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Here's what I like from Lemmy so far and hope to see continue and retained for years to come (lemmy.world)

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Lemmy allows you to edit titles in your posts. Reddit doesn't, for some obscure reason, allow this.

Lemmy's community or communities rather, don't yet feel like anything is as bad as what you'd expect from Reddit. You may know what I'm talking about but as a reminder, I'm talking about posts that don't quite seem as open minded. I call them small-talk, no-where kind of posts. The kind of posts that equals to a 4 line conversation with anyone in person, on the phone or even online. Never makes it past 'how are you' stages.

The nature of the beast though has yet to take effect because it's not strictly a Reddit thing, it's more of an internet thing, overall. I presume once Lemmy does reach triple digits in the thousands, we could expect to see some behavior that we don't like seeing. However...

Lemmy has a registration that can't be as abused as Reddit's is. I call Reddit's registration system, a machine gun for alts. Because of how stupid easy it is, to make an account. If you wanted to, you can stockpile a 100 Reddit accounts on just one e-mail while ignoring verification. And there isn't anything on Reddit that stops you from this either, just fill a few throwaway forms and boom, you're back on. Go to AskReddit, make a few empty comments, gain some karma or just bide your time a little until you resume your trolling antics again.

Easy to navigate, a nice little list of communities to hop to.

An engaging community, nothing feels too bait-y, things feel fairly contained. I don't feel as much as I did with reddit where anything I said that wasn't looking to instigate an argument, will be antagonized in any way. Reddit has a very spiteful hivemind as I'm sure we've all felt it by the DdoS attacks which is something Reddit users have been known to do in the past.

We need more places like Lemmy.

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[+] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I fail to see any hate. I think there’s just a big push from the left framing conservative views as hateful.

There’s hate on both sides. Both sides only focus on the hate for the opposing side

[+] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From my perspective, the trans movement is teaching people to hate who they truly are and change themselves.

Do you apply that standard to all of medical science or just gender affirming care? Is breast augmentation also 'hate, packaged up and gift-wrapped with false love on the outside'? How about palatoplasty, is that also 'hate'?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What constitutes mutilation?

Does it include only aesthetic changes, like tattoos and piercings, or is it stricter?

Any surgical change whatsoever? Are cleft lip surgeries a denial of how you were born?

If your argument is then “no, of course not, even if there is predominantly an aesthetic change, modern health care is broadly in favor of this as a necessary correction”, then how do you account for this being the same stance applied to gender affirming care?

Is it because you don’t wish to see trans people as the gender they present? Why is that? Do you have an argument that is not based in a religion or culture that does not apply to all?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

From my perspective, the trans movement is teaching people to hate who they truly are and change themselves.

That's probably because you're a moron. You have no grasp on actual reality, and so you fabricate one that allows you to feel free to hate people who are different from you. You are, in essence, a piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is trying to frame lower taxes and small government as hateful?

Or did you not mean those views?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The left?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll just let you know you missed the joke. No one is trying to frame lower taxes and small government as hateful - they might despise them as policy, but it isn't anything to do with the hateful reputation of conservatives.

The views that are getting conservatives labeled hateful generally have more to do with the racism, the sexism, the homophobia, the transphobia, the disregard for human life, the disregard for other peoples economic standing, the warmongering, or the weird way they keep voting against letting kids at school have free lunch.