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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 14 year olds with "big brain" takes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Like: decentralization and a renaissance of the old- school dream of what the Internet should be.

Dislike: media bias fact checker bot spamming every damn post. Power tripping mods.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Might i ask which mods you feel are power tripping? You don't have to answer if you don't want, no pressure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d rather not. Not sure if you can view the mod log for other people’s accounts, but if so it’s easy to spot from mine.

I’ll say that I have some sympathy because dealing with internet randos is painful soul-sucking work and it’s easy to default to the ban-hammer, but…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

My experience has been the opposite. I'm unclear what you are posting, but MY posts exist almost exclusively to entertain me, by saying my weirdst inner thoughts, and seeing how people react.

I regularly insult the concept of linux. I don't insult the people who use linux. I insult linux itself. And people have.....opinions......on that.

I CONSTANTLY call George Clooney a smug bastard.

And I've never been banned here. That being said, I avoid lemmy.ml. I hear they ban anyone with a different opinion than themselves.

Now downvotes? I'm unclear if I have more upvotes or downvotes! People don't like it when you insult their precious wittle linux!

sucks on a penguins mamas nipples for milk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm still unclear what the purpose of that bot is, and why everyone hates it. It always just says bias checking is unavailable right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I hate it because it shows up everywhere and adds nothing of value while displaying busy formatted text. If it lately shows even less meaningful content, that barely seems possible.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Decentrilization is both a blessing and a curse.

If there's an issue you can make your own community with blackjack, and hookers.

But at the same time these communities never seem to get super big (minus a few) and if you're subscribed to both there's not a good way to deduplicate the posts. So 5 communities post the same thing (or one person posts them in 5) sometimes you see all 5 side by side.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Been wondering... what is a tankie?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Like:

  • It has that small-community feel still. I don't see (perhaps because I stay out of a lot of the more tech-ey communities?) the kind of farming, low-effort, generally mediocre content I saw on Reddit.
  • Lack of the sense of a hyper-corporatized, "You're only allowed to do things that make us money" sense that's enshittified much of the internet lately. I'm not even sure if Lemmy can be monetized.

Dislike:

  • Not yet large enough either. I don't want hundreds of millions of users, but I still miss a lot of the more niche hobby/discussion communities I used to be able to participate in. Even communities for fairly large hobbies or interests can be dead on Lemmy.
  • The awful political takes. Everything from typical dumbness up to advocating violence (but it's okay because it's my point). And it's everywhere.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Like:

  • Decentralized system that limits abuse

  • Great customizaion

  • It works (unlike much of the competition)

Dislike:

  • Lack of even remotely niche content (aside from Linux and infosec content)

  • Generally very pessimistic userbase

  • Lacks polish and features in many areas

  • Currently trends towards extremist echo chambers - the fact that .ml (an instance known for banning criticism of violent, racist, authoritarian governments) is one of the biggest instances, is a good example of this.

  • tends to be extremely hostile to any sort of monitization, regardless of the quality or cost to produce content

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

tends to be extremely hostile to any sort of monitization

This is a good thing, seeing as how monetization has ruined other things, the web and newspapers in particular.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dislike: there is still no way to group communities into sub feeds, apart from subs, local, all. (and the work around some do of having multiple accounts seems silly to me)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh yes, I remember when Reddit came out with multireddits. Loved that, and I miss it.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

All the trolls.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I genuinely cannot express how much it annoys me that I cannot have a blocklist for keywords.

Most of the things I read are from my subscribed communities, which i'm very happy about generally, however given the overall state of life today, half of the posts in completely unrelated communities end up being one of the following:

  • Twitter CEO
  • Hate speech in US politics
  • AI propaganda for some pump and dump quick money

I really just don't want to see any of those things

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Connect app for Lemmy actually has this feature, and it really is a gamechanger. I mean, it makes Lemmy kinda into a desolate wasteland of posts, but its better than seeing most of the garbage I don't care about and don't want to interact with.

Granted, this also relies on users putting said keywords in the title of their post, so I still end up seeing stuff I don't want to, but it is drastically decreased.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

On browser you can put this onto your custom filters

lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/musk/i"))

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The userbase is overall more mature and can actually discuss complex topics. Different instances have completely different feels, vibes, cultures and userbases, and that's amazing. Some admin teams are spez wannabees but the federated structure limits the damage that they can cause.

