…for now.
Once you get critical mass it’s a race to the dumbest post.
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I am trying to get there, but so far I don't seem to be dumb enough. Please kick me when I make it.
Would it help if we just started racing to comment "first" on every new post?
this is why small instances ppl
I'm sorry, I'll try to be more violent.
I beg to differ, but if you wish so I may try to throw you that chair, sir.
This is the spirit!
Absolutely not. But I must say that I don't miss the toxicity at all. Being on the (liberal?) Fediverse has done wonders for my mental health. There's little tolerance for bullshittery and that helps foster a stronger sense of real community for a greater cause in my mind.
I don't think it's even necessarily all the same political alignment, so much as it is that we're all united against Reddit and this corporate tomfoolery right now. It won't last forever, but in being united for a common cause, we've sort of achieved world peace lol. I'm a libertarian. I've seen us, republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, socialists, and everything in between uniting to discuss technology, bash Reddit, and work to build back our global communication forums. This is the progress in humanity that the internet's creators envisioned. This is unity and peace. It won't last forever, but if we can at least continue to respect each other (while holding different opinions), unite against those who show no respect or dignity, and continue to rebuild together, we have in my opinion bettered humanity for years, hopefully generations to come. Even expecting that this platform won't last forever - none ever will - we have learned through this to not take our open forum and free discussion for granted.
Also there is (as of now) still far less shitposts and low effort commentary. I definitely won't miss the endless circlejerking either.
It's what happens with a small community. Interaction and discussion VS lowest common denominator humour for mass votes.
We all want Lemmy to succeed, but that only means that it'll turn back into reddit. It's the natural cycle of social media.
Possibly but at least Lemmy is federated.
Thanks for the gold kind stranger?
Come a day, we'll all end up back on Fark and the cycle will repeat itself.
I told my gf, who I met on Reddit, about migrating from Fark to Reddit, and I'm trying to get her to join us here... but now she went and is exploring Fark, which is somehow still around, and I'm like you're doing it wrong!
What Fark? Never heard of that.
Oh God no...
Enjoy it while it lasts. It probably isn't gonna be like this when more refugees have arrived.
federation makes the possibility of a sane lemmy experience much more real. we can all slink off to our own quiet (but still tightly on-topic) "slices/sublems/whatever" when the insane ones get too much. federation is the killer app.
So far the people who were most likely to jump ship on reddit were those who were the most fed up with what reddit has become lately.
I just had my 10th cakeday on reddit about a month ago and I've seen a steep decline in quality for both posts and interactions for the last 4-5 years, with it accelerating in the last year or so. Those that never tried old reddit on desktop or a 3rd party app see no reason to jump ship for another platform, and a large portion of the rude commenters and trolls showed up after the new layout was default and reddit had their own official app in the app stores.
Reddit just filtered out most of the people that made the site what it was in the first place. If it was turning into a shithole before all the people that actually care about the site left, just imagine what it will be like in the coming weeks now that we're gone.
If it was turning into a shithole before all the people that actually care about the site left, just imagine what it will be like in the coming weeks now that we’re gone.
i don't know why this made me lol but it did
Give it time, we're all new to the party.
Once we're all comfortable we can argue like we used to.
Hey, fuck you!
You can't tell me what to do! I wanna argue now
I'm ready lets do this thing.
Hey fuck you man! I'm comfortable!
Yeah, for now...
For now dun dun duun
Reddit has excessive bureaucracy and modbots who shadowban you for reasons as stupid as posting in a certain sub once despite never participating in the sub you got banned from.
As long as you don't go into any post regarding the Ukraine war...
heh that’s a good one
so far I've experienced a ton of whataboutism and really sus views/devils advocate type shit on here (lemme.ml) that makes me not want to browse. is there a better alternative that's not saying "why can't we all just have our own opinion ❤️🌈" on shit like genocide and anti LGBT culture
There are other lemmy instances which might work better for you than lemmy.ml in that case.
I believe the beehaw.org instance might fit that description, would recommend checking them out.
gonna be a while until the place starts arguing and fighting like reddit did. just need some differing opinions mixed in, then BAM! I doubt it will be as bad since people aren't chasing karma as much.
What's the deal with karma on lemmy, is there something that makes it much different from reddit?
No global count afaik.