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[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 133 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We should stop obsessing over Reddit.

[–] Hiru@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but no, I rather thank the people that made the platform of Lemmy, the apps and community of Lemmy/Kbin and such.

They are the ones making this possible.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternatively, stop talking about reddit and spez entirely? Stop letting them live rent free in your head.

[–] misterchief117@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Brunbrun6766

spez is the landed gentry 🤣

[–] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh. We need to stop talking about Reddit outside of the relevant communities. Seriously, it's been a week. It's done. It's over. Let's move on.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Week? Some people moved there over a month ago.

[–] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I meant July 1st, the free API cutoff date.

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Don't give him the satisfaction of having any legacy on this platform.

[–] quixotic120@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Absolutely this. Can you imagine him looking at the main page of most instances over the last few weeks? If he has the typical tech ceo arrogant narcissism he was probably so pleased even though the discussion was universally negative

Same deal with Elon. He doesn’t really give a shit when people roast and mock him. It’s just about achieving notoriety

But it’s in the same vein of the old “don’t feed the trolls” adage. Some people really just can’t avoid giving attention to the toxic environments and people even when they know it’s a bad idea. But it’s very similar to a child who is throwing shit at you instead of asking you for attention appropriately. You have to teach the child the appropriate way to ask and ignore the problem behavior. But our mass media is set up to constantly provide these dicks the attention they crave and platform awful disgusting behavior so culture in decline I guess

[–] reclipse 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every other post is about Reddit/Meta/Twitter. We need to move on.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I now downvote most Reddit meta content if it's not constrained to a Reddit specific community. I see it as bad for the health of the site if every community becomes focused on Reddit drama.

I enjoy Reddit drama sometimes, but it can't be so much of the front page and it needs to be using appropriate communities so that people can just unsubscribe if they want to.

[–] reclipse 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit drama should be constrained in their respective communities. It's getting out of hand.

[–] Haha@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[–] EricKendrick@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

Read “who moved my cheese” - be grateful for the cheese you now have. But giving thanks to who took away the old cheese forcing you to move on? Nope, mice that move on don’t do that.

Zen story: two monks walking a path come across a woman stuck trying to cross a stream, one of the monks carry her over and they continue their journey. Shortly the other monk asks “I am troubled brother, we are prohibited from touching a woman, why did you do that?”, the other monk replies “I put her down by the river, for me that is in the past, but for you, you are still carrying her”.

[–] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm choosing not to acknowledge him at all. He was just part of the natural order of things. Reddit has been going downhill for years and it was time to move on for me. Thankful for lemmy actually, I needed somewhere to go

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings... made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize

~Pearl Jam

[–] DreadTowel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Honestly, Lemmy as it is now already is way more fun and engaging than Reddit ever was for me. On Reddit, I'm mainly a lurker. Here, I want to participate.

[–] S3verin@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

Ive seen quite a few Video Essays about how the internet dies rn with twitter, google and now reddit become unusable.

The internet doesnt die. Big corps die. And we cab celebrate that.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you haven’t been doing that for the last month?

[–] Little8Lost@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I personally dont write "thank you u/spez" i say "spez and musk are the best things happening to support open source alternatives"

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It’s time to let that go man.

[–] Opacity9850@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thankyou but still fuck you spez

[–] platysalty@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks Obama

[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you so much u/spez for your hard work!

Without you I won't be here 😘

[–] Nicenightforawalk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I’m still confused because I’m on kbin but see more lemmy posts on here and I’m still unsure on lemmy and the background of it all.

Also Stalin, for convincing my parents to move to the UK