Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• maxenmajs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was close to leaving. At first I’d been given the impression that “liberal” is a dirty word on Lemmy. It helps that PSAs like this one routinely appear on other instances to inform newcomers. Just keep spreading the knowledge and let it be known that everybody should block those communities.

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  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    same, that was a weird first impression.

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• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Personally I am sitting at 100% of the people who I mention Lemmy to irl doing so. Not only that, but they actually gave me dirty looks and admonished me for even so much as mentioning it. It is easy for us who have blocked such to forget but… the day-1 experience for someone new can be quite shocking. e.g. just search for the word “guillotine”, preferably from an instance you are not logged into, to see all the calls for literal and actual (and not joking… not really) murder of people who participate in such wildly anti-communist practices as … <checks notes> “have bank accounts”.

  Though maybe X is just as bad these days? I dunno, I never had an account even when it was Twitter:-D. In any case, it is grandfathered into the public consciousness, and the devil you know… you know? :-P

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  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I imagined basically exactly that happening and decided not to tell anyone about it, not yet anyway. Also, I don’t want them to get death threats from Hexbear like I did…

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeesh, I am so sorry that happened to you - tankies are just the worst, aren’t they? You could literally put a URL to those exact conversations and they would still come back with “well no, see, we aren’t that way at all bc… shut up!” They enjoy all the drama that they stir up - it’s the point (go read the actual sidebar text of Chapotraphouse and the_dunk_tank and their posts e.g. talking about defederating with the rest of Lemmy, except no they actually don’t want to do that for the simple reason that it provides moar people “to dunk on” - let me know if you want the receipt for that statement and I’ll dig it up).

      It is somehow worse than talking to Trump supporters, bc at least those believe in something, as opposed to existing solely for the purpose of “the dunk”.

      And then it’s so sad that the rest of Lemmy tolerates it. Not the communism mind you, I’m talking about the dunking and other harassment.

      Well, we learn at least, not to mention Lemmy to people irl. It’s so sad that it must be that way… it severely limits our growth, but it is what it is.:-(

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    to see all the calls for literal and actual (and not joking… not really) murder of people who participate in such wildly anti-communist practices as … <checks notes> “have bank accounts”.

    I’m gonna need a source for this, that sounds too insane to be believable, and i’ve never seen anything like that.

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• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, lead them to instances that defederate hexbear for starters? Seems reasonable anyway.

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• FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t tell anyone I use this site in case they come across that stuff first. I just say I use a site “similar to Reddit”. I’m surprised that they don’t ask me the name but most of my friends don’t spend so much time online.

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  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same, I haven’t told a soul I use it despite being active here over a year. I still believe in it though (or just really hate the idea of accepting corporate social media).

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• y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m one lol. Same with hexbear.

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