To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time 🙃)
Less content to go through, so you end up going through posts and comments a bit more thoroughly. This translates to higher engagement from users overall compared to Reddit.
The con of course is less content to go through.
So make some content. Almost all of these posts seem to be about not having content to consume, but someone has to make it too. Reddit used to have the same problem, the Internet was just smaller back then.
Agree. For about half of what I’m interested in, there’s some activity on Lemmy and the conversations aren’t just “no u.”
I wish I didn’t have to, but I still lurk on Reddit for some very specific hobby and occupation hubs. I think there’s a lot more “blue collar” activity over there than there is over here.
A lot more entertainment, too.
I’m still astonished there isn’t an active movies or television presence over here. Feels like the topics over here are primarily news, technology, politics, but pop culture, movies, music, television, even gaming have somewhat low activity. Really bizarre those haven’t gotten firm footing.
I’m wondering how much of that is the sorting algorithm. Waiting patiently for lemmy.world to implement 19.0 so we can get the scaled sort working properly, but that seems to have been…stalled or something.
Personally, I find the people here very elitist and unwelcoming, and I have found myself spending less and less time here because of it.
And argumentative and pointlessly contrarian. Reddit had that problem too, but it seems more ubiquitous here.
It’s a human problem. Only way to avoid it is to not use social media. I’m about to hop off everything it is making me lose hope in my fellow humans seeing some of the comments I see. It’s also baffling how genuinely stupid some people come across, or sometimes it’s clear they just don’t understand what the words they are reading are even conveying.
Interesting, really? Maybe I just don’t engage with people that much, but it seems pretty chill or at least definitely no worse than Reddit in that regard
It definitely depends on the community. I’m mostly noticing it in the meme communities. A high percentage of jokes in the memes that I see are at the expense of a group that I am a part of, and I guess I just don’t really relate to the people here. So I just don’t come back very often.
That could explain the difference in experiences. I filter out those communities as best I can given the tools available.
Have you not seen the Linux fanboys on Lemmy? I see a post every day at least about how Windows is terrible or how x browser is inferior to Firefox.
Mmm, well yes the Linux bias is pretty strong but I don’t really like windows either hahaha. I see where you’re coming from though, that could be a little off putting if you aren’t at least a little into Linux
Yeah, it’s really horrible. Never experienced this level of hostile, argumentative know-it-alls anywhere else.
I have to assume half of Lemmy is people banned from reddit for being like this. Im worried they’re slowly scaring away everyone else and its distilling the ecosystem into a toxic pit
Could be worse, at least it’s not Voat, which consisted of ALL people and communities banned from Reddit (and usually for good reason aka racism, sexism, fat people hate)
As an open platform that’s similar to reddit, I’m in favor of it.
The reality though is not that great. And a lot of it comes down to at least some of the people who are here.
There doesn’t really seem to be enough content to allow for browsing a curated list of communities yet, so I mainly browse by all. And what I have seen are a handful of seemingly extreme viewpoints with little to no room for nuance and discussion and an attitude from those people that they are absolutely correct in their beliefs and ideas. I’m talking tankies, hatred for Israel, hatred for cars, hatred for landlords/renting, and evangelism for Linux.
I know that having extreme attitudes is certainly not unique to lemmy as it exists all over the Internet and elsewhere. But it does seem to be fairly concentrated here. And again, without enough engagement in the smaller or more niche communities there isn’t really enough content on its own.
So instead of actively browsing communities I want which would likely end up with very little content, I have started blocking instances and communities instead so I can still get a mix, but filter out things that I don’t like. And that doesn’t make for a great experience.
I have also seen some really stupid/ridiculous admin/mod drama that people also seemed to think wouldnt carry over from reddit, but of course it has.
All that to say, I still enjoy it enough to continue to browse. But I don’t really participate often. And it has to a degree eliminated at least some of the bullshit from reddit.
I’m talking tankies, hatred for Israel, hatred for cars, hatred for landlords/renting, and evangelism for Linux.
That’s a good summation
If Reddit was a water park, Lemmy is the small adult jacuzzi room in the back.
If Reddit was a water park, Lemmy is the small adult jacuzzi room in the back.
The soak and poke?
As someone who spent around half my life in IT and half in humanities, there’s a lot less humanities content here than in Reddit or old Twitter. You might not notice it because you might have gravitated towards the IT side of those sites but it’s noticeable here
Yeah, I love Linux, but man, I get it, you use Arch…
Apparently i should install Linux.
This gave me a good chuckle. Every community promoting Linux.
