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I'm here, but barely. I've not went back to Reddit (got IP banned during the migration), but Lemmy is too focused on certain topics for me to enjoy it.
Mainly FOSS and Linux community FLOCKED to Lemmy. You really can't say anything about anything without people coming out of the woods screaming about how stupid you are, how FOSS is better, and Linux is superior.
Remember the backlash over Sync for Lemmy? Massive hate from the Lemmy community because it wasn't FOSS. Wouldn't be shocked if the Boost for Lemmy dev stopped developing his app after seeing that. I feel like Lemmy is shooting itself in the foot and pushing people away.
EDIT: case in point. https://lemmy.ca/comment/3131292
I second this. Lemmy is fully of "techy people" that think the only way to be "techy" is the way they define it without realizing if you aren't universally adept or open then you are curating your content to a point you are part of the "sheep" you claim not to be a part of.
If you like anything you pay for then you are wrong. If you still use Windows you are wrong. You need to abandon everything Google and Apple but still buy a Google product and run a degooglefied version of the product. So give the company you hate your money but not your data. Makes perfect sense.
It's either Linux or the highway but not everyone wants to use a terminal to use Mullvad or Tor every time you want to access the web to shop for a pair of shoes. Despite the fact you can write a script that still requires you to use a terminal to run Tor or what ever.
Not everyone wants Torrent speeds to pirate that piece of Microsoft software or movie. Some of us want to be, "normies" and just buy and use things that work without all the work that is unnecessary in our every day lives. We want to go to work, make money, spend time around people and things we love.
Yes, we get it we are the reason corporations and capitalism exist but I don't see your FOSS downloads and open source software slowing that way down. We don't need online tech heros who can prove you can free yourself. We need activists and people like that running got local politics and leadership helping actually put a stop to being taken advantage of.
Posting something about Unity enraging game companies is something anyone can do. But shoving a community off that you should be respectfully educating rather than shunning just because someone didn't want to pirate a movie and instead watch it on a Windows machine through Linux isn't or doesn't change anything.
I am no longer on Reddit but Lemmy is fully of tech people who also often have 0 fucking clue what they are talking about. Which is quite ironic.
I noticed that as well.
But they are all coming from specific communities. And in Lemmy it is easy to just block those communities and move on.
Problem is that it does reduce the amount of content you can see, and Lemmy isn't all that big at the moment.
People obsessed with Firefox also. It's getting old
I've only moved back to Firefox because what Google is currently doing with Chrome/Chromium is terrible and harmful.
I will say, Firefox is sluggish and shit, but I refuse to allow Google to fuck over the internet.