Lemmy is vile and aboslutely terrible, here's why
Posted by Civil_Helicopter5938@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 97 comments
Okay, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon of the Lemmy hate train because it's all honestly deserved. I tried to give Lemmy the benefit of the doubt by forcing myself to actively use it for two months now. I just can't take it anymore, the platform is truly irredeemable and people deserve to know why. Here are my reasons:
- The search bar is terrible
- The messaging system is even worse
- The bigger instances can get pretty laggy at times to the point where you can't view comments or even upvote posts that you like
- The moderation system is atrocious, even worse than Reddit
- Navigating through comment chains is clunky
- There's NOTHING there besides insufferable tech bros, far left extremist politics, and really bad shitposting
- There's no active communities for sports, gaming, music, hobbies, nothing
- The hot /active page is barely active outside of a few reactionary political posts and couple of tech posts hating on AI
- The community is completely infested with far left extremists, and that's not an exaggeration. I'm talking about full blown Marxists who simp for dictators and tyrannical states, larp as violent revolutionaries, hate liberal democracies, and are perfectly okay with genocide
- You thought the mods here are terrible? Wait till you see the ones over there
- The community is so completely irrationally stubborn, hostile, and deranged that you literally can't even have a normal conversation with the average user there
- The community is also elitist, snobby, and have a superiority complex
- The developers are straight up Maoists
Basically the Lemmy experience can be summed up like this: Take the new Reddit UI, and make it worse. Take all the far left extremists that got booted off of Reddit from places like r/GenZedong, r/ChapoTrapHouse for being too violent and extreme, and gather them in one place. Finally, remove all the content on Reddit except for far left extremism, bad memes, and tech circlejerks, and you're set. All you have to do now is shake all of this up, and vomit it out in the form of a platform, and voila, you get Lemmy.
I'm not one of those people complaining because I got banned, my account is still active on there, but I doubt I'll ever use it again. If you're considering switching over there, you're free to do so, but I wouldn't recommend it. It's literally not worth your time.
alwaysstaycuriouss@reddit
Reddit is evil tho
ItsMrDante@reddit
Dude saw someone talk shit about Trump and made a hate post out of it
Kasenom@reddit
The issue with reddit alternatives, is that there's an incentive for extremist communities to exist and a disincentive for more stuff with a more mainstream appeal.
Incentive: extremists get kicked off of reddit, they still want to have somewhere to spread their ideas and circle jerk, they create and mod reddit alternatives
Disincentive: people who want a more chill mainstream appealing community stay on Reddit because they're not being modded out. Even if they're upset with the admins, the corporate leadership, the enshittification of the app (closing down alternative clients, repost bots). Despite all this stuff... it's still easier to just stay on Reddit because the community is already built up here.
Civil_Helicopter5938@reddit (OP)
Perhaps you're right, but that is really an unfortunate situation because I would very much appreciate a viable alternative to Reddit that isn't infested with extremists.
kama-Ndizi@reddit
That is a funny statement given that reddit is infested with extremists and you are still here.
sloppychris@reddit
This is why Reddit thinks they can do whatever they want
xX_PushPop@reddit
"people who want a more chill experience won't get modded out."
I just got permbanned from r/showerthoughts because I asked a mod about why their bot removed my post, and the mod was uneccesarily hostile about the whole situation, leading to me proving him wrong- wich ended in my ban from the subreddit.
There is no "chill experience" on reddit anymore.
BlazeAlt@reddit
Feel free to join https://lemm.ee/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Various-Singer4422@reddit
Try azodu.com! 100% AI moderated for impartiality.
ultradip@reddit
AI without human oversight can be even worse because AI is terrible at context.
JimothyJollyphant@reddit
I don't know man. Reddit has turned into absolute shit. I've been trying to write a post on r SteamDeck about my D-pad issue multiple times and it gets removed immediately. Mods won't respond. This is my current day experience with reddit, even in hobby communities.
The mere fact that I force myself to write "r Steamdeck" instead of just simply linking to the subreddit tells a lot imo. I've seen subs removing your comment for fear of "brigading" or something. It's so exhausting. I feel like I'm tiptoeing around anything I say or do. In 25 years on the web, I've never felt so anxious about writing anything at all, even just asking about a technical support.
