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The fun part of the fedi is seeing the instance drama. Where before everyone would just yell at the centralized platform corporation, and now we get to yell at the people directly who are trying to filter us out! Usually for good reason.
The great thing about Lemmy is that you can pop up your own instance to be pro or anti anything you want, and no one can stop you (except your VPS provider). Why do they ignore this and focus on personal attacks, when their project is giving power to those who may disagree with them.
Everyone knows there’s only capitalism and evil communism. The cavemen were not enlightened to realize they should give all their hunting and gathering to their village leader while only being allowed scraps from their efforts.
Can’t forget about Twitter right now either. Think YouTube is the only social media right now without any major fuck ups.
Who cares
Users absolutely make or break the platform, they are the product. But, power users mean fuck all lol. Reddit could remove every single Moderator and chronic uploaders from the site overnight and the quality would go up.
You should never pay for for-profit social media, it’s fundamentally backwards. Their service is not the product, your contributions and presence are. They are nothing without you, and require you.
The exception is things like instances on the Fedi where it’s not for profit and you’re putting up a server to include yourself.
Were people under the impression that deleted comments are actually deleted? The second you post a comment, it’s immediately archived indefinitely by Reddit and third party websites. Reddit does not have an option to actually delete stuff, and this is an example that the delete button doesn’t actually delete. There’s also no way to mass delete your comments when you want to delete your account. In fact it’s permabannable for whatever reason. Yes this is a violation of the law and they should absolutely be sued into oblivion for intentionally and actively breaking GDPR, and just being incredibly privacy invasive in general. Not like privacy exists on Reddit though, that’s why profiles are public without any option to hide them.
Fuck Reddit. I hope the company goes out of business.
FOSS. I don’t pirate at all, it’s a security nightmare. If I were to, it’d be heavily sandboxed and definitely not anything important to my day-to-day. It’s just not sustainable or ethical, not to mention extremely inconvenient. I just pirate some movies occasionally.