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[Teddit Link] An /r/Linux mod is encouraging Reddit users to migrate to open-source software, including Lemmy, over Reddit due to the massive misinformation problem. (teddit.net)

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

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The mod seems to be a fellow Lemmy user (edit: oh they seem to be a mod of this community) and they're encouraging Reddit users to migrate to Lemmy, among other open-source software. Given the lack of care about dis/misinformation campaigns on Reddit on the part of the site admins, migrating seems like a good choice. If Reddit ever does take action, it'll only be when the bad PR outweighs the revenue that these misinformation people bring to Reddit. It's obvious Reddit doesn't care about its community, or really the massive role it plays in the current Web. If they're not going to take responsibility for the social damage they've caused so far by harboring and encouraging awful communities, then it's high time Reddit stopped existing.

If people on /r/linux do take the mod's advice, then there may be an influx of new users on the site. I think it may be a good idea to encourage them to shop around for different instances on https://join-lemmy.org or make their own, just like the Lemmy devs always encourage. Also, the [email protected] mods should be prepared in case we do get an influx of new users.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I wonder which misinformation are we talking about here? The only misinformation that I know of is from the elected "officials", the msm's and the braindead that supports the covidhoax progaganda that they see on TV.

Btw where's the flu go? Since the covidhoax showed up the flu disappeared. Disappeared with the logic as well!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Btw where’s the flu go? Since the covidhoax showed up the flu disappeared. Disappeared with the logic as well!

hmmm, it's almost as though if you wear masks and avoid touching and coughing on other people in public, a virus wink wink will disappear, i wonder if we can apply this technique to some other theoretical virus that could rapidly spread throughout the entire planet, because people refuse to make tiny accomodations to save other people's lives 🤔🤔🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

VIRUSES DON'T EXIST BUT THE FLU DID IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY TO KILL US ALL BUT IT DOESN'T EXIST AT THE SAME TIME

Don't you understand that? You dumb! 🙃

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

Curious...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

it sounds so outlandish when you just say it out loud like that.