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Showerthoughts

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I'm tired about reading about reddit here.

We left. Let's move on.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wouldn't that mean making threads about people complaining about Reddit comparable to spending the whole night complaining about how your last date only complained about their ex? Not really a great look either, lol.

...fuck, what does that make me, now?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Says the person posting about reddit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait a minute!!! Reddit was fucking you lot too?!!!!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It's almost like people talk about recent events. Who would have thought?!?!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It's more like it was 90% of the people here's ex that they just broke up with.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

People need to vent

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sort of... But just like my ex, everyone has dated her and we all have something in common to bitch about.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Well, not quite - because we all have the same ex, so we can commiserate with each other and laugh at the fact that they just walked into a tree.

But yes - I was subscribed to Redditmigration when I first arrived, but unsubbed after about a week, it did indeed get old. Still - I'm not going to try and proscribe what people want to talk about. There will be people who are still genuinely mourning the loss of a communities they loved.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very true, but due to the recent mass exodus is like a large group of people meeting and all talking shit about the GF/BF they all shared (a.k.a. the slut of the town)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

If you're joining the Fediverse to take Reddit down and migrate people over... then it makes sense to talk about it. Have to strategize to identify your enemy's weaknesses it order to take 'em down. And while you're doing it, negative things about Reddit will come out. Even if it does end up being complaining, it's part of the process and it'll make people feel better while also doubling as important brainstorming.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit used to always go on about how I stacked the dishwasher. Then there were the API changes. I'm like, why do you need to control everything, reddit? Just chill the fuck out.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it helps create content for lemmy at least

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

no it isn't. My interest in Lemmy is not romantic and if you do agree with this, get out and engage people in person more often.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Most people, in one way or another, process by talking. It's fine. Besides, there's the train wreck aspect of it. Bad taste as it may be, but you can't stop watching and pointing out more horrible details to the people around you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whining about the whining. Reddit has arrived.

Tell em, Steve Dave!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My main communities from Reddit are basically non-existent here, so I'm still on Reddit for that fix.. otherwise I've really been enjoying Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We had everything. RiF, Apollo... so many others. She threw them away like trash. She even suddenly decided to hate on blind people. Who the fuck does that? I mean, really? Who does that?"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

In a Community called showerthoughts definitely not ripped from Reddit. Lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, its a bit much. But hey, it's something that brings a lot of the users here together. Common ground to get conversation going and gets the new Reddit refugees interacting with content on here. After a while it'll probably die down but it's very much at the forefront of new users' minds.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's not my fault reddit broke up with me. Reddit's a bish!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Posting here is a bit like having sex with your new partner while Margot Robbie shouts at you, but you're still thinking about your ex and loads of people are watching and up and down voting you and also you have concerns about how your new partner handles GDPR compliance

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Just ignoring it fully when it's so fresh isn't healthy either. In that case, you're essentially just the "this is fine" dog while the house burns.

Difference being, maybe you're outside the house now and safer, but you're still just outside trying to blankly share memes with neighbors like a psychopath while the house burns, unacknowledged, behind you.

Calm down, fellow kids... We can talk about it for awhile and it will naturally fade with time, as it already is on many instances.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But my ex was really crazy. You gotta hear this!

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