Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users

gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  same. only a matter of time till it happens here too

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The differences is that you have the power to make a new community or Lemmy site with blackjack and hookers. (Piefed is kind of like that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers.)

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Kind of. I don’t think the Internet will ever return to the heyday of Reddit.

      Once governments and groups recognized that social media actually does move public opinion, that was the end of good, anonymous social media.

      The ways to bring some of that back aren’t great. A community where everyone’s verified is much better, but it’ll be quite different from the Reddit days where you’d have (usually real) ridiculous subject matter experts chiming in on random threads.

      You don’t get that with a small, verified population. And when you don’t have verification, well forever now have effectively psyops intending to influence you.

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      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well we can assume political discussions have a lot of psyops and people with agendas. I appreciate that many of the loudest voices/posters make it very obvious ;)

        Some of the craziest niches aren’t on here (like if you clean sewers and septic tanks, DM me, you ought to do an AMA) but I have encountered people replying on mostly tech related topics on programming, linux, asklemmy, no stupid Qs where someone with niche tech knowledge could answer. My knowledge is in trains, electricity, Japanese and Japanese electric trains, you can ask me about.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How is piefed going? It looks like a really great alternative.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Absolutely fine. I can interact much better with the fediverse on here except search. I find Lemmy does search functions better currently.

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    • jankforlife@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers

      So piefed is the software where the anti-commie zionist nazi’s are fleeing to to escape the evil communist devs of lemmy? Good to know!

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  • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its kind of already happening here - just for different reasons.

    There is very little engagement on Lemmy besides in a few communities. What little engagement there is - is driven by a few users.

    Even broad conversion topics get very little engagement.

    I get not everyone wants to be a topic “starter” (i know I don’t), but they can’t even bother to either:

    1: just post a tiny comment (look at “what are you watching” in the movies / TV subs on piefed.Social; seems like a real easy topic for anyone to engage in and yet there’s only ever like 10 posts and zero upvotes)

    2: upvote topics or posts; While the points don’t matter - they still show and promote engagement.

    Its honestly rather frustrating.

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d note that the same phenomenon exists on Reddit. You’d be surprised how many subreddits on a site much larger are maintained purely by the power of a few posters who feed the community with posts.

      I’d also argue that television and movies on piefed.social, per activity, are much more active than what you suggest there.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you really want a community to take off, you have to basically schedule yourself to make content there.

      The lessons from every group I’ve grown (and haven’t) is that consistency is key. You have to develop the habit in other people, and it might take a long time to start.

      If you want to be a Twitch streamer, for instance, you have to do it at the same time every day.

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    • bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There seems to be more discussion here if Linux, open source etc & not just the pointless questions that Google can answer. More conversations I enjoy reading responses and opinions. IDK I’m a noob & I like it here.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Everyone can make a more intense echo chamber!

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    • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m just going to leave that to the self-fellating elephants.

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve just recently moved, and I barely see any difference. Same US politics dawn to dusk, just more Linux and commies.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Block those communities if you don’t want to see them. They won’t be hurt because they won’t know.

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s some nuance in that

        a) I treat US politics as entertainment for the last ten years — seeing Trump crush over Mamdani, are you kidding, it’s top kek;

        b) I like to know the zeitgeist on the platform where I spend time;

        and c) US politics are in almost every major community anyway, regardless of its topic — just like on Reddit.

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  • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh thats rich- have you thought about how it’s essentially criminal to post about what you just posted about instead of making a post about how you are pessimistic about one of the problems facing humanity???

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Voat was setup to be a one-to-one clone of reddit, minus any moderation and it failed because it was one-to-one. Lemmy/federation is functionally different.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It failed because apparently the only people who left were right wing nuts so the only content they had was right wing shit. There’s at least some Linux on lemmy…

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Reddit also mass banned the worse people around that time and I suspect they did it to internationally poison the user base of Voat.

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  • jankforlife@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Matter of time?? The libs of reddit have been infestering here for awhile now

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    • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      what’s a lib

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      • Chill_Dan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They mean a liberal.

        .ML is a instance for people who support Russia. So they hate anything to do with progressive ideas.

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      • Zelaf@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think they mean librarian? Or maybe the libyans

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• ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  … and full of karma bots

  … and using use input to train LLMs

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  • bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I notice because people are fishing for karma point there are a lot less pointless posts on Lemmy than Reddit. Some people post questions that Google Search & Ai can answer faster. I understand asking if you looking for an opinion. IDK I kike it here.

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