Submitted 10 months ago by PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
It is the exact same as reddit, only there’s less content and comments.
The people, mods, bots, and content are all just the same. There’s even still people shilling covert adds on here. It’s just cheaper and easier for them to get to the front page of lemmy, since you only need like 20 bot/fake accounts.
Extremely left, fairly toxic unless you're in a niche community. Couldn't count how many times self-described leftists from Lemmy instances told me to unalive myself.
Lemmy is the only community I know where claims of "toxic extreme leftist" cannot easily be dismissed.
Super cool at first, but slowly becoming more and more like Reddit.
Only a matter of time before it becomes a less moderated version of Reddit.
I keep running into the same fucking idiot, it’s like suckmywang has all the same interests as me. This site would be a lot better without them tbh
Jokes aside, there are some genuine morons on this site that it would benefit from losing…
A lot more sexist
I haven't seen this. Are there specific communities you are thinking of?
Me either but as a CIS Het dude, I may be unlikely to notice it. Can anyone tell me more? Serious question, want to be part of the solution here.
Honestly it’s mostly the very casual, low effort stuff on meme communities that I was thinking of last night when I commented. The incel shit, I can deal with. But it’s the casual objectification, as well as the diminishing of anything outside of a woman’s appearance that I find exhausting.
I’ve been here for 3 months and i haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. Well other than a serious amount of tankies. Might i say it’s almost like your making shit up. Can you provide a sauce?
Less out-and-out manosphere garbage than on Reddit, but man oh man have I seen some real incel adjacent shit pop up from time to time on asklemmy and nostupidquestions.
The manosphere shit actually doesn’t bother me as much as the very casual, low effort stuff on meme communities that just make me feel completely valueless and like nothing will ever change.
I just don’t want people getting banned for stating their opinion.
Mentioning you’re gonna pirate cause you don’t like the news of the service you use prices going up r/cordcutters doesn’t like this.
But services need to see that kinda feedback to know they’re losing people. I’ve never had Netflix and never will. Their catalog just sucks. I have Peacock for WWE so Premiere League and movies is just a bonus.
I cashed in on the BF $20/yr deal so ad-free is $6mo. I have Shudder for horror of course.
So I have my fair share of services but I vote with my wallet and use a VPN when needed. But there’s a lot of power abusing mods on Reddit. Reddit needs to be shut down and re-do all the mods across the site. If buying a digital movie isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.
There are still echo chambers just like Reddit.
Echo chamber is just another way of saying people tend to group up with like minded people. I certainly don't want to interact with people on the internet that I avoid in real life.
Polite counterpoint: ‘echo chambers’ are more than that, I feel. It’s not that they are a group of like-minded people, so much as they police groupthink and don’t allow even moderately dissenting opinions.
See: r/conservative, and them permabanning anyone who so much as hints at a different mindset.
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more active in terms of not feeling drowned out, but also just as much if not more fickle about things that are posted, so i basically stopped doing that and do the occasional comment if im feeling fanciful
Too leftist for me, but after blocking a good chunk of communities (and all Germans) it’s not bad
how is
Germans?
Yeah, Germans do really love their language and very active and before I blocked a lot of communities half of my feed was in German. Not sure about the situation now. I had to do something similar on Reddit when German posts creeped in the homepage too.
I am all for having more people, but being an obscure “site” is a good filter imo.
The Voyager App has some bugs, but for what it is, I’m amazed by the polish.
On Reddit, all I did was look at memes from the top subreddits, spending my day filtering through the vastly unfunny majority. It’s also through memes that I kept up to date with the news.
On Lemmy, I decided to not fall into that sort of doom scrolling again. I blocked all meme communities. I browse through “All” to find any obscure community that peaks my interest, block the ones that don’t and add the ones that do to “Home” or “Favourites”.
This means my feed is much more curated than the slop I was ingesting on Reddit. I still doom scroll sometimes 😅, but it’s better now than it was before, I think.
peaks my interest
Pique - verb - arouse (interest or curiosity). “with his scientific curiosity piqued, he was looking forward to being able to analyse his find”
On Lemmy you can’t even doomscroll. There’s not enough (meme) content to sustain that
Generally good and I like it. My only complaint is that it feels a bit snobby with the discussions and fickle with the downvote button. Like, ok, I get you disagree, but you don’t need to publish your book series in the comments section to express what could’ve been a short sentence. And why are y’all downvoting this cute puppy?
Good, unless you try and give an opinion on politics.
