I’ll try to dial back my time on lemmy because I’ve noticed that I spend way, way more time here than I ever did back on reddit
Yes, I realized there was/is a lot of rage-bait on reddit that kept me typing. Lemmy is more chill, like it’s an actual forum with real people with real engagement.
Lemmy is 1000x more real than reddit, but I have found it to be very susceptible to echo chambers. I agree with a lot of the echos in the chamber, and yet I find a lot of people taking nuance out of discussions or believing falsehoods from headlines alone. It’s annoying to me, because many if these topics are extreme enough as is, there’s no need to hyperbolize. But there is not a lot in the way of difering opinions (when it comes to big topics)
I think any place with moderation is going to have an echo chamber. And then ironic thing is a place without moderation also leads to an echo chamber, since people who don’t like the vibe leave.
like it’s an actual forum with real people with real engagement.
Because it’s small.
The only bots are from people hobby botting to learn about. If it grows then we’ll see intentional bots like anywhere else.
Federation gives unique challenges tho. A big open instance will have a huge bot problem because of how many instances could host the bots. A locked down instance won’t see any bots.
Like early Reddit, when we migrated from Digg
Some of us skipped Digg and came straight from SomethingAwful.
Actually less and for a good reason, the doom scroll is not endless.
We have a fraction of the population and a few good posts and discussions on the places I have not blocked. Over all its a lot healthier and I still get my fix of feeling informed-ish. Also Jeboa does not display total votes an account gets meaning there is no “must have X karma to ride” pages that, while attempting to remove bots (it didnt), fills a room with crowd pleasers instead of those seeking discussion or answers.
No, there’s way less stuff to engage with and frankly I don’t particularly even like it here.
What don’t you like about it? Not enough content or the politics?
I guess it’s not a Lemmy-specific issue but more of a social media thing in general. I just don’t like being around angry people - even when their anger is aimed at people I don’t like either. It’s the cynicism, the wishing harm, the celebrating death or misfortune. I get where it comes from - I just don’t want to be around it. It poisons my mind too.
What can I say, I’m also here for the memes. But otherwise…I don’t blame you.
I like knowing what’s going on , especially when corpo news sources try to sweep it under the rug, and sometimes comments can be really insightful, but often the discourse is so tribalistically rage-blinded and the line of acceptable extremes keeps getting pushed to frightening degree.
Even the slightest hint of disagreement with the extent of said extremes, even if you’re on the same “side” of an issue, will get you branded and told to face the wall with the rest of the filth…You know, by the types who most loudly proclaim how much they’re against fascists .
(My guess is mostly it’s angy isolated teens with anonymity and hair-trigger emotions paired with drooping history grades. And I say this as an idealistic anarchist lol. But it still hurts. Words are words.)
I was recently downvoted like crazy and attacked quite viciously for merely suggesting that dehumanizing human beings, even enemies, is a dark path. Even the poster I was responding to was like “That’s messed up, you were respectfully discussing. People are crazy.”
I’m more careful now.
It’s beginning to remind me of the apocalyptic world of Metro 2033: On one side, Neo-Nazis want to kill you outright. On the other: the Red army wants to
conscriptcomrade you to their frontlines to hurl at their enemies.…and most people are just caught in the middle trying to survive.
Sorry for the long reply. Let’s stay safe, sane, and keep touching grass. Take good care out there. ❤️
Thanks for the thoughtful response - the timing was impeccable. I guess it’s not all bad in here after all.
I’m sincerely glad you appreciated it. I worry I ramble a bit too much sometimes! :)
In some ways Lemmy can still feel like the “Old Internet”, for better and worse haha, but there’s still people like us that appreciate small moments of genuine connection with people.
We can be revolutionaries by making those positive connections in the communities we visit. :D
I hope you’re doing okay and have a good one today.
I have to admit. Reddit can be handy for finding solutions from other people for problems.
I wish Lemmy was comparable for this purpose. Perhaps someday.
I do feel bad for the few users that have found some niche lemmy communities and asked a genuine question, only to get no replies. If it were in my sphere of knowledge I would answer them.
reddit also recently got pretty bad, because they keep updating thier filters, or restrictions, or evasion detection. new and old users are the most susceptible to bans. and i read recently reddit has been automatically removing posts for no reason at all(but gearing the site to GOP friendly administration), with high rate of frequency without MOD input/or discussion.
Reddit definitely used to be! But sadly thanks to reddit, I think we’re seeing the damage from a disappearing internet when a lot of people mass-deleted their posts and it affects technical pages.
How do I fix this really niche technical issue?
Toasters lollypops groundhogs sport icecube I have scrambled all my reddit posts with a script because reddit sucks and Spez sucks.
Thanks! That’s EXACTLY what I needed! I’ve been looking everywhere for this solution. Have a gold, internet stranger sir/madame. I hope anybody else who has this issue comes here first so they don’t spend as long as I did before I saw your post!
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Frankly there isn’t as much content. So, no.
But if I’m really honest it’s about equal because all the content is on bluesky and tiktok.
Less, because there’s still a lot less content here. I check what’s new on the communities I’m subscribed to, and that doesn’t take long.
I’m on lemmy BECAUSE there is less. Trying to become and ostrich.
I spend way less time on here than I did reddit. Not to upset about it though, because I feel like it’s only improved my mental health!
Less time on Lemmy cause there’s less to see. I spend more time on other websites now, when previously reddit used to take up all of my web browsing time.
What kind of other websites?
Imgur and YouTube mostly. I spend more time on forums too.
Deleted my reddit account a couple days after discovering Lemmy. I’ve been to their website a couple times since because it often appears in search results and if I don’t see a less shit option I’ll dig through the comments of whatever post my search pulled up, but that’s the extent of my activity there.
I will never make another reddit account. Fuck spez.
Greedy little pig boy
Nope. Making Reddit as mildly addictive as it was likely took more than just a generic application of the type.
In that way, Lemmy’s development motivations make this platform (IMO) a lot healthier, because it wasn’t purposefully tweaked into something addictive by a group of sociopaths holding boring dystopia meetings looking to appease the shareholders or the ownership.
The time I spent on Reddit was pretty close to zero, except on rare occasions. I used to spend more time on Lemmy, but over the past year, I feel like the vibe has changed and I haven’t been enjoying it as much.
Nope. Honestly though Lemmy helped me with my Reddit addiction. Haven’t been on Reddit in years and only occasionally engage with Lemmy during the week. Supplanted both with reading bootleg manga, ha ha ha.
Same here. I was honestly worried when I left Reddit. Which worried me even more. Once I moved to lemmy, I still use it, obviously, but I often go a few days between opening it. I’ve found I take my phone out less when I’m sitting, my overall screen time went down to like an hour and change a day, and I don’t miss it.
I recently got permanently suspended from Reddit. I still read there, because there’s so much more content than here.
I don’t engage here as much as I did there, because the communities I’m interested in just don’t exist here, or are very quiet.
I’m spending less time on both, because of that.
I’m far more active on Lemmy, I’d say 10x, than I was on Reddit.
Why is that? I think it’s because I feel like the few communities i’m part of here are places for actually sharing and learning from each other, with the same folks that you know you’ll see again. Not just random spraying of posts and replies everywhere in numbers so huge that everyone kind of disappears in the ether.
i even started to avoid some political posts on reddit before i was summarily suspended permanently, but in any case any comment wouldve gotten drown out by thousands others anyways.
