People who still use both Reddit and Lemmy and are slowly leaving Reddit. How do you do it?
I have noticed that I’m very often on Reddit through either Apollo or the website out of mere habit (possibly even addiction). However, I have also noticed that the more I use Reddit, the more I feel agitated by all the negativity and toxicity from the users.
This is pretty much in all subreddits I’m active in. Mostly in piracy and piratedgames, people quarrel over the most trivial things and downvote each other for no reason at all.
Unfortunately, Lemmy has less content than Reddit. Though, I can’t call what is on Reddit content anymore.
Lemmy definately has less content, but it feels like the old internet. People are just friendlier here. My biggest recommendation is to post/comment a lot; I think things like that really help the platform grow. I can honestly say I’ve never received any negative feedback here, so its a pretty safe space.
My experience has been very different, especially yesterday. My reddit account had plenty of trolls on the blocklist, but I encountered an individual here who made several snap judgments about me based on an innocent response to a question and then demanded an apology from me for their hurt feelings when I said nothing targeted at anyone and they initially inserted themselves with arrogance and vitriol.
As well, if you’re not full on tankie/anarchist or at least more than halfway to either one, prepare for people to take issue with your stances. Vehemently. As if you were personally attacking them for having the audacity to, you know, be an individual.
However I still prefer this experience to whatever it is Reddit has become and agree with your suggestions for how to make it more engaging.
I think to survive on Lemmy (all social media tbh) you need two things.
One is the ability to disengage when it’s no longer fulfilling. I see reports from people saying they are being harassed by someone in a thread and I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t stop replying to the bad faith comment about 17 replies earlier.
The second is that you should block what you don’t want to see. Block communities where you know you’ll never be interested. Block users who reply in bad faith. Block instances where you see bad faith commenters a lot.
Do these two things, and comment a lot, and I think you end up with a much better experience.
Funny enough, I made a post in another community specifically about blocking. On the one hand I agree with you as for the curated experience, on the other hand echo chambers are unhealthy.
Its a very difficult balance to strike. Thus far I have only blocked communities which have zero bearing in my life - languages I don’t speak, kinks I simply don’t share, etc. However, blocking individuals is something I frankly hesitate to do because even the literal worst POV out there is useful; its good to know where the extremes lie and to be prepared for that level of madness.
At least, that’s my opinion. And thankfully I find so far that even the most absurd hot take that I disagree with wildly on this site is still more palatable to me than half the crap that was out there on reddit before I left. And even those with snark are often kinder about it than reddit, I find.
In fact, I seem to be the barely-palatable-hot-take here as often as not, but given upvotes are entirely meaningless in all ways and especially to my actual daily life I generally am not bothered by it.
My suggestion is to block bad faith participants. There are lots of conversations I have with people who disagree with me and probably can’t be convinced otherwise, but they are still enjoyable conversations if they are had in good faith.
To be honest I don’t block that many users, I am able to spot bad faith participants and not reply to them, and if they reply to me I don’t reply back. But if people are having trouble with the argumentative minority of Lemmy, I think blocking them is important. There’s no point being here if you’re not enjoying it.
Well said, friend. Cheers, and stay chill.
Expecting positive interactions with other humans, that is your problem right there ha
Everyone romanticizes the “old” Reddit and the old internet quite a bit. There were always trolls, fake accounts, a holes and whiny jerks. The ads, bots, and all the more recent issues just tipped reddit over the edge.
I felt bad leaving a 15 year old account but it wasn’t hard. I hadn’t enjoyed Reddit in a while. I uninstalled the client and installed mlem. It also helped me to temporarily switch browsers so I’m not getting Reddit threads as part of the search results. If I want Reddit in my search results then I will look for that intentionally.
Dunno, I rather enjoy interacting with other humans.
Its people that fuck things up, broadly speaking. I don’t particularly love people, but humans are alright in my book. Unfortunately, people are everywhere.
To define terms a little more clearly, humans recognize things like “the other human” and “do unto others” and such. People, broadly, are greedy selfish creatures that will step on your feet without a second glance but be utterly appalled should anybody have the unmitigated gall to treat them in kind.
These definitions transcend all political divisions and ideologies and belief systems, for the record. I have known some lovely religious conservative humans and some genuinely awful and repulsive progressively-minded people.
I always try to be a human. Emphasis on try, as people make it difficult sometimes.
Every place has assholes, there are fewer on Lemmy. Block and move on.
Ahh yes, tankies and anarchists, famously the only political ideologies that “take issue with your stances.”
This is totally an echo chamber. Just look around. Its part of what drew us all here at the end of the day.
And for the record, I prefer that flavor of madness over whatever the US is voting in around the country right now, so maybe take my observations as nothing more or less than just that - observations.
Not saying we in the united States aren’t to blame for a lot of what’s going on but its starting to become global. Migration/race issues are becoming hot everywhere and at the same time everyone is rushing in the new era of survalience on the level, or surpassing that of 1984.
I always used to imagine that I could just flee my country when things got too bad, but increasingly it seems like its spreading every where.
I am more and more convinced we need to build a commune somewhere in New Zealand and do our best to ride out the climate wars in the most resilient part of the world. What are the weed laws in NZ and how seriously do they take them?
The epstine class have already beat you there, majority of them plan on moving there including Gabe newel. So hope you like working as a servant or a house keep.
I am entitled to land in Alaska and been considering that more and more lately.
That area is supposed to shift in the upcoming decades and be more mild and similar to the pnw if I understood what I was reading correctly.
I’d wanna be south of the arctic circle, though. I need something resembling seasons and am absolutely certain I would go genuinely insane with six month intervals of night and day. As long as those conditions are met, I’m down with that too.
I also read somewhere that Britons might wanna consider starting vineyards as the climate there is likely to become more Mediterranean. Also something to consider.
Yeah honestly the idea of Alaska depresses the shit out of me. Its already a open door is my thing and the path of least resistance.
I hate snow, I hate long periods of darkness, I hate being wet whole cold, so I would likely go insane.
i automatically block those people on lemmy, sorry but a political statement based on opinion and attitude is an immediately block. as is ones that make very condescending ones.
blocking on reddit seems futile, since alot of them are bots/propaganda bots, theres for every troll blocked, another 10 pops up. also reddit stops blocking thier comments if you go over 1000 users. it only works if its a small subreddit. politics, news, sports, movies, ask reddit,etc impossible to block them all.
I’m sorry to hear that happened to you
As was pointed out, that’s the nature of the internet and those who inhabit it.
Broadly, though, I enjoy my time here. I wouldn’t remain otherwise.
There I commented. Hate how they phasing out r/all.