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[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 334 points 2 months ago (6 children)

....I'm gonna go ahead and say it.

I like it better here.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 62 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Same. This place is great, even with the tankies from lemmy.ml and the fascists from hexbear, at least we somehow still get along.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not all of us are tankies fwiw, I just wanted to be on the largest and most well-supported instance with generally the least amount of downtime.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 2 months ago

Fair 🤷‍♂️

[–] oce@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That one isn't the largest, no. The largest is .ml and it's run by the two Lemmy maintainers.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am confused, every statistic of .world seems bigger. What am I missing?

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Looks like I was mistaken, then. Looks like .ml isn't the largest, it's just the one run by the two Lemmy maintainers, which for me (combined with .one keeping going down when I was actively using it) made it my home instance.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What's the deal with having a .world user complain about ml and hexbear in every single thread lately?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 28 points 2 months ago

It's crazy. Almost like we all have the freedom to say whatever the fuck we want, including complaining, because we fucking can.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm not from .world and also complain about it sometimes. In my opinion, it's a legitimate reason that makes Lemmy less attractive, as a consequence, you have to set up blockers to keep your sanity which is a hassle for the average user.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Having those arround adds some flavour to my feed. I'm like "ooh so that's what they are up to" I wish that smaller communities thrive but well.

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[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 47 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I honestly believe that Lemmy is cool, but it either needs more content or I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed "better". At least it's not that addicting, and the "small community, small town" vibes gives charm to it.

I've been here since August 2024 or so.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I agree, so I've been posting photos and things. What we don't need is a bunch of autoposting bots.

If you want to find the busy threads though, sort of Active and All. And just see what is going on across the lemmyverse

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you want to find the busy threads though, sort of Active and All. And just see what is going on across the lemmyverse

Yeah, this helps, but it's not always topics that really interest me. We kind of need more diversity of content around here.

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I prefer scaled to active sort for that reason.

I agree though, more content and more content diversity would be great.

The small percentage that contribute content regularity in social media platforms instead of just consuming are great.

I'm too boring to have much content that would be good for anything other than microblogging myself though.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Lemmit bot was one of the first things I blocked. Idk if it's still around. It would copy like every post and comment from Reddit lol. It clogged my feed so bad. If it's still a thing, block it, you'll be glad you did.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On Reddit, everyone is trying to get a million votes and just brutally murder with words everyone. It either gets really hostile, or just lots of bots posting bot shit.

On Lemmy: Even the posters I disagree with, I have a lot of fun with them. We say stupid shit all the time and accept the upvotes/downvotes with our shitposts.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

That's been my experience as well. I'm using a Lemmy client that allows me to tag users, and I've been tagging people who have posted comments that annoyed me. A few are obvious trolls, but the rest have posted many comments that I liked or agree with since I've tagged them. It's been refreshing to see, actually

[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy is nice, but the content on it is quite niche. If you want something less tech-oriented, you're generally out of luck, for example.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reddit startled the same way. It's aways first the tech weirdos, early adopters and Foss enthusiasts that start it.

[–] creamy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Just trying this put. So far it's neat but way too complicated for most users.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Where my bass fishing homies at?

[–] Tricky@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

since August 2024 or so

So, two months? Lol

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 months ago

Wait, it's have been only 2 MONTHS? Phew, time's passing slower than I though!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

It's a lot better than August 2023!

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 2 months ago

I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed “better”. At least it’s not that addicting

Lemmy's feed is intentionally (or I think it is intentional at least) worse in this aspect than Reddit's feed, in order to not be as addictive. Take that how you will.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This place feels like old reddit. When we could have actual discussions and not just be downvoted by bots. It’s so much better here

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

And you can still tailor it to yourself. Instances have different mindsets to different topics and things they allow or don't and there's tons of people to agree with or disagree with but everyone is cordial.

I just don't have a reason to go back

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's so much better. Personally I don't hope it grows much either. Satisfies my content itch, have still had some good quality convos here, seen some great comments threads. Absolutely none of the bullshit that Reddit purposely encourages. Plus most of the zeebs and the chronically offended seemed to have stayed with reddit, and I'm super OK with that.

[–] Monomate@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'd argue Lemmy is turning into its own echo chamber. I've seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit. I erroneously thought people would learn from past mistakes, but sadly this is not what happened.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Then just go to a different Instance. I agree the powermods are a headache, but at least with Lemmy they have way less power. You can start a new sub with a matching name on a different Instance, and draw people away from the power mods. People get pretty sick of the power mods, pretty fast.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 2 months ago

I’ve seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit.

The difference is that when that happens on Reddit, you can't go anywhere else. On Lemmy, you can go to any other instance and do it better if you feel the mods elsewhere are bad.

[–] helloworld55@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree with everything you said, but I gotta ask: What is a zeeb?

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I believe the definition is somebody who is totally lame.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The lack of commercialization being shoved down and up your orifices is really nice.