I feel stuck with no valid alternatives available.
muyuu@reddit
I'd extend your assessment of Lemmy to Mastodon. In fact, IMO Mastodon is even worse. Lemmy can be useful in niche topics, although that's also the case with Reddit niche subs, hackernews and specialised tech boards.
Kasenom@reddit
With mastodon it really depends on the instance, the important part is that the largest instances aren't run by extremists
muyuu@reddit
for me Mastodon is worse not because of the communities necessarily, but because of how badly it's function is downgraded by segregation
twitter and clones are shitty for anything other than quick announcements with reach - even the simplest back-and-forth convo becomes a struggle with their interface, which is purposely designed to disincentivise verbose threads; so now you take that and lessen reach and you have something that has a massive design contradiction, and it shows
with reddit, at least you have a design more tailored towards having back-and-forth and specialisation by subject, so partitioning the platform still hurts it - filter bubbles on steroids get generated by purity spiralling instances that block each other on purpose based on subjects irrelevant to most conversations - but it doesn't hurt it nearly as much as it would hurt a twitter clone where the entire point of participating (other than empathising and patting each other's backs) is reduced to nearly zero
so, even though Mastodon may well have less of a polarisation problem, it has a massive problem with purpose; with the platform making any sense in the first place other than dislike of Twitter while still wanting something like Twitter, but going about it in a pointless manner
JessHorserage@reddit
Because you can't rip the forums themselves without causing a stir. It's a replicatibility problem.
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
BINGO girl.
locka99@reddit
Funny how this is the second search result when searching for Lemmy. Almost like Reddit is terrified of people knowing of alternatives. And BTW, all the points raised are BS.
julianoniem@reddit
Left that place about 6 months ago after only a week. The promoting of Mao and/or Stalin style (many more deaths than tyrant Odalf Hilter) politics also by mods in completely unrelated tech or other communities was not an exception over there.
PuddingFeeling907@reddit
You can avoid tankies completely at https://lemmy.cafe/
PuddingFeeling907@reddit
Join Lemmy.cafe to avoid the tankie problem completely.
LibertyLizard@reddit
There is an element of truth to much of this I don’t know how anyone could think the interface is worse than Reddit. Reddit’s is just awful, has ads, and there are plenty of alternatives for Lemmy so take your pick. This is a very weird complaint.
gal_z@reddit
The least disturbing form of ads.
ShouldBeeStudying@reddit
old reddit. no ads. Decent interface.
I really wish there was a setting that let me collapse everythign other than top level comments by default though
rglullis@reddit
Look, I understand your frustration and agree with almost everything*. The problem is, there is nothing else better out there and if people like you just give up, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
We need to keep in mind that the default option for 99.999% of people will be Reddit. If we don't stick around at any of the alternatives long enough for them to grow, they will never gather enough people and will wither away. If we don't get out of our way to create the content that we would like to see in the alternatives, then people searching for content online will only find Reddit in the results of their queries. I know it sucks right now, but if we really want to get out of Reddit and make it lose its monopoly over the community and internet discussion, then there really isn't any other way other than championing the open alternatives and fighting for them.
* The points I don't agree: 1) If you don't like the default UI, there are clients that look like old reddit and like Apollo. 2) There are instances for basketball, football, American Football, Fashion and style, gaming, Pop-culture, crypto and I do agree that they are not that active, but part of my work on Fediverser is to help people find these places and to provide them tools to make it easy to participate.
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
I get what you're saying, but these alternatives aren't creating or doing anything for anyone to want to stay. That's the issue. What most of them are doing is creating environments that regular, chill mainstream people don't want to be a part of. That's the problem.
Who wants to be on a social media site that's politically extreme when you're interested in home building, construction, makeup, and Maltese poodles?
Like, come on, that's the problem, dude. Nobody's gonna stay somewhere where all the content and people are politically extreme to the point that it's extremely off-putting. And when you try to create communities or engage in content that is not political, nobody gives a damn and just downvotes it to hell because it's not about politics.
