• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
    15·
    2 months ago

    Bagging Reddit is actually kinda discouraged, more Linux and communism. Or at least screeching about capitalism at every opportunity.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, for a website forged almost exclusively from former Redditors and especially ones who got burned by Reddit’s abysmal leadership, I rarely see complaints about Reddit on here – arguably far fewer than on Reddit itself.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.worldOP
        22·
        2 months ago

        The socialists are the native inhabitants of this land, the Redditors are the ruthless imperialist colonisers.

        • argv minus one@mastodon.sdf.org
          5·
          2 months ago

          This is a federated cross-platform social network (hi from Mastodon, by the way), not one platform operated by one person with one ideology. No one is native or a colonizer here; those concepts aren’t even meaningful here.

          • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
            2·
            2 months ago

            He says that because the creators are tankies and so were the first communities built around them like .ml administrated by the creators. Last year’s Redditors migration after the API change moved the political center more towards social democracy and the people center towards .world.

            • argv minus one@mastodon.sdf.org
              2·
              2 months ago

              Indeed, but the old tankie instances still exist, same as always. The centrists went elsewhere, to non-tankie instances that were set up for them.

              Colonization involves taking somebody else’s land, but this is more like creating more land out of thin air and settling there.

              • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
                1·
                2 months ago

                I think those people consider the Lemmy federation to be their playground, and they are being xenophobic about others, but since there is not supposed to be xenophobia in their ideology, they call it colonialism instead.

        • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
          1·
          2 months ago

          Or maybe the Redditors are refugees and the lemmy nativists have convinced themselves they are eating their pets.

      • BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org
        3·
        2 months ago

        That’s been a welcome change in the last ~6 months. It was a fire hose blast of people going back and forth on whether a ‘thing’ was brought over from reddit, and whether or not it was welcome.

          • BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org
            3·
            2 months ago

            Oh, just insert whatever you remember from reddit. Replies that are obviously jokes but off topic, mimicking a meme or such; doing the ‘follow the link’ meme (though I only remember that one popping up once or twice); sounding out a sentence one word per reply… I saw all of those get panned or promoted. Some people screamed about leaving such habits at reddit, others thought they were the height of humor.

            • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
              2·
              2 months ago

              There’s a lot of those jokes that will hopefully die on the platform. They had well and truly run their course even on Reddit.