I come on here every so often to see what’s going on, and every time I leave disappointed. This is my top 3 grievances at the moment:
- This place feels dead. It’s usually quite, but lately it really feels like a ghost town. Idk what the actual stats say, but I feel like the amount of comments, posts, and variety seem to have gone down quite a bit over the past few months.
- The amount of genuinely hateful content has gone up. I feel like Lemmy as a whole used to have better moderation even just last year compared to now. Every time I get on here, I’m seeing more and more gross content that’s either racist or bigoted or just downright gross. This content doesn’t get taken down even when reported. As horrid as Reddit’s moderation is, it’s still not this bad.
- Outside of the tech communities, there’s no information hygiene anywhere in sight. The news subs publish the most questionable of sources, sometimes outright misinformation… and nobody cares? People don’t criticize weak sources or call out false claims or even value accuracy. I’ve seen multiple instances of users saying something false and getting upvoted for it and a person correcting them getting downvoted for it. Like, what’s even happening?
I don’t know, I feel like when I joined a couple of years ago Lemmy was so much better. It felt more active, the community felt more down to earth, kind, and friendly, and the content was higher in quality. There was much optimism surrounding the Fediverse that’s not there anymore. Now it feels like a more left wing version of Voat than a genuine Reddit alternative. Am I the only one feeling this way or do other people feel the same?
God forbid you tell anyone you used to be in the police.
Every time I get on here, I’m seeing more and more gross content that’s either racist or bigoted or just downright gross.
Weird how that happened after they got rid of the tankies
Our authoritarian mods rule with an iron fist
Bigots? Purged. Racists? Gulag. Gross posters? Literally devoured with a comically large spoon.
Beanis posters? Beaten, brainwashed, shoved in a locker, radicalised, found the light of allah, returned, started beanisposting again.
Piefed creator just flat out saying it, while saying their credit score makes things so much better!
TBH, sometimes mods take it too far. It is not fun, when you open some old discussion and half the posters have been banned and another half deleted by creator.
Even has piefed devs and pr saying they’d ban people or communities they don’t like even harder!
When I first looked into the Fediverse, Lemmy.ml was the juggernaut sub. They were and sort of still are filled with tankies (literally stands for Marxist Leninist).
Oh shit, that’s what it stands for?! Well, at least my home instance is for grad students.
the “moderates” refuse to understand that bread and circuses only come from captured attention sources and get persnickety when they can’t get it from anywhere else.
i used to celebrate that diet-reddit (aka .world) would eventually diminish because of it, leaving behind the few who were willing to learn so that they can join the fold; but watching them isolate themselves onto piefed makes it clear that they’ll just diminish the fediverse instead.
but watching them isolate themselves onto piefed makes it clear that they’ll just diminish the fediverse instead.
Redditor: posts bigoted takes on lemmy
Lemmy: “Go back to reddit”
Redditor: “Ogay” creates pieFED
Lemmy: “how you could possibly think we meant th…”
pieFEDditor: “Another day another banger”
piefed’s creator said that he created it because of hexbear; it had nothing to do with advice on reddit usage.
Which is even shittier reason, but to be fair piefedditors were told to go back to reddit a lot of times when they posted shit outside of their nazi bars.
i used to celebrate that diet-reddit (aka .world) would eventually diminish because of it, leaving behind the few who were willing to learn so that they can join the fold; but watching them isolate themselves onto piefed makes it clear that they’ll just diminish the fediverse instead.
As someone fairly new to Lemmy, this sentence is indecipherable. Maybe that’s part of the reason why people tend to pass through instead of sticking around?
I’ll translate:
Diet-reddit aka .world: Lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy instance, mostly composed of westerner tech-literate reddit exiles who are at least somewhat knowledgeable and favourable of open source and the fediverse
PieFed: piefed is a Lemmy-ish instance actually using other protocols and stuff (don’t ask me I’m not a programmer) whose main contributors are westerner libs so mad with the existence of communist people on Lemmy that they decided to make their own instance free of anti-Zionist moderation!
Meaning of OP: “I [hexbear user critical of liberalism in Lemmy.world] used to celebrate the diminishing of Lemmy which left behind the more class-conscious and willing to learn and interact with communities such as Lemmygrad or Hexbear. However, seeing the libs isolate themselves willingly in piefed just makes the fediverse shrink”
I very much appreciate your translation! Thank you!
it never occured to me that there would be newbie hexbearians (hexbearers?) lol
and people pass on lemmy because of its leftist politics and; in hexbear’s cases; the frequent shitposting. (which is why i’m here. lol)
Hexbearrorists? Hexbearigons?
This place feels dead
Maybe from where you’re standing, but here on .ml, with one foot in the “Tankie Triad” and the other with a pretty broad view of the rest of the fediverse, it feels quite active.
I feel like as soon as hexbear federated posting on hexbear fell off and was replaced with what seems to just be endless spam on endless 0 user instances and basically what i’m saying is federation was a mistake.
that’s my thoughts on the state of lemmy
I probably wouldn’t be a communist if y’all hadn’t federated. Sorry for making your feed more boring but hexbear is filled with cool people who I like and would miss if it defederated. I hope this is some consolation
That post is the least sloppy thing on that users profile.
