Use it as a tool only. Hobbies, DIY and the like. It's no good for real discussion. They have an Atlantic Council member on their board. It's not a real place, just hordes of automatons with false consciousnesses. You might aswell walk into a stadium of rival sports fans and start arguing with them about how their club sucks. You're just going to annoy yourself.
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Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.
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I tried using it only as a tool for hobbies, but anti-communism infects damn near everything. Couldn't go a week without some dumbass take about China randomly worming its way into just about anything. Glad I quit.
Exactly bro tell me why I am on a shitposting subreddit and getting "XI JINPING AFTER KILLING 100 THOUSAND BABIES" and it's a picture of Walter white or something like dude I'm just trying to laugh not be inundated with dumbass westoid propaganda
For me it's wargaming subs. A little easier to understand, but still a nuisance.
I still have mine for following sports and some games stuff but yeah it's impossible to escape. Guess it's by design
I notice the shit everywhere. From kids and family shows to churches, social media, and education, regardless of state. They really do introduce it and hammer it in from the earliest opportunity.
I know it's just the internet but it's really disturbing how many people automatically think this way without even stopping to think about whether any of it is true, they just state it like it's already accepted fact.
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Agree, I mostly use it for Linux stuff at this point, the Linux subs on reddit are somehow significantly better than the ones on Lemmy lol (helps that it has actual developers and people who know what they're talking about)
I thought you were going to delete the whole website, you got me excited
Hahahaha I wish I had the tech knowledge to do that 💀 "I'm deleting reddit. Gone 🗿"
yea every redditor should not exist
Deleted my old account and made a new one with the rule of not joining any remotely political or country related sub. It's a good enough side for hobby subs which is why I went to Reddit in the first place. Much better experience.
Deleting it is fine too of course.
Even the hobbyist subs will find a way to sneak in some "china bad", but it is at least greatly reduced most of the time. Definitely avoid any of the bigger umbrella communities (i.e don't join general gaming subs, join specific game subs. Same for most media)
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Same, I bookmark tabs and avoid going to the front page at all costs.
I left during the mass exodus, I miss very little. I recommend anyone divest themselves.
There were a couple small niche subs (like some of the hospitality subs I participated in or the dyson sphere program sub) I miss, but not enough to wade through the cesspool. There is about a 60% chance that any thread on that site, regardless of the original subject matter, will devolve to "Russia bad" or "China bad". Sprinkling of "Kim bad" if they find a way to discuss world leaders.
The_Leftorium was my favorite sub, half-dunks half-history, and legit broke down theory faster using arcane Simpsons memes than any ELI5 you could create. All of the mods got banned by Reddit, and the only one to survive the purge is the most milquetoast lib that yesterday he started deleting critical comments about Biden on a post that said nothing but TRUMP IS THE WORST PRESIDENT. Cesspool status confirmed.
same. i miss a couple subs, but i can get much of the same content on other social media sites, and there's no point to being part of two or three websites i hate when one will do just fine.
I'm currently on my 2nd temp ban from Reddit for supporting Palestine lol
I'm on my 6th accouft perm-banned for death threats/ban evasion/hate speech for... not sure what exactly lmao on 
/worldnews on 7 October, coincidentally
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FRSO seems cool, how are you liking it?
Highly recommend! Everyone I've met seems serious and dedicated, but also are just fun to hang with
FRSO is brilliant.
I used to help with the 101 commie subreddits until one of the powermods banned me from all of them (yes one user was a mod of several subs).
I never posted anything particularly sectarian because I honestly didn’t have the energy to go beyond questions with unambiguous answers.
I’m pretty sure the thing I got banned for was saying that I don’t care if we call it socialism or communism; that both terms are quite old, so they can technically have definitions inconsistent with Marxism.
Anyway it was at that point I think I really gave up on reddit as a whole because I had no other purpose to be there.
Ive seen the term alot but i still dont know what ultras are
Ultra = a communist who rejects materialism and maintains liberal idealism when understanding socialism and communism.
They fetishize defeat which is why the perfect communist revolutions are those that failed and the perfect revolutionaries are those who refused to compromise liberal moralism, while communists who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and rolled back empires have dirty hands because they didn’t tie them behind their backs.
That's such a succinct definition. Reminds me of the left-wing version of libertarians who constantly say "well, that's not real capitalism."
So trots?
Many ultras are trots, yes. I think of trots as those well educated elitist fauxcialists who believe the revolution belongs to the intellectuals rather than the people.
But you get many flavors of ultras. The common denominator is that whatever works isn’t pure enough and so must be fought even harder than the oppressor.
“The revolution in X was betrayed, even though they made things a lot better the moral stain of actually existing makes them worse than the empire.”
Anarchist mainly. This here are great works from Lenin and Plechanov, which explain it well:
I absolutely support leaving reddit, it will help your mental health for sure, the social media landscape is by and large a hazard to mental health.
What's FRSO?
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
I only use reddit when I search online for recommendations or answers to questions (usually computer related). Otherwise, I am not really using my account anymore. Because of the reddit exodus, most lemmy instances are filled with extremely toxic people. It makes me a little sick to my stomach when observing or interacting with them. I am siloed into lemmygrad mostly, using other instances and social media to spread info for a socialist cause, even if I don't do it well sometimes. When I work with PSL, it's a breath of fresh air.
Real as fuck. Organizing and touching grass beats rotting at the computer watching the world burn from your screen any day. Good job getting out there 👏
I only occasionally look at political subreddits, I usually just look at stuff like music instead and even then, I'm accessing Reddit through Libreddit because I don't like the website at all
"Even the communist subs are filled with ultras and liberals"
Awesome. That whole site is a low quality op
Do it. I've never regretted deleting my reddit once.
Greetings, FRSO comrade! 🫡
You are >6 years late comrade. You should probably spend some time in re-education.
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