Making distinctions between Stalinists and Trotskyists or Second Internationalists or whatever in 2026 is just idiotic sectarianism. Trump is the president! We need to unite rather than focus on such petty squabbles.

Thank you for such a detailed explanation!

more than half the reason I still log in to reddit is the porn

I'll ally with people who want Trump gone and will take any action to make it happen. Those Stalinists think relinquishing their vote is a good way to get closer to voter reform and a higher priority than kicking Trump out.

I recently came here bc Reddit didn't like me wishing a missile strike on Putin. Don't know what the others came for.

Reddit is too mainstream/boring.

Unrelated, but you have now been on Lemmy for 2 years today(i.e happy cake day).

The third one I think you're referring to is Mbin, which I believe combines the threadiverse-style of Lemmy & Piefed (like Reddit) with the microblog-style of Mastodon (like Twitter)

https://joinmbin.org/

I feel like I've seen that username on reddit. Somehow I remembered that one.

woo cake day!

I'm actually in the process of migrating to piefed so it doesn't matter but woo anyway

Inside an echo chamber, facts no longer matter. Like "AI is good" or "AI is bad", while discussions that involve more nuance and subtlety about the topic become forbidden in either, as the mods/admins only allow their own chosen POV to remain, removing all others.

The tankies aren't on our side. We agree on a lot of problems. Let's work on them we say, they say no, fuck you, only violent revolution will do it, and I hope you die. Is their attitude. They are tools of the fascist regime of Russia I suspect.

Which is why our federated social media should have clear rules fairly enforced, ways to appeal, that end in a jury trial of users of the instance.

You are very welcome! 🤗

I have had an account Piefed for four months now and i hate it, the UI anyways. No UI theme feels right. I wish someone would make a lemmy theme cuz i keep being put off everytime i open Piefed.

I like Piefed feature of keywords blacklisting(i heard multi-communities are coming to lemmy too) so i hope one day there are better themes.

P.S: The keywords blacklisting feature has a limited. You can make more than one grouping of keywords, but each group can have a limited number of keywords(i figured this out when i tried to copy paste all 50 states of the USA).

But instead, Lemmy is somehow built to be even more authoritarian than Reddit. e.g. there is a modlog, but there is no modmail to ask questions in, no ability to notify people that they have been banned or that content has been removed, and when a post is removed the page claims that it never even so much as existed in the first place.

The "rights" of instance admins are supreme, and that trickles down so that mods inherit some of that, but the rights of individual users are that they can take it or like it... or leave and go elsewhere. I will leave it to you to judge whether such authoritarianism is inherently "bad", or whether democratic principles are "good"/better, I am just pointing out that the tankie-developed platform of Lemmy somehow ended up very similar to and somehow even more Reddit-esque than Reddit itself - crucially not in all ways or we would not be here, but in some of them.

And don't even get me started on the practices of lemmy.ml itself...

Conversely, PieFed is very different - many of those notification types do exist here, like notifications of mod actions are sent out (almost annoyingly so - do I really need to be notified of being banned from a whole slew of communities that I never even heard of nor ever indicated even the slightest interest in? however, I do find it refreshing to be notified of such matters TOO MUCH rather than not at all, since in Lemmy much thought is given to the concerns of instance admins, but comparatively very little to the common user), and also users no longer have the right to delete their own posts, or rather they have the right to delete THEIR content that they contributed, but they don't have the right to wipe out all of the discussions that took place underneath the thread they they started. e.g. they can ask a question and they can delete their question if they like, but they can no longer delete all of the very helpful answers that other people offered to them, which potentially may have involved some large amount of effort to research and respond with.

knew about lemmy for a while, but what makes piefed different ? i just know that piefed exists and is similar to lemmy

Piefed is different software but has many tools lemmy doesn't.

Custom feeds, scheduled posting, flairs, hashtags, polls, emoticon reactions, better cross posting, private communities.

Blahaj has a piefed instance.

it's just another instance. it has different features, rules, and a different layout.

there are plenty of tankie leftists on piefed too, don't worry

https://b.piefed.social

https://p.piefed.social

I had no clue wtf you meant by "tankie" but I now do, just encountered on in the wild for daring to call out Russia's invasion of Ukraine... Fucking nuts man, Lemmy sucks.