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.
Doesn’t actually seem much different to me. Would be nice to have a few more people for the niche communities - but I do kinda worry that Lemmy becoming popular will lead to an influx of bots.
The bots are already here. They are the ones posting all the news articles. Also, it’s not that much different because both bases share the same users.
there are increasingly a greater number of nutjobs, spammers, and hostile/miserable/angry people. my block list is like 300+ now. 6-9 month ago it was like 12 people.
2 years ago it was mostly super nerds just nerding about.
I’m curious what your threshold for blocking is. I don’t block anyone. I appreciate dissenting opinions. I can totally appreciate that there are bad actors out here, but a blocklist of 300+ sound like a curated echo chamber.
Feel free to block me.
people calling me/others names, spamming agendas, or generally being hostile nutjobs pushing some extremist agenda and accusing anyone who isn’t in agreement with them as being the enemy, and that the enemy should be killed.
oh and people who personally harass you, like going around commenting on multiple unrelated comments you made to repeatedly call you names, and downvote you, of course.
Based on your description, it looks like you are visiting Lemmy.ml a lot.
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.
I like it here, I only lurked on reddit. There isn’t much reason to comment when it seems that everyone was in a competition for “who can post the best zinger comment first”
Zinger? I hardly know her!
This deserves gold.
edit: you’re welcome!
Thank you kind stranger
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.
Lemmy has become more friendly to otherkin and neopronouns. And now you can use PieFed, which is even more left wing.
On the negative side, dbzer0 has shifted more right wing over time, mostly due to influence from the tankie triad.
This user is dronerights an enbyphobic troll that has multiple usernames in pursuit of harassment and trolling.
This alt account (belonging to Carcosa) is used mainly to post pro-North Korea propaganda and to troll any non-tankie instance.
On the negative side, dbzer0 has shifted more right wing over time, mostly due to influence from the tankie triad.
Absolute nonsense from someone with an ax to grind.
Naa man, I’ve noticed it too. I think it’s because there are a lot of tankies realizing that they’re getting blocked by everyone else, so they jump to another instance to start all over. I have a lot more db0 users labeled as tankies, now than in the past.
There’s a lot of tankies on other instances as well. As you said, they jump to be able to agitate with other. Doesn’t mean that we’re “influenced” any more than most. Quokka is part of the FAF for crying out loud and they’re as anti-tankie (from the left) as it gets. I think y’all are just having cognitive bias by noticing only the times that tankies write, but not all the time we have anarchist perspectives. Literally some of our top posts are anti-authcom.
Honestly, most of this is driven by a few haters, who are salty we don’t ban every tankie on sight and a few haters who are salty we’re principled against Zionism and try to divide us from the rest of the threadiverse as a result.
We do get asked this question every week now, so there’s that.
Seriously though, once you block all the tankies and dweebs there’s about a dozen regular posters and a few hundred regular commenters.
I like it here.
I still browse reddit using redlib. Theres more content.
