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it's mind boggling to me why anyone stays on reddit.
It's a frog/boiling water situation. It never gets suddenly, dramatically worse, it just gets slowly worse over time. I had been noticing some weirdness (described in another comment under this post) for a while and was kinda starting to wonder what was up, but it didn't rise to the level of 'Oh I should do something like this' until I got temp-banned for saying Luigi didn't deserve to go to jail for what he did (which was then reversed on appeal, but not before I got a message saying I was perma-banned for ban-evasion with other accounts (I've had only one account in the 14 years I was on reddit, so that was bullshit), but the ban was lifted instead. It was that combination of an increasing sense that something fucky was going on and an inciting event that made me realize it was considerably worse than I realized. People tend to need an inciting event, otherwise the concern doesn't overcome the inertia to keep doing what you're familiar with.
i guess my side of the boiling pot got too hot faster than the rest did and my event was the reddit blackout protest; all of the subreddits i frequented when dark and it forced me onto lemmy.
Yeah, I almost left at that time too, but I didn't believe the alternatives were really up to snuff. I have been pleasantly surprised to be wrong.
i'm thankful for it; my leftists leaning were already unwelcomed on reddit as much as they are on .world and that episode taught me that the alternatives were significantly better; i would still be on reddit if it weren't for that and it's so much better having islands of sanity whose members can see the neoliberal wool being pulled over american's eyes.
Really? I found lots of pretty far-left subs that were pretty friendly to those ideas. Wish I could find more here, honestly, but the ones I've seen seem kinda dead.
those subreddits exist and i was part of them (they were the ones who told me about lemmy) and, yes, they're dead and/or dying because the constant and overwhelming stream of clueless "gotchas" from people unaware of their propagandization is depressing and tiring AF and that made most/all of the leftists redditors leave for islands of sanity, like lemmy.
i'm only partially grateful that reddit's enshitification pushed people here since they're perpetuating the same asshattery that's made reddit and this country turn into shit.
I meant I wish there were more of those communities on lemmy.
those subreddits are well represented as .ml, lemmygrad and hexbear on lemmy.
lemmy itself is a spiritual successor to r/communism, r/socialism, r/anarchy, r/marxism, etc. mixed with r/linux, r/foss, r/technology, etc.
I kinda wondered if lemmy.ml was a left-leaning server, but the description didn't seem to say anything about it. shrug Didnt' know about the others tho thanks.
Lemmy.ml is foss technology topics focused and most of its users are leftists; this is something you could only know by hanging out on Lemmy long enough.
The other 2 are leftist politics focused with general interest topics and they say so in their descriptions.
Ahh, I only knew about lemmy.ml and its description doesn't mention leftism at all so I wasn't sure. But thanks, I'll check them out!
I just peruse to see the news but i was ip banned for posting comments critical of israel and supportive of Palestinian resistance about a year ago. Hopefully lemmy gets to s point where reddit becomes irrelevant but it is still in its infancy at the moment.
i doubt reddit will ever become irrelevant considering how much people decry the fascism surpression that typifies other platforms like facebook or twitter; but both continuing to enjoy dominance.