People with no political principles, that lurch from hating one individual/group to the next based on where they’re pointed by their pundits of choice, which typically leads to right-wing nonsense, criticising (generally non-specific) stuff Biden does they’d cheer on from Trump, fear of CRT, the border caravan, vaccines, trans people… The usual.
Bit late to this but I find it both sad and annoying to have a continual stream of reposts from Reddit. No one is engaging with them. I’ll chime in, to an empty room. OP is on another platform.
If you want to read yesterday’s posts, do that. No need to litter and devalue the platform with garbage. Unless you have something original to contribute, you’re not contributing at all.
Give it some time. The servers need some time to recover from the hit of all the redditors coming over. Also, the developers are working towards improving things all the time.
I wish there was a way to link any repost to the original or have some sort of time delay system where if something is posted it can’t be posted again 3 minutes later.
I think reposts are fine if there is a system that links to the original post so the discussion is not fragmented. Bots are fine as long as they don’t post walls of text on every thread a good bot is one you don’t notice.
Depends. If it is a Lemmy thing sure, why not. I do find the automatic reposts from certain subreddits on Lemmy quite annoying. In a way I prefer more direct contact with the community instead of reacting to a mirror of another platform
The problem with federated services and I include Lemmy in this, is that first impression REALLY sucks. When you go to join it says “join a server” but it doesn’t explain in straightforward terms what that even means. Maybe some people know what federated means but most don’t care. Why are there multiple servers? What does it mean if I pick this server over that one? Why are they ordered like this? It’s the same issue with Mastodon. “Join your server” but wtf does it mean???
People are used to single services, not federated ones and it is confusing. Attempting to explain it (or not) will confuse people even more. It’s so confusing that some people turn tail and run, hurting uptake.
Change the initial sign up flow on join-lemmy.org. Don’t say “join a server”, say “join Lemmy”. Don’t show a randomized, indecipherable list of servers, just pick one for them from the a curated core set. If someone wants to learn about federation or wants to choose a server, then provide an option to do it, but don’t just throw that in their faces. In other words, make it as simple as possible to sign up.
After people get over this hump and sign in, things become a bit less confusing but there are issues there. The ordering and even naming convention of communities is chaotic. It would be useful to think how to clean that up too.
Imho, reposts have a positive impact. Usually, a frequently reposted content means that it is something important or entertaining for the mainstream crowd. Sometimes I would go offline for a day or two, and when I came back, the reposts were the ones who brought me up to speed on what’s trending.
This article reads like a true reddit dick rider. If you were on reddit pre 2015 you would know lemmy feels like old reddit. I actually kind of love it
Pre 2015 Reddit had quite a bit more activity even back then. But I like the small community feel rn. It’s just that most communities are lacking and content discovery is hard in this federated universe
Stephen Colbert flashed the reddit alien on the Colbert report in 2009 I think. Reddit was very usable with a lot of traffic even back then. Lemmy isn’t going to get a shout out on a major mainstream show anytime soon is my guess. It’s not a fair comparison, it’ll take a long time for Lemmy to get to 2015 Reddit levels as far as polish and traffic goes.
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