It’s a little bothersome when you have no interest in Linux and are completely fine with Windows.
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Nah, it’s also fine if you use something like FreeBSD or TempleOS.
More depressing news and Linux enthusiasts.
Feels like an echo chamber filled with angry political activists that seem more interested in hating and breaking things rather than discussing solutions. Can’t say I like it here but for some reason I keep coming back. I probably block on average 3 to 7 people a day but doesn’t seem to make much of a difference. Makes me further lose my hope in humanity if I’m completely honest.
yeah we have so many useless instance that already exist and thriving in reddit so why bring it here? their subreddit already as sound proof as hell in reddit as echo chamber and they still come here to spread their annoying voice again, sigh( im tired of the post of hating rich people over and over) like come on man I know you hate rich people already
Well that’s some thorny insight.
It’s true tho. Calling for violence or people’s death is normal here, no nuance in the discussion, it feels like very few people are there to discuss, rather than validate their own, cemented opinions.
Define “here”. The acceptance for that sort of thing can vary wildly between communities and, IMHO more significantly, instances.
If you see such posts, stop and see which instance they’re posted from. You might see some patterns.
Well, it wasn’t hexbear or the other one if you are asking about that. It was one on the Blahaj zone, which supposedly is a chill instance, and yet plenty of hate.
I agree, the amount of “This person needs to die” is crazy here.
There is even less room for a nuanced discussion of anything.
I was enjoying it, but two things are getting tiring: the lack of social sciences and humanities, and especially the misogynistic ‘tone’ of some users.
As a sociology major who is also a fan of the humanities, I totally agree with you. While I’ve always been much more of a lurker than a regular poster–even while I was on Reddit–it still seems like there isn’t a lot of content here that I feel I can really contribute to or engage with. The most prevalent posts all seem to be tech related or are just doom and gloom stories. It makes this place feel cold and bleak.
And yeah, the casual and even blatant misogyny from some of the users is appalling (I still remember that post about the career fair for women months back that got overrun with angry men).
I really wish there was a bigger psych community here.
It really feels like Reddit circa-2023, particularly the bad ways. Lemmy.world is the worst for that.
Compared to Reddit
- too small. Most communities I’m interested in have too little activity
- more wholesome. More than once I’ve been shocked at answers that were nice instead of snarky
- too many UI bugs and unstable, yet somehow much less buggy and more stable than Reddit ever was
- if you don’t feed the trolls, they go away quickly
Hey in the spirit of the third point, I recently learned that if you put four spaces at the end of a line, you can then do a line break and it’ll treat it as a real new line, instead of just moving your second line to the end of your first.
See?
Like this.
Pretty cool stuff.Only 2 spaces
are required for this to workHey even better. Thanks!
Cool. It does seem like there’s functionality in whatever form of markup there is here, but I barely learned Reddit’s and here I know very little yet
Agreed. My interests get way too little activity. Otherwise I love the platform.
Yeah, it’s a little weird that even broader topics tend to struggle here (e.g. music/tv & movies/books). Not as surprising with the niche stuff, as that can be pretty quiet even on other more popular platforms.
Agreed on point 1 the answer is we all need to create more posts. We can’t expect others to do it for us.
I feel like half of the people on here are 45yo Linux sysadmins, and the other half are Germans
The sheer quantity of German memes never ceases to amaze me.
Yeah, my level of German has increased just reading them all 🇩🇪
And I like their pasta thing
Link? What’s their “pasta thing”?
They started putting noodles on all the memes’ heads because the guy who keeps posting memes is called InstantNoodles
Thanks. That’s pretty funny
I’m a 45yo truck driver tyvm!
I use arch btw.
I came over during the Reddit migration but I’m so tired of every post either being about Israel/Palestine, late-stage capitalism, or femboys…
or worse - when the post is about something completely different but the comments are about Israel/Palestine, late-stage capitalism, or femboys…
I had somehow curated my Reddit to be mostly about the topics I wanted to read about, but I can’t seem to get that to happen here. I’ve been blocking communities and instances but my feed is still mostly stuff I don’t really want to read about…
I’m currently waiting to see what happens when Reddit IPOs but I doubt I’ll go back there and will probably just stop coming to lemmy too.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
but I’m so tired of every post either being about Israel/Palestine, late-stage capitalism, or femboys…
I’m not sure why that’s been your experience. I avoid politics and news quite successfully around here.
Where are you seeing all these femboy comments? Is there a part of Lemmy I’m missing out on? All I see are the Linux/FOSS comments.
probably blahaj zone
I’m really starting to hate it, but really don’t want to go back to Reddit. Every post about Israel and capitalism makes me want to quit. I wish there was a better alternative.
