You all deserve this and worse. No reason to complain about it. This is what everybody wanted.

So structurally I don't have an answer other than I know that what reddit became is a cancer. Structurally lemmy should find ways to counter commercialization

. One way is to avoid boxes. Communities should be more random and chaotic.

I also would push that mods should take a back seat and give back control to communities to upvote and downvotes content they do not want to see.

Recreate what was fun about the internet before the facebook's and Instagram came. It should be pro community but hostile to capitalization.

That's the problem. You don't know. To me it is obvious. But to you everything is fine so why change it. Lemmy shouldn't be a reddit like alternative.

I see this place as one of the last spaces for leftist. If this fails it's kind of over for the left.

But let me ask, are you still on reddit? If you left, what made you leave.

Well this is where you normally would protest until they did their job. Except some one convinced everybody to blow their load with no kings 24 protest-a-thon

This is just an observation and my opinion. My point is that this the past 10 years we've commercialized digital spaces for selling off to marketers and advertisers that it is now ingrained in how we create new spaces. Regardless if it is consciously or unconsciously. Lemmy is still new, but the behavior and rules and actions were recreated here.

The goal is to box everything. Everything in its box. Tightly controlled and and categorized. This way the space is ready to be sold. It sucks the air out of places. It leaves no room to build momentum or originality. But there's very safe.

I came to lemmy thinking it would be a space for old school pre corporate internet users. A place where people wanted to create something that was primarily leftist who wanted to work towards what we once had. Instead it was the opposite of that.

Lemmy seems like a place where people just want to recreate corporate spaces. People here don't want to change anything instead they want to solidify the stuff that already doesn't work. As long as you can sell these communities to advertisers then they're happy as can be.

Stop. It could have been. But it isn't. Your phrasing it as "it was never going to be" is lazy. It could have definitely been better.

Instead lemmy seems to want to be the parts of reddit where everything is highlight moderated. Every topic is put into a tight box that sucks the oxygen out quickly. Something about beans and moths

They should demand to only speak with democrats and or go the other way and say they'll only speak to president Stephen Miller

😆 as funny as that would be, not sure what the charge would be.

Would totally love to see some real politicians step up and demand investigations and charges.

But we hate Trump, bigotry, racism.

This can't be the answer. What is the difference?

Who? For what?

I see it more like a new frontier opened up and everybody gathered their supplies and such and headed west.

It was a race to be the first one to set camp and claim land. End of the day it was a numbers game. The left didn't put up the numbers and in some cases they worked against themselves. This generation saw a new frontier and went "bah" but now those frontiers are where young men and women are getting their information, beliefs and ideas from. They will one day be the next general making decisions. How long until MAGA looks plain Jane compared to the people being raised today