Asklemmy

wanted reddit from 10+ years ago when it was a smaller more chill site more interesting in being nerdy and curious than being political grandstanding. used to be such a fun place to kill time and learn cool shit and read interesting stories. it was glorious until 2016 and started going downhill rapidly, IME. I was first banned from reddit in 2020 for 'inciting violence' by talking about my cat hunting rabbits. thought it was insane, and a few months later I was randomly unbanned. OK. Stopped using it in '22 entirely as I constantly being reported for random comments as 'racism, violence, hate speech' when I was often pointing out those behavior and attitudes.

fediverse cool at first but now it's rapidly growing into another reddit with a ton of people here who are just to be crappy and spam their weird agendas and go around endlessly self promoting themselves and hating on anyone who isn't like them. it's increasingly just a site for people to dump their insanity and delusions and seek validation for doing so. I have blocked so many people in the past few months it's insane, my block list is 100s now, and in '25 it was maybe a dozen.

That said there are still some pretty good thoughtful threads on here about various issues, usually for the first few hours they are up, but once they get some traction the crazies come out to harass anyone remotely thoughtful and call them names. I've seen some wonderful empathetic and compassionate discussions get completely derailed by shitheads, who also mod-report these thoughtful and interesting things as 'hate speech' because it doesn't align with their simplified black or white view of the issue, and their missions is simple to shut down any discussion that isn't a catchphrase or other bumper sticker takes by calling it hate speech, just like my comment about my cat killing rabbits was 'animal abuse'.

dumb people ruin everything because they basically throw a tantrum when they can't fit the square object into the round hole and declare that the square space must therefore be a hateful bigot, because all the world must be round holes and only things that fit through them should be allowed to exist.