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What made you quit Reddit and move to Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it was the toxic circlejerk (admins/mods as well) low quality content getting upvoted while high quality submissions not getting much attention/buried and obvious privacy issues.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (6 children)

US centrism. I tried to unsub from the worst offending communities, but I still am unable to scroll down a page without seeing something obviously only relevant to the US or tainted by yankee culture. posts and comments assume everyone is USian and anyone who isn't is treated like a foreigner.

It made my mood worse, affecting my daily life. So I cut down, and now I barely go there at all.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I hate this so much. To be honest, Lemmy also has this problem to a lesser degree, but I hope that it will get better once we add improved support for other languages, and once other instances start to grow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

as a US citizen it was one of the first things I noticed on the Mastodon, how non us centric it was. It was refreshing. I remember a lot of cool accounts on my old profile from Radical Town. I think you may have actually been one of the mods there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Not a mod but I used to be pretty active there. And I would say that English language Mastodon is also often very US centric.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Sadly, almost anything English is US centric

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