getting high and eatin’ cyber-chicken.
Situationists never die, they’re just remixed.
I’m an old person, I still check MetaFilter, Slashdot, and hackernews regularly. Occasionally places like hackaday. Also the forums on private trackers. Lots of good content out there, and I’d rather pull a link/set of links I found from somewhere like MeFi or hackernews than reddit.
Bring back Legend of the Red Dragon.
I’m fairly sure it’s not new, because I recall seeing cross-posts from other instances right when I posted a story to a local instance.
Thanks for understanding. I’ve been quite enjoying the content on Lemmy as well. I’m just hoping for more creativity, because I’m positive there’s people out here on Lemmy with brilliant social game ideas, they just haven’t had the exposure they need yet for it to become Fediverse lore.
Not trying to be down on anyone’s good time, I hope folks have fun with it. It’s just my personal opinion on the matter, that it’s better to create our own culture than grandfather in “culture” that wasn’t actually culture but corporate nonsense masquerading as “culture.”
Put it up there with all the people that complain that using Lemmy is “too hard” because it’s not enough like Reddit. It’s a bunch of “well corporations did this, why can’t you?” type feeling. I just don’t like that feeling, I’d rather have a community actually grow organically without corporate influence.
To quote Boo Boo Bear:
corporations rob us of our dignity and independence
When we rely on them for everything, even our definitions of what “culture” is, we have lost.
Well consider me sold, then!
Cool, but I would argue that we should be creating our own traditions, not copying… *checks notes …a sad ploy to increase MAU numbers.
I mean, back in the day, the games we used to play on forums were stuff like “Google Images Word Association” where someone would produce a random image, then someone else uses words that image made them think of, then search images based on that, then add another image to the thread, based on their word-search. Resulted in a lot of dumb funny shit.
Anyway… Great idea, but it pains me that it’s just copying some bullshit from reddit that wasn’t about community but rather a weak attempt to gin up engagement metrics.
Cheers and thanks for this guide! Saving it for later.
I think that’s valid, but from what I’ve seen, it mostly relates to Western propaganda against China.
I don’t trust the US or Chinese governments, really, but I can at least admit from a Western perspective, a lot of stuff promoted about China is propaganda, and I don’t disagree with the admins that it can be perceived as “racist.” I agree with the admins on that and it seems that is mostly where the accusations lie, with them supporting China. I think that’s fair and China is just as full of actual real humans (actually more) than the US and other Western nations. Painting all US citizens or all Chinese citizens with a broad brush isn’t acceptable. Valid critiques of their government should be, but a lot of Western critiques can often (and should) be dismissed as not valid, highly propagandist, or even racist.
Example: US people complaining about China’s “Social Credit Score” while having no issues with the US “Economic Credit Score” even though they achieve similar goals.
Anyway, that’s what I’ve seen. People post something that’s anti-China from a Western perspective and admins remove it.
Also, “if you don’t agree you can gtfo” is kind of the entire point of federation. You can always choose another instance that these guys don’t run. I think that’s an entirely valid attitude, and it’s one that allows the Fediverse to grow instead of stagnate on one server.
The devs addressed this in the post-reddit-blackout post. You are free to come to your own conclusions.
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout
On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide. These claims are completely false, and like most viral twitter threads, are coming from a single Mastodon user on a personal vendetta who didn’t provide any sources. Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored. If you want to know the truth then read the following pages (both from 2021):
As you can see we are not a faceless corporation that is accomodating to everyone. We are individuals with our own opinions. If you disagree with these, it is no problem! You can still freely use the Lemmy software on different instances. If you host your own instance, we have no control over it at all and are unable to censor what users say. For more details read the documentation on censorship resistance. In practice, the instance list already contains various instances whose content would be banned from lemmy.ml immediately.
Definition of concern trolling. As if Reddit gives a shit about your privacy either.
Reddit: You’re giving your information to strangers! You don’t know what they’ll do it with it!
Me: Weren’t you going to sell my data?
Reddit: Yeah, but that’s different! We’re a respectable adult capitalist business. These are fucking commie pinko freaks we’re talking about here!
All options that aren’t federated are just as reasonably suspect when it comes to good stewardship of your data. A federated universe means if you really are that worried about it, you can spin up your own instance and be able to trust yourself with your own data.
Also, is it really a shocker that Reddit would turn to McCarthy-era Red Scare tactics? What’s next, hiring the fucking Pinkertons like Wizards of the Coast did?
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