If I could state something, although I myself am not using Lemmy (but am I suppose Lemmy adjacent!?) I would love for these little reddit arrows to disappear. Because I think they are of a Pavlovian nature. I dislike any of these buttons you click to express something without really saying anything. Like buttons, etc. I once, many moons ago, had a forum. The most recently responded content floated to the top. That’s how the forum dictated visibility. There were no Facebook-esq like buttons or anything. It was just people talking with other people. I liked that a lot more. I think these things aren’t healthy for people in general. I believe this experience could be free of all that hullabaloo, but I believe I might be in the minority when I say this. But I think it creates a more authentic and humanistic experience because in reality nobody walks around just saying “I LIKE THAT SHIT! YEAH, SUPER GOOD!” And when we compliment people it’s an act of kindness and I don’t think it should come in the form of some push-button action. But yet again, I know this isn’t really how things work nowadays. I just wish it were, because in a way I think it’d make social media so much healthier and a lot more even-keel and a lot less of a “popularity contest.” Which it really shouldn’t be in the first place, because it is all about sharing the human experience with others.
We need bigger, more uniform echo-chambers that are anti-liberal, anti-reddit, anti-microsoft, and anti-smug!
Yes, we all escaped the echo chambers of Reddit to get into larger and better echo chambers!
Furthermore we need greater, less dissimilar audio reflective spaces, that oppose the self-righteous, libertarian way of thought of the followers of Bill Gates and Alexis Ohanian!
I don’t actually know anything about Lemmy, but I’m hoping the moderators don’t just ban people cause they don’t have the same opinions 🤷🏼, like you know some other places…
Let me just bend this rule a little bit, ban you from the sub and then when you ask why block you for a month.
No, no, I’m not the asshole for bullying you out of the community. I’m an unqualified mod and what I say goes. You’re wrong, I’m right.
Hmmmm, you’re definitely somebody’s alt. Wonder what you did; bet the modlog would tell me.
I can help answer this for you. Yes you have power tripping mods on a small handful of servers or communities, but this is where the solution comes in. If you feel it’s not justified, you can join another server that fits your vibe better, or create a community on another server. !risa@startrek.website to !tenforward@lemmy.world is one of the biggest examples of a mass community migration.
Was that actually a community migration, or just one guy repeatedly getting mod actions for railing against the mod actions he’d gotten prior? I do remember seeing a ridiculous amount of modlog hits from that side of the fediverse super-recently.
Stop using giant catchall instances and switch to a smaller instance that’s more suited to you.
One of the major advantages of a federated system is that it doesn’t really matter which instance you use. There’s no real advantage to using a larger instance, and in fact there’s several disadvantages as the large instances can be slower, maintenance can take longer, it’s more expensive to run the servers, etc.
One of the reasons people moved away from Reddit was to avoid one company (Reddit) and especially one person (the Reddit CEO) having control over the whole thing. Using a huge Lemmy server kinda defeats the point of switching across.
Thank you. By the way, cool instance name
Thanks! I’m self-hosting it, and it’s currently just me using it. I had a few spare VPS systems and figured I’d try running Lemmy and Mastodon on one of them.
Personally I’d like to change the fact that every memes comment section is just serious conversation. Where’s the whimsy, where’s the tomfoolery folks
It’s time to be silly then :3
Be the silliness you want to see in the world. Start a pun thread or a switcharoo or all the things that used to make the old place fun. Lots of people will take that bait and run with it.
Thats what me and my 7 alts do
Yeah. I’ve seen so many rabidly political responses to memes. Lighten up folks!
I had to go back to my feed and check but I actually get very little in the way of meme posts. That may be the way I have my feed filtered though. I would welcome quality memes, but I also may be starting to age out of what is being created at this point
It’s gotta be more user-friendly to regular non-tech peoples, and it has to be explained/pitched to people in a more simplified way. Also there really should be an official mobile app.
Jerboa is maintained by Lemmy devs.
Would love to not be in a Yankee quip chamber. I know they’re everywhere but it would be nice to avoid “As an American…” comments lol
Feel free to join !yurop@lemm.ee if you are European
i wish people would stop complaining about leftists and linux discussion in general. i guess it makes me a hypocrite complaining about complainers but still it’s annoying.
also imo lemmy is basically reddit now (with the way .world is), with all its pros and cons. you cannot replicate something’s mechanisms to the tee and expect federation to somehow transform it into this otherwordly experience.
one positive thing i can say about lemmy compared to others though is that the small amount of content forces me to spend less time, and there are less reactionaries here than other places.
more diversty, more normies, and maybe at little less politics
fuck normies, I come here to get away from them. The other two are on point tho.
“more diversity” includes people whose entire lives are politicized, so you have to pick between “more diversity” and “less politics”, you cannot have both
Unfortunately, that’s for Reddit currently. Using Lemmy over Reddit is a non-normie choice already.
X men of Lemmy, what advice do you have for Y men of Lemmy?
Why not allow answers from women and for women? You already know most answers will be from and for men, why specifically exclude the least empowered amongst us? I thought I’d gotten away from that when I left reddit. We can be better.
That’s why I think !parenting@lemmy.world is better than !fatherverse@midwest.social
There can definitely be a split in the future, but for now it seems strange to exclude 50% of the parents population
I think there’s am askwomen like community. Can’t remember the name. If not, you can always make one!
Separate but equal, right?
Yes. I sometimes wonder if i understood reddit (and i guess lemmy) all wrong, i mean it says it is a link aggregator, but i was really there for personal or OC stuff people were posting to niche commuinities. Many niche communities that i’d be interested in here have hardly any OC or very few people posting.
