I was always a lurker on reddit because every time I spoke my mind I would get silenced/banned/whatever. Literally every time I ever tried to say anything that wasn’t 100% in lockstep with the hive mind, shut down, so I stopped bothering. So far Lemmy has been great in that regard!
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MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also, if you want to grow Lemmy, the best thing you can do is comment and respond to everything (With thoughtfulness of course), because the value of reddit (and Lemmy) is always in the comments, so that’s the best way to contribute.
jackoneill@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lightnegative@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The thing is, it made for some hilarious trolling opportunities.
And occasionally you’d find someone also going against the hivemind that shared your views
average_internet_enjoyer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Curious me here, how would you troll?
lightnegative@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For example, in the r/newzealand Reddit which is full of bleeding heart social justice warrior lefties, I would post comments in support of one of our minor parties that sits more centre-right on the spectrum.
That really riles them up, I get a heap of downvotes but also a couple of supportive comments from the 2% of other people on that sub that dare have a different opinion from the hivemind
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m trying to keep my disagreements and discourse that way as much as I can in my own responses. What we don’t have in completeness of software, we (hopefully) have in community and heart.
Microw@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For a while I was on squabblr, and the thing they did right was to encourage lurkers to post and comment.
lemann@lemmy.one 1 year ago
You still active on there? If not, what tempted you make the jump over here to us 😁?
I vaguely recall there being some situation on Squabblr (previously squabbles, for those ootl) regarding free speech, and a ton of users moving to Discuit
Microw@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yup, tons of users quit at once when the mod team faltered because of disagreements with the admin regarding hate speech content. That’s when I decided to look for a different platform and migrate completely to Lemmy (was here before as well)
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
Yes, I agree, person whose comments I see under literally every post
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You should have seen me when I was promoting my movie here.
I’m like Lemmy’s George Takei.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I really want to believe that Margot Robbie advocates for the fediverse and likes Android enough to be a mod on it’s subreddit
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, I’m just here to shitpost and promote my last movie, and I’m all out of movie promotions.
(Why? Because it’s really funny.)
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Hello, I see you a lot around too!
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
Let’s gooo. I’m famous!
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