Important to remember only 3200 subs originally committed to the blackout. We had almost 3x that number join. More than 2x are still dark!
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I really want to exclusively switch to Lemmy, but as it stands I’ll probably end up starting to use Reddit again as soon as the the vast majority of the blackout ends (I’m not gonna give in easily, but once it’s mostly over, there’s no point in me continuing).
The problem for me is that on Reddit even extremely niche communities had a substantial amount of members and activity, whereas Lemmy is smaller than Reddit, so everything scales down proportionally, meaning that suddenly communities that were niche on Reddit are infinitesimally tiny or even just absent on Lemmy. Like, there’s no malazan community, elitedangerous and wheeloftime are dead, amiga is dead, and so on.
I actually got a ton of extremely high quality, positive interaction on the subreddits I was on, because I almost entirely stayed away from the really popular subreddits, and I’m losing all that moving to here, where the popular communities have higher quality interaction but the smaller communities have way worse interaction. Also, Reddit is a massive treasure-trove of useful niche information for me.
When you go back you can gently encourage those folks to come here. If you aren’t interested in modding a community here, you can ask the mods of those subreddits to start them.
There’s a lot of chatter about joining the fediverse in subs like /r/RedditAlternatives, but you don’t see people talking about the selling points in those small subs. You can start those conversations. Maybe there’s no takers, and that’s fine. But if you like it here theres a good chance others will too.
“You’re the worst social media I’ve ever heard of”
“But you have heard of me” - Capt. Jack Lemming
Nah man, that goes to the short lived and hate filled Voat.
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Funny you should mention that, one of the first things I noticed on Lemmy is the culture on emojis, people like them. I for one am totally onboard 😁
The emoji hating folks on reddit were a weird subculture. Acting like you’re too mature for emojis is… Really immature imo
Women tend to use emojis more and if there’s one thing reddit hates it’s women
I’ve always saw the bias against women on reddit until about a week ago when I got a chance to really understand that it’s more like pure, unfiltered hate against women.
I rarely post to social media because it’s a huge energy drain on me but I decided to make a post on a support subreddit regarding toxic masculinity. I talked about how I was a target for bullying and harassment for not being ‘manly’ and shared experiences of witnessing gross and manipulative behaviour against women and lgbt+ people.
I received a lot of positive feedback. Some men spoke up about seeing the same, unacceptable behaviour from their coworkers. Some women confirmed what I said was true and a few were happy just being validated.
My post had to be removed because the moderator of that subreddit had been receiving threats about my post. My post didn’t violate any of the reddit or the subreddit rules. Some very angry individuals who couldn’t read the nuance in my post had claimed it was hate speech.
The moderator contacted me and thanked me for talking about such topics. Ultimately she couldn’t deal with the hate that was being directed at her, which I completely understand.
That whole incident really opened my eyes to just how much hate women get on that site. Leaving reddit for good got so much easier after that.
One of my most down voted comments came when I said that feminism isn’t anti man, it’s pro woman, and in turn, pro everyone.
This is a really difficult topic though, because there is no one form of feminism. You got old school, where it was about basic rights (Right to vote, right to work, right to drive a car, …) and then newer forms that might take things too far.
One relatively current example: Feminists want that board members of large companies are at least 50% female. It sounds fair on the surface, but it really isn’t. Because what happens when the number reaches 60%? 70%? Mission still accomplished, even though you just started to discriminate against men at that point instead of hiring based on merit.
When it comes to universities we already have that situation. More women than men get higher degrees, but nobody is trying to push more men into nursing for example (which is 86% female dominated). The push only happens for STEM with female only scholarships and making it easier for women to get accepted into courses. But again, the goal is to get to 50%+, but nobody seems to care when the balance entirely tips to the other side.
Same for dangerous jobs, 95% of oil rig drillers are male, but nobody pushes for more women in this job. Simply because it’s dirty and hard work (though paid well).
True equality would be to hire based on merit. Don’t even put names and gender on applications for example. Everyone should get the same chances, same rights, same treatment as much as possible. If they can and want to do the work, they should have a crack at it.
Favoritism only makes a mess. If you include a ratio of women vs men in a job and a capable woman gets it simply because they want to raise the ratio she’ll still fight against prejudice that she only got the job because of her gender. That really helps no one.
So personally I might agree with a lot of points of feminism, but I’d rather call myself an egalitarian. Can’t we just treat everyone well?
i wish the blackout was june 28-30 or something
