Here is my notes from using Lemmy:
- There is core limitations on Lemmy which cannot be fixed even on the long term( for example finding communities via search. Results from .world is very different from the result that your instance fetch, no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit,…etc);
- Herd mentality is very deep on Lemmy, compared to other social media websites;
- People seem to take disagreements in opinions personally, which is weird on it’s own;
- Lemmy users would like to have a working cancel culture so much that they would have no problem deepthroating a dick to get it;
- Lemmy users and with them Digg 2.0 users, hate with passion anyone who criticize their platform and is ready to go against logic to defend it;
- Lemmy Admins and moderators seem to have a control fetish: on Reddit, it was very normal and easy to me to reach out to a mod to restore my posts or to explain himself and even discuss and change rules or reverse discussions. Yes there was some of them who also had control fetish, but in the communities which I used to use that was kind of rare. Meanwhile here there is no modbox functionality which complicates talking with mods;
- Some Lemmy users seem to be easy to obsessive over things.
I feel there needs to be disclaimer on Lemmy servers/introduction page to warn people about negativity on the platform, but I don’t think it will ever happen.
About moderation, I feel the only outcome that will happen is bad moderation (IMO) will keep happening on the platform till either the servers hosting communities go down or till the mod become inactive.
On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon, while Lemmy developers did not even try to help them by implementing third party upload functionality(Imgbb, catbox, imgur,…etc) in the app and the web front end to lighten the load on the server admins. Right now most Lemmy servers I know of are protected by Cloudflare and pictures uploaded on some servers don’t open natively(you need to click it as a normal link and pass cloudflare verification to see image).
It’s what it’s here. but I just wanted to lay out what I think about Lemmy culture, moderation and software.
Edit:
More proof for my point:
Bleep is a person who has changed my life, Ive never seen someone be so misinformed and at the same time so far up their own ass they pop out of their mouth. It is genuinely impressive.
I see alot of my teenage self here; doubling down on opinions of subjects i was way too uninformed about to actually have valid opinions on. I did manage to get better though, but that was because i listened to the people who disagreed with me. Especially when proven with the straight up facts that told me i was wrong. Not doing that is in my eyes intentionally malicious or what people refer to as trolling.
But I really am happy to have witnessed Bleep, even if i havent interacted with them very much. It has been a great exercise to know what content to ignore and report that otherwise looks “fine” on a surface level. So in that regard I thank Bleep.
On any other level, idk how they came to the conclusion/opinions they did, but i am more than curious to read a study on it!
Glad to see community rules are being enforced
“am I the idiot? Nooo, everyone else is just wrong. Ladidadidaaaaaa”
I feel there needs to be disclaimer on Lemmy servers/introduction page to warn people about negativity on the platform, but I don’t think it will ever happen.
or you know, follow the damn community rules so your posts don’t get deleted.
I was talking there about users interactions on the platform, not moderation.
Then this comment makes absolutely no sense in the context of comparing Lemmy to reddit.
Why so?
Because the negativity on Lemmy is no worse than reddit
OP, you upload AI slop and crop out artists names every time you post. If you want a community that appreciates your actions, you could not be further from that place. I’m glad you feel unwelcome here, because to many of us, you are. Please go back to reddit.
When called out on this, OP made the following thread mischaracterizing artist signatures in images as advertising and trying to get a rule made on the comics community to force all users to remove attribution. https://lemmus.org/post/21226925
In the comments they state that they refuse to consistently link the source, even though they are able to, until the rule they suggested is put into place: https://lemmus.org/comment/17161116
Notably, this all exploded after that community’s mod suggested a “no bots” rule and created a “two posts per user per day” rule that OP is blatantly violating.
OP is upset that they don’t get to use other peoples spaces for free exactly as they want to. They have a post in powertrippingbastards recently that amounts to this as well. Now they’re just continuing the tantrum elsewhere because they didn’t get the response they wanted.
Beep, a suggestion: Make the space you want to see on lemmy. Create a comm and set the rules you want on it. You want all posts to have what you consider advertising stripped out? Go for it.
“NonAdComics”, “BeepsMemes”, etc. The fediverse is still small enough to carve out your own space.
Capitalism is when an artist signs their art
what
Don’t miss this gem that’s been overshadowed by all the other shit they pulled recently:
Asking for a NSFW post to be appropriately tagged is the same as censoring it from all of lemmy.
At least I’m probably not the most hated person on lemmy rn
Whichever side of this you land on… confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
All I hear is “Waaa waaaa waaaa!”.
This post belongs in powertrippingbastards, not here.
You’re an adult (presumably).
Follow the rules or get bent. 🤷
Oh, they made a post there too and got equally called out. They are desperately looking for someone to validate their bullshit.
I know. It’s kinda funny and kinda sad.
Reddit would have definitely been jumping down your shirt for cropping artist’s names off their work before sharing them, too. 🙄
Lemmy users would like to have a working cancel culture so much that they would have no problem deepthroating a dick to get it;
C’mon if deepthroating a dick is the way to get something, 50% of lemmy users wouldn’t care about what this something is.
…How, Why and more importantly where?
no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit
I can just paste an image or whatever directly into a comment field and it’s automatically uploaded and linked. For new posts, it’s drag-and-drop right onto the browser. This might be instance-specific, but what functionality were you hoping for?
The current limitations:
- You can’t keep it in uncompressed format(like PNG for example);
- You can’t upload big pictures;
- Depending on the server it might take moderate to large amount of time to upload pictures;
- You can’t upload videos and GIFs.
It might seem like minor problems, but it still causes a friction, compared to uploading to Reddit.
On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon
What ones exactly?
Don’t want to jinx it.
If you called them out someone could show support if so inclined.
You want Lemmy servers to shut down?
I don’t want to talk about them shutting down. They hopefully will keep going.
Don’t want to pre declare them dead.
This is the most blatant concern trolling I’ve seen in ages, bravo.
How about you support your instance by donating to it?
You just need to remember that 95% of users are massively autistic
