I’d heard about them before, but prefer to reserve judgement until I see things with my own eyes, or at least directly see how they’re treating others.
Eventually, at my community, I posted a comic examining some of the various self-strife between Israeli folk, and from out of nowhere 3-4 Hexbear users who’d never taken part before materialised and began ranting about Israel and calling me and the community some pretty awful things. After that, I started paying a little more attention to their user comments across the Fediverse. Just… yikes.
Advocatus diaboli:
“If there’s something worth stealing, I steal!”
–Picasso
In this case, yeah… there’s still plenty of good design and features to lift from Reddit, and why not? Also, in terms of the FV as whole (i.e., not just Lemmy), I’d love to persuade more of Reddit’s better users to migrate, especially the more they realise that they’re not much more than a “$” sign to spez and the investors, anyway.
Pretty crazy how we saw such naked greed and contempt from them back in Summer '23, and yet the bias of recency (or whatever it has) has largely normalised it out of existence for both the Reddit and the FV side. Like… bloody hell, mate…