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A picture of the Ben Affleck Smoking meme, with the caption “Me seeing people on reddit telling other people to go to lemmy.world”

  • irelephant [he/him]🍭OP
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    013 days ago

    Some people don’t come here to talk politics.
    There are some people who may just use reddit for non-political stuff, like crafts, gaming and news from their country. Most of that stuff is on lemmy.world.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      13 days ago

      We do all that too, we’re just cooler. We have DIY comms, anime comms, I run the gaming discord where we mostly just chill and play Foxhole ARMA and project zomboid.

      My point is that everything is political and for people that want a nice cozy space that is vigilantly purged of reactionaries and bigots it’s a breath of fresh air from the reddit environment that carries over to a lot of the big “default” - as you call them - instances.

      Shit half the posts on hexbear are silly jokes, weird special interest stuff, personal projects, or random bean posting. We are just very very militant and fairly unified when topics of politics come up and it has roots in irreverent commie shitposting so that will always be there.

      • irelephant [he/him]🍭OP
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        013 days ago

        hexbear does have a lot of non-political comms, but some of the more niche ones are on .world. I think .world is still far better than

          • irelephant [he/him]🍭OP
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            013 days ago

            While it does seem to house a lot of bigots, its no where near as bad as reddit. Don’t get me wrong, I hate fascists and bigots, but lemmy.world housing them seems to just be a consequence of its size.