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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The number of users, you can get answers to anything there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I don't miss anything from reddit, I can still go there if I want. If anything, lemmy still feels underpopulated if I only browse the stuff I'm subscribed to.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Askhistorians and other academic subreddits, along with specific fan communities. Lemmy is just too small to support a good community for a smaller video game, for example. That's pretty much it though I was surprised at how little I missed reddit after switching

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Most subs i follow have a discord anyway, so mostly on discord. For the subs not on discord, I use alternative measures viz; a. ChubbyFire - I still check the space out

b. r4r- I Resort to other pay for play NSFW apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

r/twobestfriendsplay, the second best subreddit for everything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

AskHistorians

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@CocaineShrimp Ok, I will remind you on Tuesday May 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM UTC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

wooza ! didnt know lemmy had this function.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  • Personal insults.
  • The attitude that upvotes and downvotes define right and wrong more than actual reasoning does.
  • People thinking they can extrapolate your whole worldview, background and value as a human being from a comment.
  • Absolutism and binary thinking, where only two opinions are possible: the Right one and the extreme opposite Wrong one, and questioning ANY aspect of the Right one implies wholehearted support for the Wrong one.

But tbh I don't really miss any of those things, cuz they're all here on lemmy too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna downvite youre comment you reddit libtard. /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Working mobile apps. My Jerboa mobile app for Lemmy works great, but if they hadn't have broken all the mobile apps and acted like such shitheads, I wouldn't even be here :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My beloved. I kept it on my phone for a few weeks after it was shut out, it still had access to some content and I thought all this would blow over :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I kept it until getting a new phone lol. I remember actively using it when it suddenly stopped working, like a month after it was supposed to stop working

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

a good solid baseball community, and a sportbook community.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A balance between communities. There are communities that are very active and fill my feed. Although those community are OK, I am much more interested in some smaller and niche communities. Those get lost in the feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
  • use alts for different interests (e.g. one account for niche communities, one for memes, one for news)
  • consider https://piefed.social/ as they have personal and public feeds (multireddits)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Activity that isn't political shit.

Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.

Being able to conveniently filter out entire subreddits. (Actually I say that but I did have multiple cases where the block list just straight up stopped working.)

The echo chamber also feels way stronger here. It's tiring. Especially the ACAB wank, which hasn't improved with the rise of Nazi America.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.

Can you elaborate, what is bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if american: calling ACAB anything other than an extremely rational response to modern slavery is fucking absurd.

otherwise: ok yeah your cops are almost definitely better than American cops but I'm not convinced cops anywhere are a net positive to society other than maybe Scandinavian countries where the main form of punishment is legitimately rehabilitation focused

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you okay with having all of your stuff stolen? Because no cops is how you have all your stuff stolen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is an enormous difference between "police should be held responsible for their actions" and "we should have literally 0 police".

Believe it or not "ACAB" doesn't mean the latter. Its just a fun little acronym. And just like all fun little acronym or protest chant, it doesn't encapsulate the entirety of the movement, discussion, or belief(s).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess to me as someone who doesn't often join in that discussion, ACAB does sound a bit like "no cops are good". I think most cops are trying to do good, but I'd love justice to find the corrupt or politically motivated ones... That being said I'm not American and haven't had the pleasure of meeting that particular group.

I agree with the overall sentiment that people of Lemmy can take these ideas a bit too far, calling for death of...well, everyone 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure but can you name a single protest chant that fully encapsulates the entire meaning of the movement?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Anything with "corruption" in it has too many syllables, so no I'm not that creative lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Colorado avalanche subreddit having more than 2 people

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

All 4 avalanche fans were on Reddit?

/Jk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hide on vote was pretty nice. I used rif before they closed 3rd party apps, and I came to Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't know if you know but we have hide on read in the settings, but I also wish it worked like on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have that enabled, but really miss my hide on vote

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You can always suggest it on the community of the app you are using

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

youtuber communities

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