Lack of people. With around 45k monthly active users, only a few dozen of those would create OC
There are a few in !gardening@lemmy.world for instance
Move from generalist instances to more niche instances with active communities, easy solition.
Reddit is too US-centric and male-dominated. Lemmy must change that
I think a large portion of lemmy is too focused on making lemmy popular. Fake engagement and posts that nobody cares about don’t create engagement. Instead, more focus on just enjoying lemmy would ironically lead to better posts and discussion. Likewise, people post the same articles to the same communities seeking engagement. It leads to dupilication which waters down the discussion, ironically, also leading to less engagement. I think federalised communities, as has been discussed would be a good solution. However, it strikes me that they don’t want to miss out on karma, for some reason. So, short term gain, for long term hassle of multiple posts. If some of the most prolific posters posted to the most relevant community and cross posted elsewhere, then maybe communities would coalesce more.
An example of this that really bothers me: I joined several gaming munis because I like to talk about games. But there are people out there who feel that a gaming muni should be about the games industry, and so those munis are just a constant stream of gaming news articles, patch notes, and trailers. Mostly with completely barren comment sections. What I wanted was the social experience of chatting with people about games. I don’t care about (as a random example) the latest Helldivers 2 patch notes.
I think less of an emphasis on having a steady stream of content and more on only posting something that you believe is worthy of discussion would be so much better. If people want to see literally every rockpapershotgun article, they can subscribe to their RSS feed.
Yeah. I find that a lot of comment sections are rather empty and some people who are there are really bad at discussions.
Does a book club meet up to just talk about what their favourite authors tweet about, or what new book is coming out soon in a series they like? No. They talk about what artistic choices they like and don’t like in the books they read, what emotions those books evoke, what other books they remind them of, etc.
I try to comment on things so there is engagement and conversation. Without engagement, this is just a collection of bookmarks.
But it’s kinda up to us to create that. Somehow. Sometimes even just a quip or shitpost comment can sort of open the floodgates.
The way I see it, people shouldn’t post things unless they have some discussion they want to have about that thing. They shouldn’t post just because it’s news. I’d be fine with Lemmy having far less frequent new posts if those posts were all created by people who were legitimately trying to share something rather than just generate content.
What I wanted was the social experience of chatting with people about games.
There’s !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
What I wanted was the social experience of chatting with people about games. I don’t care about (as a random example) the latest Helldivers 2 patch notes.
Please yes this. It’s good to see gaming related news but largely I just want to nerd out about the games themselves. Of course I should be told to just post my own damn content, but I have admittedly never been good about creating OC.
Ultimately a kind of uber cross posting that hides away the technical bits. I’d definitely love that. Or at least if I as a user could specify multiple communities for a post, and from a ux ui perspective it remains a single post.
Then again one could argue that subscribers should simply follow multiple communities and that solves the problem, too and it already works. So just avoid cross posting altogether.
Coalescing into massive communities is a mixed bag. Putting all your eggs in one basket makes them more vulnerable to rogue moderators, sudden loss of a server, the need to defederate if the host server gets compromised, provides a more attractive target for bots, and other bad actor things.
Yes it would improve ease of use and make Lemmy more newbie friendly, and it can be frustrating to have conversation splintered. Lots of times I’ll comment on an empty story at the top of my new feed only to find a lively discussion a little lower. That’s all frustrating, I agree. It’s also, I think, the nature of federating.
If multiple different news communities are thriving despite posting pretty much the same content, there are reasons for that. People can pick just one to subscribe to, and they don’t all pick the same one. That tells me there is something about each one that makes them attractive to different people.
I think it can really hurt smaller communities, though.
I think part of this comes from wanting a broader base of content, which I agree with. The rest seems to come from wanting the downfall of Reddit, who is in my rearview mirror so I don’t care.
We are currently like old Reddit, a techy, mostly progressive, crowd. That means a lot of uni-topic content.
When there are 10,000 users, and 5 of them are into sewing, the sewing community is dead. When there are 100,000 users, and thus 50 interested in sewing, content starts to form. You can see where this goes from here.
HackerNews has one of the best downvoting rules I’ve ever seen - you can’t downvote someone replying to you. I think that simple change massively changes the way karma works.
They also arbitrarily don’t allow you to reply to lots which is annoying. I often have follow-up questions (legit ones, not comebacks or other crap) that I can’t do anything about :(
But I agree, its generally terrible etiquette to downvote something someone has contributed to you if its goodfaith and also, assuming your thing is visible people are gonna see it and your interests are linked so its just silly, bottom-line
Let their compatriotd be their downvotes
Low-karma accounts are rate-limited. I don’t know what the threshold is, but that goes away after you gain some karma.
I def have some(not quite 1000) but had some pretty popular comments
From what I can tell, all the karma thresholds are dynamic and probably only knowable by admins. If nearly 1000 isn’t enough to avoid rate limiting then they sound pretty aggressive.
From my perspective HN’s approach seems to do pretty well at mitigating bad behavior, but might be a little too hard on newcomers and casual users.
Having a culture in the first place would be a good start.
Different instances tend to have their own cultures, you might want to go instance hopping.
With this amount or active users it’s not sustainable. I’m interested in broad topics and I try to chase the most active community for the topic, no matter the instance that hosts them.
The only meaningful sign of “community” I managed to identify is the tanky one, where it’s palpable a radical difference with the very generic “everywhere else”.
Start participating in smaller instances then, if Hexbear can do it, why can’t you?
Because I am but a single person, comrade.
Find an instance you like, and be the change you seek.
