To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time 🙃)
Matured? Really? I guess you haven’t had a taste of the defederation drama. Users are great, but discussion between admins feel like the constant bickering of small children. And I say this as an admin myself, who at times does take part in those discussions. I think we still have a long way to go, when it comes to being matured.
Compared to Reddit, it’s pretty empty still. On Reddit I literally never saw a post twice on my subscribed feed.
Now I’m subscribed to roughly the same number of communities and it takes 2-3 days for my feed to completely renew… Many of the subreddits I used to frequent still don’t even exist on Lemmy, despite them being pretty popular over on Reddit.
There are pros and consc to having either large or small communities. Having many traffics is good to generate discussions. But then on the other hand, you encounter more idiots as a result.
Believe it or not but I didn’t really encounter that many idiots in my time on Reddit. I wasn’t part of any political subs, though.
TL;DR; Three points:
- my selected communities seem to provide adequate interesting topics - there’s always one or two rabbit holes to go down
- I have a voice - commenting here is transparent and not censored as much as Reddit
- I think the average age of contributors here is greater than the sex and shit joke fixated twelve year olds on Reddit which is a good thing
I’ve already started to see posts like “People of Lemmy, blah blah” and posts about username meanings, so it’s becoming Reddit. Get off my lawn.
Feels like an echo chamber filled with angry political activists that seem more interested in hating and breaking things rather than discussing solutions. Can’t say I like it here but for some reason I keep coming back. I probably block on average 3 to 7 people a day but doesn’t seem to make much of a difference. Makes me further lose my hope in humanity if I’m completely honest.
yeah we have so many useless instance that already exist and thriving in reddit so why bring it here? their subreddit already as sound proof as hell in reddit as echo chamber and they still come here to spread their annoying voice again, sigh( im tired of the post of hating rich people over and over) like come on man I know you hate rich people already
Or landlords or cars or windows or…
Well that’s some thorny insight.
It’s true tho. Calling for violence or people’s death is normal here, no nuance in the discussion, it feels like very few people are there to discuss, rather than validate their own, cemented opinions.
I agree, the amount of “This person needs to die” is crazy here.
There is even less room for a nuanced discussion of anything.
Define “here”. The acceptance for that sort of thing can vary wildly between communities and, IMHO more significantly, instances.
If you see such posts, stop and see which instance they’re posted from. You might see some patterns.
I found a lot of people who are willing to put effort in posting and commenting.
Windows hate and politics. It’s nothing like reddit imo but it’s all I’ve got as I’ve abandoned reddit.
It’s mostly Linux and Politics, and most of my niche hobbies (and even most of the non-niche ones) are barely represented here, if at all.
It’s really disappointing. I have always been one to consume content, not create it, and it feels like if you’re not creating content there’s very little of interest. I want to like the app, but I find myself spending more time browsing Reddit in a web browser on my phone rather than using Lemmy.
Sort of like reddit. There’s less content, but also less comments just replying “lol, so true” to a political meme. That said, there’s also, for some reason, more rape apologism than on reddit. Maybe it’s because lemmy is even more male dominated than reddit was or is.
Personally, I find the people here very elitist and unwelcoming, and I have found myself spending less and less time here because of it.
Yeah, it’s really horrible. Never experienced this level of hostile, argumentative know-it-alls anywhere else.
I have to assume half of Lemmy is people banned from reddit for being like this. Im worried they’re slowly scaring away everyone else and its distilling the ecosystem into a toxic pit
Could be worse, at least it’s not Voat, which consisted of ALL people and communities banned from Reddit (and usually for good reason aka racism, sexism, fat people hate)
Interesting, really? Maybe I just don’t engage with people that much, but it seems pretty chill or at least definitely no worse than Reddit in that regard
It definitely depends on the community. I’m mostly noticing it in the meme communities. A high percentage of jokes in the memes that I see are at the expense of a group that I am a part of, and I guess I just don’t really relate to the people here. So I just don’t come back very often.
That could explain the difference in experiences. I filter out those communities as best I can given the tools available.
Have you not seen the Linux fanboys on Lemmy? I see a post every day at least about how Windows is terrible or how x browser is inferior to Firefox.
Mmm, well yes the Linux bias is pretty strong but I don’t really like windows either hahaha. I see where you’re coming from though, that could be a little off putting if you aren’t at least a little into Linux
And argumentative and pointlessly contrarian. Reddit had that problem too, but it seems more ubiquitous here.
It’s a human problem. Only way to avoid it is to not use social media. I’m about to hop off everything it is making me lose hope in my fellow humans seeing some of the comments I see. It’s also baffling how genuinely stupid some people come across, or sometimes it’s clear they just don’t understand what the words they are reading are even conveying.
I actually appreciate the slower content on Lemmy. Keeps me from continually scrolling for that dopamine hit.
I’m only here because of an unjust reddit ban, and I’m very sad to say that I still would prefer reddit to this. The shear scale of reddit means there was always something interesting me through the far more varied and active communities available there. Lemmy is great and all, but I feel way less engaged with anything going on
I was active, and even a recognized name on some subs where I was particularly active, but here, those same communities are either woefully underpopulated and inactive, or just straight up don’t exist. When I need to ask questions or get a wide variety of opinions, or even share a story, I knew reddit had enough activity for me to get at least some traffic. Here, I haven’t even made a post
Sorry, Lemmy, but we’re only together because reddit left. You’re my rebound
You should make a post, even if you don’t think it’s an amazing post. If you want to see more activity than get involved.
I imagine reddit was this small and niche at one point in time and it only grew because people posted whatever they liked instead of waiting for someone else to do it.
Also here cause of an unjust ban (and because of the 3rd party app fiasco). I reported too many blatant advertisements as spam and got kicked out due to “report abuse”. But anyway, this is why I split my time between Lemmy and Imgur now. Imgur is no better than reddit (at least when it comes to 3rd party apps), but at least it helps fill a void.
same, but got a new account on reddit that didn’t get banned (after first rediculous ban I couldn’t make new accounts without being autobanned) again so I spend more time there now. we shat on reddit a lot at the start but at least we can have actual discussions there that aren’t just calling each other fascists and tankies
How long did you wait until getting a new account? After my ban, I was getting my new accounts autobanned within minutes
I had the same problem and gave up. Then a few months later I built a new PC, and thought I’d give it a go. worked fine and has ever since. I guess they fingerprint your browser maybe, you might be able to try uninstalling and re-installing browser? All just to participate in some hobby subs!
Same here.
yeah reddit is just simply too big to failed and with how confusing using lemmy for non tech savy, it makes people feel reluctant to switch
not a huge fan to be honest. the discourse has become very toxic, the reddit hivemind was silly but here don’t you pretty much have to be an extremist or suffer all manner of rediculous replies. apparently taking a balanced view to literally any topic gives one the label of “fascist” around here, cheapening the word and killing legit discussion.
I liked it when it was mainly that picard dude posting memes
It’s about the only place where you could post a photo of a houseplant or something equally random, and people will reply asking why it’s not running fucking Linux.
I like a few of these communities, and I’ve had some nice conversations on some things I’m passionate about. But it seems like the population outside my small communities is dominated by violent wanna-be political activists competing for who can express the most outrageous sentiment.
Advocating against violence against one’s parents in a hypothetical situation where a parent developed the wrong US politics not only got me downvoted, but also replied to by some asshole from Australia who wanted to rub it in that I was clearly in the out-group.
I don’t normally reply when I see things like that, but after seeing so much vitriol I felt the need to leave a comment. I won’t be doing it again.
