Well you got the no ads part right at least for now
I’m not sure if mods are a proper criteria when it comes to comparing Lemmy and Reddit. The audience is mostly the same and Lemmy doesn’t automatically make people/mods better or worse.
Also, you forgot one major point: API! I get to use and support my third party app of choice Sync here on Lemmy which was killed off by Reddit.
Yeah, as soon as Reddit killed off Reddit is fun, it was game over for me
Yup. I made a comment on !worldnews@lemmy.ml that criticized the recent rigged Venezuelan election, complete with citations. Banned for “misinformation”. Sure, you can just go elsewhere, but “better mods” is subjective.
I want to choose Lemmy but I use Reddit more because Lemmy has technical problems, it keeps logging me out after days or few weeks, Reddit keeps my session for months or years
Have you tried to change instances? I’ve tried a couple and didn’t had this issue so far.
Logging you out from the website of your Lemmy instance or from a mobile app?
If the latter, try changing app. If the former, try contacting your instance admin, or see if there’s a mod/admin community. Worst case scenario, move to another instance.
Staying here and reporting issues would help Lemmy, you know? Much more than just complaining it isn’t as stable and mature as a commercial product developed by a company for years.
I agree, I really really want to move completely to FOS, even maby help other people over. But there seems to be many technical limitations.
How can we create a FOS social media for all 😭
Mine never logged out since last time a server side update required relogin(nearly a year ago)
Tell your friends about the Boost app. It makes things so much easier.
Better than sync?
I’m using Arctic and really like it! Apollo vibes.
Voyager has big Apollo vibes which I am appreciating
Boost has ads. Just FYI, I use it and like it a lot but some can’t stand ads
why not both 💃🏻
Because the other one suuuuucks. Moda suck badly, management sucks, it all sucks.
So where do you go for tech advice, niche hobbies and obscure activities?
I go here. If there isn’t the right sub yet, I make it, start advertising it on Reddit.
After Reddit closed the API so that spez could get his 100+ million bonus, yet I no longer was allowed to use my RedditIsFun app, it was game over for me. I deleted 13+ years of thousands of my posts and replies, 150K karma, fuck it, don’t care, not leaving that so an sociopath can enrich himself
I umderstand your reasoning and I sure hope the fediverse will succeed. I doubt the normies will come over any time soon, but that is not really a bad thing. What is bad tho, is the fragmentation of data over so many instances, duplicate communities not knowing about each other and the censorship some instances apply. I don’t even know how some of these will get fixed or if they will ever, as they are core part of a decentralized architecture. I miss infinity tho, eternity for lemmy worked for a while but it’s no longer maintained :(
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Lemmy.World is undergoing is bit of a Zionist admin/mods problem.
They seem to admire the reddit r/worldnews model.
I got banned from world news because I simply responded to about obviously bullshit comment with ‘nope’. I was fatigued and short on time, but ultimately that was all their false claims deserved.
Add transphobia to the list, saying “questioning another users stated gender identity as a form of internet clout chasing is transphobic” gets your comment removed.
This is the good part of the fediverse too. Search for another instance that is more friendly towards the plight of Palestinians.
They’ve already said they are deliberately on the offensive against Zionists and choose .world because it’s the biggest cesspool of them on Lemmy.
I don’t understand. If a mod from memes.world bans me from a meme community, I can still comment on memes.world from another instance? Or are you saying just go to another community on another instance that has the same kind of content? Because if it’s the latter then Lemmy’s userbase number problem comes into play. Even popular subjects only have like one or two big communities.
You can’t unseen the huge one problem that Lemmy has: lack of contents/people
There is substantially less content , but there is content. I don’t get everything I am looking for, but enough to keep me happy
lemmy now has more content daily than reddit in 2011, we’ll grow.
We’ve already grown faster than reddit
And the community that is here is, amazingly, somehow even worse than Reddit, on average, when it comes to being a hive mind that is wildly intolerant of any disagreement.
My problem here is it being mostly left wing people, I am from the left, but I also want people from the other sides to be here as well, or else the whole thing will get one sided.
Why would you actively want evil?
There’s evil in the left, trust me.
yes but right is all evil
I don’t care about that so much as the hyper specificity of not only “you have to be on the political left here” but “being to the left isn’t enough, you need to be this far left, and hold these specific views on politics, technology, etc.”.
What does this means?
There probably are servers that try to be more tolerant or other opinions, but I think social media could be improved by something like in this video. I put a timestamp but TL;DW not just upvote+downvote, yes or no, but more diverse reactions like “partially agree”, “offtopic”, “you have convinced me”, “informative”, “misses the point”, etc.
