thoro @ thoro @lemmy.ml

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It is incredibly typical.

My reaction to the sponsor list would be the shocked Pikachu meme.

Lemmygrad is explicitly sectarian. Hexbear is not, even if it has a majority of ML users.

There is an anarchism community in Hexbear.

After you scroll through active, use hot, use new, use new comments.

It's not going to be a direct Reddit replacement after just growing its userbase to that of a small subreddit.

Might as well say Beetlejuice three times

Ace Combat and Kojima games do get criticism for their plots, though.

If you include a narrative, it's fair game.

Would y'all be lenient on mediocre mechanics of a "cinematic, narrative" game if it had a great story because "you know what you're getting into"? From my experience, most of a certain type of gamer wouldn't be.

85 average and 8/10 scores are hardly big knocks, either.

It is/was a terrible idea. It inherently devalues the end of the original trilogy and it's incredibly lazy.

Reddit was no different from 2005 ~ 2009/2010

Edit: and honestly. Still.

"You talk clean and bomb hospitals So I speak with the foulest mouth possible"

• RTJ

And I think we're aware things won't happen quickly, but that doesn't mean we have to be uncritical of capitalist politicians who are also actively hostile to leftism.

Also every inherently flawed, means tested, half measure liberal policy that gets confused for leftism (like Obamacare, which was based on Heritage Foundation ideas) just makes it harder to get support on the left.

And referencing the "political compass" unironically.

It makes sense.

Most people who came here two months ago did so because they explicitly wanted to leave Reddit, but not because of Reddit content or the site culture. It was because admin decisions on third party apps and the API.

They still wanted Reddit, just with different Admins and different apps. Ideally, they'd have wanted communities to fully migrate over.

lemmy.world specifically became basically a lifeboat, having been linked to from original third party apps.

Yes, it was created and had the technical and resource requirements to keep up with the new influx of users without constantly crashing (in the beginning), but nonetheless, that meant it got the largest influx of the migration.

It's honestly a bit strange for me to see people in here with two month old accounts saying "oh yeah the culture has just changed so much".

You all were the change. It's that influx of users that basically brought Reddit here.

Anyone who came here before the API changes did so either because they had some kind of issues with Reddit, whether it was the dominant culture or what, and wanted an alternative or because they were interested in the open source and federated nature of the project regardless of Reddit's own decisions.

Though tbf, pre migration, this place was basically dead. Posts would have a handful of comments at best and it was mostly Lemmygrad users and also FOSS enthusiasts. Hexbear was the most active Lemmy instance and was a chapotraphouse lifeboat formed in 2020 but it didn't federate so it was really mostly just Lemmy.ml as a general instance and Lemmygrad unless you explicitly knew and cared for Hexbear. Neither was very "toxic" in their own communities and there really wasn't much inter instance fighting, even if there still were people on lemmy.ml who didn't care for grad, as far as I remember. I honestly mostly lurked and didn't participate often.

The apps also were much worse.

Things started picking up as the API announcement happened. That's probably when we had the best balance of positivity and user growth.

It exploded when the API changes went into effect and voila.

Still, I would say it's mostly still a bit better than Reddit and there's more effort in commenting for the most part.

I don't think I've seen a pun chain or a "he's not your buddy, guy" or anything like that.

The Last of Us?

The people you may refer to as conservatives are, generally, also liberals using literally that same Wikipedia article and the classical definition of the word.

The modern dominant economic system in the world is called neoliberalism. It was first made popular by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It was continued by Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and now Biden.

Do not confuse the politico landscape with academic definitions.

Care to enlighten me on the other economic systems that have private property and a market economy?

The literal first two concrete policies in the opening paragraph of that article defining liberalism are private property and market economies.

Guess what the literal two defining features of capitalism are.

It was honestly a just a joke, and I'm not on Hexbear. Really wasn't that serious.

Feel free to take that one innocuous comment and use it as an example for further fragmentation of the platform though.

The civilized and good faith discussion that non Hexbear instances are oh so full of, folks.

I know. I'm being sarcastic.

Hey. Stop it.

Responding to accusations of being Nazis while literally being communists shows your brigading, debate provoking intentions.

but invade this discussion too.

Y'all.

We're on a federated platform.

If you want something to be instance specific, then say so.

Otherwise you're asking users to know to ignore posts that are literally on their feed on a platform whose whole entire purpose is inter-instance communication.

It's quite disingenuous to say defederating because of political differences.

Ironically a luxury that communist nations would not provide you with.

Ok, Jesus.