The repost bots syncing vapid content from Reddit.
“Lemmy isn’t Reddit” but here are hundreds of communities that have no engagement outside of a bot mirroring Reddit content.
I just blocked all of them when they started spamming my feed.
“communities”
kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it’s just a bot talking to itself.
I’ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?
Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.
Not enough content to not use all.
Yeah, but all/new? If I go to all, it’s all/ top day. All/new is before the mods can deal with the truly awful stuff.
Agreed, in reddit I just browsed my subs and found some new ones every so often. In lemmy I browse all and block communities I’m not interested in.
I blocked the lemmit bot so I don’t see those, but still mainly view subscriptions
Block lemmit.online dude. Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months. Or block @[email protected], because Lemmy has supported blocking users for even longer.
Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months.
Depends on your instance; mine only switched last thursday.
Same, and I still haven’t figured out where to go to block instances instead of individual communities
I have one account I blocked it on and one I didnt.
Its useful for dumbscrolling.
I love when it’s a post where OP on Reddit was asking some kind of question.
It’s awesome they keep it to just a few bot, blocking it will clean the hell up your feed.
Lets be real, the comment section of some of the meme communities is best left behind.
I never knew the joys of spaghetti hentai until I saw a reposting bot on Lemmy. RIP spaghetti hentai bot. I’m not sure why it died.
Wait, the Reddit bot still works?
How so if Reddit changed (dumbed down) their API?
Anyway, I blocked that bot since long ago hah
Every day complaints about capitalism
To be fair, that was a lot of my Reddit, too. Antiwork and work reform were constantly on the front page lol.
It’s more a vent for them than anything else because they never actually do anything.
We need to stop talking and ACT !
You are saying this is a good thing right?
Does it make a difference to do it here though?
Define difference. For me personally it’s pretty cool to finally have some sort of community that seems like minded on at least the surface level instead of just constantly being stared at as if I were a fish who just questioned the usefulness of water.
Will it spontaneously make come about utopia? Probably not but if that’s your lower bar for doing anything I’m pretty sure you are gonna have a bad time.
While also being really bad at socialism
Meh, so do I.
Just block the communities, or even the two most notorious instances as a whole. The user experience gets 100x better.
Constantly telling people to install Linux, completely disregarding any nuance.
Install Linux
Nuance?
/s
The only nuance I’ve seen is “Ubuntu bad”
Or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Nuance
Don’t forget your thigh high socks and furry butt plug after you install Linux.
I’m not familiar, is Nuance the new hip distro I should be using?
Nah, it’s BSD-based.
I’ll show you nuance!
People saying how it’s no better than Reddit, without contributing anything but vitriol and negativity.
Yeah it does seem a bit more pessimistic than reddit to me, I wonder why it is
Interesting, I feel the opposite. I have had a few run-ins with… interesting people on here, but nowhere near as bad as on Reddit.
What subs were/are you on? I mostly only go back for my region-specific meme sub, so I guess it makes sense that there is less negativity. Plus sometimes searches with site:reddit.com
I don’t go on Reddit anymore except when some Google search brings me there hehe. I used to be mostly on gaming, tech and programming subreddits, plus a handful of hobby related subs like /r/mechanicalkeyboards, /r/fountainpens, and so on. Very little shitposting/memeing going on, admittedly.
I’m too lazy to type site:reddit.com, I just append “Reddit” at the end of my search query lol
Haha I set up
sras a macro for that to make typing it fasterI’m also too lazy to setup macros outside my editor 🙈
I feel like they’re a small minority of people who came here expecting it to be exactly like Reddit, but “better” without any clear understanding of what that actually means lol
The answer to damn near every question being “the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it”
A way to stop this from being the case is the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it
You’re not wrong, though
Well, historically the humans do seem to like doing that a lot.
And yet we’ve very very rarely done it,actually.
Well over short time scales, thankfully not :)
Rebuilding society is a lot of work I frankly don’t need right now.
I have a 30 min slot open next week Tuesday. Can we schedule rebuilding society there?
