Decentralization isn’t left wing or right wing, that’s just a moronic analysis. Decentralization has a wide appeal but unless it gets simplified and standardized it will never become adopted by the mainstream. Places like Lemmy which are littered with gatekeepers like you doom this place to forever being a niche. If this place ever hopes of rivaling reddit, it needs to appeal to more than political extremists and tech nerds

Lmao just how far left do you have to be to find Reddit of all places to be right wing? Reddit is one of the most infamous left wing echo chamber. They’re not evil enough to be Marxists but calling them right wing is just straight up inaccurate.

There are few things the developers could do. For example, they could make the platform easier to use. Many people don’t even reach this place because they’re not that tech savvy or simple don’t care enough to figure it out. It’s much easier for them to just create an account and get started on Reddit or elsewhere. This leaves extremists with nowhere else to go and tech bros… which are the two groups that dominate this place. The process of getting on board and finding instances/communities needs to be easier. There needs to be something like centralized site/app that is easily accessible and shows all the different instances and communities in one place.

Funny enough, this is the same exact reason why Reddit sucks. Those same idiots who made that platform insufferable have migrated here and made this already insufferable place even more insufferable.

Out of privacy/tech bros and far left extremists, there’s nothing else on this site. This place doesn’t appeal to the general public because there’s nothing here for them.

You’re exactly the type of toxic idiot that drives people away from this place.

This is why Lemmy will never be anything more than tiny a niche platform. It’s a place for the far left by the far left. There’s nothing here in place for anybody else. I don’t just mean politics wise, I mean everything. There’s nothing for fandoms, shows, movies, sports, or anything really. You have to be privacy/tech nerd or some left wing extremist to really enjoy this place more than Reddit. Since the portion of the population that this platform is trying to appeal to is extremely small, this platform will always be small. There’s little to not attempts by the devs or the community to make this place appeal to everybody else.

It just signals that this platform is flawed to the point where it’s bleeding to death. Keep in mind, a bigger userbase = more active community = better platform.

Lemmy is a niche place. Unless you’re far left politically or you’re big on privacy like I am, there’s no real appeal to this place. The average Joe would much rather use Reddit despite its flaws. There’s nothing here for fandoms or sports or movies/shows or anything really. Outside of a few toxic political communities, some privacy/piracy/tech communities, and a bunch of mediocre meme communities… this site is as good as dead.

Maybe not this particular picture, but China does make plenty of propaganda that makes America look badass.

After the big surge happened from Reddit and the anti-Reddit hate died down, a lot of people start realizing that this place sucks. It’s confusing to use, it’s polluted with Marxists and other brain dead extremists everywhere, and it’s an inferior platform compared to Reddit. There are no niche communities, there are very little non political communities, and the amount of active communities is very limited. At the end of the day, for a lot of people, their love for the community on Reddit outweighs their hate for Spez

Unless you live in some extremely closed off bubble, it is common knowledge at this point that China is going through the worst demographic collapse in human history. It is unprecedented in both scale and speed. The signs of the demographic collapse started all the way back in the 1980s with the one child policy and it has been becoming clearer and clearer what’s to come for China every year.

There are a few indisputable facts that even the CCP admits:

1. China has a gender of imbalance where there are about 30 million more men than women.

2. China has the lowest birth rates in the world and it is continuously dropping.

3. China’s population is officially shrinking, and that includes its workforce

4. It is one of the fastest aging countries in the world

5. China has virtually no immigration

China’s economic model which relies continuous growth from cheap labor. With less people and rising standards of living, that means people want to get paid more, and they do, Chinese workers several times more now than before which means they’re losing the competitive edge that made the rise possible to begin with. This coupled with rising debt due to overspending on infrastructure and an increasingly stressed welfare system, the signs are all pointing to an inevitable collapse.

As the old get older, they stop contributing to the economy, they stop paying taxes, they start costing the in pensions and healthcare costs. This is normally fine if there are a lot of young people to take over, but with an inverted population pyramid there aren’t any young people left. The ones that are there have to keep the whole system in place. They are over worked, over taxed, and stressed. Young people in China are so burnt out that the country is having a massive problem with them quiet quitting.

Countries like Germany and Sweden managing to get by due to immigration, countries like Japan and Italy are managing to get by taking on ever increasing debt. China is not wealthy and not an attractive destination for immigrants. Even if it were, there aren’t enough immigrants to fill the void. China is truly past the point of no return.

By 2030, China is going to have more retirees than workers. Do you even begin to comprehend what kind of consequences that would have? This isn’t even into account how the Chinese government literally admitted that they overcounted their population by around 100 million since 1980, which means that all of the problems that I’ve stated so far are even worse than we thought and China’s population most likely peaked a decade ago. We are witnessing China’s final decade as an economic power in its current form.

This isn’t something that happens overnight, and you claiming that the fact that it isn’t means that it’s fake isn’t the gotcha you think it is because it’s not going to change the reality.

imagine being dumb enough to be a Marxist in the 21st century.

That’s how democracy is supposed to work. You’re supposed to stand by your principles and vote for whoever thinks represents you best. Voting for the lesser of evils a divide and conquer tactic by the duopoly

Marxists are worse than fascists. Just as evil, just as retarded, just as violent, just as hateful. A failed murderous ideology has no place in modern times and it will never happen. You will never be a revolutionary and you will never, ever come to poewr… and for good reason too. All you can and ever will do is larp on the internet while swimming in a sea of willful ignorance. I, like most people, am glad that is the case.

He’s been essentially lying and scamming young gullible people for personal gain. He rants and supports a failed murderous ideology that he doesn’t even believe in while also being a hotspot for misinformation. His hypocrisy and lack of ethics make him a vile person.

“everything I don’t like is fascism”

Who actually hates themselves enough to watch Hasan Piker? Not only is he an idiot, but he’s also cringe beyond hope

And like I said, you can lie, deny, and cry all you want the reality is going to remain the same. No amount of cope is going to change the fact that Marxism as a I describe it.

Marxism is evil. I understand that a subjective word, but considered how Marxism is inherently violent, hateful, authoritarian, and oppressive then I think it fits the standard necessary for this term to apply comfortably. Also confirming that what I said is true, then denying it and saying I’m factually incorrect is beyond stupid. We both know that everything that I said stands. You can lie, deny, and cry all day long. Marxism is an evil ideology. It is just as bad if not worse than fascism, anarchy, or theocracy. It’s in the tier of the worst ideologies in human history.