• @[email protected]
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    1119 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      399 months ago

      “communities”

      kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it’s just a bot talking to itself.

    • folkrav
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      189 months ago

      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?

      • Deebster
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        109 months ago

        Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.

          • @[email protected]
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            49 months ago

            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.

          • JohnWorks
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            29 months ago

            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.

        • eatham 🇭🇲
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          19 months ago

          I blocked the lemmit bot so I don’t see those, but still mainly view subscriptions

    • Zagorath
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      149 months ago

      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.

      • Herbal Gamer
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        Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months.

        Depends on your instance; mine only switched last thursday.

        • @Passerby6497
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          19 months ago

          Same, and I still haven’t figured out where to go to block instances instead of individual communities

      • @Delphia
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        39 months ago

        I have one account I blocked it on and one I didnt.

        Its useful for dumbscrolling.

    • @EdibleFriend
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      I love when it’s a post where OP on Reddit was asking some kind of question.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      It’s awesome they keep it to just a few bot, blocking it will clean the hell up your feed.

    • @Delphia
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      59 months ago

      Lets be real, the comment section of some of the meme communities is best left behind.

    • @robocall
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      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.

    • kratoz29
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      19 months ago

      Wait, the Reddit bot still works?

      How so if Reddit changed (dumbed down) their API?

      Anyway, I blocked that bot since long ago hah

  • @BigTrout75
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    799 months ago

    Every day complaints about capitalism

    • @[email protected]
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      229 months ago

      To be fair, that was a lot of my Reddit, too. Antiwork and work reform were constantly on the front page lol.

      • kratoz29
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        29 months ago

        Does it make a difference to do it here though?

        • @[email protected]
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          89 months ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Just block the communities, or even the two most notorious instances as a whole. The user experience gets 100x better.

  • go $fsck yourself
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    749 months ago

    Constantly telling people to install Linux, completely disregarding any nuance.

  • @Donjuanme
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    679 months ago

    People saying how it’s no better than Reddit, without contributing anything but vitriol and negativity.

      • folkrav
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        269 months ago

        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.

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          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

          • folkrav
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            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

    • @MrJameGumb
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      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

  • @Delphia
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    The answer to damn near every question being “the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it”

    • @[email protected]
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      269 months ago

      A way to stop this from being the case is the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it

      • Carighan Maconar
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        109 months ago

        And yet we’ve very very rarely done it,actually.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          Well over short time scales, thankfully not :)

          Rebuilding society is a lot of work I frankly don’t need right now.

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        “ 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)

        • Cowbee [he/him]
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          Are you under the assumption that Socialism is when everyone is paid the same for different jobs? Lmao

          • @Passerby6497
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            69 months ago

            What would a discussion about socialism be without someone who has no idea what they’re talking about about chiming in?

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              49 months ago

              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

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    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.

    • @Passerby6497
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      259 months ago

      Really? I generally see people responding to Plex stuff by recommending jellyfin.

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        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)

  • @MrJameGumb
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    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

    • @[email protected]
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      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?

      • Abird
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        Is it really that in depth? I mean good looking food is what I’m there for.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      Honestly, just keep posting. You’ll bend them or they’ll start posting their own interests.

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      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.

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    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

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      I like that a lot of servers do regular “check in” threads where users just talk about what they’ve been up to.

      • Zagorath
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        49 months ago

        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.

    • @Agent641
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      One for the scrapbook, one for the noticeboard, one for the dunny, and one spare just in case.

    • @OhmsLawn
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      19 months ago

      8 copies of every nude.

  • @Stovetop
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    389 months ago

    “Hey Lemmy, I need a new refrigerator. Are there any good FOSS (preferably federated) options available?”

    That and Star Trek memes.

  • Zagorath
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    329 months ago

    > thread about whatever

    > half the comments are discussing how things have failed to federate properly

    • Abird
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      I personally haven’t seen that a whole lot

      • @[email protected]
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        Me either, but… is it because the comments about not federating properly aren’t federating properly?

        The world may never know.

    • @TORFdot0
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      I haven’t really seen that since August. But things were pretty bad June and July after the API debacle

      • Zagorath
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        29 months ago

        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.

  • kratoz29
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    279 months ago

    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.

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      I agree and it’s a nice change of pace. I hope we can strive to keep it that way.

      <3 comrade