Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics.
I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.
I’ve encountered more trolls, assholes, and general dickheads here on lemmy than I ever have anywhere else on the Internet, and I’ve been around for a long time now so that’s really saying something.
Idk what’s more frustrating: the idiots and assholes themselves or the fact I see threads like this every day talking about how awesome lemmy and everyone around here is (are?).
Dude fuck reddit. They ban/suspendel accounts for seriously petty shit and then give no recourse and you can’t make new accounts. It’s absolutely bs. Yes I am bitter but I am glad to have lemmy because it does feel like reddit but I don’t feel so gauged by edge lord mods… Well yet any ways… got into an argument with a mod they reported me for harassment and I got banned… I have tried to make new accounts and the get suspended. I tried VPN and then making the accounts and it worked for a bit, but then they suspended me again cause I commented on the sub I got in a fight with the mod on… Such bs
I got a warning for making a report on an automod comment and basically said the moderators are being oppressive and unjustly closing down comments. Five days later, I haven’t touched reddit at all because I switched to lemmy and got a notification that I was banned from reddit because of the same report that I had received a warning on. I guess warnings on reddit are meaningless because you will still get banned or suspended even though it is the first “offense,” which isn’t hard to do when you tell mods they are jerks. I immediately used shreddit on my account and promptly deleted it with feedback that reddit banned me for a first offense that was a warning at first. Literal cancer of a site and glad to be rid of it. My life is better, and lemmy helps with communicating with the small communities I like.
Dude screw reddit… I should have quit July 1st when they took away my boost for reddit 3party app… but I couldn’t stand FB discussion which is deluded with terrorist claiming to be Christians and Republicans… I can’t stand the boners they get for any cop video… So I tried going back to reddit… then the ban came… I searched around and some how found lemmy… and I am glad I did. I like it here better. I like that it’s new too
new copy pasta? this is way to juicy to be real. fuck it i dont care. your journey sounds like the modern day version of BloodNinja. please grace us with these arguments.
What? It’s not a copy pasta . This happened. I was sunshine-filters and had over 90k karma. Had the account for four years alone with my alternative account that was similarly named. Lost them both. Super pissed. Made new emails and new account, Instan bans. Found the VPN strategy and it worked for a while until it didn’t… still not sure how the VPN failed me
It’s an aggregated increase in technical debt. It’s not a rule by any means but it seems to rhyme in the web space, think Digg ,/dot, geocities ,yuku, ezboards.
They are actually pretty nice with each other, IMO. They do make fun of liberals a lot, but one should take into account that only very recently did Hexbear start to federate with anyone (so they aren’t as used to having all of them in their posts, I imagine), and with a community so politically different from the wave of Lemmy newcomers (the old communities I think would have met each other better), I think it’s only understandable that there would be some not so nice interactions.
Strongly opinionated, and unwilling to elaborate or have actual discussion about their opinions, just insults and accusations towards any disagreement, and I get the sense that they do this out of principle.
It’s always nice to remember that the communist yelling at me is really just a hilariously fragile person acting out from their position of extreme privilege.
Still trying to settle into communities for games I hyperfixate on - they aren’t very active currently, but perhaps if I put in my own activity it’ll bring some of those communities to life, no?
my experience so far is people are as, if not more toxic then reddit. honestly I feel like half the people here were sick of people blocking them on reddit and decided to attack people with their stupidity here instead.
If you’re reading this, please go back to reddit, they need you so much more over there.
its growing pains. ive already received comments where the reader clearly inserted their own emotions or scenario to fit their insult. alot of context is lost in translation…give it time. or hey…maybe lemmy is not our final destination. sail the seas, hop ships when u must.
Nope. Reddit in the early days was a place for free speech. I had a 15 year old account till I left. After about 2016 Reddit went full-Orwellian. And Lemmy.world has carried that tyranny forwards very faithfully. Just try and speak out against the narratives and you’ll be silenced quickly. That’s not what early Reddit was like AT ALL.
When people say “free speech” I tend to hear “call of duty lobby”. In the early days of reddit, my experience is that it was mostly just tech people talking about PC builds and sharing Top Gear clips (how I discovered Top Gear). And of course, it was very easy to find abuse groups, fatpeoplehate, watchpeopledie, 4chan, etc.
I don’t recall this mystical free speech bastion, because I don’t think I see the concept the same as you. Sure, in the early days of the internet it was easier to be an anonymous abuser, but I have always avoided those communities… and the reason they disappear is… they’re not popular places. They just collect butt heads until the butt heads think, " Yeah, everyone thinks like me! I’m a free thinker!" (In the limited scope of the butt head group)
But I mean, the majority keeps eradicating those spaces. At some point if your population continues to be sprayed with bugspray, maybe consider if you are a bug.
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