Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty.

Meanwhile though traffic has increased a lot and I feel well entertained by the traffic in c/hfy c/noncredibledefence c/keepwriting c/worldbuilding and so on. It is certainly less than Reddit but often quality is substancially higher and is "enough" to keep me entertained.

Also I like that you can actually post something without running into a bazillion deletes, bans and moderator shitshat because your post was two words to short, not NCD enough and so on.

Sure, the C64 community on Lemmy is laughable. So is the ARMA community. I still use REddit for that. Also I often check up stuff on r/hfy and r/NCD but since one week I have been prefering Lemmy for that.

Also my longer posts don't get eaten up any more. God, three weeks ago most posts with 3k an more just got lost without feed back. Nowadays I have even manges posts around 20k without breaking them up. Though the editor is still lacking for longer posts. On Reddit I can copy-paste pretty much anything from Libreoffice into Reddits Editor (which is also pretty lacking but differently lacking). On Lemmy I have to run most text through a little perl script to get them even using correct line breaks perl -pe 's/\n/\n\n/' and different sizes for Headlines are much to few to select from.

Not perfect, not even very good but definitely promising.

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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've only seen one thread which felt completely like Reddit. The community was for the alien comics, and the comics were taking a dig at imperial units vs metric units. Nothing wrong with that, it was all in good fun and jest.

The comments though were toxic frankly. If you said you liked both systems and provided reasons, you were buried in downvotes. If you discussed some upsides of the imperial system, you were ridiculed to be a child. Even if you were an engineer and you provided a lengthy explanation, it was met with derision. And then there were all the logically inconsistent arguments and the notion that Americans were simultaneously idiots but also apparently complete geniuses with how complex they made the imperial system out to be.

I'm thankful it was just the one thread. All of the politics threads I've viewed have been more civil and open to discussion (and I consume a fair bit of political news). Lemmy, until that thread, felt like a place where nuanced opinions and discussions were encouraged and upvoted. I hope it's just a one off.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can imagine people who would get mad about imperial units are mad because that system already has had many people arguing for it. That's how it still persists, despite causing problems. The fact is that metric is definitely more logical but that isn't even its true strength. Its strength is in universal adoption, like all standards.

I'm guessing from experience that most people on lemmy are more collectivist in nature. Most people here seem to be anti-apple, against big business, and pro Linux and other systems meant to empower the common person, the underdog.

I have noticed repeatedly that people who seem hellbent on being "objective" rub me the wrong way. Not because I am against objectivity, but because they come across as condescending and in support of an argument I've heard a million times and I fully reject. So yeah, I'm guessing people might have thought you were in favor of the imperial system and just wanted to "seem" like you were being fair. /shrug

Of course the rebuttal you have could include something like "I'm just trying to provide information and encourage people to think for themselves". Sure, you might totally be doing that. But for people who already know what you're talking about, they might think you're being disingenuous. On reddit I felt like that constantly. So far I luckily don't feel that much here. I hope that sort of feeling stays on reddit as it really sucks.