The 14 year olds with “big brain” takes.
What do you like/dislike about lemmy?
Submitted 1 year ago by sho@ani.social to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Potatisen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Like or dislike?
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I don’t mind the kids themselves, I might have been a teenage embodiment of edge too, but it sucks how many adults get pulled into childish fighting about nothing, instead of having a teaching moment.
It makes the platform seem immature and childish.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]sho@ani.social 1 year ago
Im pretty sure most people including mods don’t want to see a bunch of soul-less bot postings. That is straight up community manipulation. Please don’t use bots, use your human mind to interact.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
What? and that stupid brainwashing bot that comments in every news post is still around? Fuck 'em.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I genuinely cannot express how much it annoys me that I cannot have a blocklist for keywords.
Most of the things I read are from my subscribed communities, which i’m very happy about generally, however given the overall state of life today, half of the posts in completely unrelated communities end up being one of the following:
- Twitter CEO
- Hate speech in US politics
- AI propaganda for some pump and dump quick money
I really just don’t want to see any of those things
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 year ago
On browser you can put this onto your custom filters
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(“/musk/i”))RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Connect app for Lemmy actually has this feature, and it really is a gamechanger. I mean, it makes Lemmy kinda into a desolate wasteland of posts, but its better than seeing most of the garbage I don’t care about and don’t want to interact with.
Granted, this also relies on users putting said keywords in the title of their post, so I still end up seeing stuff I don’t want to, but it is drastically decreased.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been impressed with the number of people who understand this pretty esoteric and fundamentally game-changing bit of technical voting system knowledge:
About first past the post and third parties for those who aren’t going to watch. But do watch! Required viewing for everybody!
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year ago
Here’s a whole playlist from that same author that is amazing: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrttDbiWQ1XO1iHAszAsPo…. The first one there will probably fuck you up though - it did me - as paradigm shattering is supposed to do, but hey, I did want to warn you in advance (to be absolutely clear: yes it is SOOO worth it!).
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like that it’s moderated fairly lightly but reasonably. Often I can have an actual discussion with someone who doesn’t agree with me without either of us getting banned by a mod who likes one side or the other. From what I see generally a user needs to be very obviously abusive/racist/violent before a mod steps in, even if the content is controversial.
I dislike that I haven’t been able to have those discussions in a while because I have heavily restricted my use for my mental health until after the election. A lot of people (not all by any means) believe it’s ok to bully and abuse other users so long as they’re sure the cause is righteous. The most obvious example are the daily posts/comments, with a lot of upvotes/support, that label anyone who disagrees with or criticizes Kamala (used to be Biden)/Democrats a bot, idiot, worse than useless, foreign agent and so on. Just to be clear I’m not talking about downvoting which is a fairly benign way of expressing disagreement - I’m talking about outright insults. The attitude of “vote with/support me or else” has no place in a democracy founded on free voting without persecution, even if the bully is sure they’re right. If I didn’t mention it, perhaps even if I do, I’m willing to bet someone will say a version of “but it is actually ok this time” and give reasons why. It’s happened before.
Guess what? Very few “policy bullies” think they are evil - they’re positive they’re justified. Christians demand abortion bans, Muslim deportation, religion in schools/government and so on because they truly believe they are saving eternal souls. I was raised in that environment. That a sizable amount of Lemmy users believe it’s correct/admirable to insult others into “proper” behavior makes them very similar in character to those religious extremists IMO. Apparently when the issue is really important abuse is ok.
I’ll just end by saying Gaza is incredibly important to me - I am legitimately very upset frequently by the stories and media. However, I was convinced to support Biden and then Kamala by Bernie Sanders. Bernie laid out his argument with logic and facts and did not once insult my position. I also doubt the posts/comment insults I see all over are winning over undecideds. “I wasn’t sure if I should vote Democrat until I was called a harmful idiot and had my concerns dismissed as being in bad faith”.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like the way Lemmy functions, with things like an open moderator log and the way that instances can be created to prevent too much control from one singular instance from pushing people completely off the platform if they have bad moderation, for example.
I don’t like the users. For every one user that is nice and wants to have a legitimate conversation, there are like 300 that just want to fight/argue or spew politics into a non-political conversation. The number of users I have blocked on Lemmy is far longer than the amount of users I ever blocked on Reddit, and my Reddit account existed for about 10 years. This Lemmy account has only been around for about 1/10th of that.
