I wonder if it's struck them yet that, as their neoliberal platform fails, other platforms built on fundamentally better ideas and infrastructure are rising up. I wonder if this challenges their preconceived notions at all? Nah, it's just a bunch of tankies.

Why are liberals so eager to excuse this sort of stuff because it's wartime? They would never accept it happening in their own country, even if they were at war. I guess because it's 'somewhere else' it doesn't matter to them.

It's really good. Twitter doesn't need to lose for Mastodon to win. But, also, Twitter is probably about to lose.

I did not expect this thing to actually be hauled to shore. Kind of thought they were just going to leave it. How much did it cost to pull that thing up?

Lemmy is pretty dense to a newcomer, especially one who is used to the centralized web. But that's okay - we don't need Lemmy to replace Reddit. Just like Mastodon, this 'temporary exodus' is only beneficial for this platform.

Even when the drama 'blows over' and Reddit is back to its usual status, we will have gained a huge amount of new users interested in a decentralized web. As long as there are enough users for Lemmy, I think that's okay.

Yeah, Anarchists don't seem to actually want to succeed in anything. They just want to perpetually feel superior about their morals as well as comfortable that nothing will ever change. They want to be cool, contrarian good guys, imagining a world that will only ever exist in books and stories.

Libs love infantilizing entire cultures and peoples. It's the only way their mind can accept that people in countries they consider to be 'bad guys' may actually lead happy and successful lives.

It's an intense form of brainrot, though. They're categorizing potentially millions of people under the same umbrella of 'woefully mislead.' Like, fuck off. Maybe they're happy. Maybe they think you're woefully mislead.

Lmao my B. I have my stupid hat on today.

These sorts of platforms are extremely popular with communists for a reason.

All of Reddit's benefits are going to be slowly stripped away. They are under the belief that market saturation is all they need to keep Reddit relevant, but that's not the case.

I don't think you're being dramatic at all. That's a really tough situation. Are your friends all drug users? If you've recently stopped using drugs, losing some friends is a pretty common side effect.

Lots of people are feeling alienated, perpetually. It's just a consequence of how our society is laid out. I'm not saying this to downplay what you're going through, but to highlight that it's a problem lots of people struggle with, which means there are solutions out there.

Some people I know get a lot of socializing done through the web, where strong online communities can offset that sense of loneliness. I personally don't think that's the best solution, but you're here in lemmygrad. You have comrades that care.

More helpful would be to find some hobby groups. When I had to kick a drug habit, I spent a lot of time at game stores, getting involved in tabletop sessions. Maybe you have a hobby you could find a club for?

“Tankies wreck everything! They are the reason left unity fails!” yeah righto mate you guys keep enjoying squatting in a street during a riot and thinking that's a win. We'll be over here, you know, building alternatives to the current status quo.

Oh woe is me, why can't I find an actual leftist space?

What's that, being against western imperialism is inherent to being a leftist?

No, no. It's brainrot! I am very clever.

Maybe in the end, we are wrong and despite the propaganda, there are human rights violations. But our support for the USSR comes from their achievements to better the human condition, and we hope to build on it. There are no human rights violation that inspires our ideology like it does for fascism or Nazism.

Well said, OP. Honestly, I get pretty lost in a lot of the discussions surrounding human rights violations. From my view, every government on Earth is infringing on the rights of one group or another. My respect for the USSR begins and ends with "cool nation changed the world within a single generation, got us into space, and uplifted the livelihoods of its entire population."

I fuckin' love minecraft maps. I dunno why. It's just cool to see the discovered land and where players have been building.

They should. Crossing the virtual picket line should be seen as a bad move. Unfortunately, many of these predditors don't care. They want to browse their cool video game community and get the updoots.

Pretty important, I would say. Focusing on those areas can help alleviate feelings of helplessness or alienation as well. Is your basic security at risk here? Do you have shelter, income for food, etc?

This video introduced me to adNauseam as well. I also had no idea the FBI recommends use of an ad blocker.

Was extremely disgruntled to find out this morning that I didn't have lemmygrad to browse instead of working.

they shouldn’t be buying houses, they should be happy to buy food.

Kinda spiting herself with that one, isn't she?