For the better :)
I haven’t been active in online communities for over ten years. It’s been fun to contribute with comments and posts and I feel like I’m finding my voice again.Probably because of the instance I happened to join (for entirely accidental reasons), I can feel myself being pulled in to an information bubble for sure and that is to a subtle extent influencing and perhaps hardening my pre-existing views about the world at large. I don’t think that’s a good thing exactly, though I’m not sure it’s entirely bad as before I’d just kind of given up thinking about a lot of that stuff since my early 20s when I had to start focussing on other things and it’s more like a return to form. I’m, perhaps misguidedly, okayish with this development because this bubble, this biased lens is so stark that I feel like it’s hopefully less easy to end up being totally subsumed (maybe I’m just telling myself that). Of course, like everyone’s favourite kind of bubbles, it’s obviously one that’s reinforcing of my own tendencies anyway, the folks here just take it a far greater extreme in rhetoric, to an extent seeing the kind of blind anger and mechanical doctrinaire response to even the most tangentially related of topics has kind helped me see where my stop is on that train of thought. Another way it’s influenced me has been to strengthen my existing preference and respect for FOSS software and I think being here is gradually increasing this preference and will likely result in even greater adoption on my part.
I think it’s laudable to be aware of when we are only surrounding ourselves with like-minded people, but I also wouldn’t put too much stock in this Internet narrative that there is some morality to “avoiding echo chambers” or whatever.
You should always introduce yourself to a diverse range of (valid) opinions and ideas. But it is also OK to have spaces that are reserved for people that make you comfortable/are more like-minded. We do this in our daily lives too. The internet isn’t some sacrosanct space where we have to be engaged with people we disagree with constantly.
It’s the difference between a support community for LGBT people, and /r/conservative. The former is good and healthy, the latter is toxic and distorting.
I CAN ACTUALLY POST ON c/asklemmy NOW!!
Back when I was like 13 and on reddit, I posted what I thought was a good open question to askreddit, and it immediately got deleted with no stated reason. Now, I can ask any interesting question I have, and receive tons of interesting responses from people!
A lot of the same Reddit mods have transferred to other major communities. Unfortunately you’ll likely still hit the same issue over here, I’ve already been banned by one outrageous mod for disagreeing with him.
Best part about lemmy, ban that user/community/instance and move on.
I’ve already been banned by one outrageous mod for disagreeing with him.
I rarely find it is as simple as this. There’s a remarkable number who had their post removed or that been banned from communities that “literally did nothing wrong.”
I’d be very curious to see what exactly led your being banned.Edit: Comments like this signal you’re a pot stirrer and I’m afraid to ask you to expand this comment further.
I have a new fan, which is nice I guess. Welcome
I banned the community and admin which abused their powers, whether you believe me or not it makes no difference to what happened.
No rules were broken, and I am happy I am not part of that community
I’m confused. Who banned who lol
I meant blocked, I’m dumb
I’ve been posting regularily on asklemmy@lemmy.world for the past eight months, so I see no malicious intent in whoever is a mod.
i am curious as to your experience.
not too long ago i am having exchanges with people who wouldn’t hesitate to use derogatory term to label me because i held a differing view on certain issues.
i thought it was reminiscent of earlier reddit days where overly woke individuals would abuse you on reddit and then abuse the report system to perma ban your account.
don’t get me started on the mods who were power tripping and dishing out bans because they got offended over simple facts.
Man that is quite the series of dog whistles/red flags.
Edit: scanned your comments. Yikes. A lot of things make sense now.
Ah yes the classic online insult to someone who has a slight difference of opinion from you.
A hefty amount of people don’t understand that it’s ok to not all agree, unfortunately those people are also mods.
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
Before the APIcalypse, I was already playing with the thought of quitting Reddit. Spez just sped up that process.
The admins made it really easy to quit when they suspended me after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse
But somehow straight up calling for the end of trans people is totally fine and dandy by them
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
This.
But not much has changed, functionally, for me: I still get downvoted when I point out where people can improve their English and surpass my nephew when he was in the third grade. And I still get to debate technical things based on what I know, so that’s really no change. Different pile, is all.
Not here to fight you, but this line of thinking might be why people downvote you for being a language/grammar nazi.
i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring
idownvote because 99%afthe time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boringI* of*
Can I has downvote please?
Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.
no. it’s a disagree button!
Same lol. Was basically just waiting for something new to pop up, was already using lemmy for a bit before reddit cut third party apps and made the transition that much easier.
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Given me a newfound distate for Linux users/evangelists. Like the vegans of the tech world
Subscribed to all three of those and I’m looking forward to finding some new fun communities to be a part of, thank you!
I was ready for a fediverse reddit since i had been on mastodon since 2019. The threads here just work better for me than the microblogging style. I used mastodon sometimes and reddit every day. Now i use lemmy every day, mastodon sometimes, and reddit only when i absolutely must.
I comment now.
Same, never did before!
I comment more again. Used to a lot on reddit 5-7 years ago, less and less the recent years. Now back on Lemmy.
I was very active on reddit until around the 3rd meetup year or so. Thats when I noticed a major change in what had been an amalgamation of communities and while I still visited there was no urge to interact.
And we enjoy them!
when you are in a smaller community, read: when you are around a manageable amount of people and even recognize some of them, you are more likely to interact. and your comment wont be buried, and its less likely some random asshole really hates what you said and makes sure you wont bother anymore. oh and less bots and chills whats not to hate.
9 month already ?
Well, I was already active on mastodon, and had a pixelfed account (but not active there) for years. So the reddit fiasco was the right time to move.
Moving to lemmy wasn’t such of a big change as I was familiar with the federation, and the fediverse in general, was already considering it for a while.
I’m on my phone less, commenting more, avoiding more ads, and much happier with the content/comments on Lemmy. Reddit chains sometimes felt a little brain-rotty.
I want to actively build community and engage with people here; to make this place home. That’s how it changed me. I’m not a lurker or passive. It has made positive improvements to my reading and cooking, along with bending my language more positively. I’ve also further grown in my appreciation of diversity.
I want to actively build community
That was the key for me. To take one of my favorite communities (“bande dessinée,” i.e. Euro comics) and create a version on Lemmy eight months ago. It’s taken a load of work (usually daily), and sometimes I get really discouraged, but overall it locked me in to the FV.
Also, you might have to burn me at the stake for saying this-- I still visit Reddit because of the far more prolific content, and do have worries & reservations about the tankie founders of Lemmy. But so far, so good. The more the FV grows, the more I’ll have no problem leaving Reddit behind.
What do ya follow for improved cooking?
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It’s refreshing to not have so many Trumpers. They’re still around but not as prevalent. Overall this is just so much friendlier.
Really? When I first got here I noticed way more nasty and dismissive comments.
That said I feel the % of people with *uninformed but fairly extreme in their views” being higher here, but it’s more varied.
Lot more tankies here, that’s for damn sure. This place feels a lot easier to run a social network campaign against fwiw.
i’m still a lurker, i post less, and im practically a ghost on here. i’m winning and loving it. reddit w/o the problems
