A little maybe, but not much.
I’ve seen people say they left reddit to join Lemmy because of the toxic users. To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren’t much better. Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.
It is disappointing, but it’s the better option.
Well I don’t think we’re on here to appease you so shrug.
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Don’t then? Did I ask you to?
the point is lemmy is ours, not some psycho billionaire’s.
But what about the mods? Do you own the servers? Nothing is really ours. We all just chirp here and there but nothing is really ours.
Mods do not own the servers, no.
Nothing is really ours.
If you run your own lemmy instance on your own hardware it’s really yours.
this is the point i was making. You can never own anything in commercial social media, here you can own your own instance if you want to. And since instances live and die by users actually using them, each user has more agency too. reddit will keep going even without users.
Is there like a tutorial on this? I am kinda a dum dum but persistent.
Here is a general guide: https://rokibulroni.com/blog/self-hosting-lemmy/
But you an also go to !selfhosted@lemmy.world and get some advise from the good people over there.
Reading all the comments here venting about bad expereince and here I am just having a blast on Lemmy with a the nice interactions! :D
Good for you 👍
The userbase is largely overlapping as most Lemmy users are current or former Reddit users. The difference is largely in the communities and moderation, not users…
I quit redon’t before any of you did. I am the toxic avenger, most can’t handle my steez. I walk out the house blam banned. I say what I mean and mean what I say… most can’t handle mmmmmkay. I avoid conversations about the weather go right into the meat and potatoes. I use all the dirty words. I like wild and free just no n@ked pics of kids. Or crimes like grape. I don’t shy away from bearing wittiness to war crimes and talking about how that makes me feel. I also don’t cry about it either. I like to rub others faces in it. Most wouldn’t have silly opinions if they saw how the sausage is made. Now I have to worry about cussing. I sense a change all across the fedi… like a take over. This platform I think has been taken over and is now neutered and useless. Lets see if I hurt the mods fee fees
What the fuck
Don’t say =======( z + ! + 0 )===== or you will get your comment deleted. The mod boting is out of control on this platform. This is everywhere now.
I would go so far as to say it may be worse.
For example, there are certain people on Lemmy who hold very strong opinions on subjects and try to shoehorn in that opinion even where it is not appreciated. There are even more of those sorts of people on Reddit, but they are diluted by a much larger user base that knows how to act right.
Sure, there are those kind of users, but have you tried Linux at all?
The idea that contrarianism is somehow interaction is similar.
I’ve frequently had people start replies with “I strongly disagree” and then proceed to say the same thing as my comment back at me.
Some people are just fighting a war in their own head.
I don’t use Lemmy much anymore nowadays because of this. While it’s important an alternative to Reddit exists, so I try to support it, it ironically feels more like a hivemind than Reddit does (ironic because you’d expect the opposite for federated services). I think it’s because switching to Lemmy from Reddit requires either idealism or a Reddit ban, both of which disproportionately attract people who feel good when they verbally attack internet strangers for disagreeing with them on 1% of the implicitly agreed upon joint viewpoints. It also strangely reminds me of the feeling I got being part of an old gaming community that was slowly dying out, where eventually only the unpleasant ones who defined their identity based on it were left.
I’m always happy to see there are also people here who dislike this attitude, though, or even to see neutral posts. There is still hope!
I switched from Reddit because they banned the app I was using and I didn’t agree with the whole API thing.
I guess that’s kinda idealism
To be homest, it’s even worse here, at least in my experience.
Reddit has a perverse incentive to keep the user base frothing for engagement
There is no such incentive on Lemmy. We are toxic because we choose to be. All natural, free range, grassroots haters
So far I’m having a lovely experience
It’s much calmer
I like using Lemmy over Reddit which I don’t have anymore because it is much slower pace and I tend to open the app maybe once a week instead of scrolling Reddit an hour a day. Since Lemmy is less active it is also less bombarded with doom scrolling, hopefully more AI slop prone and less toxic overall because I don’t use the comments section that often anymore.
Lemmy is about 10000% less facebook normie. I don’t care if it’s the same amount of toxic, that’s already a massive improvement.
Most people are here because we were perma-banned from reddit. So basically all the worst people from Reddit come here 😄
Indeed, such as I. lol…I just can’t say whatever I want freely.
I was just suspended, but it pissed me off enough to switch platforms. This place is great once you block News.
I’m here voluntarily but I agree with the OP (do we say OP too?). Noob here.
Reddit’s problem is not the userbase, nor is Lemmy’s problem tankies – even though those are the memes we like to spread here. Reddit’s problem is its design, that is meant to keep you occupied in their site forever.
Unfortunately, Lemmy has inherited a part of that design, but fortunately not all of it.
