Lack of ads and ideological sympathies for FOSS is a huge part of why I came here but I stayed because the smaller size of lemmy allows for a feeling of community that reddit cannot achieve. I see and interact with users I recognize and know a decent deal of information about.
Conversation can happen in the comments on lemmy.
No they cant! So anyways, did you do anything cool this weekend?
Just house work buddy. Moving sucks.
I hear ya. Bet you found some cool stuff you forgot about though.
I did. I didn’t know that some builders used joists and wall studs instead of ducts for hvac. Can’t say i like it though.
i like piefed because it’s not owned by a publicly traded company with massive ai deals, there’s fewer terfs, and shonky > snoo
It’s small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.
Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.
I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don’t really count nor have an effect on my account
Reddit’s culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.
It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of “experts” absolutely sure that the future is communism and “stupid you brainwashed fool” if you don’t get it.
Oh I remember that, lol. It was a bunch of people giving long, well thought out explanations of their position to you, and you responding by ignoring them and insulting them.
Communism is the logical progression of society. It isn’t a certainty, but the alternative in the long-run is disaster and barbarism.
Sure, but there’s a lot of side paths to Communism that have resulted in genocide and environmental destruction. People need to be more skeptical of the flag bearers of Communism rather then treating it like a sport were they pick a side.
The vast majority of Marxist-Leninists don’t treat it as a sport where we pick a side. MLs are fully capable of recognizing progressive movements like Cuba, the USSR, and PRC, and recognizing faux-communism a la the Gonzaloite terrorists of the Shining Path in Peru or Pol Pot the mass murderer. These latter two were not successful applications of Marxism, but deviations far beyond the norm.
Communism remains to be the logical progression of society. As production continues to centralize and class struggle heightens, the more necessary revolution and sublimating property into collective ownership and a common plan becomes. It’s as much economically compelled as it is morally. The alternative, again, is barbarism as capitalism crumbles under its own unsustainability.
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.ml and shit talking communism.
Actually the worst appears to be hexbear that I blocked entirely.
Quite frankly I don’t care much. I actually enjoy being exposed to different views, and I can ignore extremism quite easily.
I don’t feel like I am being scalped for every ounce of data.
Right? What’s with all the obvious data gathering posts with huge upvotes like: “What was your favorite commercial as a kid?”, or “What’s that one thing you keep secret?” Really? It might as well be a day old account with 30 karma posting: “Please post a list of your favorite passwords alphabetically if you’re cool”.
Is the most concise answer “Every”? Personally, it is the profound absence of actively sponsored gathering for the village idiots.
No corporate pissbabies extracting value for shareholders for starts
I don’t I’m just banned there. I would be fine with lemmy if there were more people here with specific tiny sub-comunities like reddit. hell, there arent even big fandom pages here…
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I tried making a new account when I was on a different ISP than at my home, so I need to be on a new device in a new place…
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no, I’m a bit computer illiterate tbh, but I’ll look it up and do that at some point, right now it’s just not worth the bother for me really, I’m mostly sad the 15 year old account is dead…
There is just a lot less noice on Lemmy. Reddit feels like 1 legit post for every 100 shit post.
Not permabanned for unknown reason (i never posted or commented ever on reddit and got banned)
No ads, and generally more left-leaning.
My instance doesn’t sell what I write to train AI.
Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn’t give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.
Eh, if they run their own ActivityPub server they can probably extract everything in a neat format.
Yeah but they have to set it up. It’s not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn’t get to make any money off my back.
Nobody needs your instance to sell anything. The AI companies can access the data for free, just like the rest of us do through the web.
Some instances like solarpunk sit behind anubis which makes each request from scrapers cost exponentially more than usual. Its not much but at least people on lemmy have the mind to try and strike back, on reddit they take it laying down.
and other instances that federate with solarpunk have almost the same data and are easier to scrape
I enjoy not having corporate censorship deciding what I can and can’t see or say; not that I comment or post that much.
