This was like the 15th post on my active feed scroll. No coordination necessary

I wonder how much the “Russian running ML” is getting paid to shape the opinions of all 25 people on this platform. Must be making bank

To people who downvote comments like this:

Why?

This has also been a thing on Reddit since subreddits were introduced so I don’t really think it’s a major obstacle to user retention compared to the amount (or lack) of quality original content and discourse

Russia was wrong for invading Ukraine.

In fact, Russia is an expansionist state with rampant nationalism and homophobia and led by an obvious fascist. I support the political autonomy of Ukrainians.

Catch me in the modlogs.

Now, I believe all of that, but I can also believe that there are geopolitical forces making the situation more nuanced and complex

The devs are Marxist-Leninists. They administrate the .ml instance with that in mind, and they will often ban or strictly moderate low effort anti-China content like depicting Xi as Winnie the Pooh (they see this as racist because yellow bear) and spam posts about Tienanmen Square. I’ve seen people claim they are pro-Russia, but most of what I’ve seen would fall under anti-NATO opinions than pro-Russia. I have never gotten the impression that Putin is popular in .ml, hexbear, or lemmygrad.

But they really just stick to their instance and don’t push their politics on the software’s development.

People on Lemmy don’t really need to be told about most of these. What’s your point? You and I both know this image was made for people outside Lemmy. In fact, it was updated to remove Lemmy

The user has been on this platform since 2020, long before .world existed and .dbzer0 was a twinkle in dbzer0’s eye. Yes, the user chooses to stay on the instance that gets updated first and stays federated with all of .world, PieFed, and also the lifeboat chapo community that did and has continued to produce the funniest leftist content on the platform.

I’ve been in this comm for years. It’s the number one organizing spot for anti-lemmy developers to push their alternatives. There was a Java one before PieFed took off. And when you look under the surface, the reasons these are developed are pretty much always because anti-communism.

You see it’s actually people like y’all that scream “witch” at users, accuse them of interacting with bad faith, and spread FUD in this platform.

I understand, but most of us are here from the efforts of all those who built Lemmy and it was deliberately left off here as an alternative

This comm is often full of comments pushing lemmy alternatives, with PieFed being the new frontrunner.

You’d think the post here would include Lemmy, which I believe is still the most active platform

Are these features available on mobile apps? Because I mostly use Lemmy on Jerboa

It’s honestly bonkers to have a community hosted on Lemmy this hostile to Lemmy as software and the developers.

Lmao wow

I liked the part where they conflate anti Zionism with antisemitism, show one comment/“post” as proof, and don’t reference it so readers can view upvotes or context around said post.

Days in the fediverse comm without explicit anti-communism and red scare fearmongering: 0

Piefed was created by the CIA, NSA, and Kissinger’s ghost.

You can tell in the name.

Fed.

Get your point but most 4K encodings I see are ~10-20GB.

This is pretty much what I expected from this scum administration.

The real depressing news is in the linked article, where a survey showed only 53% of respondents thought the shooting was unjustified (35% thought it was justified, rest gave no opinion). I don’t understand how you see that video and come away with any other conclusion unless you’re just being actively partisan.

I’ve always been more of a lurker/commenter than a poster, but posters are what Lemmy needs if we want more users to come. People need to want to come to Lemmy for content.

In my experience, the best poster on the platform is the person making the comics on /c/unix_surrealism, in that sometimes I find myself wanting to check the comm to see if there is anything new.

And this will be disagreed with heavily, but the second best posters are the memers at Hexbear. I just think they make the funniest leftist memes (so political content, sorry people who are tired of politics), and they’re the only instance that actually has a site culture, with their own in-jokes and history/lore.

When Reddit was young, that was a big part of it: Posts that went viral among the community and became in-jokes/lore. Comment chains (as much as I grew to hate them). And original ideas for content (AMA, TIL, AITA, etc.). There was a kind of culture to the site (that’s mostly been diluted now).

That said. I like Lemmy perfectly fine at the size it is, even if it doesn’t fully replace Reddit. Though it’s concerning to see it declining.

It’s not a “conversation”, it is evangelism.

A bit ironic from the piefed evangelist.