i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.
Yup here’s an upvote.
I think a lot of us are into free software and Linux. Something about open free software social media platform is right up my alley.
Unfortunately, my experience on „german Lemmy“ is: many closed minds, no interest in Open discussions.
People Label you directly as a Nazi if you question „left“ narratives. I think thats sad on so many levels.
I am here for an exchange of ideas, to learn together.
because we are the intelligent early adopters. so much is vonnected because of IQ.
It’s almost like all the nice people with actual moral compasses have ditched Reddit for the likes of Lemmy, Tildes and Kbin. Reddit has been left to become a toxic shitshow.
Keep in mind bots are always nice. We can’t be here only for be friendly but also to drop our unpopular opinions and sometimes fight and dealing with the fact that we can’t like or be liked by everyone.
lol, and I hope I’m lol’ing to an actual person.
Good bot
I’m with you. We need more positive thinking instead of the instantly thinking someone means the worst, like Reddit saw. Unfortunately, many people are just happy being sour and ruining everything.
It’s great that this newfangled platform isn’t filled with hate, but that’s just because not that many people know about it yet. Give it time to grow, and the hostility will be more apparent. It’s the sad reality.
But for the time being, I absolutely love this place.
There is also no karma whore. So even if you say something offending to some, who cares?
I know right! I often get more than 5 upvotes here, while on Reddit most of my comments would have only gotten 2, maybe 3.
I think maybe as well it always became really heated with the Reddit bots when you would express a differing opinion to theirs. There were many times bots would pick a fight and then argue with you like it was their job (because it was). This feels more chill like the early days of Reddit and I hope it stays that way.
I guess as soon as Lemmy gets properly search indexes and if search engines starts putting weight behind results from Lemmy then commercial interest will arrive?
If a lobby organization thinks they will gain something by buying opinions on Lemmy, then they’ll try to do it?
I’m not sure how you can avoid it, but I hope Lemmy will be better than Reddit. Worst case it’s even easier to manipulate Lemmy since it’s mostly a lot of small instances run for free by people in their spare time.
you people genuinely think that the bots are the ones having these arguments?
I’m using bot broadly to mean astroturfed actors and influencers. Absolutely there are troll farms on Reddit being paid to push specific agendas.
you’re an idiot lol.
I upvote for general encouragement. But I upvoted this especially to be nice to you, OP. I also gave you a lil boost.
Thank you, and same to you with my upvote.
Just wanted to say that I upvoted to be especially nice to you for being nice, Janet. Have a good day!
That’s not a shower thought you braindead, try hard, complete waste of a human… Get off of here; there’s no room for idiots here. Reported.
JK, just thought I’d channel my inner rage-commenter for old times sake. Welcome 😄
Mods are certainly nicer, that’s for sure, and thus far, except in in ugly instances, everyone here has been intelligent and thoughtful, even in disagreement.
I think that federation here really helps - seems like the toxicity seems naturally get siloed as instances defederate from bad actors and users are blocked, and it really dilutes the impact a power-tripping mod can have on content, as it’s far to easy to find another relevant community or instance that will accept your post.
One thing that has concerned me a little is Reddit moderators that want to own the same community here on Lemmy, like genuinely feeling that it’s theirs.
In generalI I thought that was something I wanted to get away from, but I guess I also don’t know what it takes to “grow” a community into something through moderation.
Have the upboot because I think you’re handsome and cool.
