So far on Lemmy, whenever I see someone comment this, it’s because they’re mad Reddit got “toxic towards my free speech to stupid ass MAGA nonsense”. Is that what you mean by Reddit being “toxified”?

He won’t

Brilliant

Aw yeah, poppinKREAM.

Or Stone

Too bad proxy wars don’t count

Next week

I think this is a good point. When I got here, before I started shaping my feed, it was basically rule196, furry porn, tankies and memes.

Actually… A lot like Reddit in the Digg days, minus the tankies.

Less “gems” and rage comics and “Le”, but the same idea, modernized for 2023.

It was those of us (probably in this Lemmy thread, ironically, 15 years-ish later) who outlasted the Le gems of Reddit, and turned it into the modern place.

Then, spez. Fuck spez

Or, maybe, the world is more liberal than you’ve been led to believe as your circle of influence grew smaller as you got older.

Does this feel like Reddit did then? Does to me.

I dunno about the code. But, they’re definitely pushing their agenda here on Lemmy.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s the only true negative aspect of Lemmy that I’ve noticed since I joined.

Everything here is pretty good. The users are mostly cool. Content is not high in quantity, yet, but it’s decent quality.

Lemmy has one real, true problem, tankies. They’re dishonest, they manipulate content, they brigade posts, they’re a cancer. They have no home in legitimate link aggregation.

If it is true that they “built” Lemmy, it was only to get away from everyone who shunned them and forced them to find a safe place. And now they’re mad that people who aren’t deranged lunatics arrived in their safe place.

Okay. Finally, after a month here, I’ll bite.

Who said it was built by tankies? I’m not saying it wasn’t. But, afaik, ActivityPub was developed by W3C.

Are they tankies? They don’t strike me as tankies, but I’ve been wrong before. People keep saying the Fediverse was built by tankies, and I guess I’m missing some history, because as far as I can tell, there may have been some tankies, but it doesn’t seem built by tankies.

Even now, Lemmygrad is small. They’re annoying as fuck. And they’re pervasive on Lemmy. But, it’s not like there’s a lot of them.

So, if anyone feels like bringing me up to speed on the history of the Fediverse, I’m extremely eager to learn.

I hope not. You seem okay so far.

I left Reddit for Lemmy a month ago.

The comments in politics communities around here do not live up to Reddit’s yet. Close sometimes.

This comment is the first time I’ve actually laughed. Brilliant. I actually went at read the article just because of this comment. Cheers.

Lmao. You got banned? Hilarious.

Okay, fair enough. Although, honestly, I’m struggling to figure something out and maybe you know.

If Lemmy users all hated Reddit and Reddit users so much, why did they all go there and try to convince everyone from Reddit to come to Lemmy when the API debacle happened?

Mass exodus from Reddit is because of API, not because the marijuana subreddit is called trees. You think the number of users skyrocketed the day API closed because people were mad about foodporn? No.

I’m blown away that this finally sunk in with you! Congratulations! I was starting to believe you just weren’t capable.

You missed one small detail though. That the very idea of the Fediverse is for people to come here. I suppose that’s why all the Lemmy users came to Reddit and screamed “Join Lemmy!!!”.

Fuck, you’re exhaustingly clueless. I’d have better luck chatting with a wall. Best of luck man

Brother. This is disingenuous. I’ve explained, again, multiple times. This is nothing about Marxist leninists. That’s not the issue here.

The issue is bad actors on Lemmy. This isn’t that complicated. Surely, now, after all these comments, you have to have at least the smallest understanding of the difference. If you cannot admit that there’s a difference between a political ideology and idiots manipulating a political and news aggregation site, then you and I will just have to part ways there.