Are you 100% lemmy/mbin/piefed for your forum/thread life or are you still using reddit for something?

  • Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    I still use Reddit for niche and polarizing topics. Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here. Imagine an average Christian joining the Fediverse: they’d have to leave many of their beliefs at the door and adapt to the herd, or risk being unwelcome, having posts downvoted to oblivion, and being told to leave. It’s already happened to me a few times with opinions that aren’t welcomed here. It’s a far cry from what Lemmy’s decentralization promised.

    • Triumph@fedia.io
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      9 months ago

      When someone disagrees with you, you have the opportunity to more clearly define what you think. This might mean changing your mind to a greater or lesser degree; it could mean understanding more completely why you hold the view you already have. If the votes show that a lot of people disagree with you, well, conventional wisdom is often enough not very wise.

      In my experience, fediverse people have been more reasonable than reddit people - but you’re going to find petulant children on any public forum.

    • runway608@kopitalk.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I don’t see a slow drip of Christian right, just allowing themselves to be converted to this freewheeling mass known as the fediverse, one by one. They’d hop their own pirate barge on an instance, lobbing bible verses at us en masse.

      I suspect we’re all looking forward to it too because it’s what the fediverse promised us. We get to be whatever we want to be, and god dammit we can float our own barges if we’re weird enough.

      • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        Real Christians wouldn’t have to change whatsoever to participate in lemmy/reddit. Because real Christians are too preoccupied loving others to be policing people’s sins.

        All these FAKE Christians are pigs dressed in sheeps clothing, made in china and sold to them by their dear wolf leader.

    • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here.

      Enlightened centrism 101 folks. Reduce both sides until they have zero nuance so that you can ignore the substance of any given consensus.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      9 months ago

      If my large, angry (hypothetical) neighbour decides I’m an a-hole - and, let’s say I am - it still doesn’t give him the right to come into my house and beat me bloody. Nor does it give him the right to change the fences around the yards or remodel my house for me.

    • n7gifmdn@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I’ve been a Christian for over 30 years, and I’ve never felt this at all. What are you seeing that I’m not?

      • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        Same. I’m an agnostic Christian. I adhere to the teachings and values of Jesus, but my definition of God doesn’t conform to the Bible’s and cannot be verified AFAIK.

      • Davy Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        Atheism 1.45K users / month, Religion 9 users / month, religion isn’t gonna fly on Lemmy. You may be as christian as you like but how many times have you been able to talk religion here. And the same goes for any topics that goes against the current group think.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Search results (usually for specific video games, though some politics and history stuff is also from there) and a small amount of pornography.

    Haven’t added content or even logged in to an account since moving to the Threadiverse, though.

    EDIT: I think the most-recent content I looked at was earlier this week, when I got search results regarding discussion on Nazi Germany’s war plans for fighting the US in World War II:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/mg3rr6/what_even_was_the_german_plan_to_defeat_america/

  • Chezus9247@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I got shadow banned for no reason, so only Lemmy for me. I appealed for so many times on Reddit, yet no freakin’ answer.

  • dil@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    this feed feels more like reddit front page used to be, the feed there sucks, I still use my custom feed ocasionally, blender and comic discussion is non existant here, I have been using blenders forum and league of comic geeks more.

  • wrestlingfan@onjase.quebec
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    9 months ago

    @n7gifmdn I would add Friendica Groups (f/k/a Friendica Forums) to that list. But I digress, I still do for sports. Particularly /r/wildhockey & /r/cricket. The later I actually subscribe to the RSS via old.reddit.com/r/Cricket/.rss on Friendica so the posts show in my regular feed, but If I want to comment or post new I still have to actually open the cesspool that is Reddit in 2025. Like others said if there was more content of these on the 'verse I wouldn’t.

  • bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I return for both the LEGO deals and leaks subreddits. I’ve been using lurkit.vercel.app as my viewer since I closed my reddit account.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    On every single Reddit post I accidentally end up on these days, I just get annoyed because there’s someone making an incorrect statement about something and I can’t make a remark or correction because I deleted my account. So I just try to avoid the site altogether. That’s just one of many reasons though. Others include the obvious ideological problems with Reddit, and the way it looks nowadays.

  • dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    Only for communities which are not available/active enough on fediverse. Haven’t scrolled reddit’s algorithm since they killed all the good apps though.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    News about my city. TTRPGs. Home repair.

    I’ve tried to kick up conversation in appropriate communities here, but I don’t get comments.