MyBrainHurts

“Calls are being made on social media” - In other words, the same accounts that were already calling for boycotts are continuing to do so.

Talk is cheap, more so online.

Given that calling Israel a nazi state has become not uncommon, I’d say we’ve pretty much forgotten what Nazis are/were and it’s now just a perjorative for evil people/governments.

Really? That’s your actual response?

Honestly, if all your friends and friend groups are using safer and encrypted media, it probably means you just don’t have that many friends. (Which, hey, no judgement, some of my favourite folks only have a handful and damn do I feel priviliged to be among that small happy few!)

That’s… Not how friend groups work?

The most recent large thread has 21 ppl, all of whom presumably have their own sets of networks etc. It would be unreasonable to demand everyone else switch because of my superior taste and equally unreasonable to demand everyone message me separately about anything I might find relevant.

I need one for messenger to work and I have a set of friends who prefer to use messenger to coordinate.

Tarriftopia complaining about “protectionist and exclusionary policies that bully American companies out of the market” is amazing.

That’s bold!

I’d imagine they’d be doing it for the whole fediverse. I mean from their perspective, why not? The whole open nature, in my limited understanding, seems to make that easier.

the way people are passive about an worsening situation.

Yes. So to some, the worsening situation was back whenever the Voat exodus was.

To you, it’s now.

To others, there’s a barely perceptible difference. “Oh, I had to get a new app?”

Fascism is VERY different. There are clear signs, clear dangers and serious threats. Fascism requires people to act to save others. A social media website getting less good is vastly different. (Also, stopping it in the US was way easier than creating a new social media ecosystem, people just had to vote for the non sketchy party.)

Great example. The thing is that technically, reddit’s not difficult. The mind bogglingly difficult is getting that user growth.

Good point. I doubt many instances could handle suddenly having 100x the users.

Is there anything porn can’t do?!?

I think equating everything to fascism is partially how we got into the current mess but to each their own!

Like, the first Voat exodus kids also decried fascism because they couldn’t be horrifically racist anymore. By your theory, everyone should have left and built a new community in Voat which would have been terrible.

Okay, I just mean when you say:

when even switching sites is too hard.

It came off like you were saying a user simply had to log onto lemmy instead of reddit which they are too lazy to do.

it just points to the abuse people will tolerate for comfort

For most people, minor inconveniences like “oh no, my sopranos doesn’t have politics any more!” Or “oh no, I have to use a new app!” are trivial compared to the hassle of growing an entirely new social media ecosystem.

Apologies, I should’ve outlined the bit I disagree with.

because switching to the threadiverse is just too much for them.

Like, no, for majority of users, switching to the fediverse isn’t too much effort, it’s just for what they want, switching to the fediverse sucks pretty hard.

“Oooh, I can’t wait to see what fun memes the fediverse has about the Toronto Blue Jays going into a game 7! Oh. Almost nothing? Cool. This is uhhhh. Yeah. Why am I here again?”

Yeah, reddit has all sorts of nonsense but to a casual user, it’s also got the content.

That feels a little inaccurate.

For any individual user who switches, there is a stunning lack of content, a loss of the niche communities etc. Even things that should be fairly mainstream have pretty small communities.

Yes, if all the users switched, great. But getting any group of thousands to do one thing is difficult, let alone the users of one of the most popular websites of all time.

I dunno, I think acknowledging and understanding the very real issues encountered by anyone trying the fediverse is key to actually solving those issues and helping it grow.

Does he actually not remember he tried this less than 6 months ago and already had to back down?

If Norway just created a Noble Prize, would he notice the difference? And if you surprised him with it in person, no one could ever point out that it wasn’t the Nobel prize as trump can’t stand to ever be wrong so he’d say that’s the one he really wanted all along.

Problem solved, someone can nominate me for the second Noble prize.

Not a real response, but this is a very nice comment and I think it’s the type of thing that makes the fediverse a better place.