• @hydrospanner
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        111 year ago

        Unfortunately, the community here is worse too.

        So there’s two big immediate strikes against moving from Reddit to Lemmy: your favorite niche subs aren’t here and the community is, somehow, worse.

        For many people that’s enough. For most of the rest, it only takes one or two other negatives to convince them that this isn’t a reddit replacement.

        • XbSuper
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          151 year ago

          Only reason I’m not back on Reddit is their garbage app. If they fixed that I’d ditch Lemmy immediately. The community really is worse here, no matter how much they want to claim it’s better.

            • XbSuper
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              81 year ago

              People here will attack you for having a slightly different viewpoint than the status quo, which I can’t really even figure out. It feels like a tight knit clique, and I’m not a part of it. Often times I just don’t comment on things, because I expect to get downvotes and made fun of.

              • @Jaderick
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                181 year ago

                That’s been the opposite of my experience here on Lemmy and the exact thing I’m experiencing more and more on Reddit.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Likewise. I guess when you hang out on the equivalent of c/denofvipers you shouldn’t expect a terribly friendly community. Don’t like the community? Find a different one! Found your own if you have to!

              • @[email protected]
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                91 year ago

                From what I have seen if you explain your viewpoint people usually tell you why they disagree and you can argue with them as long as you stay respectful.

              • @Custoslibera
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                11 year ago

                Without knowing specifics of the topics you’re engaging in have you considered maybe, just maybe, you’re not correct about these topics?

                Are you really being yelled down or challenged on how you think?

                • XbSuper
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                  21 year ago

                  I’m open to discussion, it’s why I’m here. The problem is generally how it’s done. If I’m wrong about something, I’m more than willing to change my mind when presented with new information, as long as I’m not being called stupid or other names along the way. Most of the time that isn’t the case.

                  This thread has so far been pretty good, everyone is being polite, and simply presenting alternative opinions. I’m still not convinced that will be the norm if I start regularly commenting though.

                  • @Custoslibera
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                    11 year ago

                    Hmmmm I guess it’s hard to say without a specific topic.

                    I’d say for me though, when I get downvoted a bunch sometimes I was just being an asshole, other times I have a controversial opinions and a lot of times it’s just that text is not a great medium to convey sarcasm or intonation which affects how things get interpreted.

                    When I reread the stuff a couple of days later usually I’m like ‘oh yeah I guess it was taken the wrong way because they probably thought XYZ’

            • @TurboDiesel
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              71 year ago

              Just don’t mention any software that isn’t FOSS. Ever.

              • @Cold_Brew_Enema
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                31 year ago

                Agreed.

                This comment is brought to you by Sync for Lemmy

            • @[email protected]
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              61 year ago

              Same here. The communities I’ve interacted with here, if I was on the equivalent subreddit, I’d have be downvoted to hell for not knowing enough. I find I’m able to have proper discussions here

            • @Custoslibera
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              11 year ago

              They mean the community here is socialist and offends their capitalist sensibilities.

          • @TheDarkKnight
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            91 year ago

            Yeah it fucking sucks. Every response is political and hyper hostile, like damn I get it capitalism and the USA have caused some issues but man I am just asking about Taco Bell’s new menu item.

            Tried posting about an obscure issue with the latest Steam Deck update and oh my god 1) I was attacked for being wrong, Valve doesn’t make mistakes ever and 2) I don’t understand how dev pipelines work (I work in IT dev for a Fortune 100 company haha)

            Posted the same thing on Reddit and the response was like hey thanks for the heads up and then helped people affected by the issue get to resolution.

            Lemmy as a community truly is super fucking bitter and it sucks. Hope it changes, Fediverse is a cool idea and I am so down for a Reddit replacement but not if it is gonna be an asshole factory.

            • Moxvallix
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              101 year ago

              I’m sorry, but your comments on the Steam Deck post certainly did not help with the hostility, as you were being quite hostile yourself.

              In that post, one person made a snarky retort, and clearly you were understandably upset, but I would argue a good chunk of the hostility in that post comes from you. I think possibly even just starting the post with the title containing “basically bricked my deck” is already framing the discussion in a somewhat inflammatory manner.

    • ikarushagen2
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      Well, a permaban was finally enough for me. Lemmy has a big disadvantage: the communities are quite small and some don’t even exist

      • SuperDuper
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        61 year ago

        That problem is like 100x worse if we’re talking about porn communities, especially the more niche ones. I’m subscribed to a lot on my lemmynsfw account and I’m lucky to see more than 10 new posts in a day on my subscribed feed.

        • @Bigtiddygothgrany
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          51 year ago

          Meanwhile I’m blocking 90% of the porn groups I come across on here.

          • ekZepp
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            51 year ago

            Indeed. I also posed about this. The NSFW tab is too widely used in many non-porn content, by blocking that you hide all those posts too. Be able to block an instance or having a [porn] tag would be a great improvement.

      • @McJonalds
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        11 year ago

        fwiw, ive found multiple small communities ive been missing popping up over time

        • ikarushagen2
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          I mean, i created the one i was missing the most myself so that’s no problem:D

    • Haus
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      81 year ago

      With the rate that Musk is destroying Twitter, Spez is surely going to have another grand fuckup soon.

    • Johanno
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      01 year ago

      I must confess that I after a few months installed the reddit app. I only go there once I read all content on lemmy but man I don’t have a nsfw only filter anymore on reddit.