Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit.

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨early_riser@lemmy.radio⁩ to ⁨lemmy@lemmy.radio⁩

This little instance has been great, but Lemmy and the fediverse in general is really dragging on me.

Every. Single. Thread. has the word “capitalism” or “Trump” in it somewhere. I’m sick to death of it. Even though I agree with a lot of the sentiment, the erosion of the middle class, the concentration of wealth, the consolidation of media, the “you will own nothing and be happy” mentality permeating the consumer space. In many ways that’s why I left Reddit and joined Lemmy, but dang it that doesn’t mean I want to talk about absolutely nothing else.

And the only communities devoid of politics are also devoid of content. I do a lot of worldbuilding stuff, and I’ve tried to make !worldbuilding@lemmy.world more active, but sometimes I feel like I’m the only poster. Then I look at r/worldbuilding, and there’s a glut of really interesting posts showcasing people’s imagination and creativity, and nary a mention of Musk or Epstein in sight.

And then there’s the tech side of things. Hope you like Linux, cuz that’s all you’re going to see. And if you dare suggest that Linux may not be the right choice for your blind grandmother, you get eviscerated in the comments.

Granted, Reddit itself used to have a similar problem. It attracted a very specific type of user (neckbeards) and the experience wasn’t great if you weren’t one, but ironically the same popularization of Reddit that lead to its platform decay also solved this homogeneity problem. Similarly, Tankies and their ilk seem to flock to Lemmy, explaining the tone of the discourse.

Am I crazy? Anyone else feel the same? Did I knock over a hornet’s nest and this post is going to end up deleted?

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I left Reddit a couple of years ago. The world view of management there was not compatible with mine. I don’t think anything there has changed.

I joined mastodon.radio and lemmy.radio at a similar time, then Bluesky.

There is a sense of community on my Mastodon instance and setting the local feed as my landing page contributed significantly to that.

On Lemmy I’m still finding my way. I clicked on the local feed and found your post, but I’m not sure how to make it this default. Normally I have it set to All and scroll through a bunch of stuff, commenting when I feel inclined.

The first block words made a great improvement and I’ve been pretty ruthless in blocking instances and accounts that post misinformation, though I’ve found myself in the middle of a fight I didn’t realise I was having on a couple of occasions, blocking made that disappear.

I miss certain aspects of Reddit, some of the “in” humour, but I suspect that we can grow that here as we want.

I can say that the fediverse experience has overall been an improvement from a mental health perspective, though I will note that the app you use contributes significantly to the experience.

I’m currently using Pachli and Voyager, but both are under review for different reasons.

Ultimately, I think it’s important to remember that we’re all here to find and talk to each other, sharing experiences and stories, the platform is not the reason, just the place.

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- BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  you can set the default home view to “Local” in settings on web. I also use Voyager and it has a setting for Default Feed as well. You have to set that view on each app you use, it’s not account specific.
  
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  - vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Excellent, fixed.
    
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violentfart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Many clients let you filter out keywords.

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- early_riser@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I know, as do the web regular web frontends. But I can’t overstate how pervasive ideology is on here. And it doesn’t even show up in an organic way, either.
  
  a post about the Israeli Palestinian conflict in an unrelated community
  
  And here’s another one. I just wanted to talk about pokemon :(
  
  I just wanted to talk about Pokemon
  
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  - 0ndead@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Block .ml
    
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- dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Useless when the keywords are in images.
  
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have a vast majority of communities blocked. I only come here to shitpost and occasionally talk about 90s TV.

I’d encourage you to continue to post about worldbuilding. Not for other people or the sake of the community, but because you enjoy it. But if it’s really not giving you what you desire, then it’s okay not to stick around on a platform that doesn’t bring your joy.

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SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I got banned from a whole community today because I stood up for real leftist values against a violent Maoist and their revisionist propaganda. There’s too much hate and violence flying around the fediverse. I came here to find like minded people and all I find are the same assholes wearing different colored shirts.

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charokol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think Reddit still has merit when it comes to niche communities. Lemmy doesn’t have the user base to support the breadth of communities Reddit does, which is why I still use it for some specific subreddits I already follow. But when it comes to randomly scrolling posts from communities I’m not already a part of I’ll never go back to Reddit.

Have you tried talking Lemmy up at r/worldbuilding? Most people don’t even realize an alternative to Reddit exists

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- early_riser@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  I think Reddit still has merit when it comes to niche communities
  
  Yeah, that’s probably what I miss the most. There’s a sub for dogs, but also a sub for Labradors specifically. Not only that, but there’s a sub each for chocolate, black, and yellow labs, and all of them are lively and active. There are active subs that spawned from inside jokes from other subs like TalesFromCaveSupport from TalesFromTechSupport. There are niches within niches within niches.
  
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early_riser@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Update, having made a new Reddit account after three years, I suddenly remember why I left. On the one hand there’s way less ragebait. People actually talk about the topic of the sub and don’t try to shove a mention of Trump or Palestine in at every opportunity. On the other hand it’s still dangerously addictive to scroll infinitely. I’m already adding firewall rules to block reddit at night to keep me from scrolling instead of sleeping. They’ve also tried to make it addictive on purpose I think. I’m constantly getting notifications, by email and internally, every time a post or comment is upvoted. They have engagement analytics for every post, and encourage you to improve them by cross-posting. It seems gross and cynical, like you’re not having a genuine human interaction but churning out “content” that can be monetized.

And the ads masquerade as normal posts and comments. Granted that was the case when I left, but it’s worse now. I’m not a naive hippie who thinks you can run a massive online platform on sunshine and vibes. I get there are bills to pay, but surely there’s a way to do that that doesn’t compromise the user experience.

So I’m stuck between an awful platform with a nice community and a nice platform with a (mostly) awful community. Of course I could abandon both and stick with old school forums.

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667@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Configure these and the Lemmy experience is enhanced tenfold:

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- early_riser@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Does blocking an instance also block users from that instance or just posts from those instances showing up in my feed?
  
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  - 667@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s a great question, I don’t know. It may be client dependent. It for sure blocks posts, though in the client I use (Voyager), I think it lets comments through as I think I’ve seen them, but I’m not sure.
    
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MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You don’t have to commit to anything. I use both. The writing communities on here don’t really work for me that well and the general population of reddit (and their god-awful app) don’t work for me well there. I just kinda bounce around to wherever I’m most interested when I feel like it.

Personally, I think it’s good to have a variety of sources if you’re gonna do the social media thing anyway. Each of them have their own subculture that sucks in the extremes, but for a visit now and again they’re not terrible.

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- early_riser@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You’re right. I know I’m being hypocritical, joining a platform for ideological reasons, then complaining when everyone else talks about ideology. People who join the fediverse are self-selecting.
  
  But I actually joined Lemmy before I quit Reddit. I made an account on here during the Reddit APIcolypse of 2023, but only deleted my Reddit account that fall after realizing I was addicted to it. In some ways I was expecting a slower drip of content here on Lemmy compared to Reddit, but didn’t expect the quality to be so dubious. I’ve been telling myself I should probably make another Reddit account. I’ve been having issues at work that could probably be solved with a quick post on a relevant subreddit, but I’ve stubbornly refused to go crawling back to the social media I swore I’d rid myself of.
  
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