on the contrary, Lemmygrad is a great place to criticize the CPC if you have actual informed criticism, whereas most instances won’t allow that since genuine criticism requires acknowledging the many positive aspects of China’s leadership

I think it’s very telling that once they run out of talking points, they resort to throwing a tantrum, swearing at you and demanding to be banned like it’s a victory.

I just joined here a couple days before the Reddit thing happened. They’re bringing all of what I didn’t miss from quitting Reddit years ago. At least on the bright side I can mostly stay out of all that here.

It was always going to end with those losers setting up shop. But hey it’s great to see that MLs are making great strides in geopolitics for humanity, and all the bootlickers from reddit can do is troll on lemmy.

They genuinely think flooding lemmy is going to help stop the multipolar world. Think about that for a second - how stupid you have to be and how desperate you have to be to resort to that. So framed in this way, we know that they will go the way of history and that progress marches on, ignoring their tears.

I never understood why people thought this would be a good thing. Growth for the sake of growth is meaningless. The best way to grow the community is by attracting sane people who are capable of having adult discussions. Focusing on a number of users is misguided. What really matters is sustainability. The only things that actually matter are having enough users to create content, having sustainable development resources, and enough funds for hosting the community.

Having a bunch of radlibs swarm Lemmy doesn’t really add any actual value, and creates no end of problems. Thankfully, we can at least mitigate the damage thanks to federation.