99.99% of the time you see the phrase “power tripping admins” it means “Someone asked me to follow the rules”.

The Fediverse (and FOSS in general) is inherently (radically) political simply by the nature of it’s construction and organization. That said I think it’s important to stress to new users that one’s experience can be curated to the degree that normal social media cannot.

Until someone open-sources TikToks algorithm, the Fediverse cannot compete on entertainment value, what it competes on is quality and intentionality. I think it’s important we put that talking point front and center. We don’t need to convince the users who just want to scroll memes (even though this post is literall r/memes haha).

I don’t disagree at all, but I also think it’s important to keep the conversation focused on the benefits. eg: “I’m happy to trade Reddit’s UI for a platform that doesn’t encourage toxic behavior” (and so on).

EDIT: The threadiverse will not ever be Reddit and we won’t be able to please everyone, I think it’s important to portray confidence in the platform and not get bogged down defending the (less important) flaws.

Great image, saving that. Stuff like Lemmy will need to be brought up repeatedly for it to stick in people’s minds and an image post makes that easier.

Redditors gonna reddit.

Upvoted! I like that this is not in a RedditAlternatives community or anything.

EDIT: had to laugh at this comment:

“this site is a bit confusing, but the bigger deal breaker is the ‘not for profit’ angle for me.”