Lemmy is left-leaning because the vast majority of its users are Reddit refugees, and Reddit is left-leaning. There is no other reason.

Since that’s just a GitHub repo, can anyone explain the tech behind this?

Is this a pilot? Proof of concept? Who would use it? Has there been press about it? What’s the context?

I’m sure I’ll be downvoted or ignored, but I am not replacing Reddit with Lemmy. I’m using them both, except on my phone. There, I no longer use Reddit due to the need for the official app.

Lemmy has done a great job in a short time and it has a lot of awesome energy, but it doesn’t have the user base to support interesting discussions in niche subjects that I care about, or be a source of information in those. I doubt it ever will, although I’m rooting for it.

If I scroll through Lemmy in my subs or in c/all, I see three things:

• Memes
• Anti-Reddit brigading
• Shitposts

I love me some memes, and Lemmy is actually better than Reddit right now for those, but if I want information, I can’t get it on Lemmy. I might be able to get tech news, but I have RSS / Hacker News / Slashdot for that.

As an example, I’m switching from Evernote to Obsidian for note-taking and it’s a pain in the ass. Reddit has an 80k user subreddit for Obsidian, where within 10 minutes, somebody solved my problem. That kind of thing is never going to happen on Lemmy.

It’s a stupid idea that brings them no value and it’s user-hostile.

I didn’t realize it could be turned off though! I guess that’s useful for when I hold my nose and scroll quickly through the meme subreddits to find things for my meme text chains.

The most sleazy thing it does is that if you want to download or share an image with your friends in, say, a text chain, it brands that image with Reddit crap.

They go completely out of their way to make the app unusable.

John Wick 4. Seemed like 2 uninterrupted hours of people shooting one-another in the face. I only made it 30 minutes.

Such content farm clickbait, typical of The Verge and all its equivalents.

An entire article about how you can click a link to go to your Google settings. That’s why the modern web is so crappy.