Interesting timing …. I just blocked a user for the first time. I never did that in all my years atReddit and it’s predecessors.
So the people. Maybe it was just the huge numbers that I never got targeted by someone who wanted to keep arguing no matter what, but it didn’t happen at Reddit.
And I do miss number of communities Lemmy just doesn’t have the user base to support
I just came here from Reddit and I had to immediately report some people who thought they could bully people off the platform cos they disagreed.
This isn’t a place for bigots but everyone else is welcome
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I miss the more active moderation. Like, with how many subs are niche titled, but have standard non-niche content.
Ok, so NSFW subs. Sure, ‘nude girl get upvote’, but holy fuck… if it’s an XYZ niche community, why is ‘basic nude girl’ getting upvoted and not reported and removed?
This happens in other communities, I’m sure. But, I’m here for politics, science, and titties so my experience is limited.
I will need a link to this example…
you know, for research
I mean, like the ‘hot girl in car’ sub… with people posting hot girls in planes or trains, or boats. They’re not cars!! And the moderators aren’t willing or able to clean those subs up. Or the new influx of only fans girls posting non-nudes to nude subs, or pussy shots to tit subs, etc. there was this one the other day on a ‘nude girls on the beach’ sub where one of the new onlyfans girls posted a standard at-home nude with a title like ‘don’t you wish I was at the beach today?’ You aren’t, so don’t fucking post in the beach nude sub!!
yeah basically every nsfw reddit sub was flooded with off-topic onlyfans and camgirl posts. where was op finding nsfw subs with good moderation?
Video and gif content. Also a smarter algorithm would be great.
I miss how easy it is to search for stuff on redd it, from google just add Reddit to search term. Not sure how to do that with lemmy. Maybe someone can teach me
If someone does teach you can you pass it on to me?
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From Reddit itself, just the large userbase. It meant that even niche interests had lively and active communities.
From Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES): the ability to resize images just by cliking and dragging, the ability to tag users in custom ways so you can tell at a glance if they’re someone who past you thought was an idiot, and endless scrolling.
What I don’t miss: everything else. Comparing the two userbases, Reddit is far more right-wing on average than Lemmy is. It’s nice not having to deal with so many garbage takes here.
tldr: niche communities
Some super active communities about photography, which is one of my hobbys.
r/MinecraftMemes r/Minecrafthmmm r/PhoenixSC r/animeme r/animemes r/Ultrakill r/BoomerShooters r/196(It is more funny) r/hmm r/Minecraft r/comics r/AnimeMirchi r/DaniDev r/2b2t
Every type of community I could want to participate in almost certainly exists, if not multiple, and actually has other people there. More than a few things I’ve tried to find an equivalent for on Lemmy, and it either didn’t exist at all, or was made at some point but is fully dead.
But I abandoned reddit maybe 2 or 3 years ago, since pretty much everywhere was becoming (even more of) a toxic cesspool.
I got recently diagnosed with autism and r/autism is the reason I started using Reddit again after more than a year. I would prefer using Lemmy for this but there’s barely any activity in autism community on Lemmy. Yeah, I know, I should be the change I want to see. I promise I will try to post something there!
Why do you need a community when that’s basically all of Lemmy?
^sorry couldn’t resist and don’t mean to offend^
Dont apologize for saying whats reality.
Haha, no worries! There’s definitely some truth in this.
I miss most communities not being overly political, I’ve blocked more users and communities than what I’ve subscribed to in lemmy. I don’t want to doom scroll through a political hive mind (which I’m not even aligned with) when I’m on my phone
This is a huge problem on Lemmy because there seem to be far more radical and opposing political opinions on here than on Reddit. You can only ever be a Nazi, or oppose capitalism and finance entirely.
I get that people may be bored of politics, this is legitimate. I disagree that it is a Lemmy’s problem though. Imho, decentralization and leaving Reddit are political decisions, opposing the up hand of big companies on social medias. So it seems to me that it is in the nature of Lemmy and Fediverse to be politically oriented. And even if you disagree that it is in their nature, maybe we can agree that it is logical that they tend to gather politically motivated peoples, as apolitical folks will probably stay on mainstream medias.
I don’t disagree with your message, but this isn’t about being politically motivated against a platform. Many people are, but most people on most platforms don’t purely occupy both extremes of the spectrum. It is not a problem with the platform, but with the users that make the platform divisive for those that wish to interact with it. This isn’t a problem with Reddit, and as someone that spent 15ish years posting on Reddit I can safely say I experienced less vitriol there than on Lemmy.
That may be partly due to there being less hate or divisiveness on niche subs, but the point remains that if people can’t be civil it acts as a negative for Lemmy as a userbase.
The fact that someone already felt the need to downvote this after so few votes already confirms that problem. It’s politics in every damn community (fortunately mostly the comments, not the actual content).
I miss the diversity of the content.
I got sick of all the trump, biden and now Harris posts. So I added filters to ignore them. I can scroll through “top twelve hours” in about 15 minutes.
It’s reducing my phone addiction which is good
Being European, this is very relatable. Everywhere I turn it’s all just US politics.
Yeah, it’s crazy. These elections are important, but here in Europe we don’t need the live stream of events from the US. Alas, even European media like Deutsche Welle or The Guardian are over saturated with US politics.
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