• Lemminary@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Absolutely not. But I must say that I don’t miss the toxicity at all. Being on the (liberal?) Fediverse has done wonders for my mental health. There’s little tolerance for bullshittery and that helps foster a stronger sense of real community for a greater cause in my mind.

    • catboss@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Also there is (as of now) still far less shitposts and low effort commentary. I definitely won’t miss the endless circlejerking either.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I don’t think it’s even necessarily all the same political alignment, so much as it is that we’re all united against Reddit and this corporate tomfoolery right now. It won’t last forever, but in being united for a common cause, we’ve sort of achieved world peace lol. I’m a libertarian. I’ve seen us, republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, socialists, and everything in between uniting to discuss technology, bash Reddit, and work to build back our global communication forums. This is the progress in humanity that the internet’s creators envisioned. This is unity and peace. It won’t last forever, but if we can at least continue to respect each other (while holding different opinions), unite against those who show no respect or dignity, and continue to rebuild together, we have in my opinion bettered humanity for years, hopefully generations to come. Even expecting that this platform won’t last forever - none ever will - we have learned through this to not take our open forum and free discussion for granted.

  • hydra@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    Reddit has excessive bureaucracy and modbots who shadowban you for reasons as stupid as posting in a certain sub once despite never participating in the sub you got banned from.

  • Micfoo
    2·
    2 years ago

    Give it time, we’re all new to the party.

    Once we’re all comfortable we can argue like we used to.

  • gaytswiftfan@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    so far I’ve experienced a ton of whataboutism and really sus views/devils advocate type shit on here (lemme.ml) that makes me not want to browse. is there a better alternative that’s not saying “why can’t we all just have our own opinion ❤️🌈” on shit like genocide and anti LGBT culture

    • BetaAssimilation@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      Beehaw has a strict no hate speech policy and the mods aren’t afraid to put their foot down when people are sort of toeing the line about being a terrible person. That’s my instance and I’m very proud of it and it’s mod team. Sounds like it would be a good fit for you, too. Also, even if you don’t get an account there, you may be happy hanging out on the communities they host. Here’s a link to the mods describing their philosophy. https://beehaw.org/post/107014

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
      1·
      2 years ago

      so many more instances, back when these were ISPs people would change to save a dollar, now that its free social media people are trapped?

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    So far the people who were most likely to jump ship on reddit were those who were the most fed up with what reddit has become lately.
    I just had my 10th cakeday on reddit about a month ago and I’ve seen a steep decline in quality for both posts and interactions for the last 4-5 years, with it accelerating in the last year or so. Those that never tried old reddit on desktop or a 3rd party app see no reason to jump ship for another platform, and a large portion of the rude commenters and trolls showed up after the new layout was default and reddit had their own official app in the app stores.
    Reddit just filtered out most of the people that made the site what it was in the first place. If it was turning into a shithole before all the people that actually care about the site left, just imagine what it will be like in the coming weeks now that we’re gone.

    • hydra@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      it’s going to rapidly become a poorly moderated dumpster and people will eventually stop visiting until it becomes a zombie forum

    • oh_so_hazey@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      If it was turning into a shithole before all the people that actually care about the site left, just imagine what it will be like in the coming weeks now that we’re gone.

      i don’t know why this made me lol but it did

  • Windshear@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 years ago

    It’s what happens with a small community. Interaction and discussion VS lowest common denominator humour for mass votes.

    We all want Lemmy to succeed, but that only means that it’ll turn back into reddit. It’s the natural cycle of social media.