DavriellelounaIs the number of Lemmy users increasing?
From what I’ve seen, no - the number of people actually regularly on here is going down, as I’m just seeing the same people more and more. When I use voyager you can see when your personal upvote/downvote score for every user on every one of their posts, and I’m mostly seeing people with a != 0 score, meaning I’ve interacted with their comments before. Means I’m not frequently seeing new people.
People like me who came here to escape the reddit bullshit of authoritarian power hungry mods and admins, insane censorship of anything right of “far left”, and reinforcements of echo chambers through moderation, quickly found out that, if anything, Lemmy is already worse in some regards than reddit.
It’s definitely worse. I have only stayed because it isn’t corporate bullshit. It’s still shit though.
Yeah I’m only still here because it’s something that still can have some decent conversations sometimes, and hey I’m always down for a good debate/argument with people of differing opinions. It’s definitely not going to grow to any great heights without massive changes across the board though.
How do you enable that Voyager thing?
Under settings go to “User Tags” and turn on “Track Votes”
Hmm, I already had that enabled. I see it now on your comments, but not on other people’s posts even if I upvote them and for people like The_Picard_Maneuver that I know I’ve upvoted in the past. I guess it’s just buggy.
honest question because personally I’m not seeing it or maybe I’m just blinded to it but how is it worse? From what I’ve seen the moderation hasn’t been anywhere near as heavy handed as on Reddit with the exception of nuking bots. Maybe because I’m just blocking certain instances that I’m not seeing it.
AppoxoNot the moderation but the general sentiment.
You always see users going on and on about Linux for every slight mention of Microsoft or Windows.
Same for other stuff like news. Everything is about the US and rarely anything else.
Everything feels politicized. And if not it’s an OS war.
And if not that it’s “Why are you not using this piece of software” solely because it’s (F)OSS.
But if you for example question why they are using Plex (which isnt foss) they deflect by saying Jellyfin is not secure enough.
As if they are targetted by state actors trying every zero day to gain acccess to their infrastructure.
TrickDacyI think they give away their real complaint when they mentioned “anything to the right of far left” as of reddit only allows far left views.
Have you not been on reddit in the last 5 years? It’s a highly censored, tightly controlled, far left echo chamber.
far left echo chamber
Here we go again with people who call themselves right-wingers making themselves the victims.
You want to explain how /r/Conservative bans anyone who has a different opinion? Or why /r/worldnews is controlled by AIPAC interests that support the genocide in Palestine through the terrorist IDF army. Or why /r/protectandserve is a heavily moderated far right-wing subreddit that supports police brutality?
It’s almost like people with fucked up views don’t like to get told they’re fucked up. Wow, what a revelation.
Thank you for taking the time to call out these specific examples of ops claim being a ridiculous farce
Reddit is anything but far left. Only a conservative would think that
What’s with all the “progressives” trying to convince everyone that reddit isn’t a far left echo chamber these days? Is it to try and change the well-deserved reputation of being a highly censored leftist shithole so people will take it seriously?
You’re a conservative.
And you’re a liar.
It’s not. But mods generally just ban/threaten you if you post anything they disagree with. just like reddit.
Yeah, you did a bit more than that, going by your mod history.
Anyway, it’s true that mods tend to like power tripping, because it’s about the only way to get something positive out of the boring and unpleasant work of an unpaid internet moderator.