Just some thoughts I have on reddit and lemmy and some interesting things I have found. A piece of original content. No AI.
I remember in reddit following nextduckinglevel to simply be a bit more up to date with people commenting on this types of things and after that I started to enjoy less reddit, this type of communities make reddit similar to other social media liked Instagram and I don’t enjoy seeing extreme things all the time or people just trying to get the attention. I stop following the community after a while and the experience got better for me.
I don’t see much different between reddit and lemmy besides lemmy being in the fediverse thus it’s a plus on my book. But you decide what communities you follow, if you are not enjoying it stop following what makes you not enjoy the platform, this is not tiktok where they put videos on you face, you choose what type of content you want to see and follow things you want to follow not things you should follow.
Thanks for not using AI but why would you post on lemmy that you gave up on lemmy? Are you trying to get more people to leave?
Hi. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it that way. People have put a lot of effort into developing Lemmy as both a software and a community, and it wasn’t my intention to devalue anyone’s efforts or say that it’s a lost cause. I think people should continue using Lemmy. This was just literally my stream of consciousness. I’m more upset that the original Reddit is gone and I wanted to highlight how Lemmy is not a perfect replacement.
I think that intro (and the dead lemmy thumbnail) and the long part about reddit is why you got downvoted. People want to hear good things or constructive criticism about their niche platform and are kinda tired of reddit.
Try not to get discouraged about posting. I saw what you meant later in the article, it just came off badly from the intro materials.
Lemmy is a perfect replacement for Reddit because it’s not Reddit. The feed was curated and not as organic as the voting system made it seem. As time passed, it became more of an algorithmic engine for dopamine extraction. Sure, I had some great times there, but times change.
Lemmy is not a perfect copy, but it is a healthier replacement in some ways. Separate instances do amplify echo chambers, but, they mildly serve to keep different groups separated. Some personality types are just not compatible and that is OK. We still have common spaces and can still be civil, mostly.
For now, there isn’t as much room here for business. Sure, we have plenty of porn but this platform isn’t as easy to exploit for money as Reddit was. No centralized advertising structure is awesome, IMHO. (Some clients still leverage ads, but I don’t use them.)
Why people say seperate instances amplify echo chambers? I can follow any community I want, it might be true that similar people go to similar instances but then you can see the others without noticing what instance they belong. In lemmy you follow communities and not people so I feel this happens even less since everyone comments on any community.
And as a site note I think the internet showed that putting everyone in once place is not always healthy for everyone.
The internet should respect different cultures and not try to homogenize everything.
Its probably more accurate for me to say that I think there is a gradient of people between instances. Using politics as an example, and without details, people seem to gravitate to instances where they are with like-minded folk. Combine that with local or global filter preferences, and echo chambers start to form on a per-instance basis. Communities of higher interest will likely be on the users home instance, after all.
But yeah, I am fairly sure most of us browse /all and see content from all over Lemmy. We still mix and mingle, but are still lightly bound by our own filter preferences. See above paragraph.)
(I am not trying to dictate hard rules of behavior, btw. Lemmy is too diverse for anything definitive.)
Personally, I try to only block specific communities and not entire instances. That has seemed to keep my personal feeds fairly open.
I think single user instances and subscribing to communities doesn’t really work with lemmy because of the low volume and overlapping communities.
I actually read all new on my instance and just block anything I don’t want to see instead of subscribing. That was when communities come and go I still see the content. There are tradeoffs though you’ll have to come back later to see lots of comments usually.
I think this is getting downvoted a little unfairly. I suspect this is mostly because the title went a bit too far in the “provocative” direction. If you were to build on this, I’d say extract the parts about setting up your own instance (everything after “In Comes Lemmy”) and expand that.
A couple other thoughts:
- I agree that [email protected] is awesome, if you contact pmjv he’ll probably respond
- You say: “When you use Lemmy, you have to subscribe to specific communities in order to see the content from those communities.” which is not literally true – you can just set your account to read “all”, and a lot of people do that. Not sure what the default is, especially if you set up your own instance.
I’m dead 💀
We are all dead on this blursed day
Speak for yourself.
Hipster archetype?
ikr. I never thought of reddit as hipsters.
Lemmy is at the moment a super busy tech/nerd/nd forum. If you have those interests you don’t usually starve for content.
It’s when you expect it to be like late stage reddit with millions of users sustaining niches comms that you get disappointed. Lemmy is like reddit in 2008.
It cannot cater to all interests yet but it is a place that people can validly migrate to as reddit enshittifies further
The more we foster a community of sharing the less dead the niches will fill.
The vast majority of lemmy users never post at all which sometimes makes it feel dead. We need more posts. If you’re reading this and haven’t made a post before I challenge you too. If you’re reading this and there is a niche community that doesn’t exist that you miss from reddit, I challenge you to make it here.
there is a niche community that doesn’t exist that you miss from reddit, I challenge you to make it here.
Please come to [email protected] for some advice. Quite a few communities get created then get abandoned a few weeks after, that’s counterproductive as well
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It’s a lot easier to complain than it is to make the world a better place. And before you think that that’s a complete agreement with your reasoning, note that 1) Your comment is also an easy complaint and 2) Does this mean that people who can’t produce quality content shouldn’t be allowed to complain when there’s a lack of it?
The big irony here is that OP actually went to the effort of creating content, even if it was “only” a complaint.
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Someone or something has clearly hurt you and you appear to want to hurt others in turn. I’m not the brick wall you’re going to run into one day, but I can tell you that if you keep this up you’re going to hit it sooner rather than later.
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bots everywhere
only on .world, .ee and the other “general interest” instances
For some reason you are just having a bad moment mate, rejoice! Nothing is dead.
I mean Reddit is still alive, like it or not I don’t think it’s going to change any time soon.
Lemmy does its own things, sure it didn’t grow as expected but it is doing good, those things take time and we should not expect Lemmy to become the new Reddit.For me the main issue on Lemmy is the number of thread/community/people that want to talk absolutely about Reddit, at this point this is just counterproductive it’s like people can’t get over it, the first few months it was okay but now it’s just non sense.
You just need to move on. Reddit had its time and place. I’m thankful for those early days I got to experience and so should you.
“And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” - Hunter S. Thompson
I still believe that mailing lists are the best technology which has been both decentralized in the meaning of the identity ( which you can verify with gpg ) and storage. While I like many other things like simplex, lemmy, to some extent matrix and so on, still mailing lists rock nowadays ( note: please consider 2 criterias i meant - distributed identity and storage)
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The main difference is that you can call out power tripping here
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