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Developer and refugee from Reddit

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So where are we all supposed to go now? (www.theverge.com)

Add it all up, and the social web is changing in three crucial ways: It’s going from public to private; it’s shifting from growth and engagement, which broadly involves building good products that people like, to increasing revenue no matter the tradeoff; and it’s turning into an entertainment business. It turns out...

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Lemmy may be more resistant to that. Hear me out… With Reddit (and Digg, and Facebook, and Twitter, and every dead or dying platform you can think of), you’ve got a single company owning everything on that platform. When short-term profit ultimately dictates they shittify the platform, it takes a tremendous amount of willpower and forethought to resist.

Willpower and forethought the various platform owners clearly lacked.

But Lemmy is an open source project, and anyone can spin up a Lemmy platform, then join the fediverse. If one platform’s owners decide to shittify, it doesn’t affect the rest, and everyone can easily migrate to another with minimal fuss.

My impression is that this makes Lemmy much better situated to avoid ever becoming a late-stage Reddit.

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Amazing. Not a single word of that was true.

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Yep. Give it time, a lot of these communities are still basically brand-new, and moderation tools are in their infancy. Long term, I don’t think Russian trolls will find Lemmy all that welcoming for their garbage.

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Ah, it’s “pretend Russia didn’t invade Crimea and start messing with shit in 2014” time, eh?

Yeah, no… Sorry, but this shit doesn’t work anymore. You guys need to get better material.

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The fact that Russia is losing badly and becoming more and more destabilized must worry you.

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Oh, come on… Russia started annexing Crimea and sending infiltrators into Donbas to prop up separatists at about the same time.

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Wait, are you trying to say the Russia-backed Donbas “republic” was illegitimate and those separatists who were killed were actually Ukrainians?

You can’t have it both ways. You don’t get to proclaim Donbas a separate country and then claim that when those separatists were killed for waging war on Ukraine, they were Ukrainians.

Get your story straight. Either Donbas is part of Ukraine and these guys were basically terrorists trying to destroy the country, or citizens of the “Donbas People’s Republic” were killed, not Ukrainians.

Pick one.

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They could have the world’s tastiest chicken - like, objectively so delicious you hear angels singing when you eat it - and I would never step foot in a Chick-fil-A.

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I’m a mod for a city subreddit, so I’ve been checking up on it, but I have a feeling many of its users are going to end up here, and once that happens, I’m pretty sure I’ll be as done with Reddit as I am with Digg or Fark.

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