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[–] Inari@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What I miss is the amount of content, but that’s about it really. So far, Lemmy feels a lot friendlier and just… more fresh? Maybe Reddit doing their IPO will turn out to be a good thing for the internet overall

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy doesn't feel so.... young. Feels like people here actually want to say something of substance other than a race to the bottom for karma

[–] pushka@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Juliie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Neurodivergence makes a lot of sense.

Back on reddit most of autism, adhd aspie memes itp subs felt way more friendly and generally better

Take into account ND people generally being more ... faithful to their moral rules (can't browse reddit without guilt anymore) and we are probably mostly ND

[–] Twilight@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta wonder why 21% of the people refused to answer whether they were aware of the fediverse before signing up.

[–] lozunn@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Perhaps something along the lines of: skip/I don't remember ?

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I mean, that looks better than what I expect Reddit to be: 13-20

[–] R51@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could someone please explain to me that white/not white chart? What is white and not white?

I swear I actually don't know, and I am kind of embarrassed to ask but I just want to know. Is it strictly skin color, like is there an RGBs value that if a person averages a darker saturation then they are not white, and above that bar they are white? Or is it an aggregate of ethnicities that fall into the category of "white"?

Seriously if anyone could help me understand here. I got into an argument with someone not long ago because I said white is not a race, and her friends were backing her up as well.

I just wanna understand.

[–] SolarNialamide 3 points 1 year ago

It is difficult and not that black and white (pun not intended). I would personally say that for external factors it is skin color. Like how other people perceive you. That's why the term 'white-passing' exists. But for internal factors it is different. Like, for example, I am a quarter black. But just like a lot of people who are a quarter black or anything, I look white. So to other people I am white because they can only see skin color, but I know that's not the whole truth because I know my family history. But I am still given privileges in society purely based on the fact that I look white that people with darker skin don't get. I have fully black friend and when we were in high school (didn't know each other back then yet) we both skipped school so much that we got in trouble with attendance laws in our country. We did the exact same thing, and got community service, but I, as a 'white' girl, got to spend it helping out a library, while he, a black young man, had to pick trash at the side of the road.

It is to some extent also influenced by ethnicity, more so in the past than now, like how Italians and the Irish weren't considered white when they immigrated to America by the people of English descent. But because of the history of colonialism and slavery by majority white countries over majority non-white countries, it has almost exclusively connotations to skin color now.

Of course, 'race', in the biological sense, doesn't actually exist in humans. We're all the same race, homo sapiens. But we still use the word race today as a shorthand because historically, when people didn't have as much knowledge about biology as we do now, people did actually think the different skin colors were different human races. So, biologically, neither white nor black nor Latino nor Asian nor whatever is an actual race, but socially, societally speaking, it is a useful shorthand for skin color because of difference in treatment, privilege, education, income, etc etc that comes with it from centuries of oppression, colonialism, slavery, exploitation and ('scientific') racism.

[–] jaackf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think usually ethnicity is a better way of identifying as that takes into account historical, cultural and ancestual similatities within people, rather than race which is mainly concerned with skin colour and physical differences. Race is seeminly a more outdated concept.

In this scenario I would assume White refers to 'of european / american decent'.

Though someone correct me if I'm off the mark there!

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

You're right. White is not a race. Neither is black, brown or purple. People have different levels of melanin in their skin, and that's it. People come from different cultures, and have different norms / frames of reference. That's where diversity of opinion comes from.

To boil that down to a binary categorisation based on literal skin colour is reductionist to say the least. Some might be less generous.

yes exactly! and people actually want to spark discussion. It's really nice

[–] FinalFallacy@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm on kbin. It's just... lightweight reddit basically. I dig it. The one thing we're all going to lose is the content from 15 years of reddit though. Can't just magically recreate or replace that in any short time frame.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's just... lightweight reddit basically. I dig it.

One could say you... digg it.

[–] Maestro@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

That content isn't active discussions anymore, just archive to be searched. It'll still be there. Just make sure you make new content in the fediverse.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

conversations over 2 weeks on reddit are entirely dead, though. People think you're a lunatic for commenting on something over 5 days old, and while older posts are interesting, it's not the way sites like this are used. Maybe for searches for information, but not conversation.

[–] WoodenBleachers@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely, people act like swapping over is no biggie, but there were all kinds of posts that led to obscure answers and provided such simple and pertinent information. Don’t know something, try a google then ask on reddit and someone will be either super helpful or condescending. It’s going to take a LOOOOOOOONG time for people to really swap if ever.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, there's a huge difference between using reddit to find answers/solutions and actually adding content yourself. I've swapped in that I'm not posting/commenting on reddit anymore.

I can imagine I will be directed to reddit a lot when in search of specific information, but I'm blocking ads so they won't get money from that and basically I'll just be 'taking' from them, adding nothing of value really.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same. I'm fine with using reddit for my own benefit, but refuse to give anything to them besides website visit counts.

[–] jherazob@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It very much feels like early Reddit, i do hope for more content but honestly don't really want it to grow as much as Reddit did and thus become like it

[–] Buckeye@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I had stopped participating in a lot of subreddits I had been really active in because they just became so large there felt like no point.

[–] supermurs@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I like your thinking!

[–] redpen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. It's a breath of fresh air from the Reddit mileu, which has seemed to have grown so stale, predictable, and hostile over the years.