Boy, I sure do love the slow erosion of reality for the sake of self promotion!

Why the hell did the person who made this partially replace Randy Quaid’s face?

Aaaaaaaand it’s back.

Yoooooo

HA! Hey same.

I both completely obsessed over his new album this year and played a ton of guitar on the back of it!

I hear your point there, you’re not wrong, but it does lay the blame at their feet then sort of back away from the stance.

The fact is, most people won’t read it all. They’re just going to see “blame India and China!”

“Phew, at least I’m off the hook.”

I don’t even like to admit the idea of the above but based on the last month (and let’s face it, very long time before that), people are willing to jump to all sorts of conclusions.

Hell, maybe I did about it sounding racist! But I don’t know the intent behind every message I read. I’m just feeling very skeptical and cautious.

It’s possible there’s a very specific tinge of racism and/or jingoism present in the comment previous to yours.

Multinational companies are to blame, not just India and China.

Word! I’ve been bouncing between wefwef & Memmy, and just started trying Mlem today.

And yeah! I realize in retrospect that’s what I loved about Reddit and had to pare things way back to smaller subreddits in order to keep it feeling that way.

I think this platform has a lot of potential.

I appreciate you saying that!

I’ve been bouncing between a few different iOS apps (all very similar to Apollo) and browsing the All feeds.

Plus an occasional search to try to find replacements for my favorite communities. Not 100% yet but I m digging the fresh start.

Also commenting way more again!

Seventeen years is wild!

Tell me about it! It was hard nuking 17 years worth of content–effectively my online identity–but it was the right thing to do.

FWIW, from a Reddit old timer, Lemmy feels a LOT closer to those early days than whatever is calling itself Reddit these days.

I personally resigned from a subreddit I founded and moderated for 11 years. Had nearly 300k subscribers but enough is enough.

Reddit isn’t like it was when I started using it 17 years ago and it’s not going back.

Fuck Spez.