So what’s going on here, most likely, is that the intake of new users is declining as opposed to people specifically being driven off the platform (as some users allege).

The difference, one would assume, is that on the whole, Reddit’s political biases influence more what is not shown (much like lemmy.ml banning people for any criticism of Russia, China, or North Korea, or the echo chamber in hexbear), whereas Lemmy’s tankie issue also manifests as people actively sea-lioning (e.g. Cowbee) and (especially from hexbear) overt trolling, which shows up more in people’s faces. Both are issues, neither are good.

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True, good point! And agreed on the conspiracy theory bit, another I've seen is the idea that other users are my alts, which is funny too. It all does end up working towards making socialism more reasonable, though!

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In true conspiracy theory fashion, it is completely internally inconsistent. You are both way too active to be a regular person and must be a bot, but also other users must also be your alts, because if they find it suspicious that you spend too much time talking to them, the answer is obviously that you are secretly spending even more time talking to them via alts.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 5 points 21 hours ago

I know, if I had the time to also use alts I wouldn't have time for anything else! Great point again!