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[โ€“] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Communism. Americans decided they would fight KKK and Nazism with the same vigor and discovered that communism was way better.

[โ€“] boredtortoise@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing wrong with communism but we joined Lemmy because we love China's brand of far-right

Word got out about the amazing and intuitive UI, and the ease with which you can find and subscribe to your interests. Personally, Iโ€™m never going back to AOL.

[โ€“] kthxbye_reddit@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

People started to hate the new Digg layout and spilled over to Lemmy.

[โ€“] gun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I came here for the ads

[โ€“] hackitfast@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I was elated when reddit announced they blocked 3rd party apps, gently but affirmingly guiding me to the ads. It always makes my day better to browse through some targeted ads with my content on the side, like a balanced breakfast meal. The dopamine rush I get from buying plastic objects off of Amazon is just too damn good. Thank god for these changes. Bless you, spez.

[โ€“] Oxossi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's app is better

Plumber mixed up the intertubes.

[โ€“] infamous_trade@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

hold on, lemmy think about it first...

[โ€“] Rentlar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I heard some strange advertisements at the theatre before the Top Gun movie: They were saying something like

ymmel nioj?

[โ€“] Bishma@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Poop post hit 9Gag a few days days ago. Then a bunch of them started coming to "Lemmy: Discorse is Magic" all the time "ironically." There were a bunch of inside jokes about how much they "hated" Lemmy. They even came up with a name to identify each other because this joke of loving Lemmy was so funny. They called themselves Broemmys.

Then a bunch of other sites started to notice all the 9gaggers coming to Lemmy but didn't know that it was supposed to be ironic, so they just came and had a really good time. They participated and were active in communities. They learned of the fediverse and just decided it was a really great place to be... Sometimes there was some NSFW stuff.

Then a bunch of them got together and decided throw Broemmycon and they hired a really pretty good band who does Broemmy based music to come and play as the event headliner. And everyone had a good time, even the old 9gaggers who used to think it was a joke.

[โ€“] AboveYou5280@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I can't tell if this is a serious question or not, but it's pretty complicated to fully explain. The short of the long of it is that now that MySpace has started to use retina verification for their 2FA, people are upset that it's an invasion of privacy due to the reflective nature of human ball eyes. Since Lemmy only requires a password for mod accounts, it's an easier platform for people to use to share embedded auto play music and glittery gifs. I don't think it'll last though, word on the street is that Digg is going to be removing all authentication methods soon, so I expect a majority of the userbase will move there

[โ€“] EponymousBosh@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Cordyceps outbreak

[โ€“] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We came to lemmy after reddit become nice and started letting people use there api without playing. Reddit even open sourced there code as a bonus! We didn't like reddit being nice so we switched to lemmy. Lemmy is much better because its close source and full of spyware. Lemmy makes people pay 100 dollars for every api request. Us Lemmings love are spyware, bloatware, adware, malware, and virus all in one fun packet!

[โ€“] tj111@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

When Lemmy Kravitz said "it's Lemmy Time" and Lemmied all over those guys.

[โ€“] Gazelli@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The transdusing trinometer was incorrectly orientated resulting in a near waveform collapse. Of course, this resulted in micro collisions in the electrophase limiter. Resulting in the redirection of significant portions of the redditoids to lemmy.

[โ€“] MaryAnna@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because I feel like Reddit is to good for me.

[โ€“] Crabhands@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

you spelled two wrong

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