i feel a little more comfortable commenting here.
being a smaller community, i feel like i’m actually contributing when i post something, instead of just adding to a sea of noise
it also helps that i’ve come up with this new “persona”. i’m able to be more of the real me than i can with my main account.
it’s like half way between anonimity and publicity. this account has very little connection to my meatspace existance, so i feel safe to say anything. but at the same time i’m not gonna act like some 4chan user. halfway_neko’s a good girl lol
I wish there were more people here, but the slower pace of posts has helped me spend less time on my phone. It’s not quite as good as reddit was for me when reddit was good. But Lemmy is easily good enough for my needs and is better than any alternative including the what is left of reddit.
It’s not quite as good as reddit was for me when reddit was good.
My hope/expectation is that for lemmy (and the wider “threadiverse,” e.g. kbin) the best days are still to come.
Lemmy is great, it’s active enough for me to really enjoy it now.
I was ready for a fediverse reddit since i had been on mastodon since 2019. The threads here just work better for me than the microblogging style. I used mastodon sometimes and reddit every day. Now i use lemmy every day, mastodon sometimes, and reddit only when i absolutely must.
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I comment now.
Same, never did before!
And we enjoy them!
I comment more again. Used to a lot on reddit 5-7 years ago, less and less the recent years. Now back on Lemmy.
I was very active on reddit until around the 3rd meetup year or so. Thats when I noticed a major change in what had been an amalgamation of communities and while I still visited there was no urge to interact.
when you are in a smaller community, read: when you are around a manageable amount of people and even recognize some of them, you are more likely to interact. and your comment wont be buried, and its less likely some random asshole really hates what you said and makes sure you wont bother anymore. oh and less bots and chills whats not to hate.
9 month already ?
Well, I was already active on mastodon, and had a pixelfed account (but not active there) for years. So the reddit fiasco was the right time to move.
Moving to lemmy wasn’t such of a big change as I was familiar with the federation, and the fediverse in general, was already considering it for a while.
I want to actively build community and engage with people here; to make this place home. That’s how it changed me. I’m not a lurker or passive. It has made positive improvements to my reading and cooking, along with bending my language more positively. I’ve also further grown in my appreciation of diversity.
I want to actively build community
That was the key for me. To take one of my favorite communities (“bande dessinée,” i.e. Euro comics) and create a version on Lemmy eight months ago. It’s taken a load of work (usually daily), and sometimes I get really discouraged, but overall it locked me in to the FV.
Also, you might have to burn me at the stake for saying this-- I still visit Reddit because of the far more prolific content, and do have worries & reservations about the tankie founders of Lemmy. But so far, so good. The more the FV grows, the more I’ll have no problem leaving Reddit behind.
What do ya follow for improved cooking?
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
Before the APIcalypse, I was already playing with the thought of quitting Reddit. Spez just sped up that process.
Same lol. Was basically just waiting for something new to pop up, was already using lemmy for a bit before reddit cut third party apps and made the transition that much easier.
The admins made it really easy to quit when they suspended me after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse
But somehow straight up calling for the end of trans people is totally fine and dandy by them
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
This.
But not much has changed, functionally, for me: I still get downvoted when I point out where people can improve their English and surpass my nephew when he was in the third grade. And I still get to debate technical things based on what I know, so that’s really no change. Different pile, is all.
Not here to fight you, but this line of thinking might be why people downvote you for being a language/grammar nazi.
Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.
no. it’s a disagree button!
i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring
idownvote because 99%afthe time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boringI* of*
Can I has downvote please?
I’m on my phone less, commenting more, avoiding more ads, and much happier with the content/comments on Lemmy. Reddit chains sometimes felt a little brain-rotty.
I still use reddit from time to time, but I find the stuff i find here is of higher quality and more thoughtful. I would use Lemmy exclusively if it had all of the communities that i frequent on reddit, many of the things on here are tech-related and most things outside of the tech world don’t pop up in my feed. I feel I engage more, use more and actually learn more from Lemmy so overall I am quite impressed!
I dunno - at first it was promising, but today I was actually thinking of leaving Lemmy and trying to find a larger site.
I’m not sure if the entire Internet has somehow become addicted to groupthink or if this is just a symptom of Lemmy’s smaller size and a selection bias, but it’s been getting worse and worse over the past nine months and it’s definitely turning me off to the community here.
What I loved about Reddit was that on any given story you saw a number of well informed opinions debating the nuances of those opinions. You’d learn so much more by engaging with the comments than just reading the article itself.
But here it seems more and more to be turning into a confirmation bias machine, where discourse and nuance takes a back seat to conformity to locally populist narratives. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been downvoted for linking to multiple recent research papers (from places like Harvard and MIT) because the implication of those papers was contrary to popularly held beliefs here.
While I’ve had a few good interactions, it’s become less and less of a signal to noise ratio on those interactions.
It’s possible this is a larger trend, but I haven’t noticed it to nearly the same degree on other less generalized forums I spend my time, so I suspect it’s just a Lemmy thing.
