I’m a long time Lemmy lurker and occasional Redditor. Since the Reddit influx, I’ve watched the frequency of shitty Reddit-type behavior, e.g., combative comments, trolling, and unnecessary rudeness, just sky rocket.
I’m happy to have more content on Lemmy, but I wish the bad actors and assholes would have stayed on Reddit.
Yes, I realize the irony of posting this on a new community that’s basically a Reddit transplant.
Seeing the low-quality comments starting to appear is disappointing.
This is something we as mods for communities can combat. It’s a rule I enforce across my communities, posters who engage in hostility and attack people have their comments removed. Simple as.
People can discuss things, that’s fine but the second conversations devolve into personal attacks that is not okay.
We have the power to decide how we want the communities we have to grow and what behaviour we want to discourage. Sometimes people just need a little push in the right direction.
We can also all do our parts without mod intervention by being just decent and not engaging in the same toxic behaviour. You can also report comments to mods. It really helps us out to get reports in for comments/posts that break the rule as we may not always see it due to our instances etc…
I’ve definitely noticed things change a LOT in my 5 or 6 weeks here.
IMHO, instances like BeeHaw still have that old vibe. Less shit posting, less zinger comments, more people having reasonable conversations about things.
My guess is that we’ll end up having a split between instances like that, and instances that are basically trying to be fedi Reddit.
Idk why you’re swinging for low hanging fruit. Your 10 day old account speaks to a Reddit migrant as well.
Ironic.
Shut up nerd.
You forgot the /s.
I do not think this is because of Reddit as such. These things are unavoidable when more generic population joins. Humans are… different.
Humans and lemmings are natural enemies… Like humans and redditors… Or humans and other humans! Damn humans, they ruined humanity!
Reddit -> Lemmy transplants are circlejerking about how evil Spez is, how Reddit is “doomed”, or how much they hate people like Musk.
Oh my God, yes. It’s like hanging out with thousands of recent divorcees. They just. Won’t. Shut up.
It’ll be interesting to see how this progresses but I’m hoping the asshole fraction gets bored and leaves. We’ve always had assholes and trolls but not like this. I’ve been just calling the assholes on their shit, hopefully it helps drive them out.
Tech hipsters have a detrimental effect on everything they touch. Please stop.
The irony of someone with your handle calling anyone a tech hipster is immeasurable with today’s technology.
Regardless, the post is about shitty Reddit behavior, of which your comment is a sterling example. If doesn’t actually add anything useful to the conversation, you’re just being an ass. Why? Who knows, but it just makes the place more unpleasant than before.
Your post is a boring rehash of the same old “eternal September” complaints from the mid-90s. My username has nothing to do with it.
I disagree. I was here before the migration and I really wanted to like it. However, there simply wasnt enough content and most threads were barren. Now, there are full deep discussions everywhere about loads of different topics. I’ve come back to a far better product than I previously experienced, despite a few more bad actors.
