[Opinion] About Lemmy

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ananesiken@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Hi guys. This is not going to be a long post and I will briefly explain why I didn’t like Lemmy and going straight back to Reddit.

Lemmy is not a likable name.
There are so much socialists/communists around, including Lemmy’s founders. Even the ‘subreddits’ called communities.
Every app I tried is buggy.
Lemmy world usually experiences connection problems.
Content is not likable enough. I’m reading Reddit to relax, laugh and chill. Lemmy can’t provide that yet. Memes here are generally low effort.

That’s all and thanks anyway! Catch y’all later!

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spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lol at the implication that the term community is indicative of communism.

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- Anafroj@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This made me laugh as well, especially given how that concept is prevalent in the US. 😂 OP is probably not a native speaker.
  
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- semidetached@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  dude the first three letters are the same it’s all but confirmed /s
  
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luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
actually that’s a reason??

I barely see them, but what I did see today was several people saying ‘Fuck the CCP’ with a ton of upvotes.

Have you tried the webapps, wefwef/voyager and … mymlm or whatever it’s called? Those are apparently really good. Remember there was no Reddit app until the community built it, and the apps weren’t perfect at the start either, but they did get there. Have fun using the piece of shit official reddit app, since that’s your only option now.

First legitimate reason. It’s a busy instance. Try making an account on a less busy instance. I am connecting through lemmy.nz and I have no problems. It’s easy to copy communities over with Lasim.

Second legitimate reason. Well, half. If you want better content, why don’t you take the initiative and help make Lemmy a better place? This is kind of like ‘everyone else isn’t doing the work for me.’
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- ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  If you want better content, why don’t you take the initiative and help make Lemmy a better place? This is kind of like ‘everyone else isn’t doing the work for me.’
  
  It’s not “kind of like”. It “is”.
  
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- neuromancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’re not wrong, it’s the price we pay for federation.
    
    Maybe we should push for a ‘merged communities’ function, where similar federated communities can join so you get one feed that contains all the posts.
    
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  - luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Did some digging, merged communities are coming:
    
    https://lemmy.world/post/318115 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071 https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/149
    
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  - sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think part of the problem, at least as far as memes are concerned, there’s a few groups at critical mass and then there’s some smaller ones with higher quality content that don’t get the recognition.
    
    I keep coming back to this, Subscribed is your only feed, you have to cultivate it into a palace!
    
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ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It amazes me when people think their opinions are so important they feel they have to announce they’re leaving. The insecurity involved must be truly astonishing.

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- tjhart85@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It's fine when it's constructive, but when it comes down to "fuck socialists", "fuck their opinions", "fuck anything socialists make" and "Lemmy World is glitchy" I'm honestly not sure wtf they expect anyone to do with that information.
  
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throws_lemy@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hi Spez 😆

Yeah I guess Reddit is the right place for you

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Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
First of all Lemmy tell you why the name is great.

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- luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It's hard to take this seriously if you're talking issue with the word "community".

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BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Just on the "There are so much socialists/communists around, including Lemmy’s founders. Even the ‘subreddits’ called communities."

You really need to learn to tolerate and listen to the views of people you disagree with. Just cutting those voices out entirely and not wanting to hear them really is putting yourself into an echo chamber. You are an individual - don't fall into the trap of thinking you need to belong to a "group" and agree with all the thoughts in that group and disagree with all the thoughts outside that group. It's important that you are open to being challenged and hearing other peoples world views, even if yours is ultimately unchanged. Otherwise you'll just be a sheep thinking how others are directing you to think.

Also, the idea that the word "community" is socialist/communist is the most rediculous thing I've read in a while.

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devious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lemmy apps are buggy so you are going back to Reddit? I got some news for you buddy…

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leraje@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

" Even the ‘subreddits’ called communities"

You’re making the right choice. Reddit is definitely the right place for you.

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zombie_kong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Just go outside.

Dear god.

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density@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
👋 byyye

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ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
One question:

If you do not like it here then why are you here?

Content is decent/ good, certainly it is not as much as Reddit but hey - Lemmy is just getting started. While Reddit has been there for what? 7 years? Longer?

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HipPriest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

There are so much socialists/communists around, including Lemmy’s founders. Even the ‘subreddits’ called communities.

I call bs on this. This is just regurgitation of 'common knowledge'. The creators of the code had tanky beliefs and that has no bearing on the vast majority of the content.

What I find is there's a lot of privacy hardliners to the point where I'm scared to admit that I like using Chrome as my browser in case I get lynched. But I've joined/lurked on a lot of communities (and how is that a communist word?!?) and not so far seen anything turn into a debate about socialism/communism.

But bye bye.

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ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For “point” 1 (which is quite possibly the single dumbest reason I’ve ever heard!):

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Saturdaycat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the most reddit post it's almost satirical.

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artisanrox@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe you can join a social media platform where each subsection is called "The glorious individualist capitalist struggle of ________".

(And Lemmy's original programmers, not those in every signle instance, are totalitarian authoritarians, not communists.)

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Packopus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
@ananesiken "I can't adapt to change so therefore I refuse to, and will publicly announce it as I do so."

K bye, this content isn't helping the lack of good content.

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CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
3, 4 and 5 are all legit problems, but the community is working on it, and they’ll get better. 1 and 2 are features, not bugs.

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melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Join kbin instead!

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- tjhart85@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Nah, I at least would prefer if they didn't lol.
  
  If OP dislikes "community" they're definitely going to bitch about magazines and start whining to try and get KBin to be more similar to Reddit. I think we're better off with them going back to R.
  
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- jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I appreciate your encouraging him to explore more. How is KBin different from browsing the general Lemmy verse? We see the same post right?
  
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amio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
K bye? Like, you do you - not sure what anyone else is going to do with this information. You are right about this place being a glitchy mess, it's fairly new after all. The rest of the points are not particularly good ones.

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eddietrax@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Stay your ass at Reddit then. Problem solved for everyone.

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Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
OP, if you are being sincere, you can give kbin a try. I'm writing this to you from kbin.social. You can subscribe to many different communities in Lemmy and magazines in Kbin and see them all in your kbin Subscribed feed. I have more content than I know what to do with.

If that doesn't work for you, you could also try Squabbles, which has groups instead of communities.

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jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You’ve identified some real problems. Thank you for bringing them up. Genuinely. Lemmy does not have critical mass yet. Especially for more niche communities. You’re absolutely right.

Hopefully we have the right tools in the platform so that when the motivated people from those communities want a new place to communicate it’s available to them. I’m sorry to see you go, every member can help build the community they want to see.

The political affiliations of existing communities aren’t going to be appetizing for all users. The beauty of Lemmy is they can run a different community with a different political stance. Unfortunately the group you want to join isn’t here yet.

And to be fair not everyone is in the right point in their life to start a community. It’s a lot of difficult hard thinkless work.

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