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I’ve seen discussion about China and all things Chinese on Reddit, and have noticed it can often end up being based more in emotion or tribalism than objective facts and analysis. Since we’re no longer on Reddit, let’s use the transition as an opportunity for turning over a new leaf.

“OMG, I have an iPhone!” Yeah, you have an iPhone, so what? You’re the best? You can FaceTime your friends, despite you and your friends probably having, like, 7 other apps to do so? And no UI customizability or jailbreaking?

I’m just unable to understand the Apple/iOS hype. It makes my eyes roll. I’m content with my Samsung and Android, thanks.

Using the former verbiage implies that members of the Blind and Deaf community are "imperfect" and therefore cannot serve as valuable, functioning members of society. This cannot be farther from the case. They are not "lacking", they simply perceive the world differently, and therefore we should treat them as such - human beings just like us, who just take in the world a different way. With decency and respect.

Me personally? I've become much less tolerant of sexist humor. Back in the day, cracking a joke at women's expense was pretty common when I was a teen. As I've matured and become aware to the horrific extent of toxicity and bigotry pervading all tiers of our individualistic society, I've come to see how exclusionarly and objectifying that sort of 'humor' really is, and I regret it deeply.

Call me a worry wart, but after seeing the damage sustained to Fury 325 at Carowinds on TikTok just now, I'm convinced roller coasters ain't it. Like damn, the track was sagging and the pillars were swaying.

I can only see two posts on the front page. (Neither of which are mine.)

(doesn't matter whether it's lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, or anything else)

I used to visit egg_irl, traa, ftm, mtf, asktransgender, and transpassing all the time, and it really helped me discover and embrace my agender identity. Reddit in general's very good for this. When I saw the equivalents of many popular Reddit communities pop up on the community list of the Lemmyverse with multiple thousand subscribers, I was thinking to myself, "hey, you know, maybe this isn't all that bad, we'll show Reddit we can still survive post-API updates."

But then I tried looking for LGBTQ spaces as warm and cozy as the ones I enjoyed so much back on Reddit (and I wasn't even necessarily looking for 1:1 correspondences)... and to my horror, I was shocked to discover that not a single one of them was very active. It seems that the most active one is at !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org, but even that only has 500 or so subscribers and can often go days without seeing new posts. It feels really sad compared to the hustle and bustle of what I used to see.

Are we really screwed? Have the clowns on Reddit... won? This is going to sound completely awkward, but I've actually been losing real sleep over this. My household is unfortunately not queer-affirming, which means the internet has been one of the only places in my life I can express my true self. We already lost Twitter, and now we've pretty much all but lost Reddit too.

Mods or fired mods of subs like egg_irl on Reddit: if you're reading this, could you please provide links to Lemmy instances on your sub descriptions or something so that even if people want to leave Reddit, they'll know where to go and won't disperse?

So YouTube has a lot of problems, there's no denying that. Frivolous and selective (not to mention automated) copyright enforcement, bureaucratic termination appeal system, COPPA idiocy, the whole clusterfuck that is monetization, etc?

In contrast, Odysee is this open-source video platform that fixes many of these problems. It took of, like, I dunno, a year ago? Thing is, it's still very inactive and dead. A lot of YouTubers have pined for a massive exodus from YouTube, which might sound familiar for many of us Lemmings here. Yet, the majority of them can't seem to let it go, since YouTube/Google pretty much exercises a monopoly on the online video sharing industry.

What worries me is that Reddit alternatives, such as Lemmy, Mastodon, or kbin, could see a similar fate to YouTube alternatives like Odysee or BitChute. I'd love to see people quit Reddit en masse and hopefully find a "safe harbor" some place like here, but I'm hearing about realistic concerns regarding even the viability of this site's databases, so I feel like the actual outcome will be more of a small dent than a massive crater.

Which is exactly what Huffman wants and he knows it.

Ugh, I hate this awful corporate creativity-stifling timeline.

Hi, new to Lemmy. Is there a Lemmy instance for people seeking hope and community action about the awful state of the environment? Feeling desperate for guidance navigating eco-grief and paralyzing dread of the climate emergency and the New Normal.

Seriously, we need to band together, forget our differences, and fight for a livable planet, because it's the only planet we got. It's all our own doing that the sky in half the country is red and smoky. Living as we do in the Before Times is no longer an option, and we need to spread the word.

Peace out.

There's all the bright lights and noise of Fourth of July, Memorial Day, and Labor Day, or even the beach. There are so many social expectations we struggle with. And the heat itself can be overwhelming. Does anyone else find summer heat to be completely draining? It's so much mental and emotional labor...