• exasperation@lemm.ee
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      Reddit seemed much more like a Hacker News/Slashdot interface in the early days. They were different from each other in 2005 but slowly started to coalesce into some common features that the other had first. Reddit had robust comments and threading (which I personally consider to be the defining feature), while digg version 2 had categories/tags. Reddit adopted subreddits and Digg adopted comments sometime in 2006 or so.

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        Digg was the site that originally popularized up-votes and down-votes that are so typical on online posts today. But, despite Digg’s pioneering introduction of this feature to internet culture it was the very up-votes and down-votes that led to its downfall in the first place.

        https://mashable.com/

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    Definitely an upgrade, just moved from Reddit to Lemmy, I already like the community and the UI here, plus the fact that it cannot be bought or owned by billionaires.

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    Definitely. I joined reddit in 2019 because I like the focus on communities and that reddit was almost uncensored. But since the censorship hat drastically increased since then, I left the platform now. And so far, I like it here

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      Welcome! Yea, IMO Lemmy is kinda like how Reddit was a decade ago, but the light touch means that there’s also some problematic parts. Probably the biggest issue is the tankies, but if you want to just avoid them you can do an instance block of The Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml. Though I think your instance already defed’s from Hex and grad. that’ll take care of the bulk of em.

      We’ve got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.

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        17 hours ago

        Thanks man. I already joined most of them. And yes, these communities are automatically blocked. But I find it wild that the instance hosted by the developers requires users to copy a part “The Principles of Communism” into the application. I subsequently did not create my account there

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          Heh yea, shits wild over there LMAO if you want to see what they get up to you can also check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

          All mod actions here are public so you can see what they do through the modlog, usually accessible at [instance URL]/modlog

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    I mean. It’s a fun show and all but this meme places us as the murderous megalomaniac, literally one of the worst people on the planet.

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      Yeah we don’t relate to that asshole.

      Maybe Butcher. He has his own issues, of course, but then so do we.

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        We’re all Hughies that think they’re Butcher and could never land Annie.

        I didn’t really notice until now but The Boys have the classic 4-man personality spread.

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          Lol maybe. Sometimes I’d say we have a lot of Lamplighters.

          But the truth is I never put much stock in the which-character-are-you personality quizzes and, statistically-speaking, I’d wager we have every possible personality type covered.

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            The 4-man spread is less about covering all personalities and more about ensuring your favorite projection target has more than just one detail you relate to, I think.

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      I mean… A lot of Lemmy users blindly clap for dictatorial populists because they claim to be from the left, it’s hard to take this as an upgraded site when the only thing you read about your country is government propaganda.

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        The tankies aren’t in the majority, though that’s what they’d like people to believe, they’re just very very loud

        And the bulk of them can be taken care of by blocking the Tankie Triad of .ml, grad and hex

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      I signed up for the digg relaunch with the hope it can kill Reddit off for good.

      I wish lemmy could do it, and the fediverse will always be there for the people who are willing to put in the tiny extra effort. But I think it’ll take something centralized and easy to understand for the average person who doesn’t care about that stuff to really make a dent and start an exodus.

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        r$ddit will still exist for at least another 80 years bc there’s always the chance someone will be like: “what was the name of that place I had that conversation on once…? let’s see if it’s still there…”

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          I would like Reddit to be around forever because of all the good answers from people over the years for different issues, but that’s already been heavily damaged by mods, admins and people using bots to turn all their old comments to gibberish. I hate that actually valuable information is being lost because of ego and greed.

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      They both are. And it kinda works for Lemmy.world given that they’re closer to Reddit than any other instance as far culture goes.