So I’ve tried Mastodon, Pixelfed and didn’t like them. Mastodon is nice if you wanna ”tweet”, but that’s not for me. Pixelfed was dead.

I quit Meta because of tech bro fascism, and hated Twitter even before it was X because, let’s face it - nobody has ever changed their opinion on anything because of a Twitter conversation (I know I’m exaggerating, to get my point across). I was in Reddit for a few weeks, and the conversations there seem mostly friendly and constructive, but I decided I don’t want to have anything to do with social media corporations. Besides, I noticed I could scroll endlessly. And that’s not good for me.

Lemmy seems nice. There are still some topics I’m interested in that don’t have active communities, and I’m still learning on how to have my feed from multiple instances. But still, this is the way to go for me.

Against algorithms, against fascism, for free internet. Thanks for coming to my boring Ted talk and have a nice day.

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      12 hours ago

      Imagine being too far to the right for reddit and then thinking that you will be met with enthusiastic agreement on lemmy.

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        12 hours ago

        Nah not really, I just said kill Elon musk for impacting German politics. Not because of anything he said, but because he’s not an elected European.

        Impacting EU legislation, tsk tsk tsk.

        Me being extreme right to extreme left depends on the topic.

        Most people are politically, economically and financially illiterate.

        They just have their brand (insert your preferred ideology) and just question themselves: is this what my brand wants? Then they do ☺️ or 😡

        I vote for social democrats (freedom of expression is important to them). But clearly not everything I say is viewed as leftist.

        There’s a lot I say that would get me to vote for other parties. I just vote what I find most important in society. But I still will heavily criticise it.

        You’re not a Belgian if you don’t criticise the government (every single political ideology). It’s our national sport. We complain. A lot. Like the Italians, but without the passionate gestures and intonation.

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          Bro I am using Lemmy for the same reason. And honestly here people won’t understand your concerns either

          I was IP banned in reddit for saying that gender neutral laws should be implemented in my country. And here I’m banned in a community for saying communism won’t save my country.

          There is no difference as such between these two platforms. The only good thing about reddit is that it had more relevant subs and users

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            A good thing about Lemmy is that you can change instance/make your own and do and promote anything you like. That’s the fundamental difference.

            You can be banned from a community, from instance, even. But not from Lemmy as a whole.

            A fundamental shift may occur when more people of the same views start alternative communities where such pressures are absent.

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            8 hours ago

            I’m getting banned on a lot of communities here on Lemmy, I’m just taking it for a ride.

            Fediverse is a great step forward. But it really creates echo chambers, even more so than on Reddit I feel.

            On Reddit you have for example capitalismvsocialism or purplepilldebate.

            Places that people come together to talk out their differences (or yell at eachother, 70% of the time).

            If there’s an open source platform where people can create communities but can’t ban people on them. I’d join it in a heartbeat.

            But then the problem would be things like CP.

            So I suppose that’s just not going to be possible.

            There’s always going to be abuse, difficult to find a middle ground

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              Yeah you’re right.

              Fediverse is a great step forward. But it really creates echo chambers, even more so than on Reddit I feel.

              But the difference is that you can create your own instances too if you don’t like their ideologies. Or even make your community. So it’s slightly better

              Btw have you gotten any better alternative of Reddit?

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                No I have not found anything else, haven’t been looking either to be honest.

                Mastodon has 1 million downloads, but it’s a twitter alternative. Can give that a go

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                  I never really liked the twitter like apps, at this point I’m even banned from X where people literally say any shit which comes to their mind

                  I’m searching for a reddit like forum and till now Lemmy is the one which I have got

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                    6 hours ago

                    Please let me know if you find another alternative. Forum social media is my favourite too.

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          11 hours ago

          Nah not really, I just said kill Elon musk for impacting German politics. Not because of anything he said, but because he’s not an elected European.

          I’m not sorry that elon isn’t far enough to the right for you either.

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            11 hours ago

            As I said, most people are politically, economically and financially illiterate. That’s why I can have a job providing such services. Which is a good thing. Even though it seems really easy to me. I like money, so keep it coming.

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                10 hours ago

                But you gave little to no content. All you said is that Elon isn’t right wing enough for me. What does that even mean? Only if you give enough clarification, then I can communicate to you that you’re correct or mistaken

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                  10 hours ago

                  But you gave little to no content.

                  That doesn’t stop you about nonsensically yammering about IS.

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                    8 hours ago

                    I still don’t know why you think I’m further right wing than Elon musk lol

                    Are you trying to brand me evil so that my opinion is to be censored? 🙈