This platform is almost 100% idealism and politics. Any hobby/technical community goes completely inactive.
Second this. A lotta dumb political crap.
What I wanted was the style of old school forums to discuss games, movies, sports teams etc and that’s not what this has turned out to be. Was happy at first and as the weeks have gone by I find it’s almost the same as Reddit (and even worse in some ways.)
Way too many political arguments and posts, to the point where it’s a turn off because it’s injected into everything.
Be the change you want to see in the world
I’m annoyed by all those Facebook-type boomer comics you see on basically all meme subs. Reddit culture managed to get rid of them, but for some reason people here seem to love them
Look, sometimes people enjoy brainless humor and that’s okay. People have hard days. Twelve hours in the field days. Sometimes people are tired and just want something easy and that’s perfectly valid.
As the sages of old said, “It’s okay to not like things. It’s okay, but don’t be a dick about it.”
Any example? Out of curiosity
This would be the last one I saw. I probably have plenty more examples in my downvotes, but I don’t think they’re accessible on Lemmy :(
Thanks, now I get what you mean
How is it boomer ?
Kids don’t like anything that doesn’t have foul language, sexual innuendos, or involves subtly.
That said, while I liked the comic linked, it had no business being posted in a meme community.
Sincerely, A boomer
It’s really goddamn preachy. There’s a real sense of superiority a lot of users have that I don’t recall as much on Reddit.
There’s also the fact that small communities are dead and it’s next to impossible to grow them, so you’re stuck with the same people on the front page every day.
Going from like 30 million users and bots down to 50 thousand people will do that.
Of course, but the niches I’m interested in have a few hundred thousand people worldwide and they’re not here.
On Reddit I wasn’t particularly interested in the front page because it didn’t fit my interests, and Lemmy has gone in the same way. But the only interaction is on the front pages now, so that’s where I am.
Lots of wanna be communists that are well intentioned but have little real world experience
My wife studied sociology, that includes the work of gramchie, Dubois, Lenin, Marx.
I didn’t, but I got plenty of exposure. What’s clear to me is that hardly anyone actually knows what communism is. That includes Allies and opponents of it.
They all think they do. But they really don’t.
Chill the fuck out with the linux supremacy. I hate windows too but linux is not as friendly and efficient as you think.
The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.
That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There’s very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.
Lemmy.world is defederated from hexvear if you’re looking to be totally free of them. Obviously you would have to join lemmyworld and some people don’t want to do that for various reasons, which is totally fine, but you’ll get a ton of content without the spam.
It’s VERY noticeable when I’m on an alt account (either to view c/piracy or because the DDOS attacks have .world down) and a hexbear user is in the comments. Defederation was 100% the right decision and I’m eager to block the instance on all my alts when it becomes possible to.
I’m on lemmy.world and there are still commies fucking everywhere.
Problem is I like c/piracy. I don’t pirate much, but I do everything I can to avoid ads, and i self-host a lot of stuff, so there’s a lot of overlap between my interest and the content there.
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I’m left on the political spectrum but by and large y’all fuckers are over the deep end.
Lmfao I’m in the same boat. It’s exhausting.
especially lemmygrad
I have seen people praising North Korea there lol
I’m not even talking that much.
Wanting to kill billionaires.
Wanting to kill landlords.
It’s fucking disgusting.
Exactly! It goes like this to me:
“Billionaires and landlords are bad for society.” Hard agree!
“There should be less billionaires and landlords.” Okay, I agree with that too.
“We should kill them!” NO! FUCK NO!
I understand that if society is going to change for the better, that some people deliberately stand in the way and others will inevitably be forced to stop them. But there’s this new school of thought that says “My enemies are ontologically evil and all harm done towards them is morally good” which sickens me.
An act can be justified, necessary, and still immoral.
Wow they’re worse than I thought, why would anyone praise North Korea I mean that just sounds insane.
Just lack of numbers. Reddit’s at it’s best when I can use it to discuss some incredibly niche topic. That early 2000s RTS that nobody remembers? Got a few dozen redditors still posting memes. New indie game drops? There’s enough redditors on it that we can talk about it.
But lemmy seems really bad for trying to enjoy any community that isn’t a big political or meme centerpiece. Any particular game or IP that isn’t a lowest common denominator? It’ll get maybe 3 posts a month.
No more interesting discussions of gameplay mechanics or inspirations or character analyses, no burning out an entire workday browsing the top all-time and giggling like an idiot, it’s just dead here.
The same massive numbers that made reddit insufferable for some are what make niche communities inhabitable at all.
Numbers are a double edged sword. Yes, Reddit has lots of active niche communities that are active because of its massive user base, but once you get to anything not niche, there are so many users that any sort of constructive discussion is nearly impossible are you’re drowned out from the masses. Using Reddit only for the niche stuff (with ads blocked, of course) and Lemmy for anything else seems like a reasonable solution.
Hopefully if you start creating those topics/communities, people will eventually flock to it.
That’s what I’m attempting anyway
It’s perfectly fine to use both platforms and still enjoy the niche subs on Reddit. It’s a shame they’re not all in one app/website but it is what it is.
The number of pro-communist posts in here is comical. The amount of anti-capitalist posts is almost comical. Obviously related to some degree.
The lack of posts outside of a few main news and politics communities is frustrating.
It’s sad so many capitalism cheerleaders migrated here, considering most of us are literally here fleeing capitalist greed rot.
Some just refuse to learn. The sunk cost fallacy of “I’ve committed my life to this thing, and no amount of evidence will ever make me accept my mistake as a mistake!”
