I happen to like it very much.
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I feel like Lemmy is on its way and its main benefit is that it’s not as cynical as Reddit to EACH OTHER.
So many people on reddit gripe about the smallest shit, especially the Steam Deck reddit, that conversations become either you’re with my ideas or you’re against my ideas. Like even though you’re just trying to help others play a game, “I’m insulting you for free because of the way you said lowest fps is 33 with drops down to 29. I don’t think it means what you think it means.” (of course shoving a meme in there because that’s their identity at this point)
I clearly meant average, but oh here comes -20 comment score when I explain that.
I see nicer comment chains from people on opposing political sides here even though I know a usual reaction these days would be to tear at each others’ throats. Lemmy isn’t devoid of it, but Jesus at least it isn’t like how Reddit predictably uses a scalpel on your comments to find something to complain about.
But I think this might be the result of tailoring my experience over time with instances I want to see from and communities. That level of customization is awesome. But it does suck to see so many instance drama things happening in a much more rapid pace than reddit.
I actually experience the opposite. Others have posted about it in this thread as well. If your views deviate slightly on some topics it’s way worse here than on reddit. The Tech Bros / Open Source Stan’s here are insufferable. There was a post yesterday that said it should be illegal for video games to not distribute their source code… And the opinion that companies should be able to own the thing they made was heavily downvoted and ridiculed.
Full of commie rats
But what about ponies?
Agreed. I’m a liberal and I wouldn’t consider myself a “moderate liberal” in every respect either (I support universal healthcare and think public universities should be free), but lefties who think communism is actually a good idea mystify me. Every single country that’s gone down that road has devolved into a dictatorship, and that’s by design, not merely a flaw in execution. Communists are as bad as fascists; they both aim for authoritarian rule.
Don’t confuse communism with the tankies, as much as the tankies would like you to.
A tankie once told me that “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” was problematic. That’s when you know you aren’t dealing with a real communist and are in fact dealing with a Red Fascist.
I’m not. I know what communism is and why it sucks ass. Tankies are another breed altogether.
Why does communism(not tankies) suck and why are your politics better?
I believe I already explained that. Give me an example of a country going communist and not becoming a dictatorship.
My politics are better because they don’t result in that.
Every major power is sinking into dictatorship. Every major power is contributing to climate change, which will result mass deaths and displacements.
Oh, please, that’s got to be the biggest false equivalence I’ve heard in a while now. Every single communist nation has rapidly become a dictatorship, because that’s literally what’s supposed to happen in the transition phase. That’s totally different from real democracies being eroded by far-right extremists—and plenty of the world’s democracies are still fighting those extremists and their democracies are still alive. Stop hand-waiving away these stark differences with bullshit generalizations like that.
It’s okay. I’m certainly not going back to reddit, but Lemmy has its own share of problems. I feel we need better protections with defederating and banning. It is far too easy to get stuck on a dead-end server or have some aspect of Lemmy irrevocably ruined due to minor political squabbles between servers. We are still far too centralized, and lemmy.world/lemmy.ml/beehaw.org/etc control a lot of the Lemmy experience with their defederation posture.
Just today, a community had to do an impromptu shut-down because the lemmy.world admin decided to permaban the main mod for trivial/subjective/biased reasons (read the comments).
One of the larger instances recently defederated another smaller instance and now Lemmy is effectively ruined for those users. It’s already annoying enough for normies to sign up for Lemmy and get the hang of it, and now they need to be worried about switching instances every 2 months when some admin decides to effectively wipe out a smaller server because of something out of the users’ control. The smaller instance in question had NSFW communities that the larger instance got annoyed by, so the larger instance decided to defederate every community and user from that smaller instance.
I feel we need some sort of infrastructure to limit the effect of these types of things on different parts of Lemmy (users/communities/instances). Users shouldn’t be lumped in with communities when defederating (at least not by default). Having an escape plan for communities also seems like it’s very important. What if lemmy.world announced it was shutting down tomorrow? All those communities will be gone in the blink of an eye. Maybe we should be able to export communities to other servers somehow, so we can be more decentralized against failures of specific servers and admins.
