I've worked in at a smaller startup with a ping pong table and my anecdote is we were all obsessed with ping pong. So their excitement could really be genuine. It's not always a ruse.
zipdog
joined 1 year ago
Yeah in the short month-ish I've been a part of a few different lemmy instances the level of "political empathy" has taken a nose dive in the past few days IMO. I think that sadly with such a fast migration from reddit the opportunity to form a different culture here is simply drowned out.
I think the influx of people self motivated to leave reddit happened, yes. But there's a huge chunk still on reddit using apps that will straight up stop working, what then? Your primary interface with the site being gone is an even stronger motivation than leaving in protest.
Anecdotally I'm still using reddit today (albiet less) but once rif dies... Goodbye reddit I guess
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