Agreed. Lemmy has exactly one political opinion, and woe betide any poor soul of another persuasion.
Otherwise the community is pretty great. Lots of good conversation with intelligent commenters.
Politics is nearly impossible to discuss with anyone, anywhere… The problem lies in the fact that nobody has the same foundation for discussing such topics. Probably the biggest issue is what people consider a reliable source of information. If you cannot agree that site xyz is stating things that actually happened, then how can you discuss anything political?
Honestly, I think the pain in discussing politics has more to do with today’s culture than anything with Lemmy specifically. It just so happens that Lemmy got popular around the time that “fake news” and misinformation became so extremely prevalent.
Same with the ACAB crowd. Seems sweeping generalizations are completely fine as long as the hive-mind agrees.
And not that I’m defending cops at all. But I’m just very anti-“all” when it comes to defining issues.
It's about the same as everywhere else. The most fun I have on any social media platform these days is blocking assholes.
Generally discussion has been more mature and respectful. Still, I think people are more likely to downvote things they disagree with but I think happens more in controversial topics like Threads defederation, Gaza, and politics in general.
If you want to compare to Reddit, they tend to hide comments with negative scores anyway, and though I can’t see the upvote/downvote ratio for comments, having 5 upvotes and 4 downvotes feels worse than 500 upvotes and 400 downvotes. The points don’t matter anyway so don’t even bother worrying about them.
Just be nice and think of the other person.
Way more thoughtful and open to discussing matters.
As long as you don’t have the wrong opinions, of course.
Its okay but the issue I have is when I search for a community, 20+ communities show up of the same name in different instances.
Lots of actual calls for violence on here and people screaming nazi at anyone who casually disagrees with them.
Reporting the calls for actual IRL violence does nothing, mods don’t seem to respond or take action.
Loads of extremely radicalized political posts and comments and people advocating violence and brutality towards groups they don’t agree with. It’s gross. I’m using Lemmy less and less with all these psychos. And the content is piss poor usually too. I try to contribute but it feels pointless
I’ve found that I rarely get called out for poor spelling or grammar on lemmy compared to other sites. So long as it is pretty obvious what the correct word or grammar is no one cares to mention. The exception is if the mistake is particularly humorous.
As a none American, people really need to separate the arseholes, which every country has, and the Americans.
Generally better, but give it a minute.
The cynicism is more annoying to me, but reddit had more of it, I didn’t care much there though.
When I first landed (the day boost died for reddit) it was all flowers and birds but since the start of the gazan genocide Interactions have grown progressively more toxic in almost every forum. Everybody has strong political opinions, which isnt a problem per se, but they are more than prone to bash them into everybody else.
I personally agree with most of the stuff here, but still, I would prefer a space for the exchange of ideas and dissertation over one for pure confrontation and circlejerk.
It depends, largely on your opinion on and experience with Linux.
Just as bad a reddit but with a chip on it’s shoulder. everyone THINKS they are better for being here, but it’s full of all the samethink problems reddit had.
I think Lemmy is great, don’t get me wrong!
However, I have never quite seen such a depressing social media site in my life.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve found the majority of the humor here is tinged with poisoned irony, misery, and helpless sadness.
I understand the whole “if we don’t laugh over it, we’ll cry about it”–thing, but, man… I came for funny memes and found an ocean of sadness. Feels bad, man.
Not really a place to come to feel uplifted. Would love to see more wholly positive memes & interactions!
I find that there’s more actual discussion here. On Mastodon most replies are people just agreeing with the OP. That also means people butt heads more. I have found people to be nice here.
I never used Reddit, so I can’t say how different it is compared to Reddit.
It has the same benefits and issues as most platforms: People.
Some people need to know that they don’t actually need to post a comment. It’s okay to type something out and delete it.
Though at least it has somewhat more technically inclined groups. Lots of people way smarter than I am that I like to learn code/tech tips and tricks from.
Oh gross, I didn’t come to social media for people.
The lemmy devs should have stuck to their convictions and committed to a social media protocol for lemmings.
rab@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I think the community here is pretty terrible, I doubt I’ll stick around long term
scottywh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think there’s plenty of assholes here but I personally encounter them less frequently here than I did on reddit
asterfield@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Which communities/servers? I’ve found the comments on non political threads to be mostly reasonable.
There’s no doubt that lemmy is currently less active than reddit though
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Honestly even on political topics here you are much more likely to face a civil debate. There are exceptions, but chances are chances.
rab@lemmy.ca 10 months ago