I think it's just survivorship bias, kinda like mastodon. The people inclined to come here are probably anti-corporate, and sick of current social media's bullshit.

Richest man in the world begging for pennies.

I found this handy reference a while ago. But yeah, we are kinda screwed.

Every Reddit ad is a Lemmy ad if you think about it.

Leaving that garbage website was the best decision I've made for my mental health since pot

I was about to touch some grass but thankfully Lemmy saved me.

Dude, you are recommending Pepsi in a Coca-Cola forum.

Yeah, we just need a bit more of a push. I think some people may be a bit too fixated on reaching Reddit's numbers; we really don't need to. I don't care if the top comment has 50 upvotes instead of 50,000, what I want is more comments, more posts, more experts in a field sharing their invaluable opinions.

Obviously it will take some time to reach the level of granularity some subreddits have. Like, we have a design sub, a good design sub, an ashole design sub, a crappy design sub (which is like asshole design, but unintentional), a design design sub (for awful designs that are also somehow aesthetic)... And all this without going into specific design subs (web design, brand design, structure design...). Yeah, we may not have all those for a while, we enthusiasts may all have to interact in a general Lemmy Design community, but guess what? That is how Reddit got where it is now.

Personally, I am enjoying the process. I've been lurking Reddit for years, reading awesome posts, and informing myself on all kinds of topics from people I won't ever begin to compare to. But Lemmy, for the moment, feels more intimate to me, I am starting to recognize specific nametags, to interact with real human beings (not a sentient blob of like-minded thoughts). It feels like being at a bonfire enjoying the moment with a couple of people, and I think that by itself has it's own charm.

I like to thing we all are sons of the Fediverse. 😇

Setting up boundaries.

Great news to me I'm not "pro-lemmy", I am "anti-reddit".

I will tell this nonstop, online advertisement (as a form of monetization) is pretty damn dated nowadays. You could give them literally a dollar every year and they would make more from you than serving you ads.

Unpopular opinion: I kinda feel like a reason ads are so popular nowadays is because it gives the user a way of feeling they are supporting a product/creator by doing pretty much nothing.

Not one per se, but I love when a piece of open source software absolutely destroys it's competition. I'm not talking Firefox vs. Chrome or Unity vs. Godot debate (both are better, don't @ me), I'm talking when it's not even close, the open alternative is just industry standard.

VLC, Calibre, OBS and maybe Blender come to mind.

Two days ago they were, as of his words "not profiting", and suddenly a blackout doesn't affect them? What a clown.

Wherever Aaron is, I hope he can't see this.

And remember kids, if it is a command, you can automate it and never do it again.

Bro had a backlog

I sure hope some subreddits to go private indefinitely this 30th, just to shut up this imbecile.

Google nowadays works if you wanna search something from Wikipedia or like the same 20 websites. For anything else, good luck going through all the SEO autogenerated garbage.

People arguing a lot of legal stuff while I just think this was a dick move.