WoodlandAllianceIts OK for Lemmy to be a little rough around the edges. Its about the people who are here.
Snot FlickermanThis post gets it. It can stink that not every post has a bunch of conversations around it, but oh well.
Where the conversations do happen, they happen organically, and are often quite high quality, comparatively.
We can be thankful that Lemmy is (as of yet) mostly unencumbered with the problem of bots pretending to be legitimate users to drive the conversation specific directions (forum sliding, for example), and due to that we have some quality discussions that are able to happen.
Literally, the people here are just chef’s kiss I love you lemmings. Stay excellent and party on dudes. 👉😎👉
no bananaDamn right. Sure, content flows slower here but at least it’s not 90% bots (though there are some of those as well).
downpunxxNot a big fan of the unbridled Islamic Terrorist supporting Antisemitism, Lemmy/KBIN is sewer of one sided Jew hatred, same as Reddit, same as Twitter/X
Other than that, and the fact Lemmy was named after a dude who owned THE largest personal collection of Nazi memorabilia in the world for decades before his death, it's a great place to be, i'd definitely recommend it to all my family and friends
It’s great if you’re looking for an echo chamber, but if your opinion is slightly different, you’re ostracized.
I mean I guess that’s just the internet nowadays, but lemmy isn’t any different.
I don’t know if I would use the word ostracized, but there but there sure are a whole bunch of slapfights, and remarkably little moderation (in both senses of the word).
It’s funny how many Zionists are in this comment chain just to whine about people calling out their terrible opinions
Thanks for proving my point.
I think you’re proving theirs
Ah yes, my comment seethed with Zionism, didn’t it?
Don’t do this.
GodricSomeone help, my eyes are rolling into the back of my head and I can’t get them back
I think it’s rather that zionists live in echo chambers themselves, to be honest. How can you look at near unanimous global outrage and say that the people outraged are the ones living in an echo chamber? No different than people claiming TikTok is pushing pro-Palestine content, when the reality is that the majority of people are pro-Palestine in nearly every single country on this entire planet.
I hate to break it to you Wood, but everyone besides you are just a script
Match!!it’s also small enough that you can start beef with specific people 😈
NegativeLookBehindPork is better
you’ve made a powerful enemy today, [email protected]
You’ve met your match, match
ElPussyKangarooWell, beef is not allowed in my religion, so I’m now offended. Hope you feel good about yourself 😤
Beef? Pork? To Soylent Green factory with all of yous!
(But not really, the opposite actually, start multiplying already)
(But not really, the opposite actually, start multiplying already)
🥺👉👈
eatham 🇦🇺Also, I often recognize usernames posting and commenting.
Same! Which really bring me back to the forum days, which I love. Iron Maiden’s fan club has a forum run like it’s 1999. I adore it.
I appreciate that every post doesn’ have 3000 comments. I can actually contribute to a discussion and get heard.
remoteloveAnd not so long ago, you did get heard, but there was also a 50/50 chance of being called a capitalist pig and a baby killer regardless of what you contributed.
It seems that everyone has found their own corners on Lemmy now, so that is nice.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncryptedIt’s because it’s not as homogeous a platform since the flood from Reddit. The problem with any small platform isn’t strictly because they’re small, mind you, but a side effect of getting bigger is usually more people and that means more diverse range of opinions.
It’s not a hard and fast rule but that’s usually what I’ve noticed.
Also, on Reddit when you post a comment that gets even a little bit popular and visible, you always get some asshole who misrepresents your point and wants to pick a virtual fight.
I never know when to engage or ignore.
In any case, it’s never satisfying. Ignore and you feel bad. Engage and you feel bad.
Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.
Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.
It’s way fewer assholes, idiot
humourIf you can’t tell, this is a joke
Idk, I always thought that about 1 asshole per human was a good ratio to have, it’s a proven design
KSP AtlasWhat about animals?
Definitely more than one animal per human, animals are cool!
yeah there’s plenty to go around :)
For now :'(
be sure to get one while supplies last
personally i dont take grammar seriously. u need to chill somehow
Always clarify or add an /s. It’s not worth it
You’re wrong. People always understand sarcasm.
Lol. You’re right!
Not even the fight and the downvote is enough for them. Then it turns into mod complaints and permabans.
There’s certainly some of that here, although much less than Reddit and various other popular places on the internet. Something I’ve noticed about the disagreements here though, is that they don’t instantly devolve into abuse and name calling, and feels almost… Professional? In a way. It feels like the way people disagree here is less like how things genuinely are on the internet, and more like a disagreement in a workplace. Things stay civil and respectful, nobody’s abusing anyone else.
I’ve also noticed that different opinions can actually coexist here, like you’ll have a post with dozens of comments and 1 of those comments states an opinion, and then somebody with just as many upvotes makes an entirely separate comment with the opposite opinion. You never see that on Reddit, where any comment with an opinion different to whatever the main ones on that thread are will be downvoted into oblivion. Hell, it’s rare to even see a 2 posts in the same subreddit with differing opinions where one hasn’t been downvoted
thats because we dont have those threads were anyone would elaborate on the upper comment with a stupid reply, and that reply gets replied to with another slightly different but also stupid reply…here we get actual comments and replies…wanna learn alphabet ? go to kindegarten … it helps to have a mature and respectful userbase, which would also wouldn’t require much effort to moderate. sometimes it costs nothing to be nice …
Prometheuscontribute to a discussion and get hard
This is how I read at first, and was like, same bro, same.
Did you head over to lemmynsfw?
Of course I did!
💀 same
Honestly if you’ve been on Reddit for a long time, you miss when it was smaller. It’s so big now that every sub is massive (which has its positives and negatives). But gone are the days when an AMA of a garbage man would be the big post.
I wish. I’m still constantly called a bot, a troll, and capriciously banned. but I’m earnest and I don’t participate in personal attacks so…
For me Lemmy has been about 50/50 great discussions/trolls looking to be confrontational about any little thing they can pick apart.
Aside from a few private subs, that’s still a better ratio than Reddit by a long shot.
Main benefit is that I haven’t touched Reddit since RIF went down. That’s a win regardless of what happens to Lemmy.
doublejay1999In all fairness, I’m more of an asshole than a troll. When I’m rude, I’m not doing it for clicks : it’s the real me .
Have you tried, idk, not being an asshole?
Nah, that’s too much work.
I saw a person just trolling any political post they could find.
Not having a centralized point system means people are a lot more willing to be real, rather than trying to play to the crowd.
Doesn’t help on Reddit that everyone on Facebook uses it and feels like it’s full of lobbyists getting paid to promote things
I enjoy the smaller community. Theres a chance in hell ill see, or even be involved in a conversation beyond movie references and memes.
I also like memes but your feel me?
ImFresh3xI’m just here for the pretty 3rd party apps
Same. I can’t stand the official reddit app, so here I am.
There are dozens of us!