…for now.
Once you get critical mass it’s a race to the dumbest post.
I’m sorry, I’ll try to be more violent.
Absolutely not. But I must say that I don’t miss the toxicity at all. Being on the (liberal?) Fediverse has done wonders for my mental health. There’s little tolerance for bullshittery and that helps foster a stronger sense of real community for a greater cause in my mind.
I don’t think it’s even necessarily all the same political alignment, so much as it is that we’re all united against Reddit and this corporate tomfoolery right now. It won’t last forever, but in being united for a common cause, we’ve sort of achieved world peace lol. I’m a libertarian. I’ve seen us, republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, socialists, and everything in between uniting to discuss technology, bash Reddit, and work to build back our global communication forums. This is the progress in humanity that the internet’s creators envisioned. This is unity and peace. It won’t last forever, but if we can at least continue to respect each other (while holding different opinions), unite against those who show no respect or dignity, and continue to rebuild together, we have in my opinion bettered humanity for years, hopefully generations to come. Even expecting that this platform won’t last forever - none ever will - we have learned through this to not take our open forum and free discussion for granted.
As long as you don’t go into any post regarding the Ukraine war…
This is actually my second time on Lemmy, I tried it like 6 months ago and it was sooo different I couldn’t handle all the tankposts
I’ve read the term ‘tankie’ more in one week on Lemmy than in the rest of my life combined.
It’s what happens with a small community. Interaction and discussion VS lowest common denominator humour for mass votes.
We all want Lemmy to succeed, but that only means that it’ll turn back into reddit. It’s the natural cycle of social media.
Come a day, we’ll all end up back on Fark and the cycle will repeat itself.
I told my gf, who I met on Reddit, about migrating from Fark to Reddit, and I’m trying to get her to join us here… but now she went and is exploring Fark, which is somehow still around, and I’m like you’re doing it wrong!
