• Draces@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Wanted to say this too. It’s Lemmy’s biggest problem and keeps putting me off. I don’t recommend Lemmy to people in person anymore because of them. I don’t know if I would be more disturbed if they’re mostly state actors astroturfing or just deeply unwell real people

  • taermina@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I saw a mention of Lemmy on a random thread in r/politics so I’m tentatively having a poke about, since I’ve already tried to quit Reddit once (for Tumblr - it didn’t stick). I remember forums pre centralised internet, is it something like that?

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yes, you can consider it like a web forum but with the default sort set to “new post” not “new comment” as is done on Reddit. This tends to favour new content over longer discussion, although you’ll get active threads like this quite often.

      And thank you for choosing feddit.uk, I hope you enjoy your time with us and if you have any other questions then fire away.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m out of the loop. What’s this “Reddit thread from earlier today”?

    Also, yes, welcome to former Reddit users. I’m also a former Redditor, but I left during the API pricing fiasco.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      A thread on r/technology about Decentralized Social Media actually got some good traction so a few of us logged back in to promote Lemmy a bit lol

  • Truupe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Finally took the plunge out of curiosity and a desire to dump reddit at some point.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I came from the first reddit exodus and it’s been great over here. You’ll get used to it in no time, I promise.

      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I assume they are taking about the reddit post attached. Not exactly an exodus like last time but I would imagine at least a few made it here after reading it.

    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      So did I but be careful or you well also get swept up by the brainwashing here, buying a Pixel to run grapheneos, installing Linux on everything, buy privacy respecting email services, VPN and paranoid of everything. BTW I use NixOS and I am still mostly sane.