• ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeEnglish
    448·
    6 days ago

    I dislike that Lemmy is such a left-wing echo chamber. Reddit had a much wider variety of opinions being voiced openly; on Lemmy, there’s almost none. It doesn’t take long to figure out what’s acceptable to say here and what isn’t. It’s a kind of self-gaslighting because it can make you feel like the opinions of the average Lemmy user represent the wider population when that couldn’t be further from the truth.

    Also, there are almost no blue-collar workers here, and most discussions revolve around office jobs and big city life.

    EDIT: and the extreme levels of cynicism.

    • Kyouki@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      Personally don’t like the constant echoing of political positions or takes but that’s in my experience equal on both platforms.

      I cba. The thing I like more on Lemmy is slight more civilly discussions or what’s being shared.

      Just hate how its always have to be polarized to what side you lean on ot emphasis on.

      Defaulting on the American aspect of things as well.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Defaulting on the American aspect of things as well.

        As always ofc, but I feel like less so here. Though the Western aspects are still predominant for sure - UK & EU as well as USA.

    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      53·
      6 days ago

      Not really, liberals here tend to overpower and speak over leftist voices. Any time a Leftist disagrees with Kamala or points out a legitimate concern swarms of smug liberals say “erm akshurally what about trump you Russian bot”.

      (Liberal =/= left-wing)

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      The US has a left lean (“left” by US standards). What I mean by that is it’s not an even split. The majority of Americans lean left. The only reasons the right has any power in this country is due to the first past the post voting system, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the electoral college.

      • pinkystew@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        I meet Trump supporters everyday. I see signs on the lawn in every town. I hear them speak in media regularly.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    6 days ago

    I like the relatively sane moderation compared to Reddit.

    I dislike the heavy far-left/communist presence here. I’m a lefty myself, but a lot of people here are extremists in my opinion, little better than the far right.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    I like that Lemmy doesn’t have stupid levels of auto-moderation happening. And I like that threads don’t constantly get locked merely because people are engaging with them.

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    What I like: flexibility for clients,nice people,etc.
    What I dislike: not every community is here and some of the communism here as well as finding a instance you want is not the easiest

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    292·
    7 days ago

    I like the way Lemmy functions, with things like an open moderator log and the way that instances can be created to prevent too much control from one singular instance from pushing people completely off the platform if they have bad moderation, for example.

    I don’t like the users. For every one user that is nice and wants to have a legitimate conversation, there are like 300 that just want to fight/argue or spew politics into a non-political conversation. The number of users I have blocked on Lemmy is far longer than the amount of users I ever blocked on Reddit, and my Reddit account existed for about 10 years. This Lemmy account has only been around for about 1/10th of that.

    One of the biggest strengths of Lemmy is also one of its biggest curses. Due to its federated nature, anyone can create a new instance. The problem with this is that particularly nasty users can keep creating accounts on instances they keep creating in order to harass people they don’t like. So even if you block them, they just switch to a new account, etc. They can also do this for vote manipulation, not like that really matters on Lemmy but Lemmy users seem to have fallen victim to the same problem Redditors had: seeing a comment with 0 or -1 score and then completely disregarding whatever it said, not reading it and downvoting it automatically.

    • sho@ani.socialOPEnglish
      91·
      7 days ago

      “I like the way Lemmy functions, with things like an open moderator log and the way that instances can be created to prevent too much control from one singular instance from pushing people completely off the platform if they have bad moderation, for example.”

      Oh yeah that seems an excellent way to keep a power balance between users and moderation. Hadn’t used reddit all that much, but heard of the nightmarish moderation abuse.

      “I don’t like the users. For every one user that is nice and wants to have a legitimate conversation, there are like 300 that just want to fight/argue or spew politics into a non-political conversation.”

