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Schlemmy ,

I’ve found the instance that I chose to be very unreasonably hostile.

Larry ,

you are penis

PlasmaRiver ,

Im still finding it a strange world to be part of

Milk_SDF_Possum ,
@Milk_SDF_Possum@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I feel quite the opposite, in fact I’ve received more downvotes on things that have nothing to be offended about while sometimes I didn’t when posting controversial things on woke subreddits.

Schlemmy ,

I chose lemmy.ml when creating my account and apparently that instance is quite hostile if you don’t buy into CCP propaganda.

Schlemmy ,

Yeah, that happened to me too.

ickis ,

Going to add some negativity here and sorry in advance. I’m hoping I’m being more sensible than mean. The biggest problem with lemmy for my personal experience is that there are are too many posts about itself. We have enough users to thrive as something good. Let’s just do it and enjoy moving on from reddit. If new people come here and all they see are posts about lemmy, fediverse, reddit, they will feel like it’s one note, but I feel like we all have more to offer. I think when there’s some news or something that impacts the platform it’s great to discuss. (Or if there are discussions around actual development and stuff.) In my opinion, there are just far too many.:“Lemmy people are less toxic”, “isn’t it nice here”, “reddit is not as good”, “lemmy just feels fresh”,“loving lemmy so far vs x”. clogging the feed with low quality content. I just feel there are already enough existing posts people can comment on instead of starting new posts. I know the platform is new so it’s to be expected, and I don’t think negatively of anyone making these posts (i usually think positively of them as nice people), but if I didn’t think it was actually hurting first impressions I wouldn’t say anything.

IanM32 ,
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I feel like that will even itself out in time. With a huge influx of Redditors, comparing the services is going to be a hot topic for awhile. The communities need to settle and the people who will stay will stay. Over time, it’ll be less self-referential and more original content I think.

ratboy ,
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I hope so, it’s been like two full months since lemmy has been 85 percent posts about reddit. If I see another fuck u/spez post I’m going to vom. I’m happy to be on the connect app though where I can hide those posts, makes browsing way more bareable

noodle ,
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It depends where you go, surely?

I’ve met a fair number of numpties on Reddit but I’ve never had anyone tell me neckbeards are an oppressed group until I came to Lemmy 😂

Jokes aside, it’s easy to avoid toxic people on here since they usually announce themselves loudly. It’s easy to block users, communities, or even servers if you don’t want to see something.

AngryBear ,

Im too new to tell if Lemmy is more left or right leaning or somewhere in the middle. But Reddit is extreme left wing, you can’t even make a (bad) joke without getting banned.

DanTilDawn ,

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    AngryBear ,

    “Gee, the usual suspects, oh I guess I’m racist now”. That was it, just a snarky cynical comment / “joke” relating to a couple of store robbers/thieves.

    “Encouraging hate”, or something like that according to the ban.

    Way over the top reaction by a mod or admin, keep in mind I got nothing but upvotes on that comment too… somebody really didn’t like that.

    ratboy ,
    @ratboy@lemm.ee avatar

    Depending on the instances you look at, reddit is center right compared to lemmy. Lemmy is full of socialists and communists gasp

    AngryBear ,

    Well as I mentioned somewhere before, I’m still new here, but it’s seems fairly normal to me so far. On Reddit I’ve been temporarily or permanently banned from Subreddits like for the silliest things, when a mod doesn’t like you, there is no point. They will call you names and whatnot, doesn’t matter, appeal process? Doesn’t seem to exist.

    Now how this works on Lemmy is still an unknown to me, though I do think Lemmy is too “complex” for the average internet user and so won’t be able to gain a similar “succes” in terms of userbase and ease of use.

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    I have a conspiracy theory about Reddit and social media in general:

    I think its algorithm not only puts up links but users and their comments in their view that are more likely to piss you off, and they measure this based on observing your post and comment history. I believe they categorize users by political affiliation and moral outlook by this method, and use that info to purposefully expose you to people who will cause you conflict to drive up engagement and therefore ad dollars.

    I believe they also use chat bots to argue with people for that purpose.

    GlennMagusHarvey ,
    @GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz avatar

    Honestly I don’t think an algorithm needs to work very hard to “be mean” like that. Sure, you can purposely put people with clashing views in each other sight on a place where people go to hang out and have fun. But you don’t even need to go do that on purpose. To some extent, people naturally produce more “engagement” with stuff that’s controversial/argumentative.

    Imagine if I were to walk past you and say some completely innocent comment. Now imagine I were to walk past you and insult your favorite movie/show/song/game/whatever. You’d be far more likely to respond in the latter case.

    So, as people respond, more activity is generated, and that makes the post “hotter”. Simply boost what’s hot, and you have a veritable litany of controversy.

    MomoTimeToDie ,

    It’s great until you dare to say something that goes against the left

    Demdaru ,

    By downvoting the dude ya all literally prove him right hah.

    He is right tho. Basically lemmy is even more left-leaning than reddit so anything even remotely right ruffles feathers. But at the same time people are more prone to actually discussion standpoints so I don’t mind.

    MomoTimeToDie ,

    I have yet to encounter any significant amount of people looking for an actual discussion and not just crying nazi whenever someone dares to step out of line. Maybe like 1 in 50 is a reasonable response or something.

    But hey, this is basically just the crowd that was moronic enough to think reddit was a far right platform in spite of literally all evidence, so my expectations weren’t high.

    fzacq9td ,

    people are the same, they hate being criticized.

    randint ,
    @randint@feddit.nl avatar

    I know right! I often get more than 5 upvotes here, while on Reddit most of my comments would have only gotten 2, maybe 3.

    Clbull ,

    It’s almost like all the nice people with actual moral compasses have ditched Reddit for the likes of Lemmy, Tildes and Kbin. Reddit has been left to become a toxic shitshow.

    Resol ,
    @Resol@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s great that this newfangled platform isn’t filled with hate, but that’s just because not that many people know about it yet. Give it time to grow, and the hostility will be more apparent. It’s the sad reality.

    But for the time being, I absolutely love this place.

    Cistello ,

    I probably used this service more when it comes to upvotes and comments than Reddit I always used Libreddit

    passably9 ,

    It feels like I’m talking to real humans. Not some ultra sensitive sissy all the time. It’s just so much less mentally taxing

    Pixlbabble ,

    Oh there here in places, I dip in and out of some places and I’m like eeeehhh I might not comment there for a bit lol.

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