Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.
Basically the same. But with more users and communities over time
Diversity has increased by a lot. It’s not just circlejerking about Linux anymore. Only positives in my book.
Yeah, I feel like when I first came here every third post was about Linux and every third post was about star trek. A lot of the remaining third was beans. Now only every tenth post is Linux and trek.
So we need more beans…
That is one interpretation
Yeah, but what if you enjoy the Trek, Linux, and beans?
I posted about lentils today. Does that count?
Its the linux of food so yes.
@Fizz @Diplomjodler3 I’ve had a .world account for over two years and think its both worse and improving. I love the discussions and diversity, but bad actors are quickly ruining coms.
100% agree.
What really sucks is seeing an interesting thread grow, say like 50 responses and 80% of them are good and legit. Then at some point the bad actors come along and a few hours later it’s 300 posts, with 90% of the new content being the bad actors telling off the original responders they are terrible people for what they said or how they are tacitly fascists for not throwing themselves on the spikes to fight facism.
and of course, also reporting the interest and nuanced responses as hate speech trying to get them removed.
I find a lot of the communities can be pretty negative. Lots of people talking about how bad things are. It would be nice to see more positive outlooks. But maybe that’s just a sign of the times.
if you try to talk about positive things they downvote you into oblivion, and/or comment about how stupid and wrong you are or you’re an ignorant boomer or you’re a rich privileged jerk.
you’re not allowed to be happy or enjoy anything if they are miserable. miserable people want everyone to be miserable with them.
It’s not just circlejerking about Linux anymore.
Aw, that’s sad…
true and the lunatic leftist fantasists have been put back in their box, but the population is less than 5% of what it peaked at in the early days
I use Mint, by the way.
Manjaro. Hate me.
I respect your life choices, even if I don’t agree with them.
Everyone has their preferences and that’s cool. I think we can respect their individual choices. The important thing is that they’re not talking about using Arch.
Actually, they kind of are…
Endeavour. I don’t hate you, only pity…
My main gripe with mainstream Reddit now is the engagement baiting that people are falling for all the time. “What are you thoughts on [Controversial Topic]?” If there is a new exodus from Reddit coming, I really really really wish all the baiting to be left behind and moderators to remove it on the Fediverse.
there has been a huge uptick in engagement bait here since the new year. i have had to block people who post it on almost a daily basis the past two months.
What do you think about engagement baiting?
it’s stupid and if i see a user repeatedly doing it I block them so I don’t have their nonsense posts in my feed.
no way it worked
If you join an Opinionated instance (think blahaj, slrpnk, dbzer0, multiverse) then those posts are funny because it’s mostly everyone agreeing on Controversial Topic and congratulating each other.
Wait, is that me?
Congratulations on having the correct opinion on Controversial Topic, friend!
Lemmy seems to have increased in userbase a bit and many communities are less dark with sometimes infrequent but not absent posts and engagement. It’s looking good. Also we all hate Israel now. That wasn’t a thing when Lemmy started.
I haven’t really noticed any change whatsoever.
Lemmy or Reddit?
Lemmy hasn’t changed much at all.
Reddit OTOH is pretty unrecognizable now.
(and before you ask: This is a different account than what I initially joined with because my old instance shut down)
Very recently I have noticed some extra misogyny that I hasn’t noticed before I wonder if it is due to a new exodus
I started noticing that on one of the comic comms, really opened my eyes. I’d say we’re good at not being transphobic, racist, homophobic, but misogyny is something Lemmy needs to tackle still.
Would you happen to have screenshots? I am planning on making a “what guidelines can we ask our instance admins to implement to tackle this?” Post with plenty of evidence
Nope, but you can browse this shit storm and find many. Mind you it’s 430 comments, and got worse the deeper in a chain went. I’m sure you can cell-f my username to find me arguing against some shit takes.
Population seems to have increased and become more diverse. There’s always communities being created. It’s not recognised as a desirable platform for businesses or influencers yet so upvotes aren’t treated anywhere near as divine, but you still see some users with remnants of Reddit; massive psychological damage if they’re downvoted. I mean, makes sense, people generally use social media to feel validated about their opinions. When it comes to comparing with Reddit, Lemmy has no monetised awards or such, bots are mostly rudimentary and live on a couple communities, and there’s little toxicity, harassment etc. because the user has complete control over blocking anything and instance admins have complete control over banning and defederating. I think being able to close some doors is preferable to being wide open to all, and I don’t think it causes any “echo chambers”.
Overall, definite improvement over the years.
It’s a lot busier and there are more communities, which I’m thankful for. When I first joined I was pretty much always a handful of posts away from being “caught up”.
I’m new. On piefed not Lemmy. Feels like back when the internet was for nerds.
I’ve been in fediverse since API debacle, I feel the same vibes as I do on Reddit, both the good parts and bad.
For example, same controversies on Reddit also exist here, and have the same talking points and flamewar nature. I had an opinion about Pitbulls (that an owner should be far more responsible than the average owner - I know, controversial take), which got me banned from that sub and several other furry related subs. Which is something that also happens on Reddit when you tick off a moderator of several subs
So for the most part, I’m just a lurker that comes here to get some memes. Sometimes I share my opinion if I feel like it. But I don’t necessarily feel that it’s an upgrade from Reddit in terms of communities.
Getting banned in communities you’ve never been to bc the admin disagreed with you in a public channel is keeping the Reddit pettiness alive.
Also, the lack of nuance is the same. If you have an opinion in a political comm, you basically have to write a novel describing your stance or people will take your brevity as an opening to attack you.
