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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 year ago (6 children)

At this point (and with Sync, as I used for reddit), Lemmy is indistinguishable from my reddit browsing experience. Except on Lemmy I don't encounter constant hostility.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't encounter constant hostility.

That sounds like something one of you people would say. πŸ–•/s

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can fuck right off with that attitude, mate.

/s

[–] Player2@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are still few very niche/local communities here that I have seen, at least active ones. But that's only because of the much smaller user base

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are a couple of communities I miss, like r/fountainpens and r/suzukisamurai. Im sure I could figure out how to create those communities, im not sure I'd be a good mod.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tbh there won't be much to mod in niche communities. so don't let that stop you.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're probably right, but I'd really hate to have to clean up a bunch of nazi shit from my nice family friendly Samurai circlejerk.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do you plan to post "nazi shit"?

  1. I believe you would be
  2. you can always get better mods to help/take over in the future.

Be the change you want to to see in the world

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i experience some hostility on lemmy, but i haven't noticed any bots here cruising for karma.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have gotten way more bans on lemmy so far, just for calling out tankies. Or simply enumerating the UN definition of genocide.

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lol lemmy has a Tankie problem but they're being drowned out. They get mad because they can't just own the libs I guess!

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been lucky so far, but ever since leaving reddit I've been in an infinitely better mood. Sometimes reddit would bring out the worst in me as well, and I'd be short with people or needlessly confrontational. You could tell when I was in a shitty place mentally because my post history would shift from light-hearted and sentimental to easily annoyed with frequent cursing. Reddit's algorithm really fine-tuned its way under my skin, and I found myself increasingly angry as the years went on. US political issues really got me going. I was never more irritable and mad at the world than I was over the past few years on reddit. Now all of that is just gone, and my Lemmy usage is about 20 minutes per day. I'm in a much better place.

[–] mob@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the hostility is about the same tbh, only different is this place uses the term Tankies a lot more.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

That's because there are a lot more tankies

[–] dogebread@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That and the impact. The amount of communism or total and complete anti capitalism without nuance or depth, right or wrong. Reddit was very left, but not like here!

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tankies aren't communists anyway. They're Russian trolls, CCP shills. Those are fascist dystopias. Just mention Ukraine being invaded and they go ballistic.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The quality of posts and comments overall isn’t where Reddit was. That comes with volume, though.

Also, I haven’t found a single niche community that does what Reddit did. For instance, if I’m into a specific show, Reddit was my go to place for discussions about a new episode. Lemmy does not have that for any show I watch.

[–] Loudpaperclips@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Niche comes with volume too. And really, niche is what's important, not the broad strokes (I'd argue the boons of Lemmy are broad strokes at least). Reddit is worse for a lot of reasons, but man oh man, how can you convince someone to come over when the value is in the volume? I'm still primarily on Reddit, actively contributing to the problem.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well you might have to block the Linux spam but otherwise I agree.