Question is, if you are still on reddit, why?
It bothers me how weak-willed most people are. They’ll bitch, moan, and complain about a platform, but won’t leave it.
I’ve left reddit but I still go back to look at it every once in a while to see where it’s going
I think they do want to leave. They just don’t want to be the first to leave among their group, because they’re afraid of going it alone. Complaining then serves as a way of trying to build a consensus around leaving as a group. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Why it works when it works will remain a mystery to me.
Wait, you guys had groups? I used Reddit for years and it never felt like a community. Was this hard for anybody here?
It’s all about the small subreddits. Ones where a new post can stay on the page for several days in a row but there are plenty of new comments and posts to keep discussions going without everyone losing interest. These are communities where you get to know the regular posters and beginners are welcomed with friendly advice, rather than chastised for asking repeated questions (beginners always repeat frequently asked questions; that’s a universal rule).
I think it’s also pretty important that the inflow of new members is not too high or nonexistent for that matter. And that the outflow of people leaving is roughly balanced with the inflow, so the community doesn’t grow too fast and it doesn’t wither away either.
So they’re cowards.
What you are describing is cowardice.
So I take it you’re living in a cabin in the woods, all by yourself, growing your own food and living off the land, completely alone? What are you doing on the internet then? You didn’t build that all by yourself!
Quitting Reddit is a far cry from “living off the grid” lmao
Totally missing the point. People not wanting to walk away from a community they belong to doesn’t make them cowards, it makes them human.
Not standing up for things you claim to believe in or care about makes you a hypocrite and/or a coward.
If your fear of group ostracization or abandonment outwreighs your other sense of values… you are either a coward, or, you don’t actually have the values you seem to think you do.
You said it yourself, in your hypothetical, that they want to leave, which implies they comprehend that being there is bad… but they’re afraid, so they don’t.
How is that not cowardice?
It takes bravery to stand against a group, to critique them, and still be involved with them.
Either they don’t really want to, thus they’re hypocrites, or they do but they’re afraid, thus they are cowards.
Perhaps a mix of both, but it has to be at least one.
Have you ever been in a cult?
An absuive relationship?
A toxic social circle?
It takes courage to get out of those things.
We’re not talking about a cult or an abusive situation, we’re talking about a community that is hosted on a platform which has problems that are growing over time (ownership that is gradually enshittifying it). But even if it were an abusive situation, people still find it hard to leave. Do you call women in abusive relationships hypocrites and/or cowards if they encourage others to leave their abusive relationships while struggling to leave their own?
Different people have different ties to a community as well. I think many people who left Reddit forever did not have very strong ties anyway, so they had less to lose by leaving. People with stronger ties are going to have a harder time leaving and they’re going to complain louder in the (possibly forlorn) hope they encourage everyone to leave along with them.
I block ads everywhere, and so I sometimes forget that there are no ads on the Fediverse to begin with.
Remembering that made me feel a little bit more relaxed. I appreciate everyone here 😊
I sometimes forget that there are no ads on the Fediverse to begin with.
Just glanced up to uBlock Origin and that number’s not zero, so…maybe not visual ads, but there isn’t nothing.
Generally there shouldn’t be anything (on Lemmy anyway), it’s showing 0 on mine.
Out of curiosity, can you check what is being blocked on yours? It could be worth following up on
Lemmy.world appears to link cloudflareinsights.com. Doesn’t seem like a big deal to me, but interesting nonetheless.
This is the shit that annoys me. “Yes Im on a platform that gladly takes money for fascist advertising and removes anything but the most milquetoast criticisms of the regime, but I really need to talk about attack on titan with other spineless dorks so here I am”
We’re fucked as a society.
They’re not men. They’re rabid dogs. Like rapists, getting off on the power over no matter the damage.
Careful, or someone might lecture you about dehumanizing these dangerous, inhuman monsters.
Ofc why slander dogs, especially sick puppers, by associating them with these fascist scumbags?
Add another ad on top and you get the russian internet rn. The difference is: american media has way more traction.
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