Me too, it feels like every post is about getting you to hate more.
Yeah, common sense really triggers the fantasy land Marxists.
For the first few months on the platform, I noticed these trends that I would end up agreeing with later on:
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Liking, or straight up adoring Linux
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Disliking, or straight up despising cars
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Everyone is left-wing and liberal
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Israel stinks
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Rainbows galore
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Big companies are cringe
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Independent media is based
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Products made by big companies are known to be spyware
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The Chromium “open-source” browser, as well as the engine that it uses, is basically the reason why Firefox is dying out
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Right-wing politicians are bad
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Piracy is basically fighting for freedom of information on the internet, especially when big companies tend to be so overprotective of their intellectual property in situations where they don’t really need to
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Free, open source software is basically the future
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The European Union is basically where everyone on Lemmy lives in real life, and if not, it’s where everyone wants to live (which is my case given that I’m from Morocco)
Other very notable points that I have when comparing Reddit with Lemmy are the following:
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The community is very passionate yet very small, it kinda feels like Animal Crossing
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Goddammit, having multiple instances federating with each other is such an amazing thing that literally nobody can wholly own the thing and make crappy decisions that end up ruining the whole thing at once (cough cough Twitter)
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API is free, API is free, API is free
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Being such an obscure platform, it has helped me tremendously with cutting down on social media usage due to how insanely addicting it can be at times, sometimes in the worst possible scenarios, like when you have an exam tomorrow
I’m pretty grateful that I made the decision to ditch Reddit for good. I really like this place, and I mean a lot. I wouldn’t be called “Resol van Lemmy” if it weren’t for Spez being such an ass.
Can you explain your user name?
Well, here’s what it means.
“Resol” can mean a number of different things. Some might interpret it as the word “loser” spelled backwards. Others might see it as the first 5 letters of the word “resolution”. To me, it’s just a bunch of jumbled letters that are basically meaningless.
“van” is simply Dutch for “from” or “of”, no further explanation required. Please make sure not to capitalize the V. It looks hideous this way.
And of course, you already know what “Lemmy” is. Duh, we’re both on it. In my username, it can also refer to the fediverse in general. Think of the latter as a continent, with Lemmy being a country in that continent.
So, I’m basically a guy from the fediverse. That’s all you need to know.
A lot of this is very similar to how I remember Reddit in 2010 or so.
I wasn’t active in Reddit back then, but I remember hopping in logged off a couple times per month just to see what they were doing, and that’s pretty much I how remember Reddit from those days.
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I’ll bite, I miss the sysadmin and msp communities. I didn’t post much ever and won’t ever, but I learned a lot there over years. I’m not getting that here, and it’s pretty much why I was on reddit.
As a sysadmin, I handle windows, cloud, Linux, networks, BSD, and more daily. But the “Linux desktop is best” crew are more cult than community & my personal desktop is Linux, which I like, but it’s not the answer for my parents, my partner or most of my friends or clients.
I gloss over American politics since I’m not American.
I don’t hate cars. But I’m an advocate for walkable cities. I love cars in fact. I would quit my job if I could earn enough just restoring cars slowly all day.
But I’m still here. So that’s also a statement.
I think “FuckCars” is meant to be “FuckCarDependence” but that’s not as catchy. People in those communities are usually pretty open about the fact that cars have their purposes and aren’t evil on their own.
Basically the same issue as r/FuckCars
Yeah, I am on team “Fuck Car Dependance” because I hate everything about em - driving, the ecological impact of cars and the society wide inequalities created and reinforces by designing space around them.
But I would be virtually unhirable in my field if I didn’t drive… And there is zero way to fix that even if we managed to dismantle the system of strodes, massive parking lots, low density suburbs, inadequate public transit etc…
Oh yeah, delivering them poems while driving past would be pretty hard without a car ;)
Seriously right?!
What chances have I without
My motorized steed?
I know, it’s really starting to get to be abit much. I get weird looks for liking Ubuntu, for example.
Also used to work for a MSP as well.
I’ve been in MSP for 15 years now and honestly it’s so love hate. The variety and change is awesome but the cowboyism keeps me up at night in sweats.
I’d never be able to learn so much anywhere else, but because it’s msp I’ve got no proof I know it (no training or non expired certs).
Its like floating on an inner tube down a slow meandering creek instead of holding on for dear life to a shitty wooden raft going down Niagara Falls forever.
Its a lot easier to get off and stretch my legs when I need to
