I keep on responding to every post that complains about Reddit on WvP. I haven’t posted individually just yet and haven’t seen a post either. But I have seen that people were banned in other subreddits for more outright promotion of Lemmy. For now I’m staying under the radar it seems.

There’s just something comforting about re-reading familiar books. Especially when the time when they originally found us was significant.

I have heard some witches that are particularly unhappy with Llewellyn (I think because of the more capitalistic nature of the publishing company). They have so many books that there are bound to be some good ones in there. Would love to hear which ones you enjoy.

Problem is that lack of places to vote isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. It means people who don’t have access to transport or who have do work during the day have a more difficult time voting. Not everyone has the time to drive somewhere and then stand in line for hours. Republicans have used this as one of their techniques to discourage certain groups of people from voting at all.

So far the mods aren’t minding my comments yet. But I’m quieter about it than some people I’ve seen on here. No all caps, or bolder text. No links. Just a comment kind of like this explaining that Lemmy is a pretty cool place. Probably slips through the cracks easier ;)

I’m still on both. Here for all of the political stuff and and anti-Reddit post and on Reddit I’m still in the subreddits that aren’t on here yet. Mainly a lot of crafting related stuff. And whenever someone complains about censorship on Reddit I respond with Lemmy as a suggestion. If I get banned I get banned. We’ll see.

Listed to that podcast a while ago. I’ll probably go back and re-listen a few times. It’s a great combination being informative without being overwhelming and witchy without too much woo. Not that I don’t appreciate a bit of woo at times, but this is just really easy for just about anyone to enjoy. Highly recommend.

Considering deleting my account as a statement but I’m kind of attached to the history which is why it’s kind of scary touching it at all at this point. All I’m using it for now is for a few crafting subreddits and some clothing based subreddits that don’t have equivalents on Lemmy yet. One I might be able to create myself. But we’re talking 5-10 of my most frequent hangouts. That seems like a bit much.

Went to find the removed post. The comments are not locked, lol. So everyone is discussing Reddit censorship and how they are upvoting it after it was removed.

Anyway, someone in the comments said this: “Musk doing a Hitler salute with a target on his head. Text “Make Nazis dead again” Very nice sticker”

Yes he will make people suffer regardless, but I am referring to a difference in the scale of suffering here. There’s ways for him to think he has won without actually winning. Plenty of leaders have used it against him already. Though admittedly this would work better if the media then didn’t follow up with “Haha. Cheeto doesn’t even know he didn’t win”. We might not be able to escape that one for the more public parts of politics. Though he’s trying hard to cut off the media that isn’t on his side and silence them, so who knows really.

Because this particular angry geriatric toddler has access to a lot of ways to make people suffer on a large scale and delights in the suffering of people. Sure, making him feel miserable feels great, but how many lives are you willing to sacrifice for it?

I haven’t been banned either. Currently hanging around on both platforms but I expect I’ll say goodbye to Reddit sooner or later. Lemmy is definitely less addictive (which I love). Not quite as much variety here yet either. We’ll see what happens. Think my account is 9 years old at the moment, but this level of one-sides censorship and thought policing is unacceptable.

Fair enough. Turns out while every single news article reporting on the plant scream study talks about it as “pain”, the scientists themselves made no such claims. Merely calling it “stress” in plants.

Thank you for giving me a reasonable response that made me look into it further and educated me - the way I feel like would have been beneficial initially instead of what actually happened in that vegan group.

It’s really the amazing, wholesome community of people that makes it special. And just because it happened to start on Reddit doesn’t mean it’ll necessarily stay there. For now I’m still on both and I’ll keep on suggesting Lemmy to Reddit users until my account gets blocked for it, lol.

A little wave is more than enough sometimes :)

Not sure. I am part of the new wave 👋so we will see.

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I got banned from a vegan group once because I responded to a person talking about how “non-vegans must be sociopaths to not care about all the suffering of animals as they scream in pain” or something like that. I responded with a link to a study that plants do in fact scream when being injured. We just can’t hear it. Apparently they didn’t like that, lol.

Edit to add: I didn’t just respond with a link. But something like “As much as I appreciate veganism I am not sure what to tell you. Because if avoiding screaming and suffering in your food source is the reason you became vegan I do have some bad news <link>”