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Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It really feels like how Reddit started, before all the rage-bait and eye-catching bullshit. I miss the floofs, the memes, the fun reasons I joined. Now 90% is politics that keep popping up even though I don't subscribe to any political subs and keep blocking

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Seriously, I'm not from the USA and I'm not supposed to know the names of American senators, MP's, governors or lawyers, or of who shot who, or who had a panic attack in an airplane, or why people are shouting at each others at a mcdonalds drive-in. Does any american ex-redditor know the name of a single european politician besides Merkel?

The news cycle proposed by reddit is filled with american politics ad nauseam and by ragebait. The european subs of reddit are filled with russian shills. When you add up all of this there is no point into opening reddit for the news.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol way to put it in perspective, I know maybe 2 politicians in all of Europe. Idk when, Reddit used to be global but it's gotten incredibly America-focused, and maybe that's just with the size but holy crap is it annoying now - and I'm American. I get bombarded with politics daily, can't I just have a place that's just memes?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's American politics focused nowadays. Reddit has always been overwhelmingly American, the US is after all the largest Anglophone state. In fact it only got "global" recently with the rise of the French and German subreddits.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Maybe not now, but Brexit stuff was all over Reddit when that was going down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Does any american ex-redditor know the name of a single european politician besides Merkel?

Well of course I do! Macron, .... uh

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I at least know

  1. Macron
  2. Boris
  3. Orban
  4. Jezza
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this 100%. its just really refreshing rn and great to see.