      Sadly is a big issue with many platforms where politics is used for excuse to mental flex, invalidate, clout motives, and flat out bully. So i try to avoid politics or deflect and avoid people who just looking to argue for the sake of argueing to assert dominance. Too many headaches online deal with.

      “The number of users I have blocked on Lemmy is far longer than the amount of users I ever blocked on Reddit, and my Reddit account existed for about 10 years.”

      I might do the same tbh, i can see there are quite a bit of users needing filtered out on lemmy. Can also see some get angry knowing that people would rather just block em’ and not engage with them because then they can’t fuel their clout driven ego 🙂

      “The problem with this is that particularly nasty users can keep creating accounts on instances they keep creating in order to harass people they don’t like. So even if you block them, they just switch to a new account, etc.”

      Perhaps this could be resolved by implementing a user follow list and making it so users can only be interacted with if the user approves the follower who is trying to follow em’

      “They can also do this for vote manipulation, not like that really matters on Lemmy but Lemmy users seem to have fallen victim to the same problem Redditors had: seeing a comment with 0 or -1 score and then completely disregarding whatever it said, not reading it and downvoting it automatically.”

      Imo i think lemmy could just do away with a voting system, it would reduce cognitive bias by not giving them a sense of popularity contest to determine if it’s worth reading a user’s post or comment. People should judge for themselves rather than having others do it for them.

      You seem a a reasonably decent person btw.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        51·
        6 days ago

        The problem with no voting system whatsoever is that content then surfaces by recency and/or replies, so people generate a lot of noise to make stuff they agree more visible.

        That said the current system is by no means perfect, and I agree with you that people should judge content by themselves.

      • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        7 days ago

        I encourage aggressive blocking. Without it, the assholes drive the decent people away over time.

        I’d be fine without voting, too. I am glad they at least got rid of karma.

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Here’s a hard (edit: damnit! “hint”!) that when I noticed it, improved my experience on the Fediverse enormously. Enough to convince me not to leave it outright as I nearly did. Pay attention to what instance someone is from. It’s no 100% guarantee… but it’s not useless either. This is like 1000% more relevant for someone on an instance other than Lemmy.world, but it still helps for you too.

      The aggressiveness also varies by community, so likewise, some of those are just straight up worth blocking (so that you don’t keep forgetting and end up replying in it yet again and again) and finding alternatives for.

  • LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world
    91·
    6 days ago

    Like: It’s not Reddit.

    Dislike: The userbase is too small and there are way too many circlejerks in some communities and you get bashed to hell if you dare to disagree with them.

    • pedz@lemmy.ca
      2·
      5 days ago

      I’m not sure about the circlejerk thing. I am vehemently anti car and would like to circlejerk on one of the many “fuck cars” communities, but any post that gets some attention gets filled by comments of people not from those communities.

      So I very often see posts where I agree with the content but the discussion and the comments are all over the place, from car apologists that are like “but IIIIIIIII live in the woods therefore public transit is not feasible for anyone”, and it makes “circlejerking” difficult.

      Like, if you have a community about mushroom and want to have enthusiasts discussing mycology, it’ll be fine until a thread becomes popular and fills with users not from that community, asking what is mycology and why they should care.

      To be honest, I had the same issue on reddit too and that’s a major reason why I stopped going there.

  • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    191·
    6 days ago

    Like

    Editable titles

    “All” here vs other social media is much better

    It’s more likely that arguments are civil. There are still quite a few venomous arguments but I’ve noticed that it it proportionally less.

    On Reddit or Facebook, if you didn’t like a group you left and made your own. If you didn’t like the admins, tough shit. Here, if you don’t like the admins, you can use a different instance.

    Likes and dislikes are separate, and are in some cases viewable who submit them. I feel like this keeps people a little more honest.

    I like the modlog and transparency. It’s so much easier that when someone complains about unfair mod action, to see if they are in the right or exaggerating.

    There is an “end” to Lemmy. There isn’t just infinite content to scroll through.