Even a single community being inaccessible to a certain user can really destroy their experience - the problem isn’t fully solved by breaking up “mega-servers” like lemmy.world. What if I couldn’t access the main Linux community anymore? Guess I’m fucked? Make a new account somewhere else? Is that really the best solution we can come up with?
Buggy and full of loud ignorant assholes. So pretty in-brand with my decades of experience online.
i wish there were more people on here, i feel like i’m talking to a wall
i’m pretty sure i’m basically the only poster on r/hongkong and i’m not even a mod there (which would be a valid reason for being the only poster)
For now, I find it kind of boring. On reddit, I used to spend more time in comment sections than regularly scrolling. Now I don’t really do that, because there are either no comments or the comments are the same.
When I started using lemmy with the default sorting option (‘active’ i think?), I would see the same posts for days, now I use top 6 hours and that problem is fixed, but lemmy now feels like a news site with comments. Also I am European, but it feels like 50% of content is some local American politics. I don’t care about my own town’s politics, so I don’t care about that guy from Minnesota either.
A post from asklemmy hasn’t shown up in my feed in a long time and I kind of forgot it existed, but looking into it, looks like one of the only interesting places here, so I guess, I have visit it more often.
Curating a good subscribed feed and community blocklist has been my trick.
I like it a lot and it’s still early days.
Will done Devs.
Can’t wait for the rest of the Reddit subs to come over.
I like it a lot. I check it every day, several times a day
It seems just somewhat useful for tech news and discussion. For everything else I still use Reddit.
It’s definitely not a replacement for Reddit, and a lot of assholes have come over.
Absolutely! I’ve noticed some unprovoked snide remarks and mean comments. That’s something that I do not miss from Reddit.
I don’t like it. The meme communities are political, and not funny
Become the change you wish to see?
I think the issue with trying to apply that logic is you have an echo chamber already forming/formed. If you don’t agree with the majority or go with the flow you’ll either be downvoted or ignored.
I’m pretty left leaning, and I agree. It was already burning me the fuck out on reddit, and now the whole “USA politics everywhere” thing is picking up pace here. Even if it’s not us politics, it can get tiresome after a while when politics bleeds through communities, or when us politics/news bleeds through world politics/news communities. We get it, America number 1, now let me look at some beans.
With sync, it was a pretty easy transition from reddit to here, though there are obviously differences in size and functionality. Overall, though, l’m happy to report that I can doomscroll and be just as miserable here as I could on reddit.
It’s ok. Lots of very young people talking a lot about things they don’t understand like its a fact.
There however a lot of fun when they give relationship advice to people that has been married for longer that they have been alive and acting like it is the same as braking up with you maybe partner of less then a week.
Politics flow out everywhere. ‘Republicans did that, (some other politic word) did that’ etc. Compared to reddit, at least my feed was from things I enjoy, not some ass-ham complaining about his problems.
Everything is political. “Apolitics” is apathy, which accepts the status quo, which is a political position.
I’m getting very tired of the privacy nuts. I get that it’s important, but I don’t want to hear about it all the fucking time. I also miss my city subreddit, but I’d rather hear about how Google’s fucking me over for bajillionth time than use the Reddit app.
Yeah, some made paranoia going on in some communities. The amount of people telling me I shouldn’t use the apps on my smart TV due to privacy yesterday was mental.
I got into a similar situation ower my bedside lamp… I perfectly understand what you mean.
I wonder if this is what the internet was like in the 90s when everyone on it was lien the Lone Gunmen from the X-files?
Agreed. Foss, privacy, Linux. Topics that are too high a proportion of all Lemmy posts.
I mean, Lemmy itself is FOSS, and the vast majority of instances are running on Linux. The main reason I am here and not on Reddit is that Lemmy is FOSS.
Lemmy wasn’t specifically built for being primarily a platform for discussing the things it was built on. It makes sense there’s a nice lively community for all of those topics, but they are so out of whack proportion wise with the types of content I want to see.
Yes, reading Lemmy you’d think Linux has a 90% market share.
Outside of amd64 desktops it kind of does.
