Lemmy allows you to edit titles in your posts. Reddit doesn’t, for some obscure reason, allow this.
Lemmy’s community or communities rather, don’t yet feel like anything is as bad as what you’d expect from Reddit. You may know what I’m talking about but as a reminder, I’m talking about posts that don’t quite seem as open minded. I call them small-talk, no-where kind of posts. The kind of posts that equals to a 4 line conversation with anyone in person, on the phone or even online. Never makes it past ‘how are you’ stages.
The nature of the beast though has yet to take effect because it’s not strictly a Reddit thing, it’s more of an internet thing, overall. I presume once Lemmy does reach triple digits in the thousands, we could expect to see some behavior that we don’t like seeing. However…
Lemmy has a registration that can’t be as abused as Reddit’s is. I call Reddit’s registration system, a machine gun for alts. Because of how stupid easy it is, to make an account. If you wanted to, you can stockpile a 100 Reddit accounts on just one e-mail while ignoring verification. And there isn’t anything on Reddit that stops you from this either, just fill a few throwaway forms and boom, you’re back on. Go to AskReddit, make a few empty comments, gain some karma or just bide your time a little until you resume your trolling antics again.
Easy to navigate, a nice little list of communities to hop to.
An engaging community, nothing feels too bait-y, things feel fairly contained. I don’t feel as much as I did with reddit where anything I said that wasn’t looking to instigate an argument, will be antagonized in any way. Reddit has a very spiteful hivemind as I’m sure we’ve all felt it by the DdoS attacks which is something Reddit users have been known to do in the past.
We need more places like Lemmy.
there’s a lot more reasonable, adult discussion here. i like it a lot.
Unless, of course, you aren’t a leftist, in which case everyone acts like a middle schooler and refuses to engage even remotely in mature conversation
Personally I’ve termed the phenomenon Lemmy-Decompression.
I’m using bigger words now, where before I would dumb my conversation down to be accessible to even children. I’m cussing more, and using more slang in general. I’m being blatantly sarcastic without tagging and without fearing I’ll whoosh the whole userbase.
Yeah, it’s pretty nice. Though I also hit the new Fediverse thing so hard I did give myself some social media burnout and have had to cut my usage down since. But it’s fine, I knew I couldn’t maintain something like 30 decent comments/day and 3 posts/day for very long. It was the peak of the reddit influx, so I wanted to be around and helping a lot.
Let’s be real though, the same thing happens all the time when a site is young. People like Us who are willing to move over to a new platform and give it a solid effort aren’t the ones who ruined the last few sites like digg and reddit.
Once the masses get here things are going to change, and I’m not looking Forward to it. Things here are nice, if a little quiet. Good conversation, but not enough yet.
It’s true that the demographic tendencies of early adopters are definitely a factor. The Fediverse has a baked-in solution though: Go to a smaller Instance and block the big ones.
Everyone who says the Fediverse will eventually get just as bad as anywhere else is forgetting this one key technical difference. This is not the same as a major tech company holding, fundamentally.
I’ll admit, I’m new to the concept of federation. Ive read a bit, but it’s hard to imagine how that all works once the scale goes crazy. It’ll be interesting, and I hope it grows to the point where I see exactly what you mean.
I wrote a breakdown in regular language for it, helps grasp the scope and degree of freedom:
I’m already starting to see that begin to change though, compared to a few weeks ago. It might have been a very temporary phenomenon.
I too started to decompress, but I think now I am going to go back to merely lurking, it is just not worth the headache of arguing with people who are not engaging in good faith.
It is a fundamental law of the universe that I can only control myself, not others, so if they want to make NOISE rather than articulate actual logic in the form of speech, I can do nothing against that onslaught. There are just so MANY of them, and only one of myself to have to work against the trend, e.g. blocking people.
I’m not disagreeing about the result, Lemmy definitely feels less spammy/trolly, but either you or I have misunderstood something about registration. As far as I’m aware, any rate-limiting, proof of personhood, email verification, etc. is completely a per-instance thing. So all you’d need is an instance that’s permissive to get heaps of accounts. Or even if there aren’t any permissive ones (that haven’t been defederated), you could host a private instance, or sign up on multiple instances. However permissive Reddit is, I don’t think Lemmy fundamentally has the capability to be particularly restrictive.
I think the difference is that there’s no incentive to rack up karma on Lemmy, so a lot of the trolls and reposters ignore it.
I know this definitely isn’t the right community to ask this, but I have been struggling to find the “how the fuck does lemmy work” community. So far I’m loving lemmy and everything I’ve experienced. My only concern is that with it’s decentralized fediverse nature, is it impossible for a user to delete a post or comment they make?
My only concern is that with it’s decentralized fediverse nature, is it impossible for a user to delete a post or comment they make?
Yes, though to be fair, you should treat the majority of the internet like this regardless. Between archival web scraping bots and just random people screenshotting, all deleting on a centralized platform does is delete the original. Nothing about every copy people make. I’ve been able to pin plenty of people with receipts about comments they deleted on reddit because a different device still had the push notification with their comment.
The leftist echo chambers of Lemmy are seriously disheartening.
Lemmy has a very 2000s forum feeling. Hopefully, smaller communities will continue to exists but we’ll still get some well moderated, huge communities like in Reddit.