The first thing to do is find the exit door at that point. Lol, that shit is boring, annoying, and nobody's got time for that.
rglullis@reddit
No, I am asking for the cliched "be the change you want to see in the world".
I linked to SEVEN different instances, all of them of varied topics that are quite well inside of "mainstream" topics. Go take a look at soccer.forum, see how many posts I have there. Same for the NBA.
This is not me asking to stick around to suffer the current fools. This is me asking you to help me cultivate a place where the fools can be outnumbered.
PetraFriedChicken@reddit
Careful, you might come off as an extremist suggesting that/s
0x_by_me@reddit
it just doesn't scale well
LOLatKetards@reddit
Yep, it was hard to imagine a more radically left version of reddit... But Lemmy somehow pulled it off.
Robert_overmann@reddit
This is true...
Orngog@reddit
I wonder if they call each other Nazis or centrists
Civil_Helicopter5938@reddit (OP)
Everything they don't like is either fascist or liberal, which in their eyes is basically the same thing.
BlueWhaleKing@reddit
I wouldn't call Tankies "Far Left." More like fascists who appropriate Leftist aesthetics.
muyuu@reddit
Fascists would be far left in contemporary political terms, they're only considered far right because of the nationalism. Tankies are old school Stalinists and I don't think they lack in terms of consistency with being what they claim to be.
BlueWhaleKing@reddit
"Left" and "Right" mean anti heirarchy and pro heirarchy, respectively. Thus Anarchists are at the farthest Left, and Totalitarians at the farthest Right.
The "Authoritarian Left" idea was basically "We'll use the heirarchy to destroy the heirarchy." (Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the state will with away) Of course, this has never worked and never will, because heirarchical means can only achieve heirarchical ends, because no authority will ever willingly give up its power. Thus ideologies like Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism are at best a dead end branch of Leftism, and for practical purposes are right wing in all but name.
CodenameAwesome@reddit
Dictatorship of the proletariat is THE central idea of Marxism as explained by Marx:
If you don't agree with the idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat, have some respect for the man and don't claim to speak for some truer version of Marxism that doesn't center that.
BlueWhaleKing@reddit
I never claimed to speak for Marxism.
CodenameAwesome@reddit
So Marx also belongs in your "right wing in all but name" category?
BlueWhaleKing@reddit
TL:DR As Marx meant it, no, under the Leninist conception that I was referring to, yes. Sorry for the confusion.
It seems I was a little unclear. I'm referring to "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" under the Leninist conception, where it's taken to mean "Take over the state and give it unilateral power." In Marx's earlier years (e.g. the Manifesto) he did advocate for taking over the state, but that was before it had been tried. We know have ample evidence that the state is counter revolutionary. In every Leninist experiment, worker control of the means of production was swiftly crushed, those who fought for it were branded as "counter revolutionary," and the capitalist labor relation remained with state bosses instead of private ones.
In Marx's later writings, after the Paris Commune, (which was an Anarchist experiment) Marx changed his mind, and in the Critique of the Gotha Programme, stated "the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes."
Marx did consider the Paris Commune to be a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, so he no doubt would have considered other Anarchist experiments to be as well. The problem is the word "Dictatorship" has highly authoritarian connotations (and yes, I have read On Authority, at best it completely misses the point of what anti-authoritarians actually say, and at worst is blatantly disingenuous), and is thus prone to a bad interpretation. Which is part of what led to Leninism.
So no, I would not consider Marx to be right wing in all but name, though I myself am not a Marxist.
CodenameAwesome@reddit
I'm currently reading State and Revolution in which Lenin, on paper, is very faithful to what Marx wrote post-Paris Commune. I think it'd be good to follow this up with some reading on the political realities of the Russian revolution in practice. Do you have any recommendations? I'm especially interested in the people you mentioned who clashed with the ML state over worker control.
BlueWhaleKing@reddit
State and Revolution was a bunch of empty promises in order to win more popular support and shut up the people who criticized Lenin's authoritarianism and warned that he was going to create a dictatorship. Once in power, he immediately set to crushing the power of the workers, reinstating management, and persecuting those who didn't fall in line behind him.
