Hi everyone, I’m new to Lemmy and looking to get involved. I am curious about what major differences you have experienced here vs Reddit as I am hoping this is a nice alternative.
I’ve personally experienced aggressive overreach and biased moderation on Reddit, and I was wondering if you have experienced a different environment here. If so, are there ways to get the word out about sites like this that might be viable alternatives?
More granularly/specifically, are there any topics that you might have discussed on both platforms and had a different experience? What have you seen here that has been a vast upgrade over Reddit? Thanks for any guidance!
oh no you joined ml
as far as i can remember they are openly Marxist Leninist when you sign up which mean you are as well? in which case enjoy your commie bubble
if not, sign up somewhere, anywhere else where people don’t live in a fantasy universe
Reddit has niches within niches within niches. There’s a sub for dogs, but also a sub for labradors. If you want to get even more specific, there are subs for chocolate, black, and yellow labs, and all of them are lively and active. I’ve run across legitimately interesting subreddits just by misspelling another subreddit name. Reddit’s user base is also very diverse, with more than just tankies and Linux nerds. But reddit is aggressively banking on social media addiction with their constant reminders to crosspost and weird mobile-game-looking ‘achievements’.
Lemmy’s constant politicking is exhausting, but the lack of an Algorithm is refreshing. I would, however, like a better way to find communities or posts. Surely there’s a an alternative to the content black hole that Lemmy can be vs the attention sucking time vampire that main stream social media can be.
I feel like People are more willing to engage meaningfully here.
My main complaint is that there isn’t that much of a history of answered questions. Where reddit night actually have solved or answered your problem or question andes ago…
But that’s all the more reason to contribute to lemmy.
Lemmy: violent revolution
Reddit: aita for family stuff
Oof. In case you don’t know, your home instance is pretty much the poster boy on the Threadiverse for biased moderation. Unless you picked them specifically for their political stance, you may be better off hopping instances now. There’s also quite a few instances and users that block .ml, which means quite a bit of content you won’t see.
There is nothing inherent about Lemmy which prevents mod abuse similar to Reddit. The moderation structure was copied over almost exactly. The only real difference is that, since karma isn’t public on Lemmy, communities can’t use it as a filter for users; federation/defederation takes on that role instead.
One thing to keep in mind is that each instance has a highly varied user base which don’t always mesh well together. You can have similarly named communities on different instances with highly different social norms and moderation styles. Since those communities have different admins, they can have wildly different standards on what is acceptable moderation policy.
I highly recommend starting your subscriptions from scratch. I was following all the drama subs on Reddit, and more times than not, I walked away stressed and raged.
On Lemmy, I joined interest and conversation communities, and of course you’ll run into trolls and assholes occasionally, they are everywhere and can’t be avoided entirely, but overall, I think people are much more accepting and willing to have a discussion rather than yell at each other all the time.
Unless of course you support AI or Fascism. You probably won’t have a great time here.
I hate ai companies and how they push ai but ill be damned if it isnt useful as fk for all my niche use cases that were never getting solved by anyone else because I cant afford a dev team or even a fiverr developer. (not that they gave good results, or were actually cheap based off yt videos ive seen) No more hoping for a solution to pop up that fits my needs. Just ask and modify, everyones fearmongering had me scared it was going to be ridiculously unstable or some sht. Idk how ppl can’t see ai can be incredibly useful, especially now that it’s not the garbage it was a few years ago when they first tried to push it.
I’m an it bs grad who cant find a major related job, likely because of ai, hate it deepdown but it still feels like a disservice to myself to not use it to customize everything I use to actually fit my needs. The option is there and I know it works now. When I have an issue it’s like who am I benefitting by not getting it solved.
Lemmy is a bunch of federated instances (servers / websites) so mod overreach and bias are less dangerous than on Reddit. There was one guy who created a lemmy UI (called tesseract) that would secretly block stuff / people he didn’t like, but he got kicked out pretty fast.
Lemmy allows unlimited (within reason) inserts of images and other media in the body of posts and comments. Reddit does not. Lemmy also supports more marktown text styles than reddit does.
Therefore, Lemmy > reddit.
Lower traffic, you see a lot of the same users every day, the social experience is more intimate, in a way.
There are bots that try to blend in here but they are orders of magnitude fewer than on reddit.
There is still the problem of biased mods favoring power users over normal users, and bending or modifying their own communities rules to accommodate them.
How do you detect if an account is bot or not? These days its hard to distinguis
You ask it about the Tiananmen Square Massacre
There’s a few ways -
GenAI bots have a way of speech that follows a set pattern. They strictly follow rule of threes, they overuse “it’s not X, it’s Y” phrases, some of their comparisons are nonsensical, and they generally only comment in their own topics, or topics related to whatever they’re trying to sell.
Their comments may all be the same length or close to the same length. One of them in the technology community that I’ve been monitoring since July, keeps all its comments to 49 words or less, to evade AI text detectors.
Though the above shouldn’t be the only thing used to discern a bot as you could catch a few organic accounts in that broad net too. It’s just some traits I’ve noticed that bots will exhibit.
There is also checking the timestamps, either on an app that shows them or on browser Lemmy, that will show you their comment and post times. Some bots will make long multi paragraph comments or posts within seconds of the last one, which is a dead ringer for a bot.
And sometimes, it’ll just plainly advertise AI services on it’s profile (which is also only viewable on certain apps or browser Lemmy), which is also a red flag.
It’s better than reddit, but less active.
Community is kind of toxic here as well, but more people are nice.
You still get randomly banned by some mod powertripping.
Overall, it’s much less of a junk medium which is perfect for me.
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On Reddit, you get banned for sane things like wishing death upon dictators (Putler, f.e.) and riling people up to fight back against ICE. Here, you don’t, yet.
Biggest difference is no dealing with that cunt /u/spez
I got banned for comparing israel to the Nazis.