Should have just stayed to be disrespected by Spez in the name of his profit. He’s a good capitalist.
do you think capitalism is good or something
It’s far from perfect, but it isn’t the cause of every single issue anyone’s ever had like people on here would have you believe
What’s funny is these tankies are making the whole left look bad and I have to remind myself that these people are a tiny minority of disaducated extremists and not to let them put a bad taste in my mouth for anything socialist. I noticed their existence and rhetoric was pushing me right and now I’m realizing they’re very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable. A social democracy is what I look forward to, not licking putin’s aashole.
I’m realizing they’re very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable.
lol no
I agree with your overall sentiment but disagree on them being right wing trolls (which is exactly what the right claims about those who don’t buy every word). There really are people on the left that extreme in real life too and they need to be tuned out. Disagreeing with them doesn’t make you more right leaning either.
and now I’m realizing they’re very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable
You wish. And that sounds like something one of them would say, “left is when good, if they do a bad, they’re on the right.”
At some point, we have to face the facts that there are also bad people on the left. It is what it is, it doesn’t mean the whole left is bad, we can squabble about proportions of hexbear/lemmygrad user types to liberals all day, but to pretend that any leftist that says dumb, authoritarian, or downright immoral things is just a right winger trying to discredit the left is Q level “Crisis Actor” style conspiracy horse shit, with all due respect.
Of systems that have been implemented the best systems have been capitalist based systems.
Unironically yes
Capitalism is the economic equivalent of Nature’s own survival of the fittest.
No one will claim that capitalism is being implemented perfectly, that’s for sure, but the number of communist clowns on Lemmy is absurd. Bunch of 14 year olds trying to be edgy.
Incessant posts about Reddit (and Twitter).
Fuck yes, it’s like hanging out with hundreds of bitter ex-boyfriends. We don’t care about your past relationship, it has been months. Just shut up and move on.
I keep blocking any communities mentioning Linux on my feed, yet it still never stops.
I’m a huge Linux supporter. I maintain an infrastructure of thousands of Linux servers, don’t have a single Windows install. My work laptop runs Linux, the only one in the company not on Windows or OS X. I have a mini-PC proxmox setup running a bunch of VMs for different services like pihole, FoundryVTT, NVR, etc. I use Linux for everything except my gaming PC.
And even I find the Linux fanboys absolutely intolerable. Go ask a question in @tech and any possibility of an actual helpful answer is drowned by hundreds of “Install Linux” comments that are all up voted to the top. The entirety of some of the most popular communities are completely worthless because of zealots like them.
Average Linux user lol. Have you tried arch?
I hate that I even have a vague idea what that means.
You’ll have to leave Lemmy altogether for that, I’m afraid. A lot of Linux True Believers here.
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Lot of linux users here.
I once asked a linux user how his day was, and he said “Marked as duplicate, question locked.”
I asked what that meant and he said “Artie Efemme”
I’ve not seen RTFM said or wrote like that before. Is it common?
They seem obnoxious. Obviously not all Linux users are like this.
Extremism - Reddit as its share but also has millions of “normies” to balance things out. Here there doesn’t seem to be any moderates.
The platform itself is dysfunctional and will prevent any real growth in average users.
Just TOO many Linux fanboys/martyrs, it is a good OS but damn stop trying to go full on religion with it.
Lol dude the Linux community on here has got to be full of young new tech users with very little experience. It is hilariously bad.
As far as Linux goes, it’s open-source just as the fediverse is open-source, so it’s a pretty reasonable outcome that it would attract more people that value that. Also, the fact that Linux is approaching computing in a way that’s different from the norm of what people are used to, is bound to create enthusiasm from people who prefer that vision of computing to the corporate controlled one.
I was waiting for the reason you were so downvoted while reading your comment, but it never came.
Here, as an avid Linux lover who knows how to shut up about it let me explain to you what went wrong here.
Nobody asked.
You remember how we used to make fun of vegans because they would insert it into every possible conversation as if it were some sort of badge of honor they needed to flex? Yeah. That’s what Linux users are becoming. Tech vegans.
I suppose that makes sense. It just wasn’t worded in a way that seemed obnoxious to me in particular. I’ve never used it myself (aside from dabbling with a Raspberry Pi), but I must have a higher tolerance for Linux praising than most.
The lack of them, I guess?
There are lots of communities, but many of them are absolutely dead. My fav subs were BJJ, Hajime No Ippo, Squared Circle, and CS Career Questions. None of them are active here.
People here are way to eager to get into political arguments out of nowhere, usually in bad faith. The front-page is covered with doomscrolling content, being here too long makes me miserable and hopeless. The rest of the content is mostly tech stuff, which can only be interesting for so long.
What I miss from Reddit, is the variety of diverse communities, people having fun and polite conversations, a sense of humor, and a lot of happy content or stuff that’s interesting but not limited to tech.
At this point, I feel like the technology is much better and the user base much larger, but the user group is so extremely specific.
I wish people from all political spectrums would engage in a civil conversation here and not reduce it to mockery and attacking. What’s the point of discussion if no one leaves with something new to think?
Unfortunately, the centrist viewpoints are the ones you get when you sort by controversial on Reddit. But they’re there and oddly, they’ve usually got a few up votes these days.
Lemmy, or at least lemmy.world is ultra liberal. I’m liberal leaning, but if you disagree here you are smashed into oblivion.
I guess it’s good there’s not a general karma system here.
I highly disagree Reddit is diverse with more civil and polite conversations, I would agree ten years ago and right now is far left with more bans from power tripping mods.
I don’t agree with the “far left” part but I do agree that the last couple of years have gotten ridiculous with the bans from power tripping mods.
