What do you think is the biggest issue with Lemmy?
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But the dearth of genuine political discussion here is a problem for the people who do want it
It's not genuine if we don't want to constantly have to expose ourselves to toxic bigots or "smooth" manipulators who think it's not really toxic bigotry if they are "just asking questions?"
It's not genuine if we don't want to start every single discussion of something bad Trump did with rebutting a half dozen versions of "but whatabout that time when dems..."?
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
I will not be shamed into allowing toxicity into my life, on social media or otherwise, in the name of "avoiding an echo chamber." NOTHING is stopping a conservative from coming here and making cogent, factual arguments, aside from their own fragility.
The conservatives who "can't" post to Lemmy are the ones who don't know how to have an actual conversation and get banned. What fraction of conservatives that represents is an excercise left to the reader. But I've got my own opinion on that number for sure.
wrote last edited by [email protected]NOTHING is stopping a conservative from coming here and making cogent, factual arguments, aside from their own fragility.
Except for all the Lemmys saying that no conservatives should be allowed on Lemmy. I have seen conservatives try to ask a question. Then so many immediately jump to calling the poster a sealioning nazi, that they just get run off. Lemmy is one of the more hateful places I have seen.
I'm not conservative by the way, so you all don't have send me nazi dm's.
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Not enough people.
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People here are way bigger smug assholes than even Reddit.
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Sense of invulnerability and mod neglegence just because Lemmy is defederated. People naively think that makes it invulnerable to similar issues as Reddit (like toxicity/hivemind/bad modding.)
Back in 2023 I joined Lemmy because Reddit got rid of 3rd party apps. At first I was extremely impressed with the content here. While the community was small, meme channels were hilarious and had fantastic content. Same with the nsfw communities. However, now all the communities are filled with AI slop, political ragebait posting, onlyfans subsciption bait posts, and various other trash. So as far as I'm concerned Lemmy seems to be circling the drain. I can't in good faith tell anyone I know to switch to Lemmy. If a friend were to ask me "hey man, how's Lemmy?" My honest answer would be that it kinda fucking sucks.
wrote last edited by [email protected]People here are way bigger smug assholes than even Reddit.
Yep, and I am legit shocked about that. I still have a burner reddit account that I go to, and honestly, as much crap as reddit gets, I see way more assholes and ban-happy people here. On reddit someone gets mad at you or your opinion, and they just block you.
Here, a lot of posters who dislike ya will refuse to block you. Instead they'll follow you and downpost every single post you make. I never had stalkers like that on Reddit.
Like you, I was an early fan. And even tried to talk my gf into getting on Lemmy. The other day, she finally decided to, and I talked her out of it and told her to just stick with Reddit. lol
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Repeated content. When I doomscroll I see the same posts I've already seen instead of less popular ones.
I instantly disliked that when I joined Lemmy. This could totally be solved in the frontend by storing hashes of pictures I've seen before.
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Repeated content. When I doomscroll I see the same posts I've already seen instead of less popular ones.
Some of the lemmy front ends have an option to hide posts you've already seen. I know connect does.
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I instantly disliked that when I joined Lemmy. This could totally be solved in the frontend by storing hashes of pictures I've seen before.
Block the person or the community.
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not enough of my niche interests from reddit moved here. also the sports communities are a little bit like ghost towns
little bit like ghost towns
Welcome to my world! I try to post sports I watch on [email protected] as much possible as I can. Same goes for [email protected] and for [email protected]. Lately is more politics and memes.
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Communities are so easy to make on Reddit, I’ve looked into making one on Lemmy but I have no idea how to do it, it’s so much less accessible
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's easier to make a community here than on reddit, not to mention here its easier to moderate.
I think this page might help, but remember some instances might restrict community creation, meaning that you have to speak with admin.
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Not enough people for even slightly niche communities. Wanna talk about smash brothers ? 732 people, only 2 posts in the last month.
This is why people still use reddit on the side.
Why not create a community? We even have a community to promote communities https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo and we have couple others too.
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This is how I see it too. Freedom from the toxic ad-supported business model is a slow-burning superpower.
Until the people hosting the servers need money to run them, usually the problem when these kinds of idealistic websites grow
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Communities: People complaining about niche communities, yet they don't make or promote them. Create a community, promote it, share it with other users, share content.
Politics: I came here to discuss about everything, but I only see new and dead communities, being overtaken and post daily politics.
This is what I have blocked so far, yet more communities are being made, and one article goes on and on and on and on......
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The people that get their fee fees hurt from seeing opinions they disagree with, cf all the whinging abt tankies in the comments.
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I know that Reddit doesn't outright ban Lemmy talk, but on my reddit profile, I updated it with my Lemmy username link. I got banned from reddit a couple of hours later. No reason given. And I hadn't made any recent posts. Ban reason was "violating rules." lol
I had accounts banned for no reason after recommending lemmy to people, or makikg a username with lemmy in it.
Pretty sure they have a filter setup that automatically bans you.
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Repeated content. When I doomscroll I see the same posts I've already seen instead of less popular ones.
Make sure to sort your all feed by hot instead of active.
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the population is 99% children. Dumb, reactionary etc.
some of them are moderators
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It's easier to make a community here than on reddit, not to mention here its easier to moderate.
I think this page might help, but remember some instances might restrict community creation, meaning that you have to speak with admin.
https://support.lemmy.world/quickstart/#creating-communitieswrote last edited by [email protected]that is true, because reddit currently makes it very hard to even moderate a sub reddit, they ban new ones very easily, if not immediately. the only problem is lemmy doesnt have the traffic that reddit has for a specific niche.
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User volume and diversity is probably the main thing right now.
We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal. (Though often I appreciate the content anyway)
The diversity aspect is around how we have a lot of people in a small handful of demographics on here. It's getting better every day, but the thing that made Reddit great before they ruined it was everything you could think of had a community of people posing stuff about it, doesn't matter how niche.
One leads to the other though, more users naturally will mean increasingly diverse interests in our userbase.
It's about time Reddit fucked something else up anyway, it's been a few months
wrote last edited by [email protected]We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal.
That's because so many on Lemmy would rather downvote than post anything.
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Since karma isn’t tracked, I don’t think it’s a real big deal having a negative score comment. But since there are people who care anyways I think the downvote does exist, it can suppress people posting certain points of view lest you anger the tankie triad
Since karma isn’t tracked,
Some third party apps do track Lemmy downvotes though. And I've seen plenty of obnoxious posters bring up someones "downvote count" in conversation--just so they can try to win their argument.
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I had accounts banned for no reason after recommending lemmy to people, or makikg a username with lemmy in it.
Pretty sure they have a filter setup that automatically bans you.
It was probably because of ignorant, sexist posts.
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little bit like ghost towns
Welcome to my world! I try to post sports I watch on [email protected] as much possible as I can. Same goes for [email protected] and for [email protected]. Lately is more politics and memes.
Pleasantly surprised to see a football community that is actually about the game where you kick a ball with your foot.
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not enough of my niche interests from reddit moved here. also the sports communities are a little bit like ghost towns
Yeah same, the only solution is for you yourself to post in those niche communities more often, making them more active and thus more attractive for other users.
