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[–] [email protected] 203 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Good. Frankly at this point if you're still on on Twitter I think it's suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Long past that point... If your not on mastodon I don't really care what you have to say. Bluesky is just another capitalist platform used to motize working class people's content.

I've oddly seen lemmy posts on mastodon lately and it kinda secured to me this is the real "web 3.0"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

nah, this is how the web was always designed to work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you're on social media I don't really care what you have to say, if it was anything important it would be in traditional medias.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Twitter has a pretty solid metal (music) community that I've come to know and appreciate over time. We share new bands, our opinions on albums, all that good stuff.

Not everything has to be related to politics. People aren't "suspicious" because they don't share all your views.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Metal bands that hang out on the Nazi website? Okay.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I hate to break this too you but there’s Nazi bullshit on every platform.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

"Nazi" website lol. Ok buddy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is problem with platform lock in. Be it discord, X, FB groups, Reddit. Communities form and then fragment as the members who realize there are better open options leave.

The users of the web have enough desktop and laptop cpu cycles to spare for passing a few decentralized messages around without killing battery life or performance. We don’t need these experience degrading/dehumanizing ad platforms to underpin our internet. That’s just a narrative peddled by companies who aim to make obscene profit on top of their already obscene profits.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why? I have an account because I follow about a dozen people I’d like to see the updates for. I don’t post or search around. Some journalist and sports people. Just because someone you don’t like owns it doesn’t mean anyone who uses it is a piece of shit or whatever. It’s still functionally the same for a lot of functions. Do I use it as much as I used to? No. But I haven’t seen anything worse there than I did at Reddit or here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When you describe someone else's grievance as "someone you don't like" or "says something you think is bad", you're adding an implication that the actual reason is irrelevant. It makes it look like you don't understand the reason at best, or are deliberately minimizing it at worst.

"If there's a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You made a coherent argument as to why you use a service, specific to yourself. You get downvoted for doing so. Never change, lemmy.

...Or, perhaps, do change. Y'all can still sniff your own farts if y'all pull y'all's heads slightly out of your asses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Given this choice, I'm confident Lemmy will double down, every time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I remember when I was a kid, at some point in early highschool we had a colleague who was a bit dumb and had blond hair (in a country were that's pretty rare) so he was commonly bullied and called "piss head" and I did join on the bullying once or twice.

Still to this day I sometimes think of it and feel guilty of, even as a kid myself, having been an asshole to that kid simply to feel I was part of the group.

Sometimes I have the impression that even here in Lemmy a lot of supposedly adults either were always assholes and will always be so, or didn't go through that part of maturing were you figure out that pilling up on somebody just to be "one of the crowd" isn't exactly a mature adult thing to do.

Or maybe I'm just overeading it or projecting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I'm sure you're not a piece of shit, but by still having a Twitter account equals to supporting the platform and its owner (a proven piece of shit). Even if you're not giving it any traffic by being logged in or following users (which you're doing), you'd be giving it your support.

By unfollowing your sports people and quitting the shithole altogether you're sending a clear message that the platform is dying (it's already dead for many) and it's high time for people to find alternatives.