I recently came across a Reddit post with a greentext also posted here a few weeks before (by me). While the one here got downvoted, the one on Reddit got over two thousand upvotes. Don’t take me wrong however, this has led me to realize how much morals differ between the two platforms; it seems to me like Lemmings have overall better morals in general. I’ve come to appreciate this. Evidence like this shows how much better Lemmy is as a community (excluding lemmygrad) when compared to Reddit. Instead of becoming what you swore to destroy, you became better a better version. I thought you all would find this interesting.

  • @[email protected]
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    1264 days ago

    OP you made the classic mistake of thinking that lots of upvotes means that lots of people agree with the thing stated in post.

    It was upvoted there because it contains the nword. It was downvoted here for the same reason. /s

    But seriously people upvote and downvote for lots of stupid reasons. Often posts just need an inital wave of up/down votes and anyone that comes after will just go with the preexisting judgement out of herd mentality.

    • @TexasDrunk
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      264 days ago

      I have upvoted you because I like your username.

    • Kayn
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      83 days ago

      It was actually downvoted because the screenshot isn’t mobile-friendly. /s

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve changed apps since then but Jerboa allowed you to hide the vote count so you couldn’t see what everyone else voted for. It was interesting turning it on and off to see how I voted compared to the herd

  • @[email protected]
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    834 days ago

    Morals, lol. Half of lemmy is tankies that unironically think the guys was great. That’s one for reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      184 days ago

      I’m seriously anything but a Mao simp. But afaik, the famine in China wasn’t done on purpose, while the Germans industrialized murder.

      • @Warl0k3
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        274 days ago

        Really, the famines were due to the great leap forward killing off everyone who knew how to prevent a famine. Though iirc it’s argued that in a few regions the famines were intentional genocide.

        • sunzu2
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          74 days ago

          Though iirc it’s argued that in a few regions the famines were intentional genocide.

          There is no proof!!! These dead kulaks don’t count!!!

  • @RunawayFixer
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    533 days ago

    What I find annoying about these memes is that it’s always about how Germany killed 6 million Jews during ww2, while they actually killed 17 million ordinary people in ethnically motivated mass killings. That’s 11 miillions victims of ethnic cleansing that seem to be forgotten.

  • 🍹Early to RISA 🧉M
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    213 days ago

    I remember removing that post after someone reported it, but it wasn’t a judgement of you, OP.

    Most of us get that Anon uses bad language and that reading it isn’t the same as agreeing with it, but I thought seeing an uncensored N word was going to be over the line for this group.

  • @chronotron
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    294 days ago

    no, it’s because people think mao was right here

  • @[email protected]
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    324 days ago

    Before reading the OOP itself, I thought this post was comparing cropping/orientation etiquette.

  • @Sanctus
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    254 days ago

    Did that post call Hitler the n word? That probably has more to do with the downvotes here

  • @radix
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    134 days ago

    Reddit content is posted by bots and/or upvoted by related bot farms. No human general morality is involved in what gets popular.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 days ago

      I went back to Reddit the other day because there was a thread discussing the exact problem I was trying to solve. Like 3/8 of the comments were ChatGPT outputs that were added to the thread years after it was posted

    • sunzu2
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      54 days ago

      Let me guess tankies didn’t like that ditaste a modal Lemmy has for genocide daddies…

      The horror!

      Looks like it was removed because screen had n word lol

      This censorship is idiotic

      • hendrik
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        64 days ago

        No need to make up a reason. The modlog clearly states one, and it’s the latter. I mean, feel free to host your own instance or community if you don’t like the atmosphere.

        • sunzu2
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          24 days ago

          That’s the beauty of fedi… I can have my opinion and you can mod as you please

  • @Windex007
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    64 days ago

    I don’t know anything about China, and I don’t use votes as “I agree” so I have no idea what this is about

  • @Mickey7
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    I’ve found that in general people here think for themselves. On reddit most everyone becomes a member of a hive and all “think” as one. And it’s more like automatically reacting vs. actual “thinking”