Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    51·
    1 hour ago

    Unpopular opinion: they like it there, and aren’t going to switch no matter what happens. We’ll see.

      • solarpunkandrobots@feddit.ukEnglish
        12·
        5 hours ago

        I kind of always knew believing reddit was some kind of pure platform basically required being a stereotypical Californian but its declined so heavily in the last 10 years.

        Its the number of clearly stupid replies you get now that really irritates me, from people who’ve very clearly not read or understood what you’ve said. It used to be a place where the average user seemed to be a PHD looking for cat pictures

        I wrote that and now I’m imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          ^This… and my ax (am I doing it “right”?) It’s human nature and we’ll do it again here unless we remain vigilant against the trend.

      • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
        13·
        7 hours ago

        Maybe we need a euphemism… like… uhh… “the shadow platform” or something? No wait… “the 'emmy”? “the lemony place”?

        • Mister_Feeny@fedia.io
          23·
          7 hours ago

          Hmm, “the lemony place” is close, but I’d really prefer “the lemony party”.

          Or maybe just “lemon party” to simplify it a bit more.

          I’ll go google that just to make sure it’s not taken by something else.

          • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Whenever I see this referenced it makes me think of an old man I worked for named Olan. Olan was an asshole. He was a jerk. He was just a miserable old man with no redeeming qualities.

            We did odd jobs for him because he was in a wheelchair and couldn’t do them anymore. One time my brother was cleaning out a disgusting, moldy, vile stench filled chest freezer for him while he screeched at my brother for gagging, and chucking random shit at him for being “a whiny little faggot”

            But the thing that makes me remember him when I hear “lemon stealing whore” is this day a friend visited him while we were there, and the friend asked about some guy who used to work for him

            Friend: whatever happened to Bill?

            Olan: fired him. He stole my battery terminal cleaners*

            Friend: he did?

            Olan: yeah. Died, too. Stung by some bees.

            Friend: that’s a shame

            Olan: he’s cleaning in batteries in hell now

            *Terminal cleaners, if you don’t know, are at most a 10 dollar item

        • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          ppl can just say the non lemmy instances, im making a private one called hardlywork.ing, just reccomend any url that isnt lemmy, I think theres moistcatsweat, any like that. They’ll figure out its lemmy once they’re on it

          • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            5 hours ago

            Also lemmy isnt lemmy, its technically just one way into the threadiverse with more coming, piefed and kbin may be fine to mention