Anybody else notice the change in sentiment as Lemmy grows?

BitSound , 10 months ago

My big hope with the fediverse is that stuff like that can be contained. lemmy.world is the big instance where most anything goes. If you’re looking for quality curated content, then you’ve got places like beehaw.org. Similar to /r/AskHistorians, but that was always an awkward system. Is /r/AskPlumbers or whatever up to the same standards, or just some rando subreddit? Now, if you find a community like [email protected], then you can explore the other communities on the instance and be reasonably assured that they’re also up to snuff.

Also, I think the memes and other easily-ingestable content is a healthy sign. It draws people to the fediverse, and then they can discover more niche communities that make them stay long-term. The memes aren’t for everyone, but the memes help everyone get good communities.

ryathal , 10 months ago

My hope is the opposite, I’d like to see instances become more transparent. Make communities able to migrate instances, and merge. Hosting instances should be more like bit coin mining Which miner that does something shouldn’t matter, it’s all about keeping anyone from having a majority stake and the whole thing just works for users.

Rottcodd , 10 months ago

Yeah.

June was glorious. It was like the internet of the 1990s all over again. There wasn’t a lot of content, but what there was was posted by actual people who would actually engage in good faith. I had forgotten what that felt like.

But it’s been all downhill from there, and at this point, it’s starting to feel like Reddit, just on a smaller scale. More all the time, I’m just seeing rage bait that’s posted either by a bot or by a person who might as well be a bot, and if I bother to respond to it, it’s likely that if I get any response at all, it’s just going to be a string of shallowly emotive rhetoric and fallacies that again is either posted by a bot or by a person who might as well be a bot.

I’m cynically unsurprised but still disappointed.

bernieecclestoned , 10 months ago

No positives?

nodsocket OP , 10 months ago

More users means more content, which is a positive of course.

bernieecclestoned , 10 months ago

Yeah, more means more nice peeps and more dickheads, cest la vie

jecxjo , 10 months ago

Honestly the fact instances are being defederated has helped a lot. It seems to happen at a rate that doesn’t seem ridiculous, not like there is a flood of garbage but still not none.

housepanther , 10 months ago

I am not really noticing this at a large scale. I’ve seen it here and there but not enough to be worrisome. The ration of good content to poor content still remains heavily in favor of the good.