I am a reddit refugee. Keep seeing that this is supposed to be somehow better than Reddit. As far as I can tell, it follows a similar format, less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose. But It looks like people still get down vote brigaded on some communities. So I’m curious, how it’s better?

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2517·
    3 个月前

    It’s not owned by a greedy soulless corporation with a pigboy in control. There’s more assholes on here (the AKSHUALLY is quite strong) but there’s less hivemind.

    • Magister@lemmy.world
      653·
      3 个月前

      the AKSHUALLY is quite strong

      lol, yeah true, same as the linux community here is pretty much Arch BTW, but it’s good-natured

      • Dave@lemmy.nz
        22·
        3 个月前

        I think the arch thing is just a meme. I asked a genuine question about which distro to use and got a range of suggestions but none of them were arch.

        • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 个月前

          about which distro to use and got a range of suggestions but none of them were arch.

          I think Debian is usually the strongest contender here.

    • pooberbee (any)@lemmy.ml
      251·
      3 个月前

      My baseless opinion is that having a variety of instances with varying ethoses means that there’s a good home instance for everyone (not just the verysmart, young, white, male, liberal a la Reddit), and federation means that that variety of people are intersecting and interacting a lot more than if instances were completely separate. At the same time, it still feels like a small community, or maybe a bunch of small communities. There seems to be a lot less of the snarky clapbacks and unpopular opinions getting nuked that’s typical of other social media.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        3 个月前

        (not just the verysmart, young, white, male, liberal a la Reddit)

        Nope, we’ve also got the verysmart middle-aged white male liberals here, and some Communists too!

      • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
        5·
        3 个月前

        There seems to be a lot less of the snarky clapbacks

        And almost no low-effort, “cult of personality” mememetic responses. I was going to list some but it’s been a year since I’ve been on that wretched site and I’ve purged my mind of them. But you know, the ones where you can basically predict the top comment before opening the page, probably propagated by the prevalence of bots on the site.

    • neidu2@feddit.nl
      201·
      3 个月前

      AKSHUALLY, only a few of us assholes fit this description, and as a whole we are in the vast minority.

      • cheddar@programming.dev
        22·
        3 个月前

        Also awful people tend to use same awful instances, so you can block a lot of awful people in just a couple of clicks!

    • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2113·
      3 个月前

      but there’s less hivemind.

      The hive mind here is far stronger.

      • anti-anything microsoft
      • anti-anything google
      • unwarranted “just install Linux” everywhere
      • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
        126·
        3 个月前

        Agreed. Lots of reasonable opinions (not just my own) get downvoted here.

        I’ve never been a fan of using downvotes as a disagree button and the issue seems even worse here than Reddit.

        • mke@lemmy.world
          42·
          3 个月前

          The more I see how people use downvotes, the less I like them as a feature in general. I don’t downvote things anymore.

          • Everyone can upvote, which already brings the most popular content to the top. Why does the system need another dimension to it?
            • I often see unpopular comments at the bottom, with scores like +2 -9… The absence of downvotes wouldn’t make a difference in content ordering, because the previous comment is simply +4.
          • If I disagree with someone enough to act on it, it’s my rule to explain why. A minus one is nearly useless as feedback.
            • Then, once I’ve replied, what’s the point of downvoting? Everyone can read my thoughts.
            • Replies can be upvoted too, for people who think truth comes down to a battle of internet points.
          • If I honestly believe something is bad or harmful to the community, it should probably be reported, not (merely) downvoted.

          Downvotes as they are seem like outdated design on the human interaction level. They fail to iterate on years of knowledge gained since their inception.

      • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
        23·
        3 个月前

        anti-anything google

        I hear that. Went through the technical reasons for the manifest V2 deprecation (if this is only to target ublock origin, why did they implement filter lists into the browser? Why does ublock origin lite work just fine?) and it got more downvotes than upvotes. Haters gonna hate I guess :))

        • mke@lemmy.world
          5·
          3 个月前

          Hey, I agree that MV3 brings benefits (such as better security for the extension ecosystem) and has technical merit, but it’s worth noting that uBlock’s main dev themselves said it won’t work as well. uBO Lite doesn’t work fine, it works. It’s also worse.

          And the same fundamental issue that affects ublock (the new API limits) affects everyone else trying to do the same job using extensions.

        • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
          32·
          3 个月前

          I get the impression most lemmy users don’t have a lot of lived experience. Everyone deals in absolutes, and is unable to recognise nuance.

          Most contentious issues have a range of considerations, positive and negative.

      • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
        37·
        3 个月前

        Because Microsoft sucks and Google sucks and if you install Linux there’s 50% chance it’ll cure someone’s cancer. Also if you’re at a bar and your pickup line is “I use arch” it’ll be like the fucking Niagara falls. If you’re into guys even their ass will go sploosh when they hear that line.

        What I’m getting at is that we’re just a superior being.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 个月前

      there’s less hivemind

      Not really. I guess it depends on the instance and community, but I have found that since the amount of users on Lemmy communities tend to be significantly smaller than on Reddit, the effects of hivemind thinking is actually amplified.

      In actuality, Reddit and Lemmy are pretty much two sides of the same coin. The only real difference is, as you mentioned, Reddit is run like a business now and Lemmy currently isn’t. That and Lemmy users are obsessed with Linux/FOSS.

    • suction@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 个月前

      The akshually might be stronger, but the cultish behaviour of specialised subreddits hasn’t quite arrived here yet so one can still have a faceted opinion about the stuff they discuss, while on Reddit it’s either “glory to our king” or “get the fuck out and watch your Dane Cook specials!!”

    • hoss@lemmynsfw.com
      1·
      3 个月前

      Hi. I’m an asshole. Nice to meet you! Looking forward to upsetting you later on a shitpost thread! 😊 👋