I'd recommend The State is Counter-Revolutionary Part II by Anark, The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control by Maurice Hinton, The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkmann, My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman, and The Kronstadt Uprising by Crimethinc.
I'll add the links when I have time.
muyuu@reddit
as you are clarifying in the second paragraph, that has never been historically the case, and by that criterion fascists and marxists would be in the same side
many on the nominal left have abandoned the idea of an ulterior utopia and embraced central government; it makes sense that they did so as the evidence is overwhelming that central government is possible and the state withering away on its own after a totalitarian government has never happened
BlueWhaleKing@reddit
Anarchists and Libertarian Socialists have built functional non-heirarchical societies. Unfortunately most of the large scale ones (Ukraine Free Territory, Korean People's Association, Anarchist Federatiom of Iberia) were destroyed thanks to backstabbing by their Marxist-Leninist "allies." Though they still held out longer than expected for organizations of their size against overwhelming odds. Decentralization means you can't kill the organization by cutting off the head, since there isn't one to begin with.
In today's world, the Zapatistas in southern Mexico and Rojava in northern Syria best embody these ideals, though they're not perfect.
muyuu@reddit
while all of that is accurate, the reality is that what is considered left and right politically depends on popular consensus and changes over time; that's why in my first comment in this thread I'm pointing out that definitely fascists (and stalinists) would both be considered left in current political terms, especially if those fascists were actually accurate following the doctrine, rather than the historical perception of the doctrine as analysed from the outside; you'd be looking essentially at nationalism combined with central economic governance, active infiltration of large corporations that are used as instruments of the state to enforce policy, and heavy regulation of all economic activity; China and the US currently, absolutely fit the bill of how the fascists would describe themselves in the most factual and disinterested fashion
the modern left is perceived as it is in practice, and that is comparatively pro big government and central government, higher tax and having the State responsible for a bigger number of issues, among other things - minarchist and anarchist attempts these days would be considered either left or right depending mainly on ancillary issues like symbology and possibly nationalism or the presence of a given identity or cultural allegiance, and the importance that is given to this; nowadays one of the most important factors used to label a government left or right is its perceived alliances, that's why Milei and Bukele are labelled right or far-right for instance, and they really wouldn't be in a more fact-based, coherent definition of the terms
ashenblood@reddit
Too bad we're on reddit, so it's physically impossible for you to correct the typo in this post title. Lemmy's "inferior" UI has included the ability to edit titles since day one.
What an overdramatic post, I must say. Lemmy is a tool, it can become whatever people want to use it for. If you use it to argue with tankies that's your own individual choice, but Lemmy has much more to offer.
xX_PushPop@reddit
so, its exactly like reddit?
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
💯
Clubbythaseal@reddit
My experience with Lemmy was the same.
I don't think it's a good site as it's absolutely too fucking easy to get an admin tricked into banning somebody. They immediately take the side of the user from their server and threaten the other user with banning from their whole instance if they respond to their user again.
Doesn't matter who started it. I've seen it 3 times from the world instance admins and I quit the site after that.
It's so fucking childish to publicly chastise other users like that. Send them a private PM instead at least FFS.
Lemmy has the worst reddit mod tendencies tied to the their admins.
TheRem@reddit
Where did all the far right go, Twitter?
jmcstar@reddit
Grindr
PreciousTater311@reddit
Grindr's probably having its busiest week ever in Milwaukee rn
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
Lol
muyuu@reddit
Gab
YolkyBoii@reddit
As a leftist myself. Only way to enjoy lemmy is block the tankies: hexbear and lemmygrad, and stay away from political communities on lemmy.ml
Kasenom@reddit
Which Lemmy instances do you prefer?
LibertyLizard@reddit
I think they’re all pretty good aside from the three mentioned. I’m on slrpnk.net and it’s pretty great though definitely fairly left leaning. Not in the way OP is complaining about—the admins and many active users are more anarchist leaning. That said, it’s a small instance so most interactions are with non-anarchists and I think things are fairly friendly as long as you steer clear of expressing bigotry or call for violence against marginalized people.