I envy your flexible schedule and your optimism!
I hate going to work
Have you considered the same job, but socialism?
“ The same job, except I’m now paid the same at my part time barista job at Starbucks.” (I guess the /s wasn’t obvious enough)
Are you under the assumption that Socialism is when everyone is paid the same for different jobs? Lmao
What would a discussion about socialism be without someone who has no idea what they’re talking about about chiming in?
Fair, haha. It’s always funny to directly see the exact same incorrect talking points time and time again that have no basis in reality except via red scare propaganda, like you can trace it
Linux and the whole FOSS everything thing.
Except when it comes to entertainment. Then it’s “Don’t touch my Plex”
Decide: FOSS everywhere or where applicable and don’t force your vision onto other users.
Really? I generally see people responding to Plex stuff by recommending jellyfin.
Yeah sure. But it’s (plex) usually mentioned first and then either by the foss evangelists (the annoying kind) or those not willing to spend money on plex and just wanting to recommend something else (the not annoying kind)
Based.
Stumble across an interesting community that’s been dormant for a few months
Decide to try making my own post there to see if others will follow and get the community going again
Get immediately downvoted by the subscribers who haven’t posted anything for 6 months and yelled at for posting something that’s not exactly what they wanted to see there, even though it clearly fits the rules
Make a few more posts in hopes of winning someone over then give up because people are being dicks or just not engaging at all
Eventually give up and watch the community die again
This has happened to me several times since I started using Lemmy lol
Post food in food porn. Gets ridiculed because my food is an abomination and should not be called by the foods name. See others post butchered regional food that i definitely know the locals will not recognize as that food. That post gets praised for putting an effort. WTF?
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I dare someone to post a pic of a deep dish pizza there. You’ll get wrecked.
Is it really that in depth? I mean good looking food is what I’m there for.
What I expected was food appreciation no matter how it looks or how it strays from the traditional recipe. But what I got was someone telling me that what I posted was not a traditional food yet I’m seeing other non tradional food getting praised.
I simply want food appreciation not food gatekeeping.
Honestly, just keep posting. You’ll bend them or they’ll start posting their own interests.
Which communities
Which communities?
I’ve tried posting in metalcore, dnb, and phonk and the users don’t get mad at me or anything but there’s just not that much engagement.
I’ve been told the beans are pretty good.
They’re even better in a comfortable pair of jeans.
They’re a good side dish to stroganoff.
Just don’t poop for 3 days after.
Linux
It feels more like a community.
Like it’s not quite what message boards used to be, where every user seem to have their own unique identity that everyone seems to be aware of… But it’s more so that then something like Reddit.
I’ve seen users call out other users saying things like You must be the guy that posted that thread the other day… Or something like that
I like that a lot of servers do regular “check in” threads where users just talk about what they’ve been up to.
We used to have this on some of my communities on Reddit. Sadly, even though total activity numbers seem to be back to normal in those subreddits, the casual chat thread is a shadow of its former self.
4 copies of every news story.
I thought that was just my feed.
One for the scrapbook, one for the noticeboard, one for the dunny, and one spare just in case.
8 copies of every nude.
“Hey Lemmy, I need a new refrigerator. Are there any good FOSS (preferably federated) options available?”
That and Star Trek memes.
Lmao. That’s a good thing!!!
FOSS
> thread about whatever
> half the comments are discussing how things have failed to federate properly
I personally haven’t seen that a whole lot
Me either, but… is it because the comments about not federating properly aren’t federating properly?
The world may never know.
I haven’t really seen that since August. But things were pretty bad June and July after the API debacle
A ran into it earlier this week. Though it seems to have been caused by someone from Mastodon trying to interact with Lemmy. Some of their replies came through, others didn’t. And images attached to posts work, but not ones attached to comments.
The most Lemmy thing for me is that I see more wholesomeness here than on Reddit, I’m not sure if that is the answer you were looking for, but that has been my experience so far.
I agree and it’s a nice change of pace. I hope we can strive to keep it that way.
<3 comrade