Relative lack of niche communities. Witch hunting is becoming a worse problem here than in Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

The people. For both.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some people here take themselves way too seriously. Not every conversation needs to be an argument.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I completely disagree! Taking things seriously is the only way to have meaningful conversations. If we don’t challenge each other’s views, how will we ever grow and learn? We need the "battleground of ideas"!

/s

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The mods: self-important, dense, and often pushing their own agendas.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I like that it's moderated fairly lightly but reasonably. Often I can have an actual discussion with someone who doesn't agree with me without either of us getting banned by a mod who likes one side or the other. From what I see generally a user needs to be very obviously abusive/racist/violent before a mod steps in, even if the content is controversial.

I dislike that I've needed to heavily restrict my use for my mental health until after the election. A lot of people (not all by any means) believe it's ok to bully and abuse other users because their cause is righteous - it's already shown up in this thread. E.g. the daily posts and comments, with a lot of upvotes/support, that label anyone who disagrees with or criticizes Kamala (used to be Biden)/Democrats a bot, idiot, worse than useless, foreign agent and so on. I'm not talking about downvoting which is just expressing disagreement - I'm talking about outright insults and upvoting those. The attitude of "vote with/support me or else" has no place in a democracy founded on free voting without persecution, even if the bully is sure they're right. If I didn't mention it, perhaps even though I have, we might see a version of "but it is actually ok this time" and reasons why. It's happened before.

Guess what? Very few "policy bullies" think they are evil - they're positive it's justified. Christians demand abortion bans, Muslim deportation, religion in schools/government and so on because they truly believe they are saving eternal souls. I was raised in that environment. That a sizable amount of Lemmy users believe it's correct/admirable to insult others into "proper" behavior makes them very similar in character to those religious extremists IMO. Apparently when the issue is really important abuse is ok.

I'll end by saying Gaza/Palestine is incredibly important to me - I am legitimately very upset frequently by the stories and media. However, Bernie Sanders convinced me to support Biden and then Kamala. Bernie laid out his argument with logic and facts and did not once insult my position. I also doubt the aggressive posts/comments are winning over undecideds. "I wasn't sure if I should vote Democrat until I was called a harmful idiot and had my concerns dismissed as being in bad faith".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The assholes who pretend to argue in good faith but just spout stupid bullshit.

Oh, and the idiots who block everyone they don't like.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Lol, you got me for a minute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Simmillar to me i hate the assholes who accuse you of arguing in bad faith while symultaniously calling you a moronic asshole fascist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Reddit 2.0 lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I think it’s the best at what it does. That problem space doesn’t have a lot of good options.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Like: pretty much everything

Dislike: wish there was more activity in the D&D comms

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The interface. I actually have a lemmy alt and I just hate utilizing it due to the web interface. Its the main reason I did kbin and non mbin to begin with. I did quick accounts on each and liked the bins better naviagation and config wise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The thing I dislike the most is that my bot got banned. I made a bot to post carefully categorized articles into their proper communities, but it was banned without warning or explanation. All the communities I was modding dried up shortly thereafter because I didn't manually post in them instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

What? and that stupid brainwashing bot that comments in every news post is still around? Fuck 'em.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Im pretty sure most people including mods don't want to see a bunch of soul-less bot postings. That is straight up community manipulation. Please don't use bots, use your human mind to interact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been impressed with the number of people who understand this pretty esoteric and fundamentally game-changing bit of technical voting system knowledge:

Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

About first past the post and third parties for those who aren't going to watch. But do watch! Required viewing for everybody!

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dislike: the daily post from someone asking where they can find "non-political" or "centrist" communities, which is a dog whistle that they're tired of being yelled at for their shitty views

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or that they just want to get away from politics for five minutes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just want to browse cat pics for a while? Believe or not, centrism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Did you know that wanting to browse cat pics is just a distraction from the oppression of late stage capitalism by the bourgeoisie?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

"which is a dog whistle that they’re tired of being yelled at for their shitty views" 🤨 you're trolling right? Like @[email protected] says "they just wanna get away from politics" ... not everyone cares to have a political opinion and likely just wanna avoid the hostility or nuances that comes with politics discussion. I myself would rather see to much more pleasant things that isn't just abunch chaos and steam. Wouldn't you rather enjoy your time than to be a salty bitter lad?

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