the_dunk_tank

Well to be honest, I really could see how you guys care for each other from your interactions on that post. Looking at https://hexbear.net, I think you really do have a real community. However most of the interactions are Schadenfreude—enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others. Among just the first 10 posts on the Local view, sorted by Active, there were 3 posts that were laughing at other people or telling everyone to be meaner to a specific group of people. If you think that a community centered around hating on others is good, then sure, go for it, but I'd rather have no community at all than a community like this.

What I like about Lemmy (and liked about Reddit) is exactly the fact that most people are faceless anons. This is also why I don't dig Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter because they focus on the user, not on topics I'm interested in. I prefer being a faceless anon to posting about myself and reading about other people. Call me an incel or whatever, but I prefer having communities and friends in real life.

Not to mention the fact that your community has basically turned into an echo chamber of pro-China voices. Maybe both Reddit and the rest of Lemmy are echo chambers of anti-China voices too, but believe it or not, there actually are a few users that are pro-China on there, unlike on hexbear.net where there are no anti-China voices at all. It's pretty obvious which platform is more of an echo chamber.

I don't know or care how many people will be able to read this, but allow me to say something in Chinese:

身為台灣人，我實在是很難接受這麼多事不關己的外國人在那邊鼓吹中國統一台灣，在那邊七嘴八舌的說「中國要怎麼侵犯中國領空」、「又是中國飛機飛過大陸然後台灣在那邊叫叫叫嗎」之類無知的話。你住台灣嗎？住中國嗎？知道中國是怎麼樣文攻武嚇台灣嗎？知道聽中國外交部發言人成天嚷嚷著台灣是中國神聖不可分割的一部分是什麼心情嗎？不妨換位思考吧，要是你住在一個被後起的政權逼到一個小島上的國家，天天聽到新政權在說小島也是他們的，脅迫其他國家不可以承認他為主權國家，你會作何感想呢？唉，我不想再多費唇舌跟你們這些會講英文的小粉紅爭論了。