Submitted 1 year ago by LemmyBe@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.
I agree! It’s our choice what we want the culture to be around here. We can make it a friendly one :-).
That’s not a shower thought you braindead, try hard, complete waste of a human… Get off of here; there’s no room for idiots here. Reported.
JK, just thought I’d channel my inner rage-commenter for old times sake. Welcome 😄
Im still finding it a strange world to be part of
Im too new to tell if Lemmy is more left or right leaning or somewhere in the middle. But Reddit is extreme left wing, you can’t even make a (bad) joke without getting banned.
“Gee, the usual suspects, oh I guess I’m racist now”. That was it, just a snarky cynical comment / “joke” relating to a couple of store robbers/thieves.
“Encouraging hate”, or something like that according to the ban.
Way over the top reaction by a mod or admin, keep in mind I got nothing but upvotes on that comment too… somebody really didn’t like that.
Haha prove it, bitch! I’m upvoting the hell out of you…
Just wait till we get an influx of 4channers. You’ll see these “polite” people turn into hateful mongrels to drive them out of “their” platform.
I started posting on 4chan in 2005 😏 my favorite communities on reddit were little isolated bubbles of 4chan refugees. Mainstream reddit culture was pretty bad, and 4chan got overrun by maga weirdos in 2016. So far Lemmy seems like mostly the worst parts of reddit with a few of the good parts. It feels like the default subs, just slower.
4channers don’t get to call the culture of anything bad. 4chan culture was always bad and the far right were the vast majority of the site long before 2016.
Why would anons want to go to a far leftoid place full of redditors?
Meds now.
Normally, I’m against gatekeeping, but if it keeps out 4chan, then I’m all for it.
luckily they seem to be contained for now on instances like burggit and lemmygrad because it’s “funny”
Lemmygrad aren’t from 4chan wtf are you talking about.
Hopefulmy they’d just make their own instance to which everyone else could defederate from.
Thank you!
You look fabulous today by the way, have an upvote!
Agreed. Upvoted. LOL
I’ve already seen some, lets say disagreeable people floating around, but the moderators seem to be doing well to take care of it. Nothing is wrong with someone that has an opposing view, but being unnecessarily combative or straight up an asshole is too much.
I’ll admit, I’ve had far better experiences here than I have on Reddit; Lemmings aren’t as prone to argue on nonsensical topics as Redditors are.
That being said, there are still more than a few nasties here.
Lemmy succeeded in what SomethingAwful is doing for $10.
I just upvote to make the posts go away. I unchecked “show read posts” and upvoting keeps my feed fresh.
Oh how I wonder the comments will be with this streisand effect
Have an upvote my fellow fedinaut
Same back to you, fellow Fedinaut :).
I don’t want you to feel left out. Here’s one to you too!
No, not really. Have a “wrong” opinion and see how it goes.
Have a “wrong” opinion and see how it goes.
I'm sorry the world is changing too quickly for you to adapt, but you still can't say the "n" word.
Go back to reddit, the adults are trying to have a conversation.
How wrong? Racist wrong or just “boiled eggs are tastier than fried eggs” wrong?
“Capitalism is good”
“Conservatives aren’t completely selfish” (backed with links to leftist sources)
“NFTs aren’t worthless”
“Making everyone people pay for rich people’s college debt is wrong (and a net transfer of wealth upwards)”
“The central banks cause inflation on purpose”
Some are opinions, some are facts people don’t like. All get down voted.
Well Karma ain’t a thing here so there’s not that much reason for bots to exist. Where on Reddit people make certain karma bots to sell. So here! Have a updoot. 👍
Thanks for the upvote, and back at you. I’m thinking bots would be used to change discourse for whatever purposes.
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Mods are certainly nicer, that's for sure, and thus far, except in in ugly instances, everyone here has been intelligent and thoughtful, even in disagreement.
