• @[email protected]
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      Yes, it’s good, although I’ve noticed there’s a purge feature now that’s being inevitably misused.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        Is it federated, or would the purged content still be visible on other instances?

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          Hmm, it’s hard to say. The purge record doesn’t display anything like username searchable by the standard frontend, and it’s still a lot rarer than normal removals. The top purge on .ml right now relates to this thread, shown federated to my instance, and it’s neither of the ones visible there, but that could just be that it wasn’t federated in time.

          The reason given was that it’s a reply to the wrong thread, which should definitely be a normal removal. The only clear-cut case for a true purge is doxxing or CSAM.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        41 month ago

        I just thought “You’ve heard of bananas in pajamas, now get ready for beans in jeans” and then my mind went the elf on a shelf meme where you’d depict it visually, and picturing an anthropomorphic bean wearing blue jeans, my mind looked at that and guessed “Kidneys in dungarees?”

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    If by culture you mean Lemmy’s users values, beliefs, or ideals there is nothing special I appreciate (or don’t appreciate). I mean, for me it’s irrelevant as it’s all personal preferences like the fact that I don’t like bananas, or that we have not owned a TV for 25 years (glad to know others may share similar preferences, but it’s no big deal if they don’t).

    I care about Lemmy itself not being like Reddit. It’s not ad-driven, there is no algorithmic ‘optimization’, it’s not trying to milk our content and also it’s not being owned by one of those billionaires that think their pile of money means they know better than all of us. In that, it’s very different than Reddit, but at the same time I also expect to meet similar kind of people on Lemmy I used to meet on Reddit.

    Interesting, or less interesting, people. People I agree with, and more often people I do not agree with (which is fine by me). Very smart people, while others do have the brain power of a brick. Nice people, or naughty or even hateful ones. People whose values I share, others I don’t and never will (you can go funk yourself, fascists of all types). People who like what I like, and many others that don’t and never will (see my banana and TV examples ;).

    And then I also expect tp meet people who think it’s enough to ask their question without even trying to give it the some context or explanation (say, people who ask what we appreciate most in Lemmy culture without explaining what they mean by that), next to people that try their best to give as much context/explanation as they can ;)

    Edit: typos + clarifications.

    • @[email protected]
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      Hey, don’t insult bricks like that! At least their intelligence can’t be negative like some people on the internet!

      • Libb
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        11 month ago

        You may have a point here. I used to compare them to oysters until I realized I was being unfair to them, the oysters I mean. What could I use if bricks are also unfair choice? ;)

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s a struggle to find good comparisons, after all what could ever compare to some people’s ability to act like complete fools? Luckily I think you can just allude to them and most will know exactly what you’re talking about, because we’ve all had to deal with them at one point or another.

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    It’s a plus and a negative: how anti-fascist and anti-capitalist it is. I do think that it can go too far at times, but I just block those people. We should try to be less binary as that just isn’t what reality is like.

  • @[email protected]
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    Lemmy culture? Nothing, lacks diversity. I often feel like I’m just talking to the same guy. Very rare to read views that don’t align with the groupthink.

    EDIT: Okay, one thing that came to mind is that I can talk about autistic stuff that I do and nobody seems to question/judge it.

    • tpyoman
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      Isn’t that a good thing though? I would rather be around people that accept my fucked brain than people putting their hand on my knee to stop me from shaking my legs a la restless leg.

      Though I do agree that a variation in opinion would be nice.

    • @[email protected]
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      Okay, one thing that came to mind is that I can talk about autistic stuff that I do and nobody seems to question/judge it.

      Of course, the one guy you’re talking to is also autistic.

  • Wytch
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    222 months ago

    That it doesn’t feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There’s genuine discussion, not just a few top meme-comments and a sea of ignored participation.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      That it doesn’t feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There’s genuine discussion,

    • Wugmeister
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      I disagree. It’s more likely that your instance’s culture happens to largely match what you feel internt culture should be, or at least what you on some leve have already been accultrated to so there is no friction.

      One thing that is noticeable is that each instance seems to have a distinct local culture. It’s not a great difference, but it is noticeable. It reminds me of the difference between the cultures of the town I grew up in (a decaying community in the rust belt where hope goes to die) and my current town (the sort of farm town that has a holiday celebrating corn).

        • Wugmeister
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          22 months ago

          Same here. I’m mainly on dbzer0 because I like piracy and also like having limited interaction with Hexbear people.

      • Wytch
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        32 months ago

        Topic is about Lemmy as a whole, and I’m responding with my impression of that. Your re-interpretation of my impression doesn’t really make sense to me. I’m sure others have different experiences with their own usage of Lemmy but mine does not revolve around my instance enough for me to even form an impression of it. It certainly doesn’t dominate my user experience.

        I do appreciate the responses here hinting that I’m wrong about my experience on Lemmy but I had a 13 year old Reddit account that I nuked after the API debacle and I remember the monoculture that developed. Lemmy is not Reddit even if a few instances have their own subcultures. Doesn’t invalidate my impression.

        Thanks for pointing out how my opinion is wrong though.

        • Wugmeister
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          12 months ago

          I think the other person that commented is having a worse experience because they are on lemmy.world lol. I didn’t realize how bad the trolls were on that instance was until I hopped to dbzer0.

          I remember how reddit was. I stopped using it as a social media around 2015ish, around the time I stopped using Twitter. This is better. I was trying to disagree on why this feels better, not telling you that your opinion is wrong.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 month ago

    A few months ago, I would’ve said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage

    Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities

    We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters… But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn’t say

    • @[email protected]
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      See this is why we have to stand up for blueberries— this guy just spouts off with his hate for blueberries— it’s just unwarranted. He can have my love when he gets his hands off my blueberries.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 months ago

    Alot of people are really helpful for any questions you might ask, as long as you are respectful

  • @[email protected]
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    422 months ago

    Much kinder than Reddit, people here know how to disagree and discuss things in a more constructive way.

    • @[email protected]
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      Seconded. I’ve definitely had more discussions here than my last year on reddit. Reddit is just a rat race to get the most upvotes for flippant comments or you get downvoted for being nonconformist, especially in the big subs. Also, participants on lemmy with agendas tend to be way more transparent - as in political or pseudo-science. Far easier to avoid or block if need be.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      Yep! Even when I’ve disagreed with people, it’s been more of an exchange of knowledge rather than one person asking for citations and then proceeding to ignore them all.

      It’s okay to disagree, sometimes you can learn from each other :)

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    My favorite is: if you disagree, you can always just go to another instance or even create your own. Other than that, I like how, instead of a total score, posts show likes and dislikes separately. This is more of a technical thing than a cultural one, but it has a big impact on making brigading less effective. In general, all these technical decisions make Lemmy very friendly to a variety of cultures and people from across different spectrums of political and other opinions.

    • @[email protected]
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      if you disagree, you can always just go to another instance

      This seems to unintentionally reveal something less positive that the internet has done to our culture.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 months ago

            They’ve always existed in some way or another though.

            Which pub you went to, which newspaper you read, which TV channel you watched, they all created echo chambers and bubbles in the past.

            At least with the Fediverse we’re more likely to break out of it due to various instances showing up in our feeds. Various viewpoints being visible. The Fediverse is still in it’s early days so it’s still a bit monoculture with the likes of Linux and anti-capitalism but that’s changing now. We’re seeing more and more different takes on different topics as time goes by.

  • Zier
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    I love that no one ever blinks an eye when I run naked through here. You guys are so cool!