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Lemmy is good to me today after a few rough starts. My personal recommendation: stay away from lemmy.ml (needlessly political), lemmygrad (racist and hateful fr

Lemmy is good to me today after a few rough starts. My personal recommendation: stay away from lemmy.ml (needlessly political), lemmygrad (racist and hateful from an outside observation), and beehaw.org (had high hopes here but seems like it leans way too hard into virtue signaling for my tastes). Programming.dev is where I landed, lemmy.world is larger and a more apt Reddit replacement but too damn noisy for me… and I can just browse “federated” feed if I really want to see what’s up. Special call out to lemmy.sdf.org as a really niche little group.

jtode 3y ago
I was a fairly satisfied Reddit user until I got arbitrarily shadowbanned in my home city's sub, the irony there being, I am fully in line with the echo chamber rules, someone just straight up didn't like my tone and instead of warnings/temp ban they went straight to shadowban. Didn't take long to figure it out cause I was a regular poster, not just a commenter. I'm not mad at whatever coward did that, but that was it for my taking reddit seriously. If someone can anonymously remove an actual citizen of the city from the city's sub with no appeal or explanation, that's an absolute garbage public square. And while I had some other subs that amused me, I was there to interact with my real community. So that was like a year ago and while I miss having all the funny links before all my friends get them two days later on the corporate platforms, I didn't find that I was missing much in terms of quality interaction anyways, and I'm as guilty as anyone I talked to, I was a shitposter on there. Not a racist or a troll or anything like that but I definitely trafficked in lazy sarcasm. I'm kinda bummed about Mastodon because I was actually having some quality interactions, until about two weeks ago. Correlation is not causation of course, but there's definitely some correlations there...

jtode 3y ago

I was a fairly satisfied Reddit user until I got arbitrarily shadowbanned in my home city's sub, the irony there being, I am fully in line with the echo chamber rules, someone just straight up didn't like my tone and instead of warnings/temp ban they went straight to shadowban. Didn't take long to figure it out cause I was a regular poster, not just a commenter. I'm not mad at whatever coward did that, but that was it for my taking reddit seriously. If someone can anonymously remove an actual citizen of the city from the city's sub with no appeal or explanation, that's an absolute garbage public square. And while I had some other subs that amused me, I was there to interact with my real community. So that was like a year ago and while I miss having all the funny links before all my friends get them two days later on the corporate platforms, I didn't find that I was missing much in terms of quality interaction anyways, and I'm as guilty as anyone I talked to, I was a shitposter on there. Not a racist or a troll or anything like that but I definitely trafficked in lazy sarcasm. I'm kinda bummed about Mastodon because I was actually having some quality interactions, until about two weeks ago. Correlation is not causation of course, but there's definitely some correlations there...