
  
  This shits so funny bruh, stop using social media as your excuse for not developing skills, yeah its addictive but you make an active choice to not delete these apps, if I want to get shit done I delete tiktok, there you go, no longer distracted by easy scroll dopamine. Went i want a break from learning skills, seeing new sights, I redload it, wtf do you think social media is, there is less small talk and more proper socializing on lemmy/reddit type platforms than any other

I don't want to be part of a problem. I want to be the whole problem
- Apparently if you want to do that you have to buy Twitter

have you ever seen Lemmy
ON WEEEEEEED
- There's some weird shit going on, man. Beans flying everywhere, dudes who don't want to shit for 3 days. Who's that sending pictures of dead girls to everyone? I don't know! Mod team, go! Mod team, go!
  
  No shit for 3 days? That's amateur numbers! There was that guy on Reddit that didn't go for a month and a half and had to get unclogged at the hospital!
  
  Cats and dogs, living together!
- Bro, I've been high basically every fucking day for the last 5 years for sure but we're getting on a decade here.
  There isn't much shit I haven't tried on weed because raw dawgging this timeline is a guaranteed shotgun slurpee.
  
  Bro I'm one week into a tbreak and it's painful
- love me some half-baked
- Surprisingly, no. I should do that sometime. The only time I’ve been high in the last… forever, I drank a THC bev and went through a game bundle I bought, started up Cow Life Sim RPG and ended up playing it all day. It’s an insanely amazing game for what I expected was a shitpost game. Pterry4lyfe

Reddit has become practically unusable. Mods censor EVERYTHING even if it doesn't "break the rules" it's worthless trying to have honest discussions.
- Luigi
  
  Luigi is a hero and I don't care if anyone thinks otherwise.
  
  slays
- Dude im so tired of bans and creepy tracking that ensures you cant engage on the site... I do enjoy the reddit user friendly platform but im so sick of the overreach from the mods.. i have had an account up for a while that just got permanently banned because I accidentally engaged with a sub i forgot had banned my og account.. and because of that old account that had an IP ban it was somehow tied to my new account made a whole year later! Even though i use duckduckgo with full protection and cleared all my data.. but Im done.. its not worth the headache..and trying to use lemmy world now feels better. Still getting used to it here
  
  your comment has been automatically removed because you didn't choose the right flair.
  your comment has been automatically removed because it doesn't adhere to "fuckshitstack" guidelines
  your comment has been automatically removed because it didn't kiss the mods' asses enough
  your comment has been automatically removed, to become verified, take a photo of your driver's license, your social security card, and yourself holding both of them, in each arm. SUBMISSIONS WITH BOTH CARDS IN ONE HAND WILL BE DELETED! PLEASE, READ THE STICKY.
  I fucking hate Reddit.
  
  I hear you. Right there with ya.
  
  DuckDuckGo doesn't hide your IP. Your IP is a fundamental networking number used to route traffic to your computer. It can also change for many home internet service providers over time, so it's a bit stupid of Reddit to use them, though they might be using more advanced fingerprinting mechanisms and merely saying IP.
- I dropped Reddit when it was announced that you could be banned for upvoting something.
- Their threshold for "calls to violence" is ridiculous. Got a ban for commenting I'd slap someone just like the person who got pranked slapped the person who jump scared them.
  
  My ban. A bloke purposely ran over a 12 year old boy that was riding his bike. Seems a group of youths had verbally hassled this bloke so this was his reaction. Thankfully it was caught on film. This happened about 50 miles from me here in Australia.
  Well anyway my comment was that if he had run over one of my two boys he might have ended up in hospital, there might be broken bones and I might end up in prison. I mean it was an angry knee jerk reaction to a horrible situation.
  Well I got a site wide ban for threatening violence. I didn't actually threaten anybody. No warning, no temp ban, not just banned from that one sub. Appealed but it fell in deaf ears.
- I got an instant permanent auto ban for joking about pushing someone down the stairs. It was 'supporting violence'. I appealed and it was auto rejected. It's become absurd.
- I once said on /r/nintendo in the context of Nintendo increasing the price of games that even if you enjoy their products, there’s no excuse to defend their anti consumer practices and that there was way too much “corporate boot licking” among Nintendo fans. It wasn’t a statement directed at anyone specifically, but I got a temporary ban for “derogatory name calling.”
  Like…I fully understand it’s going to be a sub of Nintendo fans, and I also consider myself a fan of a lot of their games, but if you aren’t allowed to be critical…then banning me for that post kinda proved my point, lol.

Don't we still have a few years before lemmy somehow enshittifies?
- It's impossible by design. If an instance enshittifies people will just leave the instance.
  
  The protocol itself could surely start its journey if enshittification? In which case different, possibly incompatible, branches would spawn fragmenting the Lemmy space. Still miles better than the whole thing burning to the ground. But with no shareholders looming around (yet) we can hope it won't come to that.
  
  if .world says being a minor is bannable suddenly there's no minors anywhere on Lemmy. A minor example that is understandable, sure, but it's just to show that a single large instance can cause a lot of change if they decide to.
  