I think that federation here really helps - seems like the toxicity seems naturally get siloed as instances defederate from bad actors and users are blocked, and it really dilutes the impact a power-tripping mod can have on content, as it's far to easy to find another relevant community or instance that will accept your post.
One thing that has concerned me a little is Reddit moderators that want to own the same community here on Lemmy, like genuinely feeling that it’s theirs.
In generalI I thought that was something I wanted to get away from, but I guess I also don’t know what it takes to “grow” a community into something through moderation.
I think maybe as well it always became really heated with the Reddit bots when you would express a differing opinion to theirs. There were many times bots would pick a fight and then argue with you like it was their job (because it was). This feels more chill like the early days of Reddit and I hope it stays that way.
I guess as soon as Lemmy gets properly search indexes and if search engines starts putting weight behind results from Lemmy then commercial interest will arrive?
If a lobby organization thinks they will gain something by buying opinions on Lemmy, then they’ll try to do it?
I’m not sure how you can avoid it, but I hope Lemmy will be better than Reddit. Worst case it’s even easier to manipulate Lemmy since it’s mostly a lot of small instances run for free by people in their spare time.
It depends where you go, surely?
I’ve met a fair number of numpties on Reddit but I’ve never had anyone tell me neckbeards are an oppressed group until I came to Lemmy 😂
Jokes aside, it’s easy to avoid toxic people on here since they usually announce themselves loudly. It’s easy to block users, communities, or even servers if you don’t want to see something.
I have a conspiracy theory about Reddit and social media in general:
I think its algorithm not only puts up links but users and their comments in their view that are more likely to piss you off, and they measure this based on observing your post and comment history. I believe they categorize users by political affiliation and moral outlook by this method, and use that info to purposefully expose you to people who will cause you conflict to drive up engagement and therefore ad dollars.
I believe they also use chat bots to argue with people for that purpose.
Honestly I don’t think an algorithm needs to work very hard to “be mean” like that. Sure, you can purposely put people with clashing views in each other sight on a place where people go to hang out and have fun. But you don’t even need to go do that on purpose. To some extent, people naturally produce more “engagement” with stuff that’s controversial/argumentative.
Imagine if I were to walk past you and say some completely innocent comment. Now imagine I were to walk past you and insult your favorite movie/show/song/game/whatever. You’d be far more likely to respond in the latter case.
So, as people respond, more activity is generated, and that makes the post “hotter”. Simply boost what’s hot, and you have a veritable litany of controversy.
I guess but I’m still dealing with alt right trolls left and right
I find that Lemmy users are more likely to engage in earnest and once it started getting a flood of new users from Reddit it didn’t change. This convinced me to stop being a lurker and try to add something to the whole.
Think again fuckface.
-throws the ball and runs away to cloud district-
There’s a lot less of us, we can’t lose anyone.
Even in the hay day of online discussion forum websites you’d have trolls that derail threads and bring nastiness to the forefront.
Good moderation, clearly defined rules and quality of content are key contributes to quality forum.
The Lemmy homepage could do a random “Community Focus” where one random community is pinned for a day or 2 - or something like that. Just so people notice some of the tinier communities. I joined many when I 1st signed up but now my feed is full, so I hardly look for new ones anymore.
Great idea! Also I noticed that sports communities are mainly bots. Really wonder just how many actively posting users there are on Lemmy?
I feel some redditors have the downvote button as the sole mean of power in their lives. There are some who massively downvote to the point it’s concerning
I still type shitty things. But then I stop and rephrase in a more human way.
Well done <3
Keep in mind bots are always nice. We can’t be here only for be friendly but also to drop our unpopular opinions and sometimes fights and dealing with the fact that we can’t like or be liked by everyone.
lol, and I hope I’m lol’ing to an actual person.
Good bot
I probably used this service more when it comes to upvotes and comments than Reddit I always used Libreddit
youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Agreed! Found some bad apples here and there lately, but in general people are nicer and more civil.