My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
I was too anti car for /r/fuckcars. When on that sub I was told multiple times that some people had no choice but to use a car and all their excuses were valid, always. So there were lots of comments in an anti car sub just saying “I would lOoOOvVe to ditch my car but its just impossible because…”
As a car free person, it felt like I didn’t belong in that sub. Plus, there was the API scandal at that time and that meant RedditIsFun would stop working eventually. So I abandoned reddit for smaller communities here.
Unfortunately lemmy has kind of the same issue reddit had. When the post of a small sub/community gains traction, it gets popular beyond its small community and gets “invaded” by people browsing “all”, resulting in a majority of comments from users not subscribed to that community.
This is something a good moderator will handle :)
Yes, but it’s also the nature of how those platforms work. It would be hard to get new subscribers without popular and active posts. If mods of small communities are removing posts and comments from people that diverge from the main opinion there, growth will be difficult.
It is something I try to keep in mind before commenting on a random thing I see when browsing all communities instead of just what I’m subscribed to. Check the community before making a comment, to make sure I’m not insulting fans of something I don’t like.
FUCK cars.