I realize it won’t be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it’s a perfect signal that I’ve done more than enough scrolling for the day
Using a combination of top day, mark read on scroll, and hide read, I regularly reach the end of the internet, and am glad.
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.
Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.
Palerider@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Fuck you! No it isn’t you moron.
virku@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wow! I want to upvote, downvote and report you at the same time. Kudos!
In the end all i did was leave this lousy comment
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Moran*
klemptor@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I’ve found more belligerent comments have started to crop up, and sure enough, most of the time the account is about 2 weeks old. I really hope lemmy doesn’t change with this latest influx from reddit.
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Fwy, some apps allow for automatically applied icons to indicate such. I forget exactly which ones, but I know PieFed's web UI does it. It's very helpful imho.
PieFed also marks people who receive like 10x more downvotes than upvotes. That way you can still choose to read their content, but seeing that, decide how best to respond.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I got sent gore by a two year old account yesterday
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I expect much bigger influxes. From at least a few dozen people with hundreds of accounts. Probably around the time of an election.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, there’s a lot more of that cropping up. Belligerence, backhanded insults. I can see it being legit on some of the comments but then there are other comments where there are people just going after people to feed their own agenda.
I found it was happening worse over on Lemmy world, I’ve blocked a few of their major communities, and just started contributing on smaller communities on smaller nodes.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Way more arguments on Lemmy seem to end with the two users stop down voting each other, and then basically concluding ‘that I see your point but still think you’re wrong because youre over emphasizing x or y’.
Way more arguments on Reddit just end with an endless loop of insulting and talking past each other.
I think the effect is probably like 30% selection bias of people coming to Lemmy more intentionally, and 70% lack of bots. Between paid influence campaigns, and Reddit’s own use of bots to juice engagement, my gut feel is that most of those endless arguments are either directly arguments with bots, or indirectly people who have grown so frustrated arguing with bots in other threads that they’re no longer capable of rational discussion.
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The average age of a Redditor started to go down even several years ago, long before Rexodus, in large part as the platform changed things to encourage speaking even without bothering to read anything at all.
Thus I decided to leave Reddit regardless, and only fortuitously decided to come here. Some things simply are not worth the trouble.
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I agree.
On reddit it seems the remaining human commentators are those who have taken over the mannerisms of the bots and adjusted to talking to the bots.
And you always get stuck in these endless loops of hostile disagreement.
That’s just not how normal humans argue. Even on the internet.
Normal humans either agree to disagree or just give up. In both cases ending the conversation after all useful things have been said.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
reddit also has tons of troll bots, and bot farms to do it. Ru has targeted lemmy yet.
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eat shit and die, cunt
myrak@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hope the openness of the platform will continue to allow us to keep it that way as things grow.
sbf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Intellectual? Perhaps. Civil? Not always…