Thank you for the actual context, so refreshing to see someone actually look at what was written.

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.

“Not when the price is 200 and certainly not when you have Liberia’s deficit in your skyrocket!”

Also, fully agree on Lock Stock v Snatch. Snatch is more polished etc but damn, the dialogue LS is so damned good. I feel half the time I go to a Guy Ritchie movie nowadays it’s out of a sense of gratitude for LS more than anything else.

But it’s an animated gif!

Damn, I’ve had this scene and consequently the movie stuck in my head since your original quote.

A curse and a blessing.

Your’re welcome! Enjoy!

Sorry! That’s what imgflip outputted when I made it. On my phone it still seems like a gif, no idea why/how it would change.

Lock Stock and 2 Smoking barrels. Guy Ritchie’s first and arguably best movie.

If you haven’t seen it, well, I’d change that.

But this is Willy and Willy lives here!

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.)

This one is unfortunate but you can see why in the fine print:

GD-OTS-Canada’s Valleyfield plant is the sole source of this type of propellant for the US Army

It’s part of a shared distribution from the US to both Israel and Ukraine, one of which we desperately want to help. I cannot imagine a universe in which the US lets Canada demand none of it go to Israel and it all goes to Ukraine.

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.

I jumped to piefed a couple of weeks ago. Copying my feeds from lemmy was fine (also grabbed pugJesus’ to round out the collection.) I liked the topic browsing etc so subscribed to a bunch of other communities but often just find myself on all sorted by scaled.

I don’t think there’s any real consequences to switching, I rather like the UI and a couple of handy features but admittedly am still just using the front end website rather than an app.

This is a really easy opinion when it costs you nothing.