One of the biggest strengths of Lemmy is also one of its biggest curses. Due to its federated nature, anyone can create a new instance. The problem with this is that particularly nasty users can keep creating accounts on instances they keep creating in order to harass people they don’t like. So even if you block them, they just switch to a new account, etc. They can also do this for vote manipulation, not like that really matters on Lemmy but Lemmy users seem to have fallen victim to the same problem Redditors had: seeing a comment with 0 or -1 score and then completely disregarding whatever it said, not reading it and downvoting it automatically.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year ago
Here’s a hard that when I noticed it, improved my experience on the Fediverse enormously. Enough to convince me not to leave it outright as I nearly did. Pay attention to what instance someone is from. It’s no 100% guarantee… but it’s not useless either. This is like 1000% more relevant for someone on an instance other than Lemmy.world, but it still helps for you too.
The aggressiveness also varies by community, so likewise, some of those are just straight up worth blocking (so that you don’t keep forgetting and end up replying in it yet again and again) and finding alternatives for.
sho@ani.social 1 year ago
“I like the way Lemmy functions, with things like an open moderator log and the way that instances can be created to prevent too much control from one singular instance from pushing people completely off the platform if they have bad moderation, for example.”
Oh yeah that seems an excellent way to keep a power balance between users and moderation. Hadn’t used reddit all that much, but heard of the nightmarish moderation abuse.
“I don’t like the users. For every one user that is nice and wants to have a legitimate conversation, there are like 300 that just want to fight/argue or spew politics into a non-political conversation.”
Sadly is a big issue with many platforms where politics is used for excuse to mental flex, invalidate, clout motives, and flat out bully. So i try to avoid politics or deflect and avoid people who just looking to argue for the sake of argueing to assert dominance. Too many headaches online deal with.
“The number of users I have blocked on Lemmy is far longer than the amount of users I ever blocked on Reddit, and my Reddit account existed for about 10 years.”
I might do the same tbh, i can see there are quite a bit of users needing filtered out on lemmy. Can also see some get angry knowing that people would rather just block em’ and not engage with them because then they can’t fuel their clout driven ego 🙂
“The problem with this is that particularly nasty users can keep creating accounts on instances they keep creating in order to harass people they don’t like. So even if you block them, they just switch to a new account, etc.”
Perhaps this could be resolved by implementing a user follow list and making it so users can only be interacted with if the user approves the follower who is trying to follow em’
“They can also do this for vote manipulation, not like that really matters on Lemmy but Lemmy users seem to have fallen victim to the same problem Redditors had: seeing a comment with 0 or -1 score and then completely disregarding whatever it said, not reading it and downvoting it automatically.”
Imo i think lemmy could just do away with a voting system, it would reduce cognitive bias by not giving them a sense of popularity contest to determine if it’s worth reading a user’s post or comment. People should judge for themselves rather than having others do it for them.
You seem a a reasonably decent person btw.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 year ago
The problem with no voting system whatsoever is that content then surfaces by recency and/or replies, so people generate a lot of noise to make stuff they agree more visible.
That said the current system is by no means perfect, and I agree with you that people should judge content by themselves.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The people. For both.
Sundial@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The assholes who pretend to argue in good faith but just spout stupid bullshit.
Oh, and the idiots who block everyone they don’t like.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Simmillar to me i hate the assholes who accuse you of arguing in bad faith while symultaniously calling you a moronic asshole fascist.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
But what do you dislike?
Sundial@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Lol, you got me for a minute.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit 2.0 lol
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 year ago
I think it’s the best at what it does. That problem space doesn’t have a lot of good options.
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Dislike: the daily post from someone asking where they can find “non-political” or “centrist” communities, which is a dog whistle that they’re tired of being yelled at for their shitty views
sho@ani.social 1 year ago
“which is a dog whistle that they’re tired of being yelled at for their shitty views” 🤨 you’re trolling right? Like @Jackthelad@lemmy.world says “they just wanna get away from politics” … not everyone cares to have a political opinion and likely just wanna avoid the hostility or nuances that comes with politics discussion. I myself would rather see to much more pleasant things that isn’t just abunch chaos and steam. Wouldn’t you rather enjoy your time than to be a salty bitter lad?
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or that they just want to get away from politics for five minutes.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Just want to browse cat pics for a while? Believe or not, centrism.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
All the trolls.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Like: pretty much everything
Dislike: wish there was more activity in the D&D comms