It helps keep the more caustic linuxers away from lemmy.
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Because Lemmy is quite silent relatively. It’s a hard sell outside of those who enjoy selfhosting.
If no one discussed the value of software freedom on proprietary platforms then (hopefully) we'd be preaching to the choir here.
Linux has proprietary binary blobs in it. If any part of a software is proprietary then even if most of it is free why wouldn't people call "Linux" proprietary? Libre Linux removes those blobs.
Reddit is unified, Lemmy has a small layer of complexity on top and "sh.itjust.works" is a weird name, maybe the Lemmy system drives to such complicated names. Its not a big deal but I add that to the other causes.
Additionally, Lemmy would be a hostile place if you happened to be a conservative-leaning Linux user. I know quite a few, but they aren't on Reddit either.
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Linux is mailing lists, if anything. It’s definitely not Reddit.
Reddit has a big community. It's about networking effect. That's why so hard to leave big platforms, because you can migrate to FOSS alternatives, but maybe most of things/people you follow don't have accounts there.
Linux is a great platform for developing things like bots in.
Reddit is 90% bots.
Makes sense to me. 🤣
Shitpost your heart out and maybe people will stay when they visit to observe the train wreck that is your life.
because lemmy is bad
How so?
A few things,
- I often find the federation to just drop posts or comments,
- sometimes a post has been banned and doesn't even report being banned on other servers,
- federation itself can be rather slow in many cases, and specific servers are even slower, you replied to this 10hrs ago according to lemmy, but I only got a notification 5 minutes ago despite using it off and on throughout the day.
- you can have the exact same community name but on a multitude of different servers which can become complicated.
- there is no button I can click to open the post on my server, which means if someone sends me a link and I want to engage with it, it's a massive hassle to do so.
there are other issues I have but these are the ones off the top of my head. It's simply a far inferior experience to reddit.
Understandable. I personally don't really care that much to make a list about the flaws of a social media site (no judgement of course). I just coast along for a little bit and go back to reading my books.
very fair. I just came across this since I have accounts on multiple servers since its nifty to have some separation between things from public stuff and non public.
Long live piefed