    Dislike

    Smaller user base means that niches that Reddit filled just aren’t here.

    There is an “end” to Lemmy. There isn’t just infinite content to scroll through.

    Neutral

    The types of common negative personalities here are different from that of Reddit. Reddit has more misogyny, classism, antinatalists, and obnoxious atheists. (As opposed to the chill atheists.) Lemmy has quite a few people that are pretty shitty to those that are disabled or cannot get out of some situations. If you cannot work towards the greater good without any rest, can’t escape a bad situation, or can’t just extend yourself further, you are trash. There are also more fringe beliefs here. I do like it because of the different perspectives, even if I very strongly disagree. (It makes me think!) Unfortunately we still have the dumbass arguments about generations but you can’t have it all.

    • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      Like: Long-ass posts. Mastodon has a ridiculous character limit; lemmy doesn’t seem to have any. Dislike: Long-ass posts. Jesus people, the rants and drawn-out arguments.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        41·
        6 days ago

        I was going to quote you saying arguements are civil, and then mock argue with you in an absurd way. But then I thought it wasn’t clear that I was being absurd and joking, and you might think I was actually toxic argueing with you. So I turned up the absurd.

        Somehow this ended with me giving you a lapdance as I insulted you. It made ME laugh, but I think instead of coming across as funny, it was just confusing.

        …also erotic.

      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
        3·
        6 days ago

        I don’t mind the kids themselves, I might have been a teenage embodiment of edge too, but it sucks how many adults get pulled into childish fighting about nothing, instead of having a teaching moment.

        It makes the platform seem immature and childish.

  • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    I’ve got no problem with the communists. I like having a part of the internet that isn’t completely commoditised and filled with ads and people trying to sell side hustles. I hate the search function.

  • Noodle07@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days ago

    I wish I could filter communities by language.

    Also one thing I like is the open war we have with memes with censured bad words for fucking fuck’s sake

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      3 days ago

      Have you tried setting up the languages in the settings? If communities don’t configure languages properly, you can also point it out to them

    • .Donuts@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      I think the problem is that people think the memes are created by the person uploading, as if they chose to censor it.

      Someone is just sharing a funny they saw on Instagram, there’s not much more to it.

  • Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
    11·
    6 days ago

    It takes some time to block out stuff to make Lemmy usable. So much anime, bots and dumb American politics.

    It’s nice there are a bunch of apps for Lemmy, but using it without an app is not very welcoming. It needs a lot of improvement (e.g. manually compose urls to subscribe to communities on other servers).

    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      6 days ago

      Honestly I’ve been raw doging Lemmy. I chose an instance that doesn’t block anything and I haven’t blocked a single thing. I just scroll past the politics and usually sort by new comments. I don’t see many bots at all

  • theTarrasque@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    I like that it’s not reddit in terms of toxicity and powerdrunk mods. I really like the apps accessing Lemmy and the general tone in comments and discussion. As a German the community ich_iel is most of the content I need.

    I dislike how long it took me to filter out the words „Elon“ and „musk“ because every second post on c/technology is about that man. Phew, my life is better without it. (I really like being able to filter)

  • Zonetrooper@lemmy.world
    141·
    6 days ago

    Like:

    • It has that small-community feel still. I don’t see (perhaps because I stay out of a lot of the more tech-ey communities?) the kind of farming, low-effort, generally mediocre content I saw on Reddit.
    • Lack of the sense of a hyper-corporatized, “You’re only allowed to do things that make us money” sense that’s enshittified much of the internet lately. I’m not even sure if Lemmy can be monetized.

    Dislike:

    • Not yet large enough either. I don’t want hundreds of millions of users, but I still miss a lot of the more niche hobby/discussion communities I used to be able to participate in. Even communities for fairly large hobbies or interests can be dead on Lemmy.
    • The awful political takes. Everything from typical dumbness up to advocating violence (but it’s okay because it’s my point). And it’s everywhere.