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nyternic Jul 15, 2023

Okay so I'm already close to wanting to leave Lemmy

Okay so I'm already close to wanting to leave Lemmy - Lemmy.world

Yeah I’m only one person here, whatever, big deal. Anywho, it’s annoying to me that I’m inches away from leaving Lemmy because it’s instability right now is getting bothersome to use it. People have told me that there are other instances but the dealbreaker for me is to use yet more logins to use them, some of which may take time to get into because some lemmy servers have a review team that has to look over some things before allowing you in. Then, from that, it’s wonderful to run into and be confronted by shitty people who behave too similarly to the assholes I’d run across on Reddit. With their dishonest takes, participating in bad faith, their brigading and all that. We’re supposed to be, mostly, done with this Reddit shit but I feel like overtime, it’ll just all be contaminated with Reddit shit that we don’t need more of. I’ve only been on here for over a week and my hopes are considerably low. My only options right now is to simply once again go back to Reddit and just tolerate the shit there while wishing death on the nobodies that spend their waking hour on just shitposting on others for their own cynical amusement because their mothers forgot to swallow. And the other is to just simply water down my usage of the other social media platforms that I am on because this whole social media thing is getting stupidly silly and ridiculous as it is.

nyternic Jul 11, 2023

What are some Redditisms that Lemmy needs to avoid?

https://lemmy.world/post/1354764

What are some Redditisms that Lemmy needs to avoid? - LemmyWorld

For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers. Whenever every ‘What’s the worst show you’ve seen?’ is asked, you’ll get 10,000 “Kardashians” answers, which is just easy karma farming. If someone posts in a community that’s geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.

nyternic Jul 8, 2023

I think what needs to reform is the ecosystem of working

https://lemmy.world/post/1184943

I think what needs to reform is the ecosystem of working - Lemmy.world

Millions of us, everyday of every hour, are working a multitude of hours at different periods in the day. All so that we, can prop and propel the few lives that are on top. The few who’s lives we’re both knowingly and unknowingly sustaining. Who’s lives that have children that we’re indirectly supporting through our labor. Who’s dreams get to be realized because of our time spent doing these kinds of jobs. What we’re left with, is that we’re left to having to set aside our dreams or let them die off. We have to tell our children “sorry, honey, but I can’t help you get to your prom.” or “I can’t afford to buy your supplies” or “I can’t make it for your game”. All at the expense of slaving away for extra hours on top of the scheduled hours to work. This kind of ecosystem is unbearably uncomfortable to realize and practice against our wills. That’s what I’d like to see reformed.

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nyternic Jul 7, 2023

A lot of good insight on here.

I myself, am getting up there. I am only now just entering Hive Social as a twitter replacement. I’m BEGGING for a Facebook replacement at this point that’s not just another Zuck project. I’ve replaced Reddit with Lemmy so far.

As for anywhere else, I know of them but I can’t bring myself to the levels of contribution and commitment as I have with the other social platforms like FB, Reddit, Lemmy, Twitter, Hive .etc

Because it’s just too much work, you know? Your mind is continually running like a piston engine for thought as to what to say and everything as part of a community. Social Media risks everyone of running off the treads eventually until they just decentralize themselves from it all and hide in places like Discord where that’s all that they can handle, some people, no where.

I’ve been doing this social media thing since the 2000s, so that’s 20+ years of hopping forum to forum, from platform to platform now. We’re all forced to just run away, stand the tide of bullshit or just withdraw ourselves.

But yeah, I can’t do things like Gaia Online anymore because I’m way too old for that place now. Twitter, is Musk’s Playground, regardless of the new CEO in place. FB is just there because my friends on there are stubborn. Reddit, after years of being banned and having to make accounts because of the waves of toxicity, I’m finally tired of it. Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Tiktok .etc I refuse to join and apply myself in.

nyternic Jul 7, 2023

Reddit was once an enjoyable experience but...

https://lemmy.world/post/1142326

Reddit was once an enjoyable experience but... - Lemmy.world

The toxicity became too much to bear. I couldn’t go a post or a comment anymore without someone wanting to give me a hard time for it. Downvote brigading, using antagonizing logic to try and bait for responses that they want. The users digging into your post history to bring up things that have nothing to do with, with what you bothered replying to them in the first place. I don’t know who to blame, what to blame and when it happened. But, Reddit has long lost it’s status as being an open forum to peacefully and civilly talk anything in without someone getting way too entangled with their own self-importance and how their opinions have to be seen as some form of law to be obeyed by.

nyternic Jul 7, 2023

When a site doesn't redirect you to where you were after it nags you to log in to see content

https://lemmy.world/post/1141772

When a site doesn't redirect you to where you were after it nags you to log in to see content - Lemmy.world

God I hate this! Never fails, either. I’d be on a page of someone’s profile or some piece of content I’d like to see but I’m required to log in. Okay, I will do so. So I do and it doesn’t redirect me back! It just puts me in the front page, like no thanks, just bring me to where I was!

nyternic Jul 7, 2023

How close are you to a social media burnout?

https://lemmy.world/post/1141433

How close are you to a social media burnout? - Lemmy.world

Like, we’re in an interesting era of times where so many alternatives are cropping up because of the drastic and draconic practices that have been taken on the social media platforms we’ve commonly embraced. But eventually, starting new can get tiring after a while.