What is up with recent surge of libs? Before a few months there was that one downvoter every once in a while which was solved, now every there is at least one random lib in comments every few days, it’s like that for about 3 months.
Even if I think that Sankara’s ‘never stop explaining’ should be used frequently, I still think that we should always just respond with a random shitpost or reaction image to such comments. What do y’all think?
They like it that
It’s funny that
It’s ironic that
It’s interesting that
It’s almost as if
they talk like they’re reading from a smug Redditor flowchart.
Why are you lot so obsessed with reddit? Have ever considered that the way people speak on reddit is just the way people talk in general? Reddit did not invent linguistic trope. I digress.
“It’s interesting that you criticize communism, yet everything you own is made in China (often by a subsidiary of some state-owned corporation). If you like capitalism so much, who don’t you buy US-made only? – or if you can’t, start your own company in your wonderful free market?”
That line has lost me at least one friendship.
I think they just began to notice the 'Grad. Remember - we are very much a minority in the fecal ocean that is the internet. For thirty years the anti-communist, pro-US propaganda went unchallenged, and it’s already been pervasive as hell for decades before that. We are surrounded on all sides, comrades
They flocked to lemmy when the reddit API debacle happened.
I had an inactive account since Reddit banned MoreTankieChapo, the API debacle and the release of Sync for Lemmy got me here. Sync is ok but I’m waiting for Boost which should release soon and will likely attract even more fence sitters.
It’s fine, they always end up getting dunked.
I prefer the comments to the phantom downvoters. You can get some good dunks in on the former and there’s the chance someone stumbles across it and actually thinks for a few seconds. As far as how to respond to them, I don’t really want to dictate that. I think there is a place for a reasonable and rational response, a plus for dunks, and a place for pig memes.
I usually migrate from one to the next; I will engage in good faith at least to begin with. Doesn’t mean I think everyone should do the same if they don’t want to.
You wouldn’t care about downvotes. They’re as meaningless here as they were on Reddit. Off course most people don’t agree with you. You knew that anyway.
On Reddit, you could be restricted from posting on subreddits if you don’t have enough karma. I want to encourage Lemmy to not adopt this feature because I enjoy being able to be honest and not worry about being downvoted to oblivion for mentioning anything from a Marxist perspective, especially where Russophobic libs are abundant in the fediverse.