ColdEngineering1234@reddit
I don't understand the idea of anarchy. You think people would be better without a government even though you see how delusional people are lately in us politics?
The entire concept of Republicans is to make government dysfunctional so they can fool people into thinking government is bad so they can lower regulation for corporations while actually making gov stricter for everyday citizens with less freedoms.
LibertyLizard@reddit
In fact it’s exactly the current situation that led me away from progressive politics towards anarchism. Close observation of our current government shows that it doesn’t and in fact cannot function at its intended purpose, but instead acts as a vehicle for extremists and the wealthy and powerful to impose their will on the rest of society. But keep in mind that anarchism is about opposing all systems of social domination and subordination. This very much includes capitalism, so it is substantially different from what I think you’re imagining, which is to just let corporate power run wild. Those systems also need to be deconstructed in tandem with the power of the state. If we only dismantled the state, corporate power would quickly reinstate an even more oppressive replacement.
But not all anarchists are opposed to all forms of government (depending on your definition of government). Social organizations and structures will still exist in anarchy, but they will be much more egalitarian and democratic. These organizations will fulfill the roles currently occupied by the state such as public safety, defense from hostile outside forces, resource distribution and trade, etc. The primary difference is they will not be subordinated to a supreme leader or body of elite decision-makers as in most current societies and organizations.
So overall, I share your feelings about the Republican Party but that doesn’t at all resemble the future that anarchists envision.
ColdEngineering1234@reddit
Speaking as someone who's lived in multiple countries. American government is dysfunctional because there's an entire party who's purposes is to push that idea.
There are many functional governments around the world. There's a reason why more Americans are incorrectly drawn to the idea of anarchism. But that's a fantasy on its own.
Nicarlo@reddit
Https://sh.itjust.works is overall pretty pleasant
keepthepace@reddit
jlai.lu for the french speaking ones.
SupraMario@reddit
Hexbear and lemmygrad was defederated, and lemmy.ml is getting really close to being defederated as well.
I enjoy it over there, it's like reddit when reddit was small group of people.
BlazeAlt@reddit
Which instance are you part of?
SupraMario@reddit
sh.itjust.works
BlazeAlt@reddit
Ah indeed, I was thinking about lemmy.ml which is still federated
SupraMario@reddit
Stay the fuck away from lemmy.ml, I can see them getting defederated soon, as it's just a bunch of fucking tankies as well.
BlazeAlt@reddit
I usually do, but the issue is that most open source communities are hosted there.
Civil_Helicopter5938@reddit (OP)
Actually the same hold true lemmy.world. I think if you're going to use Lemmy in any capacity, you just have to be prepared for to encounter an unpleasant amount of tankies.
simpleisideal@reddit
This term is so abused by uncritical liberals that it's impossible to take most invocations of it seriously.
In my experience, it's much easier to tolerate the occasional "tankie" on lemmy to the insincere circlejerks of ex-twitter shitlibs rampant on mastodon.
BlazeAlt@reddit
Lemmy.world and tankies together seems weird, they are pretty good at criticizing each other.
LibertyLizard@reddit
I really don’t experience this but my instance is defederated with Hexbear and lemmygrad.
There is a minority of tankies around but their views are usually challenged in most communities outside of their own instances (and often inside of those too, but the heavy-handed mods make this more fraught). But I’m not sure what it would look like if you added the above users back into the mix.
No_Industry9653@reddit
I spent like the first month blocking people, later blocked the hexbear instance when the software made that possible (blocking an instance in settings prevents communities from that instance showing up, though not user comments), and that mostly fixed it for me. I think a lot of the unpleasantness is accounted for by a relatively small number of prolific posters.
Basically the method is, if someone wrote a shitty comment, check if they are a hexbear user, if not maybe they were just having a bad day and give the benefit of the doubt, if so that probably isn't the case so immediate block.
njtrafficsignshopper@reddit
Did this. I am having the opposite experience as OP. Like, yeah, now that they mention it I do remember being annoyed with hexbear all the time. That was a quick fix though.
