Submitted 11 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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
I realize it won’t be like this forever
You can always keep moving to smaller instances.
This is a great point. I have another account on a smaller instance, and there I frequently just read everything in the local feed.
You can also really feel that the algorithm doesn’t just blindly promote click/rage bait the way that reddit’s does.
It still gets promoted some times, but the front page isn’t constantly filled with it like Reddit’s is,.
Enjoy it while you can
The beauty of it is that we can enjoy it forever. If one instance gets too noisy, we can block it.
I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.
Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.
I hope the openness of the platform will continue to allow us to keep it that way as things grow.
Eat shit and die, cunt
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.
reddit also has tons of troll bots, and bot farms to do it. Ru has targeted lemmy yet.
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.
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.
Intellectual? Perhaps. Civil? Not always…
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.
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.
I expect much bigger influxes. From at least a few dozen people with hundreds of accounts. Probably around the time of an election.
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.
I got sent gore by a two year old account yesterday
Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.
Fuck you! No it isn’t you moron.
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
Yeah, I just sort by new. I see everything posted in my subscriptions, and can just be done for a while. It’s great. And early comments get more upvotes, heh.
I mute a ton of communities, and I really like quickly getting to the “end” of All. Then I’ve blocked some other dopamine sites, so I get bored and go play outside 🤣
Wait, the “All” feed has an end? I need to step up my game
Yeah, All Top [time duration] just pulls the most highly voted of the selected time length. The shorter the time period the easier it is to run out.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Exactly how I feel!