Last night, I finally made the switch from Reddit to Lemmy. Honestly it was something I should have done a long time ago. I’d been hearing about Lemmy for a while, but I kept brushing it off because it seemed complicated or too niche or too techy. But after one too many encounters with power-hungry mods, desperate upvote chasers, and a flood of obvious bots, I hit my breaking point. I actually ended up learning more about Lemmy from people venting on Reddit itself, which was kind of ironic!!
I set up an account here, took a last look around Reddit, and bailed. Reddit used to feel like a genuine community, but now it’s just a money-hungry platform, clearly trying to squeeze out every dollar as it spirals down. Lemmy might be new to me, but at least here, it feels like voices still matter. I know you guys already know this, but I want to throw it out there: You all are right!
As of 10:00am Pacific you posted 27 times in your first 13 hours? Is this what a bot or paid agent looks like?
It certainly is very familiar behavior.
You have, like, met @[email protected], right?
They keep telling me they’re going to mail me a check but I feel like I’m being conned…
Wait, there’s a “They?!”
This is a Sovcit thing, isn’t it. ISN’T IT?
Possibly. I have found a foolproof way to ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A the U.S. government and recoup the billions of dollars they owe me! You can too! Just send me $199.99 in Bitcoin…
same!
I’ve been accused of getting paid here and several times in dm’s. Who’s paying and how much?! lol
i don’t know what that is. Context?
They’re one of the most prolific posters on here. Maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of your front page will be their posts at times. I was ribbing the parent poster for implying that anyone who posts on here frequently “must” be a bot, which is obviously horseshit.
Some of us genuinely have nothing better to do.
Not that I’d know or anything. ¬_¬
I feel personally attacked
I don’t know why it tagged you. It’s been doing that the last couple of days
What does ‘front page’ mean? I used to read that on r/ too and never knew what it meant.
It’s the default feed you get when you navigate to your instance (lemmy.world in this case) as opposed to your subscription view or any specific communities/subs. Here it’s either “local” (posts from just this instance) or “all” (posts from this and other federated instances).
I’ve always just opened to subscribed new. If i run out of new stuff i hit subscribed hot or active, then all. So ALL is the front page?
I mean, there’s nothing that’s officially the front page but the default view is usually considered to be it. “All” ignores your subscriptions, and only honors your blocked communities/instances/users.
haha thx
He is one of the top poster on Lemmy also his new account: @[email protected]
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You decide for yourself.
Hopefully like!
Welcome to Lemmy. We’re glad to have you here. Please post!
u seem cool so far, man! So no hate from me
everyone who posts a lot gets accused of being paid actor by people from either side lol. Just take some popcorn and watch.
yeah I notice that. it’s such a strange thing for them to assume tho! lol
This place is made of core group of dedicated posters who literally blastong out comments all day since lurkers dont bother somebody has to do the hard work.
It’s the weekend. I’m new. I’ll probably post more stuff today. You think only a bot or paid agents do that? Paid by who?
the check’s in the mail…