So not just up and down, but left, right, diagonal and every which way to have a broader spectrum of human reactions instead of a binary one.
Additionally, add a more structured conversation flow depending on the community. A community for questions looks more like quora, a science community could maybe want options to add sources and have them aggregated in a thread, and so on.
I personally disagree, mainly because the interactions have much more depth than the same 30 unfunny comments that people make on reddit ex: this. Don’t get me wrong it happens here as well, just way less. I also see people back claims up with evidence here way more, it’s not always valid evidence but at least an attempt is made more.
The thing I like the best is the lack of self righteousness (ironic I’m making this comment on this post haha) that reddit has, that was my personal biggest complaint there. Like on reddit if there is an animal in a video in any way shape or form you can almost always find someone screeching about animal abuse, even when it is obviously not.
I of course have bias in favor of Lemmy and this is highly dependent on the community. I will admit Lemmy is super left leaning, which I like, but definitely supports your hive mind argument. Even though I lean left I think it would be healthier for Lemmy to have more of a presence from the right. Unfortunately with how the political landscape is today I think it won’t be very achievable but hopefully when we hit the post Trump era divisiveness will ease making coexistence here more achievable.
This place is basically all autistic trans tankies. I’ve had to block so many anime communities just to make it feel anything close to mainstream
That’s a little risky to say on this instance lmao
And boom. It’s gone!
And searching for the said content
Catch 22. Just gotta start posting content
I’m doing my part!
I find enough content here. Have you blocked every instance?
Good for you. At least it’s not enough for me, and for everyone who’s still using Reddit
Yeah, in comparison, that’s for sure. But if they don’t join, they fulfill their own prophecy.
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they ban me wherever i go, so fuck em both.
looking at your post history I completely understand why… I would ban you too if my rules included being nice
It may be time to admit that the problem is you, not mods.
while I’m not disagreeing with you, I do think there’s a big problem with trigger happy mods not being tolerant of opinions they don’t like.
Depends on the opinions, some should be bannable.
Yes, you can’t tolerate intolerance.
no. the problem is this massive pile of limp-wristed softies who need mods to protect them from the harsh reality of our modern predicament.
it is very much possible to be the only sane person in the crowd.
I think most people here would take the left path but there might be a selection bias at play
People on reddit understand that memes are supposed to be funny/clever, at least.
Internet moderation needs to be performed dispassionately. It’s administration, not leadership. But still, it appeals to power-tripping, self important assholes who have no interest in curating a functional community but instead ensuring everyone thinks and acts exactly like they do. The larger lemmy gets, the more of these awful moderators make up the moderation team. There is no mechanism in place to prevent this. I don’t even know how such sa mechanism would work, but as soon as one is figured out, the Internet will be a better place.
I insulted a mod unknowingly on a subreddit like a decade ago (all I said was that his advice was idiotic) and since then every time I mistakenly post on that subreddit, my account get permabanned and then all my other accounts get permabanned as well. What a completely stupid website.
This happened to me for a Pro palestine comment.
Today they accidentally unbanned me because they can’t even run their platform properly.
My account has an “suspension appeal rejected” message and is still running, fucking hell
They didn’t even say anything, the account Is just suddenly not banned anymore
FYI, you seem to be new here and seem not to be far-left. For your future enjoyment of lemmy, note that Lemmy.ML is a communist instance and therefore you may not like some of the content there.
Pandas are not known to be the brightest animals. But a bored one may have a well rested mind so who knows.
I don’t hold any ideological leanings and don’t mind communists and marxists.
Majority: everybody uses reddit, so I’ll join them
Me: everybody uses reddit now, time to leave
There are pros and cons. Is use both, because Lemmy on its own just isn’t big enough to replace Reddit. Lemmy has a decent variety of active communities for very broad/mainstream topics, plus technology and left wing politics, reflecting the shared interests of most Lemmy users. But then for any topic that’s more niche and doesn’t have a disproportionally large overlap with the interests of Lemmy users, it kinda falls appart. A lot of the more niche subredddits I participate in have no Lemmy equivalent.
I’m also hesitant to call Lemmy’s moderation better. One thing I’ve noticed with Lemmy mods is that they tend to be far too lenient with off-topic posts. Right now the top post for me on “All” is this post from !science_memes@mander.xyz. You might notice that it isn’t a meme in any way shape or form. You might also notice that it was literally posted by a mod from that community. This kind of thing happens a lot, communities on Lemmy are very prone to getting derailed away from their nominal topic.
