Totally not suspicious timing at all.

Also if you’re willing to visit reddit, the comments under the post are great. They’re not fooling anyone.

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    I’m personally not willing to visit Reddit unless I need to cause it has technical answers, deleted the app and haven’t been on since the protests were announced.

    Honestly Lemmy is pretty fucking awesome I love it here, I’m gonna stay here until the community dies or I do.

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        I did the same thing! It was pretty astonishing how many times I tried to go back there.

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      If we could get some of the awesome subs like askhistorians and the like to bring their content over, Lemmy could become home to many more users. The sad fact is Reddit is still a treasure trove of niche information

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        I think you’re right; Askhistorians is a great example of the power and necessity of moderation. Not every community needs to be so heavily moderated, but askhistorians knew what they were going for and we’re willing to work to maintain it.

        Tangentially related, I had a friend who had studied History at Oxbridge who was excited to discover ask historians existed, but bewildered (and slightly offended, ha) when one of his answers was rejected. The problem was that he was used to speaking to other academics, and that uses a different style of speaking and citing sources; on the internet, and ask historians more specifically, it’s much harder to lean on one’s credentials than in real life, and I think that’s a good thing. (My friend get over himself and resubmitted the answer)

        In context, it’s straightforward and logical, but it does tickle me to remove that context and consider it as “ask historians has higher standards than Oxbridge”

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      I recently built a PC for the very first time and am very ashamed to admit I had to visit old threads to help me get up and running. It’s such a tragedy what they’ve done to the site, its communities had and still have so much value. Heartbreaking that they’re so determined to run it into the ground and personally nail its own coffin shut.

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      I feel as if I can have an actual conversation with someone here even if we have two fundamentally different world views where it won’t devolve into name calling. Conversations can be productive even if neither opinions change.

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        Agreed, they’re about sharing ideas and thoughts, not a sword fight or satisfying some need to be right.