cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/715287
Guess where? Unironically r/Save3rdPartyApps
The Reddit search for Lemmy also gives these privacy copy-pasta as top results when searching for Lemmy. I’m still betting that Reddit employees are involved in boosting these posts.
I mean those people can stay there. We don’t want them here. Like minded people will check it out and stay and the weirdos will stay on Reddit.
I’m hoping this is exactly what happens. Reddit declined once it hit a certain level of popularity, and it seems like lemmy is attracting a first wave of more level headed people. Let the crazies keep reddit, keep them contained.
The constant politics argument is tiring. Do you know the politics of the guy who made your favorite game? What about the guy who made your text editor? Or your browser? Or the software in your microwave? Or grew your food? Or the guy who made that song you like? What about the owner of the last convenience store you bought your mtdew from?
Even if the commentary is coming from an honest point of view and not just shitty astroturfing (and it very much isn’t), it doesn’t matter. If you don’t like it, use an instance that’s not run by them and who cares.
I have never understood people’s lack of ability to just move on.
Don’t like something, like seriously just move on, don’t like a post / comment, move on rinse and repeat.
You’re not going to like everything and you’re not going to agree with everyone, and you know what… That’s alright, it’s being human !
That’s actually hilarious. Once you analyse it, it boils down to three things:
- Ad hominem towards the devs. It’s so idiotic that I won’t waste my time with it.
- Conflation of the flagship instance (lemmy.ml) with the platform as a whole. As if you had to use lemmy.ml to use the platform (you don’t).
- Incorrectly assigning privacy concerns of social media as a whole to Lemmy in specific.
The third point actually deserves some clarification: no matter if it’s Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Mastodon, Lemmy or any other sort of social media, you should be extra careful with what you share, as it might eventually bite you back. It is public communication, treat it as such; it is not private conversation. Regardless of Lemmy storing it or not, consider what you share publicly with the internet as potentially staying forever, and be mindful with it.
So all three points are actually invalid. This might convince some irrationals to stay clear off the platform, but frankly? This is actually good for people here.
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I suspect they do, in fact, understand the difference. And are intentionally conflating lemmy the platform with lemmy.ml the instance in order to dissuade people from using the platform, since they know that most people new to the platform wouldn’t understand the distinction.
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