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  • A lot of people are thinking short term when it comes to Reddits traffic IMO. Sure, temporarily we would boost Reddits traffic but long term would probably hurt them. By this time next year, I’m sure Lemmy would have much higher contributing numbers than now, and next r/place will either A) not happen or B) happen with embarrassingly low participation. We could have c/place here instead.

    I agree that helping Reddits traffic by participating doesn’t seem like a good idea, but I also don’t think that ignoring Reddit will make the *problem go away either. So I support the cause, but as I used to use RIF, I will not be participating, but more luck to you.

    *one could argue there is no problem as Reddit is a separate entity to Lemmy. But I, like the rest of the community, support having more people switch here so we have more content. Honestly, I don’t care about Reddit as long as Lemmy can provide the content we used to see over there.



  • Yes.

    And to expand on it a little bit more, African tribes in the 17th and 18th century hated each other. Typically, one African tribe would capture members of another and then sell them to European slave traders if they didn’t use them for slaves themsleves. That’s partly how African slaves became more popular than any other ethnic group becoming slaves around that time.

    Historically, farther back in BCE, (I can’t confirm an exact time frame, but I know this happened for centuries) jews and other Hebrew ethnic groups were very popular in Northern Africa for slaves. That’s how we have the pyramids today. This is (partly) mentioned in the Bible, however, there are other third party secular sources that have confirmed this as true.

    And lastly, while technically African, white south Africans during the British empire also owned slaves and apartheid was very popular until the 1990s because of this as well.

    Due to all this, one could argue that Africans invented slavery and spread the practice worldwide, however I’m not a scholar so I’m sure a history professor at a university could explain the nuances of my answer in detail and add corrections as needed.