I described it as “Mastodon’s Reddit”. Which is inaccurate, and I’m not happy with it. How would you phrase it?
Reddit for people who like making their life more difficult
At the same time, easier, in that there is a lot less toxicity and bots targeting the lemmyverse
Like recently, I found a reddit thread that had a pretty obviously racist meme.
It was extremely highly upvoted, but something really felt uncanny about it, because I know racism is ramping up, but this was too blunt to feel natural to me.
Then, so many comments defending the racism were there it was odd.
That’s when I decided to look into the profiles of these comments and 9/10 of them were a year old or less, with very few comments or completely hidden profiles.
It was one of the most blatant bot/troll farm attacks I’ve ever seen and kinda shocked me.
All of there comments seemed very humanly written, but the account ages being all similar was too big a tell for me to think it was organic.
Basically, I think we’re cooked if people keep using centralized websites and or if we dont have a way to figure out what is genuine from what isn’t.
The average person goes with the flow and doesn’t think too hard about things. If through trolls or bots a country, nation state or group of billionaires can change what appears to be public opinion, we’re fucked.
Reddit for nerds and political extremists.
A collection of message boards.
Reddit in slow-motion.
Reddit with a slightly more community centred ownership structure so it’s a bit harder to enforce unpopular decisions.
Many parallel reddit-like services which can interact with each others’ content if they choose to allow it.
It’s reddit but instead of r/ we have c/ and there are different servers, not just reddit.com, but most of them talk to each other. Also the devs are leftist authoritarians
tankies, don’t use .mlI don’t even know what Lemmy is but I use it.
“Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”
Reddit.
Without the cunt on top who put it down.
And there won’t ever be one, because there’s no chair for him to sit in.
News and discussion, but you start from a chosen community and work towards global connection. Also, no ads, no making you the product, and volunteer-based development and moderation.
Reddit12 years sgo
Don’t talk about the fediverse with undesirables. /S
A bunch of smaller Reddits all combined together, without karma, and more tech-focused content.
I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy
I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like
“less toxic” can be interpreted in different ways. For example, I don’t always find people on Lemmy to be more open-minded across tribal boundaries. But you can perhaps find your tribe and experience less toxicity that way?
