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InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Reddit has been actively hostile for a while.

Here?
On one hand, it’s a smaller place, so there’s less content to browse…
On the other hand, it’s a smaller place so you can reply to an older thread and still have interaction with people.

On reddit, if I replied to a thread that was 1h old, it was like sending a message in a bottle, floating in an endless sea where none would find it or shouting in the void.

Anyway, welcome home / make it your home.
Peace

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cabbage@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Other things I like:

The decentralized nature means you will never truly be banned from everywhere unless your behaviour is universally considered unacceptable, in which case good riddance

There are fewer of us, so some people care about keeping individual users around. I've still received bans from communities for reasons I find questionable, but that's in the nature of having people manage communities themselves.
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- Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Also the federated nature of it means that no one has enough power such that they can abuse it in a way that hides their abuse on the entire platform. With the modlog, you can see what the original message was that prompted a moderator response. And with other instances, you can make an account elsewhere and talk about it even if an admin banned you.
  
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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Here it feels like you have to really make an effort to get banned. Mods mainly stick to deleting rule breaking comments.

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- InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  There’s plenty of bans to go around, but mostly spam and the odd pathetic bigot.
  
  When I discovered lemmy… I thought it was nice just being able to browse and not be immediately assaulted by several popups to login, cookies, or the classic “download our app” bullshit.
  I know people love their apps, but the web UI works. Browsers have great features already like tabs, bookmarks, adblockers, etc.
  
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  - SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    One of the things I hated about reddit was how they would slip sponsored ads in made to look like user posts as closely as possible. Of course they made it impossible to block them.
    
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    InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That and loading children comments… but only from a single thread, load more, lpad more, show all comments or context or whatever.
    The UI became garbage along the way.
    
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