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People on Lemmy are essentially the same as they are on Reddit (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/watchredditdie@sh.itjust.works
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Don't get me wrong, it's a better experience over all, but basically group dynamics and mob mentality are the same, just at an acceptably lower volume.

I think the real strength of Lemmy isn't anything fancy, it's just that there's fewer people and that creates a more communal vibe and leaves a little more room for conversation.

It also has a host of knock on effects: better moderation, visibility without a ton of upvotes, longer conversations....

I don't know if anyone thinks it--I'm pretty good at arguing against positions nobody's taking--but overall people on Lemmy aren't any different.

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[–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I left Reddit because I couldn't access it through the API anymore. The people weren't a problem in the subs I followed. It was the ads.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, smaller subs are fine by virtue of being smaller--fewer political/corporate actors, better moderation, more visibility for comments regardless of votes....

    I think the big problem with the API loss was moderation became even more difficult, leading to thoughtless (bad) moderation.

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    • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    Another example: getting in the way of the hate train.

    I'm asking a question about AI in UE6 and getting downvoted for it. Just asking questions and having a discussion and trying to understand.

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    [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago

    Hello "sort by new comments" people!

    Just had an example of how lemmy is basically the same as reddit:

    Retrospective voting.

    That's when you make a comment, and it gets a definite reaction, but then, as the discussion continues, your initial comment gets the OPPOSITE reaction (that is it goes from receiving upvotes to receiving downvotes).

    That is to say, people read the entire thread, then vote on who they think "won" by upvoting/downvoting EVERY comment in the thread.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yes, that's unfortunately true. I was hoping that people with the integrity and intelligence to leave reddit would be overall superior in various ways, but that hasn't been my experience.

    I was hoping/thinking there would be more people like Luis Rossmann here, but when you look at the front page, it's just as full of low-quality content (memes, screenshots of social media) as Reddit. And I've experienced the same unintelligent behaviors (votes, comments, etc.) here as on reddit.

    It makes me wonder where all the intelligent people are. Are they really this rare? They can't have abandoned the internet altogether, could they?

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    [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Are the moderators on Lemmy a bunch of A**holes like they are on Reddit?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    'lemmy' is one of a series of platforms.. each platform is run by many individual server operators. moderation is spread over this entire area to allow users the ability to choose the level of moderation they want.

    are there shitty mods in existence anywhere? yep. everywhere? nope.

    so, whatthefuckareyoutalkinabout

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 months ago

    I think the difference is that reddit has more social network lock in, which allows mods to be bigger assholes. People will tolerate asshole subs if the sub is big enough.

    Second issue is subs are more likely to BECOME assholes on very large subs because it's a lot of work herding kittens.

    Third issue is mods are ALREADY likely to be assholes because modding large subs is very much not fun and an insecure ego is a much greater motivator than secure altruism.

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