Wow, didn’t expect to make it here, thanks 😄
You do a great job, we appreciate it
We appreciate you :)
You hit the nail on the head with this one
no problemo
Love the proactiveness, great to see!
May I make one suggestion for your standard response? One of the things many of us hated about Reddit was the removal of third-party apps. Having an ecosystem of great ones, be they Voyager, Thunder, Sync, etc, is a fantastic benefit over Reddit.
Perhaps use that fact, and then provide your preference? Makes me wonder if there is a central list of apps anywhere, actually…
Good point, I could probably emphasize that a bit more.
https://www.lemmyapps.com/, it’s mentioned in the post
Oh totally missed that. Nice!
I would also mention that you need to spend quite a bit of your time blocking Japanese cartoon communities lol
And Kremlin/CCP propaganda
That one is mentioned in the post
I love you and all you do!
Great write up. Thank you!
Doing the people’s work 💪
Our man!
Lemmy is so much better than Reddit it is no contest. Lemmy just needs a bit more growth.
I honestly appreciate the current scale of Lemmy. It feels nostalgic of oldskool forums or even oldskool reddit. But I can’t deny the a larger scale brings certain advantages that are almost essential for a modern online community. It also brings risks. I’m very curious to see where the future will lead lemmy and if it will be able to withstand the traps others haven fallen into.
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Fully agreed. Lemmy‘s developers being tankies influences the whole ecosystem negatively. The strong presence of FOSS activists here adds another group of ideologues. Even mods outside lemmy.ml will moderate along similar hard ideological lines. Political content is often an echo chamber on lemmy. Downvotes for disagreements are the norm. The mods are more arbitrary than even those on Reddit. I’ve seen many times how they delete posts and replies, just because they offer disagreeing information. There are lots of unwritten arbitrary rules. Users are banned and the communities they founded are deleted with all their posts. I’ve seen lots of useful content removed through this mechanism. Overall moderation is far more arbitrary here than on Reddit.
Most other Reddit alternatives were filled with racists and cp. Lemmy is a haven for tankies.
Feel free to report such behavior on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
I don’t know if this is worth my time. It’s not just lemmy.ml and hexbear. lemmy.world, solarpunk, and feddit.org are also affected for example.
sh.itjust.works seems to be the exception. Answers that are tolerated in !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works get deleted or users banned on world, worldnews, news, and similar. I’m strictly talking about posts that don’t violate any written rules.
I suspect this is a major reason why lemmy isn’t more popular and growth has stalled. The core users are free software true believers and Marxist fundamentalists and want to stay among themselves.
I would say it’s still worth reporting. I don’t follow news or politics very closely, but having propaganda reported is always useful.
I suspect this is a major reason why lemmy isn’t more popular and growth has stalled. The core users are free software true believers and Marxist fundamentalists and want to stay among themselves.
I don’t think so. I’ve contacted a few mods from different subreddits to ask to create one post to talk about Lemmy, and how it could be an alternative to Reddit enshittification, all of them have been negative.
People are not magically going to learn about Lemmy if the platform which is the most similar does not allow to talk about it: https://sopuli.xyz/post/17981609
The important thing about the fediverse is that you can federate with Lemmy but use an alternative platform. If you don’t like the devs of Lemmy there is mbin and piefed
Reddit has its own “left-lite” communities (called left lite because they definitely aren’t as far left as grad or ml) that are very popular and hit the front page constantly. The difference is that Lemmy leftists are intolerant of liberals (and vice-versa). Hopefully a bit better balance is struck here but I’ve been able to curate my feed to make liberal-leftist conflict less visible.
Would you share your blocklist?
If you want, I can DM you. But I think the Lemmy.world defederated list is a fairly good starting point and then just block overly political subs if you get tired of seeing it.
Thanks
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True. I have only found one community on lemmy that‘s better than its Reddit equivalent. !politicalcompassmemes@lemmy.world isn’t swamped with fascists.
Just like previous Reddit alternatives quickly became refuges for fascists and jailbait, Lemmy is a refuge for tankies. They can say here, that would get them banned from Reddit. So a considerable part of the users here are of the more extreme sort in the first place.
The arbitrary moderation here makes it less attractive to post something of substance. You’re just one mod’s click away from it all being deleted. Reddit at least keeps your account, posts, and bookmarks around, if you get banned. Sure you can get around this by hosting your own instance, but that’s a ton of work.
The lower amount of content is an advantage in one way. Endless doomscrolling becomes repetitive quickly.
If reddit is so much better than here, then how about you do everyone a favour and fuckin go back?
Reddit has a ton of propaganda, too. You won’t escape it online. It’s worse on Reddit though because it’s bigger, so a more obvious target to astroturf.
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It’s fresh, for lack of a better word. Reddit is the same 5 questions on repeat in most subs. There are back corner niche groups that don’t exist here yet, but the main pages are mostly repetitive garbage.
And ten forward!
For me, I never had a Reddit account so I don’t have a basis of comparison.
I don’t even really care about the features, look, etc. I care that it’s decentralized and not owned by a corporation. That’s the beginning and end of it for me.
Lemmy isn’t perfect but everything it does is the best users can do to benefit the users.
Over time that matters the most as instead of enshitification you end up getting a progressively optimized app.
It’s the slow and steady wins the race approach.
I’m confused, he didn’t answer the questions or state their own personal opinions like OP asked. It’s just like a welcome landing message/page, really well put together but… that’s it? Lemmy’s number one ambassador explains why Lemmy is an effective alternative to Reddit… did they? Seems more like an introduction to using the lemmyverse, not a presentation of being an effective alternative besides that other social media sites don’t have the user base that this site does.
This all seems like weird circlejerking of an administrator.
I’m not an admin
lol well then we need to add a proper title you’ll agree too so we can expand this zeitgeist :P You’ve definitely taken on a roll, just not sure what that would officially be called.
mascot
However, those are stil a bit less mature than Lemmy, so for instance if you want to use mobile apps a lot, Lemmy is a better choice.
Speaking for fedia.io, the mobile browser interface is perfectly satisfactory, no special app needed.
I even use the Lemmy default UI on phone and don’t have any issues with that, but I’ve seen people to whom having a dedicated app was very important.
It’s definitely fine but I do like voyager. It has some nice features that are mobile oriented.
