We kindly ask everyone to engage in civil discourse and remember that not everyone will share the same opinions, which is perfectly acceptable.

It’s really actually not acceptable to ignore what a bad actor Facebook/Meta has been. Catch up on the news if you need to. Cambridge Analytica scandal, unwitting social experiments, and the insane amount of intrusive permissions required just to use threads etc. They’ve been anti-consumer in an almost dystopian way and failing to call that out is an immoral stance. There’s really no polite way to say, “that’s a hell no, fix your attitude, or I’m out.” That people have characterized folks telling you this is a deal-breaker as “blackmail” is the absurd stance here. We’re asking you to stay true to the anti-corporate “power to the people” spirit that created Lemmy in the first place and call out Meta for being an obviously bad actor in this space, as a bunch of Reddit refugees… You actually arguing against this and acting like “both sides are fine” about it is being completely tone-deaf and is 100% antithetical to the purpose of the fediverse.

“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.” You’ve already committed to doing nothing during an important time with a “wait and see” attitude. Meta is still a face-eating leopard, a frog-stinging scorpion, or whatever analogy does it for ya. It’s not a tough choice and there IS a right and wrong answer.

Ahem, “landed gentry.” :D

What no proper version control does to a mfer(2)

So too many Americans buy trucks and SUV’s, not because they want to, but because that’s the only thing they can buy.

That is…insanely inaccurate lol. “I wanted to buy a car but I could only find trucks for sale” is not a thing in this country whatosever.

Sounds like leopards are eating faces again.

Agreed, I can dare to dream they’d go full Radio Shack even.

Worse, this particular one is a meta-shitpost and nobody likes the word meta ever since Zuck stole it.

Nah son, I’m new here but I’m from the old school…past Digg, past Fark, back to mIRC. Someone would have to shit continuously for 3 days straight to grab my attention.

But maybe we hate Kidney beans.

You lost your innocence. /s

Samesies, I wish someone at Reddit would leak how many users deleted their account on July 1st and leading up to it compared to a normal month of people coming and going.

It will be there, it will just list the user as “deleted.”

All my homies hate greedy little pig boys.

Because it was a great app and the dev was one of the real ones. I personally don’t care one bit which OS you’re using and hope your experience here is a good one.

I used Apollo and I feel ya. I used to keep the default app installed so I could claim free gifts but it wasn’t worth ending up in the official Reddit app on accident while browsing the web :P Yeah, it’s that bad.

Yep, deleted mine yesterday. Their disdain for the mods that provide free labor and for the users in general with their lazy “they’ll get over it” attitude was the deal breaker. Fuuuuuck Reddit.

Welcome, eh?

Agreed but it needs to catch up to the current influx before we make it any easier :P

That’s true and it’s growing fast enough that it doesn’t need any help in that department, but increasing ease of use and lowering the barrier to entry are major factors in software design. Hopefully, the 3rd party app devs that no longer have Reddit apps to maintain make the switch easier in the future.

I think that this also helps one figure out Lemmy.