Ask Lemmy

Very recently I have noticed some extra misogyny that I hasn't noticed before I wonder if it is due to a new exodus

However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again

This has gotten worse but it's still smaller and not algorithming your experience so it's still not as bad.

I'm new. On piefed not Lemmy. Feels like back when the internet was for nerds.

Can we discuss the bots? Lemmy's communities are being over automated and I see bots reposting threads from Reddit and other junk usually from xitter

This is how I know I'm old. I consider the "Reddit API debacle" recent history.

Less star trekking these days

Less beans

any post or comment I make immediately goes into negative karma, I suspect it's because bots will mass downvote competing content to allow their own other bots to farm karma

I hate Reddit with a passion

It’s a lot busier and there are more communities, which I’m thankful for. When I first joined I was pretty much always a handful of posts away from being “caught up”.

I haven't read all the comments in here, and probably won't. But based on what I've seen so far, I'll be the contrarian.

I first started actively participating on Lemmy maybe a few months before the API debacle, but I'd also been checking the place out a bit for a few months before even signing up.

This place was A LOT kinder then. Users were more apt to stand up for each other and call out bad behavior. Someone called another person a "fucking idiot" over an inconsequential difference of opinion and multiple people would be on top of that.

The API debacle itself meant a lot more users arriving at a faster pace, and they were mostly a good mix of all the different Reddit archetypes -- the good and the bad. To me, it seems like it's the in between Lemmy picks up the, shall I say, less appealing Rexitors. The ones that were permabanned for no reason at all they simply said they LOVE KITTENS -- and then you see their toxicity here and that internal conflict strikes where you're like "permabans shouldn't be a thing, but in this case, I can kind of understand why it might've happened".

Anyway, all this to say, back in the before times, the Fediverse felt a bit more distinct, like it had truly had its own generally amicable vibe and culture. Now, it feels like this is probably "Reddit-vibes" but from six months ago.

Not that I'm hating on Lemmy, obviously I'm still here, and it's still currently the lesser of two evils.

Personal opinion: Came over when the API changes went live, simply because being forced to their official "app", which was a pile of garbage in all aspects for me, was too much. And since that started the exodus, I couldn't be arsed to mess around with 3rd party apps to make them work again, because I was too lazy and it simply didn't feel like it's worth it anymore. Made a lemmy account, lurked mostly as I did on reddit, content for doom scrolling was lacking quantity mostly. For me there's now enough content for the daily scrolling session, where quality posts end about as I start to get bored or need to get my ass up, so it's a win win here.

It really just feels that more people are here. What I'm missing are a few more different users, because it kinda feels that most people here are very similar in their views, but that also would probably pave the way for more defederation drama.

Since I'm mostly lurking and liberally use the block instance/community feature to simply hide the content I'm not interested in, for me personally it only got better, so I jump in, get my daily fix of memes, news and other random interesting things, comment occasionally and get back to whatever. I'm honestly lacking an alternative, so it's as good as it gets for now, and I'm happy with that.

Lemmy/Piefed is starting to feel like reddit when it was most enjoyable. Actual communities gathering around common interests and real conversations around those topics. Moderation isn't too far into the curated accepted response only zone that reddit fell into even before the API debacle. Meaning if you have a disagreement or differing opinion with someone you have to hash it out instead of the insta banhammer many subreddits implemented.

Also I kinda like that there's a diverse age range of people here. Seems moreso than on reddit but that may be because there's less of us altogether. So age stuff sticks out more.

I miss Kbin

I miss baby elephant gifs