I’ve been on lemmy for over a year now, and I just realized I used to read all those HackerNews articles + their comments, I haven’t done that in probably 6 months because the discussion here has gotten much better. What’s changed for you with Lemmy over the last year?

  • Snot Flickerman
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    5 days ago

    I feel that, too, but also…

    There’s a large number of news articles that it feels literally pointless to respond to with anything other than jokey derision because it feels like we’ve been talking to people about those issues for two decades (or more for some of us) and no one listened.

    So, with a lot of it… what is there even to talk about anymore and instead crack jokes to try to feel less dead inside?

    I fully agree, but at the same time find myself making jokey throwaway comments on the millionth thread about “turns out Trump was lying about his campaign promises!!!” as if anyone with a fucking brain couldn’t figure that out since at least 2015. It just feels pointless to engage with beyond comedy when the media continues to sanewash that guy.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      I would love to slap down my copy pasta in every poltical post about how First-past-the-post voting artificially limits the number of viable political parties to 2 and is the greatest barrier to effective non violent change in the country. But people don’t want answers, they want to be mad.

      And the mods kept banning me. Even when I ran the copypasta through chat GPT to get a unique comment every time I posted the pasta.

      Why the fuck should my comment change at all when the solution hasn’t changed?