In another thread, I read a user’s comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.
Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it’s changed?
It’s gotten better for me, since the mobile apps available have gotten better. Initially I was using the website on mobile which felt clunky and filtering options aren’t great. But now with apps like Connect I’m able to curate instances and communities I see more easily, so it’s a more focused experienced than the default I had before. Apps really do make a difference. If these type of apps had been more mature in the beginning it would have helped initial adoption and retention.
It’s hard to avoid the US politics. Worse than reddit in that regard, it is giving me flashbacks to 2008 Digg where every second thing on the front page was about Obama and Ron Paul.
I’m having no issues avoiding American politics. When I started Lemmy I just used all and blocked any communities that put out stuff I didn’t want to see, politics, furry porn etc now my all feed is pretty well curated, my experience with 12 years on Reddit was not the same I couldn’t avoid the American politics, as people posted them in subs where they had no business being.
I had to blacklist words like “trump” on reddit, it was too much.
Well thats gonna be the case for as long as lemmy is mostly populated by renegade reddit users, no? Gotta have a larger userbase to provide a more varied degree of content
Yeah for sure, we have a lot of growing ahead of us before Lemmy truly establishes its own culture.
I would say that my personal experience has been that there is a significantly higher proportion of non-American Lemmings, as opposed to redditors. Like if reddit is 50% American, my feeling is that Lemmy is closer to 30% American. You can even tell when the Europeans wake up and are active, because they comprise such a large portion of the userbase.
It’s hard for me to assess if that is reflected in the political content, because I always mostly ignored communities of that type, both on reddit and here.
The only real changes I see are that the population seems to be slowly rising.
It’s gotten better. A lot. More people means more content. Sure, I have to curate it a bit, but overall it’s better.
Completely agreed! Communities are getting stronger, consolidating repeats across instances, and providing helpful comments.
The other day I was going to post a link in a community, and then checked to see- it had already been posted! Brought a tear to my eye 🥹
Content is improving but the apps well! I’m currently using Voyager (wefwef) and it’s a lot better than when I started using it (around the great Reddit exodus).
The dev said they’d be scaling down support but it’s fine for now and even if it starts lagging behind for some reason there’s a couple of great alternatives as well (Avelon works very well for example).
More active niche communities popping up here and there! The strength and number of niche communities still don’t match those of niche communities on Reddit, but I take it as a good sign of healthy growth.
It’s just slightly annoying to have to check in every once in a while for niche communities that sprung up since the last time I checked
So far better, more people actually chat, and Lemmy.world goes down less
A lot more weird people now. I already miss the initial experience of a small crowd of tech people. Now it’s mostly memes, because you can’t have a good discussion on Lemmy without someone getting their perception bubble popped. I’ve been called a racist, a hater, homophobe, etc.
So of course all discussions are like “oh nice meme”.
If you’re being called racist or homophobic by multiple people multiple times…you might be.
Or it’s people trying to muddy the water to both-sides something. I’ve been noticing an uptick of posts from the far-right crowd creeping out of the woodwork recently, and they’re all up in arms about people saying US Conservatives are intolerant.
Being told not to be an asshole to others isn’t intolerance. It is the intolerance of intolerance - which is a necessary part of a tolerant society.
See: The Paradox of Intolerance (which the far right nuts call the new Mein Kamp. Gross).
Yea, the one I see the most is calling something racist when it’s in any way excludes white men. It may be a far-right tactic muddying the waters, but often it’s just naivety. I fell into that trap early in my life too. Difference was I never stopped learning. The things that seemed bad on the surface became a lot clearly once my curiosity forced me to figure out how and why those things started. Turns out, and I don’t want to blow anyone’s minds here, just about everything has a backstory and a really good reason for it. Shocker I know. Doesn’t mean it all ended up working as intended or anything, and some things are truly nefarious, but ultimately glossing over the history is what leads people to these bad takes.
Wow, I hope you don’t live by that advice yourself. People on social media type all kinds of crazy things. :)
Depends. There are plenty of being using “racists” wrong, particularly meaning reverse racism or not understanding systemic racism. But it depends on what you’re saying to be called those things.
Yeah I agree it depends, that’s true.
Interestingly I’ve had quite a few negative bombed comments on Lemmy that were nothing burgers saying really plain stuff.
Weirdly I’ve had the complete opposite experience on the other platform. Comments that were also nothing burgers saying really plain stuff too.
On kbin myself, but the amount of spam and bot posts is off-putting. It’s worse if I’m following the same community on multiple instances. I’ll have the same exact spam post show up multiple times in my feed because it was posted on multiple instances. There seems to be little in the way of moderation. Still browse here and appreciate it but I hope it improves in the future.
Also experiencing a bug where some long posts or comments will not expand making them unreadable.
That Lemmit bot that just keeps posting links to Reddit has got to go!!
If it’s worth posting or discussing, link the original article and make your own damn post. I don’t want a link back to Reddit.
I don’t mind the bot too much, if you don’t like the bot just block the bot and that blocks all the posts I think
I dont really get those anymore, I think I blocked a few users, seems to have cut down the volume.
Sync released
the bots and down-vote brigades are outta control
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It seems to be more active than the first time that I made a lemmy account. I’m looking forward to some of my favored subreddits making the switch.
I’m new to Lemmy, migrated here as of June 30. So since then I’ve been learning where to avoid reading comments. Basically just stop reading if I see enough toxicity.
But overall I like Lemmy, it still give me decent news to keep me somewhat up to date like reddit used to.
Lol, so many people asking this. IDK, it kind of got better with time! I like here, my instance seems to share to same basic values has me, the interactions are less aggressive then on reddit. I sometimes go to Reddit to look at the trash. Oh and I got into Linux. Like really, my wife thinks I’m anoying about it.