  Isn't that the exact same argument for Twitter? If Twitter gets shitty, people will just leave? Because I feel like we're not really seeing that.
- Not really. It's not a centralized platform by design - unless you're talking about the flagship instances, which are a common problem with federated projects
- The fact that this is being upvoted so much I think demonstrates a big misunderstanding of how the fediverse works.
  Nobody owns Lemmy and if a instance does something shitty it costs hardly anything to change instances. Nobody owns the lemmy software, and other softwares like mbin/piefed exist too with the same content.
- It'd be pretty difficult, any instances that start that shit would be defederated with a quickness, but I don't want to be too optimistic lol

The only thing Twitter has over something like Bluesky is the fact that Bluesky is so milquetoast and nice that you don't really get any of the drama you get on Twitter. Like, I never see comic fans going "Black Bolt would DESTROY Saitama in a fight!" and anime fans going "Nu uh! ONE PUNCH!" on Bluesky.
Same with Lemmy tbh. Lemmy is 80% politics, 5% memes about politics, 5% memes about Lemmy being better than Reddit, and 10% Linux.
- It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn't a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.
  
  Honestly I've become so disillusioned with Lemmy over the last few months. Almost all of the discussion I see is liberals saying all conservatives should be executed, leftists saying all liberals should be executed, and tankies saying that anyone not willing to self-immolate in protest of the genocide in Palestine should be executed (but don't you DARE mention any genocide not perpetuated by the West.)
  /h
- Bluesky is refreshing
  
  fuck off

- Is this image from something?
  
  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mannequin-pointing-at-crying-mannequin-this-mf-paid-for-twitter

If you're still
- If you're
  
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Lmao well I found this place cause they won’t let me on Reddit anymore. They didn’t appreciate my colourful thoughts on Musk.
- Honestly you could get banned for upvoting someone who stated someone seemed agitated and should try following dear leaders advice and take a shot of ivermecrin, a shot of bleach, and take a nap.
  Watching reddits fall over the span of 12 years was certainly a thing.

Joke's on you, I'm on Mbin
- How's mbin been so far, compared to lemmy
  
  I love it! Been using Interstellar on mobile.

Sweet, are Advice Animals back?
- I'll just leave this here

your're
- Yheir
- Your not gonna like the fact that Nobody likes a grammar Nazi
  
  *yor'oe

Reddit is like CNN, which is Fox-lite, while xitter is ( oan and newsmax)

Its true. I have friends still using it and they can't seem to break free. I used Reddit since its inception, but left it immediately during the api-pocolypse and never looked back. I did the same with Proton when the CEO praised the GOP. I have no loyalties to tech companies.
- That's why i left too though I only did it recently bc the app i used only stopped working like a month or two ago.

They will follow us everywhere. If the medium is commercial, the capitalists will capture it. If its public, the extreme social interest groups will capture it.
- “Extreme social interest” like universal healthcare / basic income, human rights, being anti genocide, pro-human rights, basic privacy rights… list goes on.
  My good fellow, extremists are not here shitposting, they’re running the biggest economies of the world. World’s richest man did 2 nazi salutes a couple weeks ago. Twitter is full of nazis. Spotify is hosting Andrew Tate podcasts.
  “Public/open source = bad” is exactly what those people want the public to think, because it can’t be monetized and easily controlled.

What if I'm on drugs?
- That's fine, you're supported by a problem

If you're still using the Internet in any capacity...
- If you're still using written word...
  
  If you still are

I'm doing my part!

inb4 a bunch of ~~junkies~~ redditors justify their ~~addiction~~ continuing usage because [reason]
- Muh niche topics
- What else am I going to do with my time, read a book? I can't even read an article!
- They won't come here, and they're on reddit because
  Actually good algorithms
  More people and content

If you’re still on my mom…
- Muscle Man, is that you?
- It's been more than four hours, I need to see a doctor.

It's me, I'm the problem... (Sorry I'm old and couldn't help it)
- Sorry I’m old
  Anti-hero was only 3 years ago...

Neither of these are true lol. Someone has to tell the right wingers they deserve the death penalty for treason.
- Keeping away from X is more of a health thing honestly,
  I know at least for me, it leaves me worse off reading through posts on there even if I've tried to fight them
  
  That’s legit. If this post were a call for good self care and mental health, I wouldn’t have commented. I tire quite easily of individualistic solutions to social and institutional problems.

Just deleted my reddit and joined Lemmy. Do I have to quit already?

they are here now

Well other than politics reddit is quite good. It's the best for asking stuff about unis, degrees and jobs
- Which part is your favourite? The ads every few posts, the lack of meaningful discussion, or the constant barrage of notifications with no purpose?
  
  Well I used to have good posts on my feed because I built my algo that way
  I have reddit turned shit in the recent years. And they even banned for saying my country needs gender neutral laws. so yeah I guess overall it's bad
- No it isn't. You can't talk freely in there at all without being banned.
  
  I think OP means "the mediocre, least bad intersection between critical mass and topical discussion."
  Like, you can probably find users/subs about universities/fields and actually find people in them to respond. Lemmy is great, but good luck finding a mass of discussion around a niche location/field.
  Reddit is horrible and deteriorating, yes, but still.
  
  Being banned for saying your opinion is the worst part
  I was banned for saying my country needs gender neutral laws

Bluesky is far far too left.
- Would rather be too left than whatever the fuck is happening on twitter.
- ..... it's a social media site.. its whatever the people make it.
  
  No. It's a social media site with an agenda. Just like Twitter. It's a private company.
- how is it any less to the left than Lemmy?
  
  Lemmy is very left as well yes. But I'm new here.