My baseless opinion is that having a variety of instances with varying ethoses means that there’s a good home instance for everyone (not just the verysmart, young, white, male, liberal a la Reddit), and federation means that that variety of people are intersecting and interacting a lot more than if instances were completely separate. At the same time, it still feels like a small community, or maybe a bunch of small communities. There seems to be a lot less of the snarky clapbacks and unpopular opinions getting nuked that’s typical of other social media.
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Boozilla@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s not owned by a greedy soulless corporation with a pigboy in control. There’s more assholes on here (the AKSHUALLY is quite strong) but there’s less hivemind.
pooberbee@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
wjrii@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
(not just the verysmart, young, white, male, liberal a la Reddit)
Nope, we’ve also got the verysmart middle-aged white male liberals here, and some Communists too!
Pandantic@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
There seems to be a lot less of the snarky clapbacks
And almost no low-effort, “cult of personality” mememetic responses. I was going to list some but it’s been a year since I’ve been on that wretched site and I’ve purged my mind of them. But you know, the ones where you can basically predict the top comment before opening the page, probably propagated by the prevalence of bots on the site.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
but there’s less hivemind.
The hive mind here is far stronger.
- anti-anything microsoft
- anti-anything google
- unwarranted “just install Linux” everywhere
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Agreed. Lots of reasonable opinions (not just my own) get downvoted here.
I’ve never been a fan of using downvotes as a disagree button and the issue seems even worse here than Reddit.
mke@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The more I see how people use downvotes, the less I like them as a feature in general. I make a point to not downvote things anymore.
- Everyone can upvote, which already brings the most popular content to the top. Why does the system need another dimension to it?
- If I disagree with someone enough to act on it, it’s my rule to explain why. A minus one is often nearly useless as feedback.
- Then, when I’ve replied, what’s the point of downvoting? Everyone can read my thoughts.
- Replies can also be upvoted, for people who think truth comes down to a battle of internet points.
- If I honestly believe something is bad or harmful for the community, it should probably be reported, not (just) downvoted.
Downvotes as they are seem like bad design on the human interaction level.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I was going to say you can hide downvotes in your parameters, but your instance isn’t on 0.19.5 yet
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
anti-anything google
I hear that. Went through the technical reasons for the manifest V2 deprecation (if this is only to target unlock origin, why did they implement filter lists into the browser? Why does unlock origin lite work just fine?) and it got down voted to oblivion. Haters gonna hate I guess :))
mke@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hey, I agree that MV3 brings benefits (such as better security for the extension ecosystem), but it’s worth noting that uBlock’s main dev themselves said it won’t work as well. uBO Lite doesn’t work fine, it works. It’s also worse.
And the same fundamental issue that affects ublock—the new API limits—affects everyone else trying to do the same job using extensions.
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 4 weeks ago
I get the impression most lemmy users don’t have a lot of lived experience. Everyone deals in absolutes, and is unable to recognise nuance.
Most contentious issues have a range of considerations, positive and negative.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Because Microsoft sucks and Google sucks and if you install Linux there’s 50% chance it’ll cure someone’s cancer. Also if you’re at a bar and your pickup line is “I use arch” it’ll be like the fucking Niagara falls. If you’re into guys even their ass will go sploosh when they hear that line.
What I’m getting at is that we’re just a superior being.
kender242@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Or that we are all refugees and are just tired of enshitification.
lol_idk@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
You forgot Firefox
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Also you can block awful people.
cheddar@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Also awful people tend to use same awful instances, so you can block a lot of awful people in just a couple of clicks!
neidu2@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
AKSHUALLY, only a few of us fit this description, and as a whole we are in the vast minority.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
there’s less hivemind
Not really. I guess it depends on the instance and community, but I have found that since the amount of users on Lemmy communities tend to be significantly smaller than on Reddit, the effects of hivemind thinking is actually amplified.
In actuality, Reddit and Lemmy are pretty much two sides of the same coin. The only real difference is, as you mentioned, Reddit is run like a business now and Lemmy currently isn’t. That and Lemmy users are obsessed with Linux/FOSS.
suction@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The akshually might be stronger, but the cultish behaviour of specialised subreddits hasn’t quite arrived here yet so one can still have a faceted opinion about the stuff they discuss, while on Reddit it’s either “glory to our king” or “get the fuck out and watch your Dane Cook specials!!”
hoss@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Hi. I’m an asshole. Nice to meet you! Looking forward to upsetting you later on a shitpost thread! 😊 👋
Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
looks at your history
I dunno, you seem alright to me. Maybe I’m the asshole?
hoss@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
🎵 and you smell like one too🎵
Magister@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
lol, yeah true, same as the linux community here is pretty much Arch BTW, but it’s good-natured
Dave@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
I think the arch thing is just a meme. I asked a genuine question about which distro to use and got a range of suggestions but none of them were arch.
FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think Debian is usually the strongest contender here.
Dave@lemmy.nz 4 weeks ago
I almost never hear anyone suggest Debian!