I’d say less so. There wasn’t much by way of disinformation campaigns and bots back when Reddit first started so the posts and comments felt more genuine and organic. Even with Kbin/Lemmy being much smaller, there’s still a ton of weird shit that gets posted here or comments that feel really suspicious. It would be nice for that kind of environment to make its way back, but it seems those days are over.
I think the distinction might be film versus series. Most movies are that bubbly CGI look but the streaming shows are mostly still 2D.
I think he’s just been super into X for decades starting with some /r/Ithinkthisisdeep mathematics symbolism he placed on it way back when he co-founded X.com before it was bought by PayPal. He puts it into literally everything. I don’t think there’s much more to it than an edgelord trying to brand himself around a cool sounding letter with quasi “I am very smart” mathematical symbolism. Highly doubt the dudes a Nazi. It’s genuinely far dumber than that.
I get the humor in it but this is probably not a road worth going down. Trying to equate the physical letter X with a Swastika feels like folks are really stretching it to the breaking point. Plenty of other things to shit on Musk over than equating an X to some nefarious Nazi conspiracy. That’s like straight up right wing Pizzagate territory.
My memory of foreigners on Reddit are that they all believed the US is just a big Texas and everyone has the same opinions about everything.
Hello from Kbin. It’s nice that we can hang out.
Lemmy needs a Streetlamp Le Moose story right about now to really help us settled in and feel at home. If you have not heard the legendary tale, it’s worth a read.
The bean shit made me feel like this place had become more comfortable as it just reminded me of shit we did on Reddit. It was funny.
Yeah it’s more or less the same as current Reddit, just a smaller community. Bots and bad actors unfortunately exist in a way they simply didn’t 10-15 years ago.