When I joined Lemmy during the Reddit exodus it felt like a new breeze and very positive. It feels like this has changed, posts and comments are more negative. Lots of complaints, even positive news posts receive a lot of negative comments. I am always trying to see the positive in things. Just doesn’t feel fun anymore. Perhaps it’s just me though.
Also still mainly see technical posts, lots of Windows/MS bashing. I’d like to see more communities about non technical things. Perhaps I haven’t discovered them.
I don’t know who said it first.
"When I packed up and moved to the frontier to get away from people, I didn’t realize that the people I was trying to leave would have the same idea.’
I don’t disagree. There are definitely a lot of negative posts and attitudes, though in the early days there was lots of negativity towards reddit. But perhaps more optimism about Lemmy. Recent … events … may have hurt that optimism.
I do still come across nice spots pretty regularly, though. Perhaps look at some Beehaw communities, which is an instance focused on people being friendly to each other. It’s actually how I got started on Lemmy. (Not quite true, I started on lemmy.ml a couple of years ago, but it wasn’t for me. Then earlier this year joined beehaw and it inspired me to start my own instance).
Also still mainly see technical posts, lots of Windows/MS bashing. I’d like to see more communities about non technical things. Perhaps I haven’t discovered them.
What kinds of things are you interested in? I’m keen for some good non-technical/non-news communities too but I don’t know where to start 😆. Maybe we can pick something and make an effort to make the community more active?
Thanks! Will have a look around Beehaw.
Some non technical topics I’m interested in are ice cream making and fitness. Also I like to read uplifting news, there is a community, but the comments are predominantly negative so I’ve unsubscribed.
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I’ve, anecdotally, noticed more shills or sycophants, more trolls.
Though, employing Hanlon’s razor, I’ll respond genuinely to find out if they’re malicious or just stupid.
Either I’ve helped someone learn something or I’ve found an account to block.
I haven’t noticed too much negativity, but I don’t visit too many communities. I have to say smaller hobby communities seem to be struggling with engagement. There’s either very few active posters or posts get moderately upvoted but there are little to no comments.
It lost the magic but I still enjoy the day to day. I come on read a few things make a few comments and that’s it. I try to share things I find cool but ultimately I just don’t waste a lot of time scrolling like I did on reddit.
Because there isn’t much content on lemmy I find myself always reading the post where as reddit I was guilty of commenting based on headline alone.
Yeah I noticed that. People getting arsey with each other for no reason.
I’ve got multiple fediverse accounts so my solution has been to spend more time browsing local in lemmy.nz and beehaw.
Also, I started to block all the big news and politics coms (that’s where most of the arguing happens) so that when I browse by new I’m more likely to find cool communities.
Thanks, guess will block more communities.
Discovering new communities is still hard, right? The All feed here on Lemmy.nz only shows communities where at least one person has subscribed?
Yeah, I think so. There are some newcommunities and findacommunity type coms out there, plus I just randomly click on cool people’s post histories to see where they are going.
Or visiting at an original instance (instead of through here) you can browse theirs without having to be logged in there
Sometimes you find instances that have a lot of theme stuff, eg mander.xyz has tons of science ones.
I’ve got accounts on a few different instances for this reason, they’re all federated with different people.
Hexbear are out there leaving their stench throughout the fediverse, for example.
Nah, it’s kind of been like that. I think at this point, all of the people who got swept up “sticking it” to Reddit have gone back onto Reddit, so all we have left are the tech-savvy people and the doomers/gloomers in the news- and politics-related communities.
If this has taught me anything, I found that the best communities are still small forums - like the old school kind, not like here and Reddit. And sadly, those will probably go away with time, and then we’d have just shitty social media sites or the digital frontiers like the Fediverse.
I’m personally a Reddit deserter and I really don’t think others like me have all gone back to Reddit. The primary issue most left over is still very much an issue. I haven’t used it once since the day RiF stopped working.
Note that the person you’re replying to created their account during the Reddit Exodus so they might as well be part of the movement too even if they’re speaking like they were here for a long time 😂
I’ve run through everything on kbin and tried to return to reddit a couple of times, and I can’t do it, or just don’t have the tolerance anymore. The ads are more obvious, the false product reviews, fake relationship advice posts, reposts for karma, fake “best of” chains written by one person with commenters saying they know its fake, but “hey, I was entertained.” It feels like shopping Black Friday with a bunch of strangers, knowing some of them are actors there to convince you the prices are actually great, when you know they were lower last week and Black Friday is bullshit. It feels, in a word, Lame.
I am one as well. I have zero interest in going back. Yes there are things that I miss about that sight, but I can’t patronize a business that has such a vile attitude towards their customers and their product.
I’m still around too, though, for me, it was less about “sticking it” to Reddit and more about Reddit not feeling fun anymore. I’ve noticed the same thing as OP and was hoping to find some insight from longer-term Lemmy users about whether this is a result of the influx of new users being more negative, or just a return to form for Lemmy. From other comments around here it sounds like it may be the latter, alas.
There’s no perfect social media. You either get a bubble room where nothing is interesting or has any weight to it and all people post is Tumblr level material, or you get a Nazi hellscape where half the words on the entire site are just the N word. Lemmy is currently dead center in the middle of all that and that’s probably the best you can hope for.
I don’t feel like I left to “stick it to Reddit” so much as they made it miserable to use. If RiF worked I’d use it.
I think it’s like when you date someone while they’re with their partner then when you’re their partner they cheat on you.
A lot of the people who came here did because they’re the sort to focus on problems and complain about them, they were hyper focused on problems with Reddit but now Reddit is leaving our minds we focus on the new thing.
Society needs all sorts and the first step of solving a problem is to spot it, I do think there’s a really good quality of debate compared to Reddit so even the doomers are better here.
We could do will more positivity and good news being shared though, and trivial things the are just nice and fun.
