We have beans, beef stroganoff, and moths. And people are nicer. I believe that all of this is related.
I joined, hoping that it is way less censored than reddit. Is that the case? Nowadays you can’t say shit in the “social platforms” if it hurts someone. I want to be able to say what In think and read what others have to say even if it hurts my feelings / views.
I want to murder-death-kill someone every time I see/hear “unalive”.
You would have been banned on Reddit for inciting violence… wish i was kidding. Kudos
I want to be able to say what In think and read what others have to say even if it hurts my feelings / views.
I promise you, after two days moderating an actual large discussion forum, you will implement sweeping rules about who can say what about who. The only places people enjoy chatting anymore are places that are moderated.
We can complain about youtube and facebook taking down messages critical of power or corporations, but places like Lemmy are managed by people. It’s not censorship, it’s going into someone’s house and abiding by their rules. It’s a whole other topic if what you want to read/say is popular enough that you can find someone’s “house” that centers around that topic and is also large enough to have meaningful interactions.
And if you’re looking for debate, that shit is dead.
The fact that every community is now insular and bubbled echo-chambers is a result of human tendencies, we gave people total freedom on the internet and instead of using it to learn more and include more people in more conversations, our instincts turned the place into a curdled honeycomb of walled-off communities which were ripe for the plucking by corporate interests.
You are right. Well, off I leave 😒
That’s very unfortunate. I deleted my Facebook account a decade ago because it was flooding me with superficial stuff from people that i didn’t care about. I stopped using Twitter as soon as Musk bought it, it was shit before that too. Deleted Reddit a couple of days ago because it is impossible to say anything that the moderators disapprove of. Maybe lemmy will be the next thing to delete
I think a big problem is we aren’t really sure what we’re looking for in social media. We see things that give us satisfying dopamine boosts and want more of it, but also feel the hollowness of it. It’s exactly like eating processed carbs when you’re starving. You end up addicted with cravings for more even as the stuff you’re consuming makes you sick.
I was there for the start of it all, I’ve seen the space evolve over the decades. I was out in the pioneering days championing free discussion and moderating huge communities. I love reading someone debating an idiot more than anyone arguably, I get the same sense of satisfaction seeing groups connect and share great ideas and jokes.
But I also know the pleasure gained from that kind of community is as contextual as it is fleeting. We are not the same people we were when we first read some chain-post replying in stupid memes until it got so absurd we’re laughing so hard we can’t breath and we’re waking up our housemates. We’re just not “that people” anymore. Even the younger people now are living in a different time, we are so desensitized to imagery and text on a screen that it won’t ever have the same impact on us, but it doesn’t stop us from looking everywhere for a hit of the ol’ drug.
Lemmy has the 3 day no poop challenge and reddit definitely doesn’t, for one thing
the what?
If you read the user agreement when you signed up, you would know that you’re not supposed to poop for 3 days after signing up. You shouldn’t be posting until you complete the challenge.
This is the lemmy deep lore https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/78689/I-need-to-survive-for-3-days-without-pooping-and
the kbin part of the link is making it not work I think but I did see that post when it was making the rounds!
forgot about it but it is great we’re getting some home grown poop knife/swamps of dagobah/jolly rancher/no arms guy/safe stories :D
Lemmy is how Reddit was in 2010. Size is what degrades the experience, the larger Reddit got the more shit it became. I am hopeful that federation will be the secret sauce that saves Lemmy from the same enshittification as it grows.
Less alt right stuff here on Lemmy than there was back in 2010, though. Early Reddit was full of libertarian ideals and free speech absolutists, before the consequences of those positions became apparent in the later half of that decade.
It was around Trump’s first presidency that half of Reddit realized the other half of Reddit wasn’t just memeing, the alt right went to their safe spaces, and Reddit began purging itself of all that was not marketable (good and bad).
The paid agents probably don’t consider the Lemmy communities big enough to invest time polluting them most of the time, it’s just not cost-effective.
Reddit wasn’t big enough back then either, it was only since Spez took over after Ellen Pao that you started to see more corporatization/astroturfing of the platform.
A website full of young 20-something gamers and tech bros just tends to skew a certain way politically.
The gamers idk, honestly, it’s hit and miss. You can have the multiplayer game addicts that start with racial slurs and end shooting up folks, but you can also have the ‘radical’ leftist (they’re just empathetic in the West, considered a crime by some there!) with the green hair. The tech bros (because of their inherent greed and superficiality), certainly.
As the Buddhist monks say : “poverty is our shield”
I’d argue earlier. Before the largest digg exodus. 2010 already had custom subs and supported some niche comms
Significantly different in most communities. Much more collab work for one. Plus faster changes in general. Hard to game an algorithm when everyone has a different one and in different places. The people are just nicer here. I feel like I can actually have a conversation without being drowned.
I’ve been trying to figure out if there are fewer bots here. I think there are. If there’s any substantive difference between the two that’s it.
And that is the only thing that matters. This comment won the prize! ❤️✨
Smaller communities make a different quality of conversation. What it reminds me of is early Reddit, yes.
Much less “trying to be the funniest person in the room” energy
Everyone on Lemmy is a fed.
Alright, wrap it up boys, we’ve been made
Definitely different
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We have mods that use the banhammer as a disagree button, just like reddit. But we are also openly hostile to nazis unlike reddit.
I’ve never seen anybody ponder any orbs on reddit
From what I’ve experienced, it feels toxic in a bizarre liberal, Linux-nerd white knight kindof way. Which I think almost wraps back around to not being toxic at all and just feeling friendly in a passive aggressive way? Like going to a computer convention held on a hot, sunny beach. Sure, every here mostly agrees and likes the same geeky stuff but we can easily be too cranky about it, one way or another. Lemmy seems way more likely to engage in real conversation in comments and not just one-line jokes than Reddit. People seem more passionate about their hobbies or viewpoints. More likely to help if asked directly and detailed in response. It’s a cool place!
Their filthy neckbeard echo chamber
vs
our glorious neckbeard echo chamber
I feel like people are nicer to each other on here, but maybe it’s just the communities I subscribe to.
