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  • tischbier@feddit.orgtoReddit@lemmy.worldReddit is so very confused..
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    2 hours ago

    Seriously the stupid rehashing of old top comments. Posted by bots. Who are commenting on a repost posted by a bot.

    Fuck me. It’s never a recycling of Reddit specific lore or history or inside jokes. Just the lowest hanging fruit. Over and over and over.

    It’s like being forced to sit through a sitcom where the actors are all robots and there’s no live audience or laugh track.



  • Dude for the last year on Reddit I could NOT get a normal feed. It was always sneaking in AITA threads. It was absurd. And then the comments were even more absurd.

    Did you see the PR company/ PR person Melissa Nathan that was caught manipulating pop culture subreddits for actors?

    Like I could tell it was off and not at all like Reddit used to work but all this makes it so apparent that the content is being driven so hard by factions and bots. It’s mostly not real people anymore doing or influencing anything.

    So glad to be on Lemmy with you :)





  • That’s how and why I joined over here. They implemented the upvote = ban policy. I got a warning. I have no idea what for because I pretty much upvote everything I read. I am pretty loose and will even upvote entire argument threads if I think the argument is worthwhile to read.

    As soon as I was warned for upvoting the wrong thing, but not told which of my thousands of upvotes were wrong, I deleted Reddit.

    Anyway, it’s nice here on Lemmy.



  • I’m very familiar with this community—they should migrate over here.

    They’re witches. Of all different types of craft. A broom is something a witch rides or flies on in popular culture.

    It’s saying that witches can survive against fascism if they band together in their covens and use their witchcraft.

    Or, more simply, if they stand together in their faith then they will survive together.

    Witches don’t actually fly on broomsticks or hit people with broomsticks. They’re just normal people. It’s slightly in jest.


  • I agree with you. It’s short sighted to give in to a separate corporation to “beat” the first. The only way to beat Reddit is to stop using it and forget about it.

    The goal should be to remove the ability for a single entity to control the public flow of discourse.

    I’m off to buy a Lemmy sticker to put on my thinkpad




  • tischbier@feddit.orgtoReddit@lemmy.worldJust a friendly welcome post
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    3 hours ago

    Haha it’s great because there’s always another instance where your username will be available.

    Or you can choose to be something different on each instance.

    I just came over from Reddit too. It took me a day to settle in and understand how federation worked but now it makes total sense to me.

    Start posting stuff with us welcome welcome everyone :)






  • Sometimes you’re in a social gathering that’s polite and one guy invited has a bug up his ass. Like, I have a guy in my social group who keeps joking that women are going to get forced to get pregnant. All the men in the group now vocally tell him it’s not funny. He’s not even weird in other ways that are noticeable.

    I’ve also met full gown men who still love Rogan and believe the sentiment of the post. They are often kind of close minded and dumb.

    Just be really grateful you haven’t had the misfortune to run into these members of society haha

    (I agree with your sentiment about twitter. I never saw the draw)


  • As a lawyer who has had meetings about our client’s case hitting the news—they’re probably thinking about getting a narrative out there before the DA or some other agency does. There might not be an option to negotiate not talking to the media. This isn’t normal everywhere though.

    As they say: If the facts aren’t on your side, pound the law. If the law isn’t on your side, pound the table.

    I think the lawyer is pounding the table. It’s ok to hate lawyers for this. We will still defend you if you get in trouble even if you deservedly hate us haha


  • It follows the same line of thought when you apply it economically: all people are selfish so we can’t do X.

    You know that experiment where a teacher ran a thought demonstration with their class in the 50’s? Each student is supposed to run a fake company and sell fake widgets on their fake class market. In the 1950’s the students quickly realized it was a competition to race to the bottom to sell as many widgets as possible for the least amount of cost.

    It’s supposed to teach supply and demand of capitalism but also teach that humans will undercut each other in competition.

    A teacher ran this in a post-bachelor accounting class I was in—and my teacher got really angry because none of us were doing the behavior he was expecting.

    Instead of undercutting each other, we started to work together in a group to get the work done while keeping our independence as “separate businesses.” We each built different model companies to compete but didn’t do so in a way that harmed each other.

    Instead of the teacher realizing that maybe our class didn’t naturally have a selfish competitive mindset—that maybe this was also a perfectly valid reaction to the experiment—we just got told we were “doing economics wrong.”

    I don’t think it’s surprising that anecdotally we find many people who insist on brimstone religion to keep people in check also believe “people won’t work” and “people are selfish and bad” when it comes to shaping economic and welfare policy. Bowling balls full of horseshit.


  • Ain’t that the sorry truth? On one hand, I hope you’re right and that we have an after soon where we can enjoy forgetting haha

    But — I remember protesting the Iraq war and I told my parent that this war didn’t make sense at all and I couldn’t stand for it. My parent was appalled. They literally cried and said that they were sorry to have a traitor for a child. Haha they hate the Iraq war now! Amazing!

    Remember when Michael Moore got booed at his acceptance speech for some Hollywood award because he had the audacity to be like—yo this Iraq war shit is wrong and does not look like it’s based on anything? And even Hollywood BOOED him. Yanked him off stage!

    Remember the little American car flags. On everyone’s stupid car windows?

    You had to vocally support the troops if you were in public too. People who had become devoted to the Bush admin forced this in every conversation with strangers angling for a fight.

    And we found out the Weapons of Mass Destruction were not real. They weren’t real. The have New York Times journalists that testified to admitted falsifying articles for the Bush Admin.

    Looking back the atmosphere Then was a primer for Now.

    The whole world stood with America and it was for a lie. When I was in Italy after 9/11, an entire restaurant stopped service because we were American and the restaurant expressed that they were with us and they felt deep grief for our country. Europe cried with us. Only to be betrayed 25 years later.

    How do people who lived through these times forget these aggravating and tender moments? They don’t seem to remember and connect the dots.

    I can only assume those who don’t make choices on principles stand for nothing. They base all their current attitudes on social hierarchy and nothing else. Mein Herz ist krank.