A shame, as I think the tech is outstanding. But as is often the case, good tech is only part of a product, and in the case of social media it’s the community too, and I’ve been growing increasingly disappointed in Lemmy’s community who likes to pat themselves on the back for a welcoming spirit with the apparent unmentioned footnote in small print that it’s a welcoming spirit that only extends to people regurgitating their own opinions back to them.
Redditors aren’t used to communists not being actively suppressed while fascists get passively protected and it shows. All you’re saying here is that you prefer the one narrative reddit forced onto everyone with their moderating and astrotruf, and being exposed to different ideas makes you feel uncomfortable. You’re always welcome to go back to the race-baiting and fascist propaganda, sounds like you’d be happier there.
Lemmy is a collection of differing voices from all over the federation, so your “there’s no diversity of thought” sounds a lot more like when conservatives mald that their terrible ideas aren’t well received the moment they step out of their racist circlejerk. To the white, equality feels like oppression.
It’s strange because that person’s from lemmy.world? That seems like a pretty liberal/reddity instance from what I’ve seen. I was gonna tell them to go to another instance if they don’t like .ml’s politics but then I saw theyre not even from .ml lol
Yeah that’s why I went as hard as I did. LW’s somewhat of a nazi bar so that paints a picture of the kind of person we’re dealing with here. I could just imagine their head popping like a gasket if they ever ran into a hexbear or lemmygrad user who could hard counter their shit.
EDIT: I looked into them and honestly not the worst i’ve seen. They’re very reddit-poisoned but I bet a year or two off and they’ll be fine.
the problem with lemmy is your either a communist or fascist, with no in-between. it’s this rediculius polarisation that makes it not very fruitful to have actual conversations around here
It’s the main reason I gravitate so much towards lemmygrad. Their zero-tolerance stance on fash shit (plus being defederated from literally every problem instance by dint of being openly communist) allows you to have actual conversations with people without having to explain basic morality every three seconds. They’re pretty tolerant of differing ideas as long as you’re not parroting fascist talking points and even then they’ll usually put in a good faith attempt to explain why what you’re saying is fucked up and give you a chance to self-correct.
Sadly a lot of the federation is a lot less good about this, where anything even remotely political turns into a debate/slapfight where nobody feels good at the end of it and nothing really gets done. Some people are just useless trolls who shouldn’t be engaged; not to mention the groups actively trying to balkanize the federation.
Plus if you think this place is bad. Mastodon… I made a post about them earlier but if you respond to any post without heaping praise you just get instantly blocked. They’re a great platform but good god is the culture there just obscenely toxic to conversation.
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tell me about it.
my exchanges so far has led me to think the left leaning extremists are populating lemmy because they are still angry at spaz for his dumbfuckery.
else it’s beginning feel like reddit all over again.
Well it’s been 10 months since I left redis and spun up my own instance. It’s been a fun little ride with a very fast surge at the start and a bit of a plato. Lemmy seems to be gaining traction again, which is good.
How has it changed me? - I guess I actuall spend more time here than I did on reddit - as I find the quality of comments far better and more enjoyable
As an admin / owner I have had to see and deal with some stuff that I wish I hadn’t had to see - there are some sick fucks out there
I CAN ACTUALLY POST ON c/asklemmy NOW!!
Back when I was like 13 and on reddit, I posted what I thought was a good open question to askreddit, and it immediately got deleted with no stated reason. Now, I can ask any interesting question I have, and receive tons of interesting responses from people!
A lot of the same Reddit mods have transferred to other major communities. Unfortunately you’ll likely still hit the same issue over here, I’ve already been banned by one outrageous mod for disagreeing with him.
Best part about lemmy, ban that user/community/instance and move on.
i am curious as to your experience.
not too long ago i am having exchanges with people who wouldn’t hesitate to use derogatory term to label me because i held a differing view on certain issues.
i thought it was reminiscent of earlier reddit days where overly woke individuals would abuse you on reddit and then abuse the report system to perma ban your account.
don’t get me started on the mods who were power tripping and dishing out bans because they got offended over simple facts.
Man that is quite the series of dog whistles/red flags.
Edit: scanned your comments. Yikes. A lot of things make sense now.
Ah yes the classic online insult to someone who has a slight difference of opinion from you.
A hefty amount of people don’t understand that it’s ok to not all agree, unfortunately those people are also mods.
I’ve already been banned by one outrageous mod for disagreeing with him.
I rarely find it is as simple as this. There’s a remarkable number who had their post removed or that been banned from communities that “literally did nothing wrong.”
I’d be very curious to see what exactly led your being banned.Edit: Comments like this signal you’re a pot stirrer and I’m afraid to ask you to expand this comment further.
I have a new fan, which is nice I guess. Welcome
I banned the community and admin which abused their powers, whether you believe me or not it makes no difference to what happened.
No rules were broken, and I am happy I am not part of that community
I’m confused. Who banned who lol
I meant blocked, I’m dumb
I’ve been posting regularily on asklemmy@lemmy.world for the past eight months, so I see no malicious intent in whoever is a mod.
Still just a lurker. I enjoy not seeing the same thing spread across a bunch of places.