Still, there are some really great communities that respect diversity, are truly supportive, and kind that make me feel ok about the world.
this happened to me two days ago.
i got banned from several communities i’d never even knew existed. i must have pissed off someone who modded them.
weirdly enough i don’t recall that happening to me on reddit, but i didn’t post much outside of my hobbies and local subreddit.
and on the flip side, i have blocked dozens of people who just incessently promote their own instance/communities that are absolutely insane/toxic places if you look at them.
The pettiness goes even farther than that. I’ve been banned from whole fucking instances because I downvoted bad content on /all. So not even interacting more than once or twice IN PASSING with a sub is enough for some power hungry twat to ban you from an instance with these petty tyrants
Sounds like you got banned from places that wouldn’t be worth hanging out at in the first place. Fuck em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if someone is that quick to get triggered by a gesture of disagreement, they couldn’t possibly have a worthwhile community under their watchful gaze.
Lemmy feels about the same, but Reddit seems much worse.
Now to be fair I don’t know if Reddit is actually worse, because when I browse Reddit now it’s while I’m logged out and via a browser (force old.reddit.com and OldLander extensions). So the site is A) harder to navigate than it used to be and B) my experience is less curated and I see more crap and C) because my experience is less curated I’ve lost access to many of the niche communities.
As an example if I want to read some discussion about the recent Game of Thrones prequel series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” I can find a small community here on Lemmy. Nice people, but too few of us.
So I go to Reddit. If I search I find r/AKOTSKTV which is fine, and I find r/GameOfThrones which is fine. But I have to know, as a previous Reddit user, that maybe r/ASOIAF is also a great choice. Or if I want some real shit r/freefolk is where the glory lives.
So for that universe I know where to go. But for a new series? For a new niche? For a new community? I don’t know shit. I’ve found some of the more niche communities by luck. That’s what I would have been subscribed to in the past. I would have been in the community and in the comments and discovery was natural.
But nowadays I just get the front page of Reddit, and the front page kinda sucks.
But Lemmy? Yeah it sucks sometimes too, but at least there is a community.
I didn’t even know that Lemmy was having any discussions about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
While I no longer even have a Reddit account, I read hot takes after each episode on /r/asoiaf because I didn’t know where else to look for episode-by-episode discussions.
Nowhere on the threadiverse is large enough to support that level of interaction, unfortunately.
You can help by using television@piefed.social though.
I guess shout-out to !asoiaf@lemmy.world
And since TV/film discussion is like 75% of the reason I use any of these sites shout-out to,
- !invincible@lemmy.world for the animated Invincible series.
- !marvelstudios@lemmy.world for anything MCU/Marvel.*
- !dcstudios@lemmy.world for anything DCU/DC.*
- !startrek@startrek.website for anything Star Trek
- !thesimpsons@lemmy.world for The Simpsons.*
- !pluribus@lemmy.zip for Pluribus.
- !star_wars@lemmy.world for anything Star Wars.
*(I mod these, so Liz Lemon high five.)
Consider me subscribed to !asoiaf@lemmy.world going forward! Cheers
Knight of the seven kingdoms sucked ass. They put unnecessary random fart jokes everywhere and totally flubbed the mood of the original already very compelling story.
The acting and casting was solid but I wish they just would have told the story straight.
My account is 3 years and 5 months old. I joined Lemmy before it was cool, because I like open source things. In fact, when I joined, Lemmy.ml was the main/recommended instance. Now you all hate it.
Lemmy used to be a barren wasteland of content. Now it is not. I’ve noticed no further changes. The tankies, the in-fighting, the debates about whether to de-federate with instances, the arguing over whether it’s becoming too much like reddit - it’s all been here as long as I can remember.
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I joined, Lemmy.ml was the main/recommended instance. Now you all hate it.
Hated for good reason, as you point out in your second paragraph partly for tankies and China/Russo propaganda bots.
Though it raises a question for cases like yours: is account migration to another instance possible?
Don’t know, don’t care. This honestly isn’t my main account anymore, but I switched to it to reply to this post to prove I’m not lying about how long I’ve been here.
i make the mistake of commenting in a .ml thread yesterday and I got like 30 replies telling me what an idiot I am for not thinking the USA is the great Satan and how it is a ‘puppet regime’ that will soon fall apart before the MIGHT of Iran, Russia, and China.
it was insane.
haha yeah, been there. They’re swarming with either human or computer Pro-Russian/China bots and venture out oftentimes to spread more propaganda.
My understanding is you can’t migrate posts and comments, but you can migrate subscriptions and blocks. I’ve done it to both Lemmy and Piefed instances.
Do you think it’s fair to ask someone to migrate their account just because you hate pro-China and/or pro-Russia bots, assuming they exist?
Yes. It’s the same reason I migrated my party banner from Republicans to Democrats over the decades. No longer wanted to be associated with the prevailing winds of those coalescing beneath it.
But also, I didn’t ask them to move; rather, I posited the question of whether or not they could.
Well, good luck asking for it.
Lemmy didn’t have much content at first so you would run out of things to read after a while. It felt friendly at first, but certain topics still set off people at lemmy to the point I thought about leaving. Then lemmy seemed to improve and I could talk about those topics again, but now there are more trolls (even ones that seem to follow you around since they troll each post or comment talking about something) and spam bots that weren’t there before. I think a lot of conflict on forums like this has to do with miscommunication, but sometimes people are just mean and there isn’t a fix.
I fart in your general direction. >:(
After switching from several instances that dissipated, it seems to have stabilized and i find it odd you keep it to lemmy. Many other instances exist, and many more might. HA.
