Last night, I finally made the switch from Reddit to Lemmy. Honestly it was something I should have done a long time ago. I’d been hearing about Lemmy for a while, but I kept brushing it off because it seemed complicated or too niche or too techy. But after one too many encounters with power-hungry mods, desperate upvote chasers, and a flood of obvious bots, I hit my breaking point. I actually ended up learning more about Lemmy from people venting on Reddit itself, which was kind of ironic!!

I set up an account here, took a last look around Reddit, and bailed. Reddit used to feel like a genuine community, but now it’s just a money-hungry platform, clearly trying to squeeze out every dollar as it spirals down. Lemmy might be new to me, but at least here, it feels like voices still matter. I know you guys already know this, but I want to throw it out there: You all are right!

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    51 minutes ago

    Go back! We were better off without you here spreading dictator bullshit all over the walls.

  • Lenny@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Normally I welcome people with different opinions, but I truly believe that people still following Trump are absolutely in the wrong. He is a foul, broken, weird human, and his goals are to fuck up all of our lives (yes, yours too) so that he and a dozen others can have money and power. This is as clear, proven, and obvious as it is reading the history books about prior dictators, so I have zero sympathy or respect for seemingly intelligent people who still support him.

    So uh, welcome I guess, you do you, but I don’t think we are gonna be your crowd.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Well, welcome to Lemmy! I don’t think you’re going to make a whole lot of friends around here based on your comment history… but I’m glad for you that you left that crap factory. I’ve been here for a little over a year now, no regrets.

  • miljadisra@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Done forget Reddit now run by donkey (admin) keep banning people without any reason. It is a garbage platform.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    67·
    12 hours ago

    Just wanted to let you know you’re wrong, and that your fetish for fascist father figures will only result in you consistently disappointing everyone around you. Your ideology is backwards and antithetical to basic empathy. Welcome to Lemmy.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 hours ago

    Hmmm… I mean, you won’t fit in with Lemmy proper any more than Reddit proper (perhaps worse, lol), but it raises a question to other lemmings: are there any conservative instances?

    I’m torn, as on the one hand I’d prefer you not have an echo chamber, but on the other hand I’d like to see Lemmy prosper. There’s a reason instances defederate from one another, and radical idiology is one. Look at Hexbear for an example.

    Btw, Lemmy was created by genuine communists (not the hyperbole ones, I mean actual ones) and run the Lemmy.ml instance. While it’s FOSS and therefore plenty of others have run and moderate their own instances, keep in mind that’s our starting point.

  • Lung@lemmy.world
    22·
    13 hours ago

    Yeah man the apps are tight and I still get the most important news. The community is the kinda weirdos I like - Linux nerds, oss purists, cutting edge. I haven’t missed reddit in the last ~year of lemmy

  • SagXD@lemm.ee
    12·
    13 hours ago

    Welcome, I don’t care about american politics(or any sort of politics) but you love Trump and most Lemmy user hate Trump I guess(I am not american I don’t care). You are going to have hard time here.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
        24·
        11 hours ago

        All you’ve posted about is Donald Trump positive shit and Kamala Harris negative shit. Try posting about some of these other non political things and maybe people won’t hate you.

        • I Voted For Goldwater@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          10 hours ago

          As opposed to all the people who post Kamala Harris positive shit, and negative Donald Trump shit, correct? Hey man, to each their own. If someone doesn’t like me because of my political views, ok. i don’t really take politics that seriously.