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Reddit users who switched to Lemmy, what is the most annoying thing you have seen about Lemmy users? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just lack of numbers. Reddit's at it's best when I can use it to discuss some incredibly niche topic. That early 2000s RTS that nobody remembers? Got a few dozen redditors still posting memes. New indie game drops? There's enough redditors on it that we can talk about it.

But lemmy seems really bad for trying to enjoy any community that isn't a big political or meme centerpiece. Any particular game or IP that isn't a lowest common denominator? It'll get maybe 3 posts a month.

No more interesting discussions of gameplay mechanics or inspirations or character analyses, no burning out an entire workday browsing the top all-time and giggling like an idiot, it's just dead here.

The same massive numbers that made reddit insufferable for some are what make niche communities inhabitable at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Numbers are a double edged sword. Yes, Reddit has lots of active niche communities that are active because of its massive user base, but once you get to anything not niche, there are so many users that any sort of constructive discussion is nearly impossible are you're drowned out from the masses. Using Reddit only for the niche stuff (with ads blocked, of course) and Lemmy for anything else seems like a reasonable solution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Super opinionated people who are completely blind to the thing they're discussings shortfalls.

See: anything to do with Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What is a tankie?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

If anything Lemmy users so far have been much less annoying than most reddit users. I feel like I'm reading through less garbage, and comment sections don't look like the same joke repeated ad nauseum.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

People not marking nsfw content nsfw.... Front page is a minefield whilst in public transport

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The number of pro-communist posts in here is comical. The amount of anti-capitalist posts is almost comical. Obviously related to some degree.

The lack of posts outside of a few main news and politics communities is frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's sad so many capitalism cheerleaders migrated here, considering most of us are literally here fleeing capitalist greed rot.

Some just refuse to learn. The sunk cost fallacy of "I've committed my life to this thing, and no amount of evidence will ever make me accept my mistake as a mistake!"

Should have just stayed to be disrespected by Spez in the name of his profit. He's a good capitalist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

do you think capitalism is good or something

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's far from perfect, but it isn't the cause of every single issue anyone's ever had like people on here would have you believe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's funny is these tankies are making the whole left look bad and I have to remind myself that these people are a tiny minority of disaducated extremists and not to let them put a bad taste in my mouth for anything socialist. I noticed their existence and rhetoric was pushing me right and now I'm realizing they're very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable. A social democracy is what I look forward to, not licking putin's aashole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

and now I'm realizing they're very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable

You wish. And that sounds like something one of them would say, "left is when good, if they do a bad, they're on the right."

At some point, we have to face the facts that there are also bad people on the left. It is what it is, it doesn't mean the whole left is bad, we can squabble about proportions of hexbear/lemmygrad user types to liberals all day, but to pretend that any leftist that says dumb, authoritarian, or downright immoral things is just a right winger trying to discredit the left is Q level "Crisis Actor" style conspiracy horse shit, with all due respect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I once stumbled upon a declassified CIA document about how to squash leftist movements from the inside (I haven't been able to find it again)....a lot of online communists act just like that document said to.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The defederation topic and how it impacts me.

I'm an adult, if I find something offensive I'll either block it or ignore it. However, not giving me the choice offends me and IMHO goes against what Lemmy and the fediverse was suppose to deliver.

I understand (and read) the reason's why site owners defederate and I view it largely as "Lemmy isn't mature enough to support more granular blocking - yet", so I wait patiently and hope this trend towards defederation doesn't turn into a powertrip by site owners "for the good of their users...."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Depends on the reason for me. I totally get why .world blocked those 3 communities (not a defed I know but still) given the possible legal issues and given the admin isn't a lawyer and can't afford to retain a high powered legal team. Blocking those communities until they have a legal opinion just seems like good sense to me.

The hexbear thing - they're evangelical totalitarians politically. They believe what they believe and everything they talk about revolves around that and they need you to hear it, again and again and again. It's just mentally exhausting dealing with them, especially when a large part of their freely admitted m.o. is brigading/dog-piling.

Being fedded with lemmynsfw didn't bother me, I hardly ever saw anything from it as I rarely feel the need to go on 'All'. I understand there were some anime jailbait issues? That's probably a pretty good reason to defed from an instance.

So, and this is admittedly all from my perspective, I haven't seen any overbearing uses of defedding.

And I think people need to realise defedding is not like banning. On reddit if a sub got banned it was gone. On Lemmy if one instance defeds from another, the other instance is still there. You still have the choice to view it.

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