CurrentRisk@reddit
When I read these types of posts, I only think ''that person must not know how to curate their stuff''. It's like with any other platform. Curate it. Block communites you don't like, block people that you don't like. Join the right communities (and for Lemmy, the right instance).
I have had zero problems with Lemmy ever since, I joined. I immediately blocked certain communities, disabled NSFW content and went my way. I so much prefer Lemmy over Reddit but unfortunately the content is a bit dry.
This is subjective. Everyone has different opinion about a platform. In my opinion it is not deserved because it's like any other platform. You got to block and join right communities.
Any platform you are, there will be extremists. Block and move on?
Join right communities problem? Have not got that problem myself. I blocked most communities, I don't like and kept the ones I do. Just like I did with Reddit.
You mean rather ''Voila, you got any other platform''.
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
It's comments like this that completely gloss over all of the political extremism in its entirety.
I'm almost convinced that comments like this are either admins, mods, or the devs, continually trying to eradicate any and all negative feedback without addressing the actual problems with extremists on there. Acting like it doesn't exist, and only applies to 3 specific instances.
It's almost like, some of you don't want to lose what ever user base it is that you have. Bc then you wouldn't be a mod anymore, and you can't escape your real life issues bc now you don't have that 'control' to make you feel powerful.
Most of lemmy, MOST of it. Is highly political so are the users. Infact, the casual conversation community had to give out two warnings to users to stop talking about politics in that community bc it's becoming so much of a problem.
https://lemm.ee/post/37093820
Don't pull wool over people's eyes here. OP is correct about a lot of his experience on lemmy.
And I'm willing to bet that your favorite 'most active' communities are non mainstream ones. Tech, POLITICS obviously, anime, video games, and Linux.
I doubt it's anything relatable to most people.
BlazeAlt@reddit
Hey,
I gave the other warning. It's okay. There are still plenty of people who want to casually discuss things. We were just reminding rules.
CurrentRisk@reddit
It's because every platform has an immense political extremism. Reddit leans very much to far-right the last time I checked the political communities. The moment you block these communities, it's pretty much gone. Same thing with any other platform.
I appreciate if you consider a an admin, mod or a developer. Though I'm not. I'm just a Lemmy user from DB0 instance. It's not that I'm eradicating the negative feedback. It's more that the ''feedbacl'' (I'd rather call it complaining than feedback) is invalid when it's only pointing to Lemmy.
Literally any platform has political extremism. It's on the user to curate their feed (ie: Block the communites, people and join the ones you like).
''Most''? The ones that keep coming back are the same ones Hex, lemmy ml and there was one more. Don't want to see political extremism - Block these and join the ones you do enjoy. For example, I joined DB0 and subscribed to communities like; anime, anime art, anime piracy, anime wall papers, aww, AskMen, Avelon, Voyager, patientgamers, gaming, books, chainsawman, dadjokes and so on.
It's literally how you curate your feed. If you don't, of course you get things you do not want to see.
Once again, whether OP is right or not is very subjective. Opinions differ. Not one opinion is absolute. You think he's right. I think he's wrong.
Politics is not one of them though. I blocked it the moment, I joined Lemmy. I never used Linux, so no. It's not one of them either. Like I said, I joined DB0 which is Piracy and tech-related sure. But Lemmy was already for tech-literate people before the whole ''I hate Reddit, lets go to Lemmy'' thing happened.
If you are so curious about my subscribed communities, let me know. I will screenshot it and show it to you here.
Anime, Piracy, art, Askmen, Voyager, Chainsawman and Dadjokes are pretty relatable to people. You are currently just throwing in random things. Would you very kindly stop making it personal?
BlazeAlt@reddit
Thank you for this comment.
Bleedingeck@reddit
I thought this was a thread about Motorhead, for a sec there!
Efficient_Star_1336@reddit
It's not even filtering for extremism - the right-wing sites can at least say that they talk about ideas that you can't talk about on Reddit, whatever else you might say about them. The leftie sites mainly select for not being smart enough to understand that explicitly advocating for violence forces Reddit to ban them.
