Fediverse

I apologize to everyone I’m about to insult but lemmy users generally behave like redditors. People generally don’t write comments with relevant information in order to have them passed over. It can be frustrating, especially when the rest of the comments are repeated jokes or could be summarized as alternative articulations of “this.”

This.

Seriously, people, start filtering out who gets to tell you shit.

Of course, don't overdo it and create an echo chamber for yourself, block the extremes, but don't block basic disagreement.

I started doing this years ago, primarily on Twitch.

I despise copy pastas and edgelord comments, it's why I generally watch streamers that have a relatively chill and small audience.

But I do go into Kripps chat simply to fill up my block list with people that relentlessly spam chats with copy pastas and other similar sorts of comments.

Later I started being a bit more gung-ho doing the same on all platforms and it made all types of social media oh so much better.

You'll quickly notice that a lot of the comments that put your teeth on edge came from the same few loud and obnoxious people, because once you start blocking people like that, after just 10-20 of them, the comments you see are already far more palatable.

I get why people are anti cars. But those who want to take cars away from people who enjoy them and who are trying to behave responsibly just suck.

Same thing for technology.

I had to block five tech communities because it’s nothing but “technology evil” posts and comments, and when I complain about the lack of positive feedback, they just tell me I’m ignorant to reality…which is irrelevant to me just wanting to enjoy positive tech communities…

As I recall, there was a split in that Reddit community about whether to migrate here. Most of them decided to stay there on the (reasonable) grounds that they wanted to reach as many people as possible with their (IMO justified) message. So presumably the ones who came here are the dogmatic ideologues who prefer hating to persuading.

Now I don't like your tone. Your probably one of those people, who vote for the other party.

You're just gonna mention this and not provide a link? Tsk tsk.

Thanks for putting me on

When my instance was still federated with hexbear I would see these statements that I knew were wrong but they were said so confidently. I spent ages checking through history events to confirm that I was right and their post was complete history misinformation. Then I would reply with dates and explained what actually happened and then like 10 people from hexbear would chime in saying I'm wrong and double down on the original claim.

I got these same struggles, bud.

My n00b is showing lol I can't figure out on voyager how to link/confirm which fediverse it's on. There's also c/air_cooled_volkswagens.

Edit: I figured it out lol

!air_cooled_volkswagens@lemmy.world !mechanicadvice@lemmy.world

A few notes though:

• Beehaw does not allow for user-created communities. One could pitch an idea to the admins, but should not have high hopes.
• Beehaw is planing to test (non-federated) software other than Lemmy in a few months from now, because they are growingly dissatisfied with how the software works (esp. from an admin's point of view). So if you wish to stay part of Lemmy/Kbin/other parts of the Fediverse you may wish to consider not making Beehaw your "home". I in fact made this account on lemmings.world, because I wanted to have sufficient time ahead of that in order to "test the waters" so to speak. Pre-Beehaw I was on lemmy.ml, but this was in part because there was no federation yet (making everyone flock to the biggest of ~5 instances of Lemmy that existed at the time).

Fediverse can be confusing. But your link appears to be a post on !memes@lemmy.ml not world.

Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad, as well as the Lemmy software stack were started by leninists after getting pushed off reddit. If you don't like it. And even as a leftist I can understand that. Since leninists tend to be blind, dogmatic, and somehow more authoritarian than a large chunk of capitalists. Block and avoid the domain. If you wander into their domain and push back. Be prepared for toxicity. Just like you yourself would likely give if they wandered into your areas and admonished you.

Some lemmy instances are explicitly leftist and that's something we all just need to accept. You can block those instances or you interact with them, but it's not anyone's place to tell an instance how to do things on their own server. There are general purpose instances as well.

An instance is more like an own reddit and not a sub.

Lemmy.world is a reddit. Lemmy.ml is a reddit Feddit.de is a reddit

Each of them act like reddit does.

But those reddits connect to each other and you have access to the content and communities of the other instances.

All those instances have several communities which are like subs

It's like Gmail and Outlook/Hotmail, different servers run by different people but you can talk across them

Think of it like email (lists). There can be a !fuckcars@lemmy.world and a !fuckcars@lemmy.ml (the latter doesn't exist, but it could)

You can access both communities, subscribe to both and post to both. Their content is (mostly) identical, the only difference is who's hosting it.

There is no central authority determining the rules. For instance, Reddit can ban whatever they like and allow whatever they like. That's not how it works here. The only rules are what each community decides are their own rules. Certain communities, such as !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com no longer exist in some sort of tolerated limbo, unlike on Reddit where they could be shut down at a moment's notice.

Something that takes a bit of adjustment that a lot of ex-Redditors here are yet to realize: the fediverse is specifically built for curating your experience overall. It's not meant to replicate the Reddit's everything all jumbled together experience. There technically is somewhat of a post algorithm to a degree on lemmy, but most of the fediverse doesn't have that and what lemmy has is a very bare minimum. Follow the communities you are interested in and block the ones you really can't vibe with. When more granular blocking and silencing comes especially on the admin end, it'll be more easy to utilize that curation experience as well. No one here is forced to interact with you and you aren't forced to interact with them, and if the person you cant vibe with is an instance admin or a community mod you can go somewhere you vibe better or start something new yourself instead if you have time and energy to do so.

Free yourself and block that community that raises your blood pressure. You aren't missing anything, I promise.