When I joined Lemmy during the Reddit exodus it felt like a new breeze and very positive. It feels like this has changed, posts and comments are more negative. Lots of complaints, even positive news posts receive a lot of negative comments. I am always trying to see the positive in things. Just doesn’t feel fun anymore....
Same for me. The day RIF made its first announcement, I shredded my complete post/comment history that overwrote them with random BS. When RIF shut down, I deleted my account. Been here ever since. It's really not too bad, if you just resolutely block the most notorious crossposters, and always block any community/user you don't want to read content from.
Yeah I'm running a Japanese Metal community on my other account, and out of all the posts, less than a handful are not by me. I already gave up on creating content, only posting there when I discover a cool new band or song, or when my favorites bring out new songs. Small hobby communities are having a rough time on Lemmy/Kbin.
The row centres around the exhibition 'This is Colonialism' and the museum's decision to restrict white people from entering a small section of the display...
Ich lebe in Japan und hab dementsprechend nur ne Japanische Tastatur.
(DE IME Tastaturbelegungen kann ich mir nicht merken... -, ^ oder : sind ue oder oe, und keine Ahnung wo der Rest ist)
The move comes as the expo faces mounting concerns that construction, especially of pavilions for foreign nations, will not be completed on time for the scheduled opening in April 2025.
I know they roughly explained why, but it seems pretty insane they jumped the gun without having any of the users input and want people to go to another instance just for that community
As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...
I’m a Reddit refugee who was on that platform for 10+ years. I saw not just a tremendous amount of controversies, but attempts at introducing alternatives to Reddit during all of them. The 2015 blackout saw a ton of alternatives suggested, and if you go back and look at them many have either not survived or never achieved...
An old internet saying is "if it's free, you're the product", and that's exactly the problem platforms like reddit are currently encountering. Users leave, delete their old posts, and move elsewhere.
It's also a problem Lemmy/kbin see, from the other side: you need a critical mass of users to generate enough content to keep running and attracting and keeping users.
Given enough time, the corps will just continue going down the drain, since they're 100% profit-driven, and short-term gains over long-term sustainability. We here just have to keep going, and preferably in a way that minimizes drama. If one of the big 5 shits the bed and takes a lot of communities with it, the now homeless users might be hesitant to just join somewhere else, at least partially.
That's why I found it very unfortunate that beehaw defederated from .world and .works -- it also happened at a very bad point in time, in the middle of a boom.
If the platform matures enough, and the userbase is stable, it will most certainly grow over time, as the corpo options get worse and worse over time.
We also have to be vigilant and isolate all bad actors immediately. The extremist instances, like lemmygrad and exploding-heads, and the corporate assimilators, like Meta. Else people will not join here, either because we have a bad rep, or because we just get swallowed and spit out again by a tech giant.
I believe a "unique identity" will develop organically, given enough time.
My main reason was the short list of defederated instances. I'm confident we'll get the tools to properly moderate stuff in time, so no need for an admin to decide what's good for me.
Is there any hope? Or is it inevitable that big corporations will take over what started as a way to escape big corporate platforms and to focus on real communities and discussions and replace it with a toxic shithole pumped full of ads?
I'll definitely be on an instance that's not federated with Meta. Right now, I have accounts on sh.itjust.works, .world and .ee, but I'd drop any and all of them the moment I find out they'll federate with them.
I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...
What I liked about reddit was its "googleability". You had a question and found an answer without reading through an endless article that winds it's way through rephrasing your question 5 times, adds extensive biographies of everyone mentioned, the wider history of the problem and the author's grandmother, all to pad the article and have you scroll through more adds.
But now there's ChatGPT, so most of my "googling" can be done that way, and I don't have to scroll through walls of puns or "this is the way" or "thanks for the gold, kind stranger", or "take my updoot and get out". I wonder how much of that bullshit were bots, anyway.
I bought premium just so my wife and me can listen to music while commuting. Not having to rely on ublock origin (which I still have on my desktop at home) is a nice extra, but mobile was my main concern. I'd like to keep the usage of tools like Vanced at a minimum. They could stop working on the one day when I'm stuck in a train for hours.
Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a "current event" that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today's or any recent time's 24 hour news cycle. Nearly 30K...
Yeah, but Kbin has "reputation", which is very similar to karma. The whole voting business, while useful for post/comment sorting and collection of metrics, also gives bad incentives and delivers data also great for bot farms. I'd be happy if it didn't exist at all.
That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
I'd been using RES to overwrite, then delete all my posts and comments every few weeks for the last years. If Reddit tried to restore any of my stuff, even if they went past the overwrite nonsense strings, they most likely only caught a fraction of it.
Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him (futurism.com)
Peak dystopia indeed (slrpnk.net)
Is it just me or has Lemmy become more negative and less fun?
When I joined Lemmy during the Reddit exodus it felt like a new breeze and very positive. It feels like this has changed, posts and comments are more negative. Lots of complaints, even positive news posts receive a lot of negative comments. I am always trying to see the positive in things. Just doesn’t feel fun anymore....
German museum in racism row over partial ban of white people (www.euronews.com)
The row centres around the exhibition 'This is Colonialism' and the museum's decision to restrict white people from entering a small section of the display...
What do you call Marshmallow in your native language?
In German it’s Mäusespeck = Mouse Bacon
Russian soldier admits proudly his comrades were killing POWs (euromaidanpress.com)
Leute die ä, ö, ü als ae, oe und ue schreiben, was ist falsch mit euch?
Konfiguriert doch einfach eure Tastatur richtig.
Osaka Expo asks for overtime cap exemption as time pressure mounts (www.japantimes.co.jp)
The move comes as the expo faces mounting concerns that construction, especially of pavilions for foreign nations, will not be completed on time for the scheduled opening in April 2025.
Is Orwell fiction becoming real? Ukraine and the permanent war.
cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/46440...
there is no problem (lemmy.ml)
neko yakuza (catbox hq re-upload) (files.catbox.moe)
"That" game (lemmy.world)
Ah shit, here we go again... (lemmy.world)
Why exactly did the android community's mods decide to basically leave world? (lemmy.world)
I know they roughly explained why, but it seems pretty insane they jumped the gun without having any of the users input and want people to go to another instance just for that community
List of popular communities you should visit!
As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...
What I think kbin needs to do to survive, and why I think it has a better chance than any other Reddit alternative I've seen yet.
I’m a Reddit refugee who was on that platform for 10+ years. I saw not just a tremendous amount of controversies, but attempts at introducing alternatives to Reddit during all of them. The 2015 blackout saw a ton of alternatives suggested, and if you go back and look at them many have either not survived or never achieved...
What made you pick the server you are on?
Does it actually matter?
How will we keep Meta out of the fediverse?
Is there any hope? Or is it inevitable that big corporations will take over what started as a way to escape big corporate platforms and to focus on real communities and discussions and replace it with a toxic shithole pumped full of ads?
Is there any one else who feels like their life has been disrupted by this whole debacle with Reddit.
I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...
YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
Top of r/all (old.reddit.com)
Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a "current event" that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today's or any recent time's 24 hour news cycle. Nearly 30K...
“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
What's your lemmy app of choice?
I'm currently using Jerboa but curious to know whether any of the ones popping up are a better experience!