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Lemmy tastes like reddit that I have grown in my backyard garden.
I don't get the hate this place gets. It's been really interesting watching Lemmy's growing pains over the last two-ish years and all the changes it has undergone. The whole concept of the Fediverse is fascinating to me and has been a genuine delight to explore.
I blame Tankies. They're too aggressive with their "liberals this, liberals that" bullshit, which drives a way a lot of people cause that makes Lemmy look like a MAGA-infested shithole to anyone who doesn't know what a Tankie this.
Hexbear and LemmyGrad's bullshit almost made me quit Lemmy day one, until I learned how instances work and how to block them. I imagine that less-determined redditors will take one look at this place, immediately see a liberal-bashing post, and then immediately fuck off.
I wish Tankies would just stay in their own god damn space, and keep their bootlicking politics to themselves. They're ruining Lemmy.
Agreed. I never even had Instagram or twitter but I've become a pixelfed and mastodon lurker after enjoying Lemmy for 1+ years. The comment section here is miles ahead of reddit, where you get repost after repost and the same old tired jokes in every comment section.
The fediverse is fantastic and I'm happy to be a (very minor) part of it.
I'm almost 40, this place reminds me of the early internet in a good way. Like, people connecting and sharing ideas... what even Reddit used to feel like. Sure, sometimes there are arguments but, due to the lack of an "outage" algorithm to juice engagement, you usually only hear about it unless it's something you directly follow. With the lack of profit motive on the side of the platform and hosting end of things, it appears that trolls and clout chasers have a genuine hard time monopolizing everyone's attention.
Same. It feels more personal.
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Where's my vile homies at?! Let's get freaky with some Linux and Star Trek memes.
Conspiracy theory those are actually written by Reddit themselves so people don’t go to the rival
Thats what people in the comments thought.
This is some cope mechanism or some Stockholm syndrome right there.
DoNt gO tO lEmMy cUz MuH KaRmA ScOrE!
Idk I kind of like Lemmy so far 🤷
it's basically like a super Reddit
If the rest of the post is: BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO LIBERAL.
Good. We don't need anyone deterred by that. We do a fine enough job fighting amongst ourselves.
I wonder why? I have been here for a couple of days and it's nice so far.
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Thanks. 😂
Because Reddit removes posts promoting Lemmy
I've been lurking reddit lately, to see what propaganda the normies in the US are exposed to, and I found this thread fucking hilarious.
Every comment is complaining about how this will be the death of reddit. None of them realize Reddit already died years ago, and they're just getting high off the ashes.
They probably went to .ml or a tankie instance
they made a post, got tons of downvotes, then complained about downvotes which also got downvoted, got caught by automod because of downvotes, appealed, got unbanned, then deleted account or got purged because nothing even shows in modlog. the account was on sjw, posts were to communities in .ml and lw
This right here is why the public mod log is one of the best things on the internet.
like i said, nothing shows in modlog. user is ModerateImprovement on sh.itjust.works, i'm guessing based on that reddit post
Oi. I remember them. They definitely came in extra hot. Clashing with a culture they had no experience with. And then wondering what everyone else's problem was. 🙄
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Search manipulation or just shitty Reddit search?
Google search for "lemmy" site:reddit.com/r/redditalternatives provides different top results:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/151v9vo/lemmy_explained_in_a_nutshell/
shitty reddit search.
Its 100% on purpose, those arent the most relevant or highest rated posts, cherrypicked
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lol, Lemmy is the most benign social media platform i have participated in decades
.ml and hexbear are full of rancid dogshit, on the same level of mental illness as r/conservative.
hexbear? got a link to that?
Elegant bit of trolling. Hats off.
Average .world conservative when exiting the echo chamber
I don’t know if it’s funnier or sad how many .world people seethe at people they’ve never even federated with
i moved to .world from .ml because of the annoying ass tankies. it's not what they were saying that annoyed me it was their attitude. they acted like 14 years olds that just discovered atheism and think everyone else on the Internet is Catholic.
but also, the intense defense is Russia and China was pretty dumb. i get hating America. that's fair and valid, but to do so while pretending that these other imperialistic super powers don't also suck is pure denialism.
One of these is someone complaining about a ban from automod triggered by tons of downvotes on fresh account. That is, their takes were so shit that they were swept by tool meant for spambots
And the replies explained that to them. It sounds like they were actually about even on upvotes to downvotes, but it was enough for an automod to act. They got unbanned after a real mod intervened. It is a frustrating experience, but one that's going to vary by instance and community. They mentioned in an edit that they might give it another shot.
The other post did have some legitimate complaints about lack of content, most activity being tech bros, far-left politics, and shitpost, cumbersome ui, bad moderation, and elitist users. All of these I agree with even if I think they were exaggerated considerably. But they have all gotten better over time or can be much mitigated with some effort on the user's part.
Lemmy is far from perfect, but so is Reddit, and Reddit is falling further every day. Some users on Lemmy have a bad time because they come barrelling in without reading instance tags, pick an instance name they think is cool, and suddenly find themselves on the front lines of a massive drama war and slapped with tags they didn't even know existed... I know from experience.
So then they'll run off back to Reddit without reading and actually finding the right instance and start screaming how bad it is. Couple that with Reddit trying to hush everything Lemmy and doctoring their platform to make it look bad... yeah.
I'll admit I still use Reddit from time to time because there are communities that don't exist here yet that are actually good communities staying out of this battle. But you can bet your ass I use RedReader and uBO to do it. The moment Reddit started charging exorbitant API fees and peddling NFTs I cut my use back by 90%.
So pick your poison: Do a little research and find the right instance and communities or live as the product and run around with the blinders they give you. Its literally a red pill blue pill deal.
Use Qwant instead:
Sorry, I meant to say when you search on reddit for it.
Oh wow, that's a pretty significant detail.
I was wondering what search you used for those results, I tried Google, and got mainly results about Motorhead.
But now I see the main filters on your search are: Posts, Communities, comments...
So pretty obvious when you know it.
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