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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but a noticable increase in inappropriate jean applications!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have just the video to fix that, - Dosh Doshington

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Content diversity seems like it slowed down. Back when the Reddit exodus happened about of niche communities were created. A lot of them have been abandoned now.

Lemony is still good as it’s tech and privacy centric (which I love). But the excess of US related news, furry stuff, commie/cappie arguments are everywhere. You can always block communities and instances but it gets tiring after some time.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I think this sort of unfulfilled promise has been the biggest obstacle of my full scale adoption of a reddit alternatives.

As a non-typical Lemmy user (No interest in privacy, piracy, Linux, FOSS, Web Dev, SW Dev, Veganism, or discussing political theory with strangers online) finding active communities in topics i am interested in (basketball, football, hip hop and rap, martial arts, boxing, mma, PC building, relationships, kink, and the specific humor and nuance that comes with being a Black person on the internet) has been a struggle.

Many of those communities have two people or less posting in them or don't exist at all.

People are talking here but not about things i wanna discuss and that's disappointing so i have a hard time "sticking" if that makes sense

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's true. There are a lot of fringe types of users here that aren't interesting (weed, curries, conspiracy stuff, etc). General average Joe discussions aren't much here tbh.

I do enjoy privacy and Foss discussions, but another issue here is that alot of posts are either reposts by users, or bots. You can check that same post on Reddit and you will see a lot of comments around it. Some positive and others negative but still higher in numbers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I never bother with "general" opting for the boring special interests I have like comic books and tech stuff, so I haven't looked for one, but do we not have a "the lounge" or "off topic" like every forum type thing in history? If not, we should totally make one I guess. If there is one, post in it a bunch and help it grow!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I became the typical Lemmy user with interests in the topics you dislike because of the nature of the reddit migration, but I have to agree with the lack of skinfolk humor. It's kind of a bummer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yeah i hear you. Reddit was white on average but Lemmy/Kbin feels like baby powder on top of fresh snow

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So white someone will make a trending post on a Linux memes community about "coonfigers" and no one has a problem with it.

Honestly looks like it sailed right over everyone's head too. I guess that's a good thing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Bruh I saw that shit, but I didn't feel like walking into the comment section to fight that day.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A lot of them have been abandoned now.

Indeed, we should definitely consolidate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Consolidation is another thing. There are many communities that are similar on different instances, firefox for example.

Would be nice if lemmy supports something like multi Reddit with the option of hiding duplicate posts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are many communities that are similar on different instances, firefox for example.

Sometimes they are identical and should merge, sometimes due to the specific audience of the instance, it's better to keep them separate.

I wouldn't suggest merging [email protected] and [email protected]

Would be nice if lemmy supports something like multi Reddit with the option of hiding duplicate posts.

Mbin does support multireddits, but this doesn't seem to be interesting enough for people to switch to it (while Lemmy communities are fully accessible from Mbin)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, frankly the fact that they're separate is sort of the point, if .ml and .world both have X, and you get banned from one (or hate one's mods, or rules, or defeds, or...), you can still use the other. I like it this way personally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Star Trek memes community couldn't even stay together, it splintered under the pettiest nerd drama I've ever seen

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Influx of libs. It's a sign of success for the platform, but holy fuck lemmy.world posters are annoying

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

".ml keeps saying things I don't like, defederate!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm... Today I learned that lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy instance.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What sort of things out them as "libs"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. Let me check my inbox. One lib is complaining about leftists. Another is talking about "harm reduction" in the context of genocide

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Seems things have shaken out (for now) regarding defederation, including less chatter about Threads than there was. I don't anticipate much change on that until the next big influx of users, whether it's people coming in directly through Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin or a new player joining the Fediverse.

Other than that, I've just seen steady growth in my communities.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The level of aggressive comments....

It's devolving quickly into Reddit. Everything is either black or white, dog shit or a miracle... No nuance

Increasingly people attack people instead of ideas when commenting

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Please report aggressive / toxic comments as a rule 2 violation here. We can and should do better than reddit when it comes to being respectful and kind to each other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think it's worse here than on reddit when it comes to this. Redditors these days (*takes out the walker and cane*) are shitty, but I feel like I'm somewhat insulated from a lot of it due to where I lurk/participate on reddit. But on Lemmy, I see it pretty much everywhere. Smaller userbase compared to reddit, so maybe the rudeness is more visible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm getting banned less since moving to Beehaw?

So for me it's personal growth.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've no idea how offensive you are man, but made me laugh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm not, really. I admit I cannot tolerate people who make political ideales their whole identity, and when pointing out the hypocrisy I'm often put upon the wall as an example to those who may question authority.

That, and maybe one or two fart jokes too many.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah it is an ongoing issue I'm having with lemmy as a whole too, the overmoderation seems heavier handed then Reddit sometimes

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would assume it's because you're now blind to the communities that enjoy banning people. Beehaw was pretty clear that they want to keep things nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Exactly, and most of the the negativity is gone, a lot less anger-bait to browse through, and waaaay fewer extremists & shills.

Basically what my mental health needed.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Seems about the same?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

More bot content, spam and paid agenda posting from what I can see in /r/all or how ever the aggregation of all instances is called

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Do you have an example of paid agenda posting? I haven't noticed anything that would suggest that. I've noticed agenda posting but it's most likely purely passion.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Redditors have been showing up, and lemmy mods are behaving more and more like the very thing redditors wanted to leave reddit for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

People with unchecked power being unreasonable! I'm shocked! Shocked!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well feddit.de is down for quite a while now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Only the front-end of feddit.de has serious problems, right ? Why would the maintainers not run another front-end (e.g. Elk) on the same server and redirect their broken front-end link to that as work-around for web users ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

There's concerted efforts by actual nazis to shit this place up because they see it as a genuine threat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Lots of support for a genocide, thought this place was better than Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't have an account long enough but browsed through the different instances enough and I've never seen anything about genocide.

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