thoro

@thoro@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been more of a lurker/commenter than a poster, but posters are what Lemmy needs if we want more users to come. People need to want to come to Lemmy for content.

  In my experience, the best poster on the platform is the person making the comics on /c/unix_surrealism, in that sometimes I find myself wanting to check the comm to see if there is anything new.

  And this will be disagreed with heavily, but the second best posters are the memers at Hexbear. I just think they make the funniest leftist memes (so political content, sorry people who are tired of politics), and they’re the only instance that actually has a site culture, with their own in-jokes and history/lore.

  When Reddit was young, that was a big part of it: Posts that went viral among the community and became in-jokes/lore. Comment chains (as much as I grew to hate them). And original ideas for content (AMA, TIL, AITA, etc.). There was a kind of culture to the site (that’s mostly been diluted now).

  That said. I like Lemmy perfectly fine at the size it is, even if it doesn’t fully replace Reddit. Though it’s concerning to see it declining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a “conversation”, it is evangelism.

  A bit ironic from the piefed evangelist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people on Reddit avoid the larger subs like the plague though

  This doesn’t really seem to make sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re correct. They aren’t right wing. They are communists.

  I haven’t figured out if I’m fully anarchist, a “left libertarian” who can accept a restrained state, or if I’m coming around to being an ML, tbh.

  And I’m not sure if I care. I just want capitalism dismantled and fascism/conservativism opposed. And I don’t want a police state.

  But, and this is gonna be hypocritical of me, I feel like the sectarianism always seems to be coming from online anarchist and progressive spaces. Like no don’t join our mass movement against capitalism if you, IDK, don’t dislike China enough? Doesn’t make sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What instances block .ml that I’d be upset to miss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Liberalism has an actual definition. Neoliberalism is a subset of liberalism. Either way, neither position is socialist and both are capitalist. That’s the distinction. That’s always been the distinction. Leftist politics is distinctly anti capitalist.

  To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism’s contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources. And most of the social stuff was being advocated by leftist groups in the west for years before they became popular enough for the mainstream, liberal parties to embrace.

  I’m an American. Conflating liberalism with leftism is a media game that has successfully ensured the Overton window does not shift left. It reveals the mass political ignorance here. Of the policies you’ve listed, only H4A is arguably socialist.

  You can understand the two party system and make decisions to support certain candidates/policies in an election without identifying as a liberal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda surprised how long it took to scroll before seeing Ico and SOTC mentioned, tbh.

  Crown jewels of PS2, imo. Pushed the medium forward artistically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamepass only ever made sense to people who had time to play or dabble in a sufficiently large amount of games per year and felt the need to play some new titles soon or immediately instead of waiting. Otherwise, eventually your total subscription costs would outpace the total cost to purchase what you played, especially if purchased on sale at a later date. And the value gets worse if you ever replayed a game (s).

  I’ll never really understand the excitement about this service. It was always a Trojan horse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your point? Are you banning the entire Internet?

  All this stuff is still accessible once the bell rings and before they get to school, just like it was when I was a kid. Kids were still going on YouTube/MySpace/ Facebook and more to share things. This argument doesn’t make sense.

  You’re attributing the issue of algorithms to the medium itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. There’s a reason I moved over even before the v4/2011 fiasco