…for now.
Once you get critical mass it’s a race to the dumbest post.
I am trying to get there, but so far I don’t seem to be dumb enough. Please kick me when I make it.
this is why small instances ppl
Reddit has excessive bureaucracy and modbots who shadowban you for reasons as stupid as posting in a certain sub once despite never participating in the sub you got banned from.
I’m sorry, I’ll try to be more violent.
I beg to differ, but if you wish so I may try to throw you that chair, sir.
Absolutely not. But I must say that I don’t miss the toxicity at all. Being on the (liberal?) Fediverse has done wonders for my mental health. There’s little tolerance for bullshittery and that helps foster a stronger sense of real community for a greater cause in my mind.
I don’t think it’s even necessarily all the same political alignment, so much as it is that we’re all united against Reddit and this corporate tomfoolery right now. It won’t last forever, but in being united for a common cause, we’ve sort of achieved world peace lol. I’m a libertarian. I’ve seen us, republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, socialists, and everything in between uniting to discuss technology, bash Reddit, and work to build back our global communication forums. This is the progress in humanity that the internet’s creators envisioned. This is unity and peace. It won’t last forever, but if we can at least continue to respect each other (while holding different opinions), unite against those who show no respect or dignity, and continue to rebuild together, we have in my opinion bettered humanity for years, hopefully generations to come. Even expecting that this platform won’t last forever - none ever will - we have learned through this to not take our open forum and free discussion for granted.
So far the people who were most likely to jump ship on reddit were those who were the most fed up with what reddit has become lately.
I just had my 10th cakeday on reddit about a month ago and I’ve seen a steep decline in quality for both posts and interactions for the last 4-5 years, with it accelerating in the last year or so. Those that never tried old reddit on desktop or a 3rd party app see no reason to jump ship for another platform, and a large portion of the rude commenters and trolls showed up after the new layout was default and reddit had their own official app in the app stores.
Reddit just filtered out most of the people that made the site what it was in the first place. If it was turning into a shithole before all the people that actually care about the site left, just imagine what it will be like in the coming weeks now that we’re gone.As long as you don’t go into any post regarding the Ukraine war…
so far I’ve experienced a ton of whataboutism and really sus views/devils advocate type shit on here (lemme.ml) that makes me not want to browse. is there a better alternative that’s not saying “why can’t we all just have our own opinion ❤️🌈” on shit like genocide and anti LGBT culture
There are other lemmy instances which might work better for you than lemmy.ml in that case.
I believe the beehaw.org instance might fit that description, would recommend checking them out.
It’s what happens with a small community. Interaction and discussion VS lowest common denominator humour for mass votes.
We all want Lemmy to succeed, but that only means that it’ll turn back into reddit. It’s the natural cycle of social media.
Come a day, we’ll all end up back on Fark and the cycle will repeat itself.
For now dun dun duun
