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It's time to admit Lemmy has won the "the biggest reddit alternative" award, why it's time for all of us to consider supporting it (here's why) + reopening r/LemmyMigration

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It's time to admit Lemmy has won the "the biggest reddit alternative" award, why it's time for all of us to consider supporting it (here's why) + reopening r/LemmyMigration

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Yes. Brainstorming how to “redpill” people is one of the far-rights favourite past times, right up there with using slurs and obsessing about strangers having the correct opinons about their own genitals.
Cool then yes, if I could tolerate those people as much as I tolerate leftists, and thus hang out with them, I would make these same posts. I struggle to do that because when they speak I want to put a hammer through my skull.
Have you forgotten which one of us was having a big teary about not feeling welcome because this thread right here was too left wing? I’m fine where I am thanks.
You still seem to think this is about me, and it is not.
Yep. Growth and growth only. The user count goes up by one and we can pretend “bigger number means better”
It literally does. I support the fediverse and thus want it to grow. If you need a place just for you, you can find one that aligns with you or create your own.
- You still seem to think this is about me, and it is not.
  The longest paragraph in your comment literally starts with "I, personally".
  Scattered around that are your opinions about why Lemmy isn't bigger, that you're insisting this thread was created to solicit.
  But the moment someone does the same thing, in the same thread, but disagreeing with you about the reasons? "This thread isn't about that".
  We can play the game if you want though. Was reddits growth -- literally the measuring stick in the discussion -- thanks to it peppering the centre right with gentle kisses every time they blessed the site with a visit?
  Nope. It was about as left-wing as Lemmy and if you said something that was demonstrably bullshit, 8 different people would tell you to fuck off.
  The reality is that it became a centralised location for memes and pornography.
  Whatever "growth" it saw by giving brave little conservatives a place to call their own had to be repeatedly undone because they just couldn't stop using slurs, brigading threads and advocating terrorism.
  So they moved to Voat instead, instantly turning it into a cesspit of mask off neonazim and "not technically child pornography but we're going to use it as child pornography anyway".
  How did that "growth" work out for them? Oh right, terminally.
  It literally does. I support the fediverse and thus want it to grow. If you need a place just for you, you can find one that aligns with you or create your own.
  Yet your solution wasn't "someone should make a center-right server that is more tolerant to our completely reasonable views and harmless slurs", it was "all these perverts and nerds should be nicer to us".
  You know, that exact thing I mentioned. You've just made it clearer that your take genuinely is "this platform is overrun by leftists who need to be nicer to us poor oppressed conservatives and if they're don't like it, they can create their own space just for themselves".
  I assume the next step is that you join that new instance, complain it's full of leftists and insist they go somewhere else.
  
  Nope. It was about as left-wing as Lemmy and if you said something that was demonstrably bullshit, 8 different people would tell you to fuck off
  Early reddit was not left wing. It was techbro-libertarian. The famous Ron Paul "It's Happening" gif comes from reddit lol.
  I'd love for this place to be as openly welcoming as early reddit.
  I understand you don't like when normal people come into the frontiers, but that just means you'll constantly need to find new frontiers.
  Such is life for people who move to the frontier to be alone. You're not unique, this has happened throughout all of human history, and it'll happen to the fediverse too.
  You'll always have Hexbear tho. For want of a frontier, it's easy to have an island.
  
  I'd love for this place to be as openly welcoming as early reddit.
  Don't worry you can start your own server, just like everyone else who disagrees with you is supposed to.
  I understand you don't like when normal people come into the frontiers, but that just means you'll constantly need to find new frontiers
  Nah, we can just keep calling them Nazis. That's your entire explanation for why those "normal people" aren't here remember?
  You'll always have Hexbear tho. For want of a frontier, it's easy to have an island.
  Yeah it's pretty clear that your faux-wisdom is nothing more than a premise to label people as undesirables.
  
  Don’t worry you can start your own server, just like everyone else who disagrees with you is supposed to.
  I'm already on our server, Comrade.
  You're the one unhappy with new people
  
  And you're the one unhappy with the people who were already there and think they should leave. You've reiterated those points multiple times.
  What are your plans for the weekend? Turning up to a party you weren't invited to and telling the hosts if they don't like it, they can leave?
  
  I don't think everyone here should leave. I think you, personally, would enjoy Hexbear more.
  I don't know why you don't want to be happy.
  
  You do know what federation means right?
  Actually, who cares what you know? You're dull as fuck. You opened with a generic "the bad people called me a nazi" conservative whine and your single trick since then has been sticking stereotypes on people.
  I'm not going to read your reply, but I'll just assume it has the word "hexbear" on it.
  
  Yes, that's why I think you'd prefer Hexbear. You want to self-isolate, and there's nothing wrong with that. Go nuts man. Live the dream.

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