I'm just curious why some people come here; in my case, it's because it's not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.

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[–] 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

Reddit was a death of 1000 cuts.

The strictness of communities. Shadowbans. Intercommunity drama. Overly critical usrers and doomers. Removing the ability to see upvotes/downvotes. Old reddit slowly going away. Api changes.

One day i just found i wasnt having fun on reddit anymore. It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media. I spent 12 years on that platform and l learned a lot. But now its mostly its just clickbait and drama to keep you on.

So i went on lemmy, contributed to the code for a bit. Found i liked piefed because of the better fediverse interop. Stayed here and contributed a tiny bit of code.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media.

    I hate to tell you this, but you left New York and ended up in New Jersey.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    NGL, there's parts of Jersey that are lovely.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I really meant that they left one thing for something very close to what they left

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    I did. Mostly because at my age and with my shit eyesight, I was looking for something I was familiar with layout wise.

    Old lemmy to the rescue! It's nice here, like Reddit was many, many years ago. Small, community-based and not rage-bot driven.

    My word, as I look back on how Reddt pivoted in the last 5 years, I really can see it now.

    This is really like the nice parts of Jersey. It's lovely compared to the fiasco I left.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Don’t forget the view in app and the constant sign in notifications. Fuck off. You’re a glorified website that should keep ya nose out.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    oh god the intercommunity drama. I got banned for one group just for participating in another. Reminds me of middle school when I felt forced to pick between two fighting friends. 🙄

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Right now, you cant say meshcore (like the word) in the meshtastic subreddit. You would never know until people started getting randomly banned. LOL sometimes its just want one mod decided for the others.

    I just dropped in there to seeif my particular device is having issues and bam more drama.

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