Anybody else notice the change in sentiment as Lemmy grows?

FarraigePlaisteach , 10 months ago

Before I left Lemmy I saw lots of threads with people calling each other “comrade” and saying that “uKrANiAns R nAzIs!”

I’d take the crappy memes over that any day. It’s not all about personal entertainment folks, those people are toxic.

mo_ztt , 10 months ago

Yah dude. I am a super newcomer to Lemmy, but when I started up it was refreshing that it was cerebral and different and marched to its own beat. I never even really noticed how much image / meme content had taken over reddit, until I saw a place without it. I didn’t agree with the tankies. But, there are tankies! This place is great. It’s different and authentic. I like it. And now, over the last couple of months I’ve been carefully attempting to keep my subscriptions on Lemmy to the factual stuff and eliminate from the feed stuff that’s memes or “Hold my whatever, I’m going in!” just kind of time-wasting.

And yet, even in the “good” parts I’ve been seeing this takeover of people who are… I don’t even know what they’re doing. I think it’s just sort of this dopamine loop that they want to come on and yammer. I’m sort of assuming that this is maybe a problem only on the big instances, that may be better on Mastadon or on more form-a-community type of instances? Maybe? I hope so.

hsl , 10 months ago

We had this discussion yesterday as well. Removing under rule #4.

Remmock , 10 months ago

I’ll agree. When I first came here it reminded me of being part of 4chan back in 2005 when pranks and memes were partially cerebral and relied on you having some basic intelligence. Even if they were dumb, you had to appreciate the majesty of mass-calling GameStop to ask if they had Battletoads in stock. 4chan slowly devolved into a cesspit, and it didn’t occur to me until I joined Reddit 10 years ago that the people I had cut my teeth with regarding internet culture had moved on.

Over the years Reddit became slowly more, and then radically less interesting. I gravitated toward more niche communities or ones that challenged my worldview to maintain my engagement. It could still be engrossing, but I noticed more and more that Reddit just filled the gaps when I had nothing better to do, like reading on the toilet.

Early in the divergence I jumped to kbin and rediscovered the kind of intelligent discourse I had been missing all over again. However, I’ve already seen fascist apologizers and trolls migrating as well.

To borrow a phrase: “But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.”

roguetrick , 10 months ago

4chan was a cesspit even in 2005. Something awful and FYAD were better examples of quality Internet troll culture at the time (which makes sense because 4 Chan were banned goons).

Remmock , 10 months ago

Ok.

TenderfootGungi , 10 months ago

True. But I’m just glad there are enough people to have conversations. Hopefully some of the smaller subs can exist soon.