I wanted to get an outside perspective on my Lemmy experience, so I go on /r/redditalternatives and bring up my experiences that I’ve described elsewhere here (tl;dr Lemmy communities are either filled with non sequitur ragebait or completely empty).
I get plenty of responses echoing my sentiment and offering suggestions like blocking and filtering. Plenty of others pointing out how Reddit sucks in its own way and how Lemmy addresses those issues (no creepy AI bots pretending to be real people). I feel my OP and the ongoing discussion is constructive and in good faith, and most people myself included express a desire to see Lemmy and the fediverse succeed despite our frustrations. But oops out of nowhere I get muted and banned with no explanation.
Fun times.
I highly suspect Reddit is using ai to ban and that’s going as well as ai is going in other sectors.
Yes. Exhibit A (Not a ban but along the same lines):
I get the impression that Reddit is a sinking ship, but it’s a sinking cruise ship compared to the small fishing boat that is the threadiverse, so I’ve resigned myself to occupying both spaces for now. Re: banning. I’m pretty sure I was banned manually. Though see the cross post of my OP in Fedibridge. I was auto-filtered before I tweaked the post to pass.
So you went on Reddit to complain about Lemmy. They banned you. And, now you’re back on Lemmy complaining about Reddit and looking for a sympathetic ear? Do I have that correct?
People cant complain anymore!
Reddit’s community, as in the whole, feels like it plays by some unwritten rules where straying just a bit from those causes maximum persecution. And though I understand each platform has a culture, including here on the fediverse, Reddit’s I don’t feel like culture either.
About adressing your fediverse concerns, I second the idea of curating your experience by blocking, subscribing, and manually looking the community list as needed. Furthermore, I’d also suggest keeping an eye on where the posts that cause you to be annoyed come from, since those not uncommonly come from the same places.
I just noticed that Lemmy defaults to showing you a feed of all local communities when you open the homepage instead of subscriptions. There doesn’t seem to be a way to change that. I’m bombarded with the ragebait and doomerism that suffuses typical Lemmy discourse as soon as I open the homepage, and I have to click a button to tell the server “now show me what I actually want to see”.
Yes I know you can block communities, but maintaining a list of blocked instances, comms, and users feels like playing a game of whack-a-mole. If people here were more chill I might feel differently, but the rage shows up in the weirdest places you’d never expect, and not even in an organic way.
It’s such a tiny change, but I think defaulting to showing a user’s subscriptions rather than the local feed, only falling back to local if the user isn’t signed in or if the user has no subscriptions, would make a huge difference.
Your Lemmy is not like mine. You needed to go into your preferences/settings and sort (no pun intended) it out.
You also need to block users and instances. For example I have no want to see ‘anime’ bullshit so I block all the instances that seem to dominate that and occasionally you get a user that posts some but might be on an instance that you don’t want to block so I just block the user.
About defaulting to subscriptions, there actually is a way through the settings:
Ani.Social being a Lemmy instance.
Also sadly that requires having an account. Also, PieFed iirc has curated feeds, something Lemmy copying wouldn’t be half bad, I think.
ah I see, thanks.
So I’m a troll, am I?
The OP was copy-pasted from my post here with some clarifying edits. And you can gather from my other post on this community that “just going back to Reddit” isn’t something I want.
fwiw pretty sure your post was duplicated over on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com earlier today and there’s a little bit of discussion over there too including comments in support of points you made. idk why that person jumps to calling troll given you even mentioned a specific community you were posting in, even without initially knowing your username it was very easy for me to see that you have been regularly active in there for a year at least.
Thanks for linking that community!
