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Both are correct. I don't see the Fediverse ever becoming as large as the billionaire platform for the precise reason that it isn't run by billionaires with gigantic advertising budgets. As such, the Fediverse will not have the large numbers of users and hence, will be quieter.

That being said, the Fediverse IS an alternative to the billionaire platforms - especially for people who desire smaller, more intimate communities and - perhaps most importantly - controlled and governed by the people who use it.

Given how much "guilluotine memes" are on here...

no, this is not a "billionaire platform"

Lemmy is quickly becoming (maybe it always was) a self masturbatory exercise in anti-capitalist Marxist thought. Don't get me wrong, we need to fight capitalism at every moment. This is THE moment.

However, what I've gleaned is that the discussion here cannot step away from theory into the realm of prescriptions. Because prescriptions would entail confronting the harsh reality of the real world and end the little intellectual amusement park that are the lefty anti-capitalist memes.

In other words, Lemmy is acting exactly as designed: a containment space for tankie and lefties to never have to contend with real world actions. Billionaires love spaces like Lemmy because if we ever move the conversation away from memes, thats when they start shaking. But they know exactly that won't happen in places like Lemmy. The merry-go-round is just so much fun!

Billionaire Lemmy admins? Where do I get my check?

Getting mad at the people here just to have fun is about as useful as the people that come here just to stir up trouble. If people aren't having fun here, people aren't going to join or stay.

I post daily animal content. Anyone just scrolling can just scroll and click on cute animal and move on with life. But for those that want to read the posts, you will find ample opportunities of all varieties to get involved. As much as I'd like it to be different, everyone on here has their own reasons they can't or won't get involved, but a couple might. It's gotten me to work at a rescue for 2 years now, and one or 2 others have DMed me saying they got involved with places I've helped them find, and a handful more have done things to make their homes more suitable to bring back animals or donated to places doing amazing rescue work. It's not changing the world, but it hasn't been pointless.

We've got some communities that I think are great, like Dull Men's Club. Again, everyday activities, but it's people doing small acts to make something better than it was. I'd love to have activists here teaching folks how to unionize, set up aid programs, etc, but the pool of those folks is very small. The news and politics communities we have do seem to be full of a number of very outspoken and angry people. It turns me off to participating in most threads. It's not surrounding one's self in an echo chamber or safe space, but most of us deal with enough IRL obnoxious people to want to do it more here. I read the article if it's interesting and skip the comments. I'd probably like talking about a lot of the events with people here, but not if the same handful of obnoxious people are going to insert themselves into every thread, but that is what happens in a public forum. Until someone creates and mods better communities and has the patience to be trashed daily in Power Trippin Mods because it's effectually impossible to ban people, this is what we're going to have.

It's sad I can't recommend Lemmy to most people I know. I think about not posting here anymore from time to time, but the platform is a good size for me to handle my audience, and there are a ton of really great users here. My content doesn't pull in the angry crowd typically either. But as a whole, we got a lot of anger, misplaced or not, being the first things new folks are going to see. I'm not huge into the memes or comics a lot of the time, but people generally are going to react much more positively to that than more anarchy/communist rage posts.