Like, I can find a dozen communist subreddits right now that are perfectly likely to stick around as long as the mod team makes the most basic gestures towards banning the idiots likely to get the Secret Service interested in their sub, however reluctantly. The ones that got banned are the ones that responded to "Hey, guys, we're on your side, but could you stop making us look bad by pinning an endorsement of that guy who tried to shoot up the congressional baseball game yesterday?" with "I knew it, the admins are secretly Trump-supporting libertarian neoconservative neoliberal fascists!".
NecroSocial@reddit
Once again I direct you all to Mainchan. Mainchan has a small user base but is about to launch an app and do a growth push. The site welcomes all viewpoints and manages content with mandatory tagging for content that one might want to filter out. It's still a work in progress with the site admin in the trenches making user recommended upgrades and tweaks. No power tripping mods, and any extremists you find are easily avoided. Link-sharing type content doesn't tend to get much discussion but actual discussion posts always tends to have takers. Anyway, I like the place and I'm hoping more people come try it out.
NoSignificance3817@reddit
LOL, saying the mods are worse than Reddit. HAHAHA Nowhere has mods worse than Reddit!?
Same goes for UI. Reddit is an ancient trash fire.
Literally the only thing going for reddit (and the only reason I even visit) is that it is active and does have decent groups for niche things) Hopefully Musk buys it and it dies the death it deserves.
BlazeAlt@reddit
A few points to be addressed
There is a weekly thread on https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities that list active communities. Among those, there is the following, real life topics that are not tech, memes, politics and news
The two communities above (among others) are counter-examples to that.
Who cares? The software is a platform. Every instance have complete ownership of their server. But if you really want to avoid Lemmy, https://piefed.social/ and https://fedia.io/ are nice alternatives. And they can fully interact with Lemmy communities.
Block lemmygrad, hexbear. Decide if you want to keep lemmy.ml or not. Problem solved.
FAZ_O_NULO@reddit
You can't make that shit up...
XMarksTheSpot987@reddit
Never bothered using Lemmy, because I knew from a few years ago, that it was run by the same type of Leftist freaks that are controlling Reddit.
SymphonicResonance@reddit
You're talking about the code right? Because you can run your own instance.
XMarksTheSpot987@reddit
I don't see how much that would help. My own instance would be even more of a ghost town than the more populated instances. I would rather create my own group or channel on Telegram.
SymphonicResonance@reddit
You can federate with with other instances. (And defederate if you dislike some instances for your own reasons).
muyuu@reddit
they're worse tbh, except they lack means and reach relative to reddit
LeftHand-Inhales@reddit
As someone who leans right, Reddit is hard enough for me to be able to talk without walking on eggshells lol
LibertyLizard@reddit
Yeah I disagree with much of what OP wrote but Lemmy is not going to be friendly to people on the right. Even Reddit isn’t but there are pockets that are. Lemmy is too small for such places to exist without being drowned out but the general userbase.
The userbase is generally composed of three main groups: center-left (think Biden lovers), progressives and left-libertarians (Bernie, AOC, anarchists, libertarian socialists, etc. Most diverse group but mostly get along so I group them together), and then auth-left groups (people who love China, Stalin did nothing wrong, US is the great evil, etc.) In general there is a lot of diversity of opinion and disagreements among these three groups, but they all agree on a strong dislike of people on the right.
IAmDeadYetILive@reddit
Let's see how you feel when Reddit starts forcing you to use your personal I.D. to log in.
Inaeipathy@reddit
The people on that site are somehow worse than on here and on twitter. I dropped it immediately.
relightit@reddit
since there is no "left" in the usa it would be great if there was more actual marxists. those who simp for china are called tankies, they are mongoloids but they are an ultra-minority.
chemrox409@reddit
Wow you made it sound pretty cool but I don't think there's enough content yet. The thing about mods is discouraging too but I have limited experience.
aolko@reddit
typical script problem, not community problem
FocusPerspective@reddit
All of the Reddit alternatives seem like 99% anti-social autistic GenZ hentai addicted brainrotted creeps and pervs.