As more and more states pass laws targeting “pornographic material” in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately not only is Reddit still chugging along, Lemmy is slowly losing users.

    Growing new communities is very hard and takes a long time.

    EDIT - Adding my source

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      1 year ago

      It sucks to get to the end of social media. On Reddit I could always find plenty of posts with hundreds of comments and many were worth reading or replying to. Lemmy absolutely has good content and good comments, but you can get to the end where there’s no more. It probably doesn’t help that I’ve been much quicker to block people over the cut of their jib. I don’t come here to argue or hate people more than I already do, so I spend a lot less time and words embroiled in pointless conflict.

      But I still haven’t been back to Reddit and won’t. When I get to the end of content I find myself going to TikTok or Instagram - two things that I’ve never liked but at least it’s a stress free way to kill time, just louder.

      • @FReddit
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        311 year ago

        I feel the same way. On Reddit, they used to joke that the best material was in the comments.

        I’ve been using Sync and Thunder . There are lots of posts but often no comments at all.

        Sometimes it feels like a big cave of silence.

        • @MojoMcJojo
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          91 year ago

          Lurker’s lurker’s everywhere, not a post a read.

        • @UnculturedSwine
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          51 year ago

          It actually has been motivating me to comment a lot more than I did on Reddit. I feel like I actually have something to contribute. On Reddit, I would lurk more because my thoughts usually have already been expressed by someone else.

          • @FReddit
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            11 year ago

            I kind of lurked a lot on Reddit, largely because I was afraid of getting attacked.

            Lemmy seems nicer at this point, but God knows what we are in for.

          • @FReddit
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            21 year ago

            I’m kind of confused about bots. I mean some self identity. But others…

            It’s kind of creepy

              • @FReddit
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                31 year ago

                It will be interesting to see what this place looks like in a year

                Be well.

      • ZeroCool
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        61 year ago

        Lemmy absolutely has good content and good comments, but you can get to the end where there’s no more.

        That’s what Reddit was like 12 years ago when I joined. Frankly, I’ll take the higher quality community here on Lemmy over the endless scrolling potential and lowest common denominator discussions on modern Reddit.

      • mrnotoriousman
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        31 year ago

        Yeah after 12 years on reddit, I feel this. But on the other hand, I’ve found myself enjoying the extra time I would have been scrolling on the phone and reading a lot more books

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        31 year ago

        It probably doesn’t help that I’ve been much quicker to block people over the cut of their jib.

        Something you should consider is that you’re in danger of making your own little personal echo chamber.

        Also, +1 for using the term “the cut of their jib”.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          That’s definitely possible, but mostly I’ve been blocking over unnecessarily hostile responses either to me or to someone else, not ideology, so hopefully I won’t get too far up my own ass.