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I was added to the lemmy maintainers private matrix chat. Shit is getting real.
Is there more you can say?
I guess the maintainers liked my contributions. It probably helps that I’ve helped them with the big websocket API removal and helped devs interested in contributing get their local environment set up.
I’m an early zoomer (you know, genZ-edong) already living in adulthood. Not long ago I was thinking about that time of my teenage years in which I spent way too much time on the internet, during that era ranging from rage faces, nyan cat and the golden age of creepypastas until the peak in popularity of cringe culture youtube channels, all while browsing completely unsupervised. If you are any like me, you will be familiarised with the feeling that you would like to tell your past self to get off the computer, thinking that probably doing so would have saved you from many problems and made your future life somewhat easier.
It has been however only now as I have rejoined internet communities (yes, such as lemmygrad) that I have noticed that the later members of gen Z seem not only to be commiting the same mistakes I myself did, but more severely and with a much greater dependency on the internet than I ever had, neglecting to a worrying level the development of skills as basic as socialization and critical thinking. Is it just me who is becoming a grumpy old man yelling at clouds, or does anyone else share the same concerns?
My brain is destroyed from the internet.
I couldn’t reply to message in a community outside of Lemmy/lemmygradand was so confused… Till I found our you can check modlogs and WOW there are a lot of people in that modlog blanketly banning “tankies”. I’m actually upset I got banned for being a “borderline” tankie. Dang it I wanted the full tankie ban what is this shit.
Also keep in mind many instances defederated us.
Oh man I am not liking this Reddit exodus
Lemmygrad is down every 7 minutes it seems
Yes and for some reason posts I made from 9 months ago are now getting weird hostile comments as well. Usually in standard Reddit ‘tankie authoritarian bad’ fashion as well. I don’t mind new users but the moment this place turns into another Reddit I’ll probably be out of here. I could’ve just stayed at Reddit itself for that.
Worst comes to worst we could always defederate.
Looks like we can add “blahaj zone” instance to the likes of sopuli and beehaw. As in “gits, who come here and comment with lib takes”
The admin of that instance has been friendly with lemmygrad users, but a lot of the new users on that instance are dronies.
So does it look like the rest of Blajah zone is safe and just 196 went ultra-reactionary? The mod on there has gone super anti-“tankie” the last 3 days and I had originally had homes for that group, but it seems like all of it is going downhill… I hope that the admin keep us federated at least
I don’t know for certain, but I noticed most of the dronies throwing a fit were in 196. We never had problems with that instance before that.
