CheshireSnake

Idk. It's not the size. It's how you use it.

Yup. I was just commenting on the other poster. I was using his statement since, like I've said, I never had a Beehaw account. IDK what goes on in here except for what I see on my ALL feed.

Hey. Thank you for responding. I tried deleting my comment since I reread your post and you were pretty clear why you were considering it. It looks like the delete request didn't push through on your end (it's happened before to me lol). My bad - I sometimes get ahead of myself. 😅

And yes, I definitely understand (and agree) why this is concerning to you. Bigotry really is a big problem, imho. I do hope it doesn't become a big problem on kbin.

Again, thanks for responding. Have a great day! :)

I have noticed that beehaw tends to shout down people that disagree which is not beneficial. The more you shout down/ignore a group the louder they become.

I don't have (and never had) a Beehaw account, primarily because I'd rather stay in small servers, so I'm going to have to take your word for this.

If this is true, then another danger is it (community, server, platform, etc) becomes an echo chamber. A place where dissenting views are suppressed and the majority encourages like-minded points of view. Imho, that's unhealthy.

May I ask why you posted this? Was there a post/community/behavior that you saw that was questionable?

I ask because I don't think I've seen (yet) any offending posts from kbin so I was quite surprised to read your post. But then again I'm on smaller instances so maybe I don't see everything you guys see. :)

I don't think so. Iirc he just goes on autopilot when he activates the remote.

I thought of that, too, but I don't think Click had the spouse losing her free will. Didn't they separate in that movie?

Oh definitely. There are many things that lemmy needs to work on. It's nowhere near as stable as reddit as it stands.

But the author was pointing out how reddit is better since it sorts topics by subreddits, implying that lemmy doesn't do that (which is absolutely false).

As far as discovery and amount of content, I fully agree. Reddit just has much more users than lemmy. There's no argument. Discoverability is also another aspect I'd love to be improved on in lemmy. If you're in a small/new instance, you probably won't see a ton of communities compared to a bigger one.

I'm pretty optimistic, though. I think we're just getting started.

While I do agree lemmy adds a layer or two of complexity compared to the simple "plug-and-play" reddit model, the article comes across as blaming all of the author's lemmy-related issues on the software rather than admitting he just doesn't understand how to use it.

Unlike Reddit’s approach of categorization using subreddits, Lemmy instances are mostly entire servers that act as catch-all versions of subreddits.

This is one example. Subreddits =/= instances. A more apt comparison would be communities, and then he can point out how communities are hosted by different instances. I mean, how did he miss that?

Another one is when he said there was no visual representation of "All" and "Local". Just one look at an instance's page shows you those options quite clearly.

Try as I might, I missed the curation and consolidation of Reddit, where content is batched up into similar topics.

Wait... What? That's kind of exactly what's happening in lemmy communities.

I may be biased, but despite lemmy's many shortcomings/growing pains I feel the author should have acquired at least a basic understanding of how all this works before writing an article that points out "problems" when there is none.

Edit: I'm on mobile so it's hard to quote every single line. But there were more than a few mistakes there.

It's easier to park backwards compared to forward, specially if the space is narrow.

Same. I went back for r/place and to comment a few more "fuck u/spez" in posts, and it's hilarious how bad the app still is. Still slow. Videos randomly won't play. There are even times when all you can do when tapping the video is see a still image of it and can't even get into the post/thread. They just really don't give a fuck about the app except as a vehicle for ads. Smh.