I guess one thing I like already is that there’s no requirements for Karma, stupid rules about Reddit’s filters which got my 100k karma account permanently banned for no reason at all.
Would you prefer Lemmy to be smaller like it is now or get to a reddit level popularity but without the reddit jank.
If you appeal a suspension they should be required to prove in their response that they read your appeal
It’s maybe hard to have alongside privacy, but I liked that on old forums, it was often real people. On one forum, there were a few meetups with BBQ. The site owner/admin called me on my birthday. It led to real-life relationships.
But the flipside to that is the infamous Reddit meetup.
Ha, I hadn’t heard of any of this. What happened with the Reddit meetup?
I just want to get more people so we can have some niche communities going. The only thing I miss about Reddit is asking a random question in a niche sub and getting a response in like 15 minutes.
I don’t disagree at all, and that’s the only thing I miss about Reddit, when I had an established profile and could just ask in whatever subreddit I want, emphasis on the “established profile” while Lemmy I started day 1 and I could instantly participate in wherever I wanted.
And sure Lemmy has like 40-50k monthly visitors, Imagine if it was 500k or 1M the good thing to give you hope, I didn’t know what Lemmy was about a month ago, and now I do
I want Lemmy to do a better job than reddit at keeping fascists from being free to spread their poison. Lemmy is already better at this with defederation, but its something to keep an eye on always.
I think it would be cool if Lemmy were a bit bigger than it is now. Enough of a population to keep niche communities moving would be great, but Lemmy at its current size is a nice escape from a lot of the political landscape you see on Reddit or Twitter.
I don’t disagree, however my main issue with reddit was it’s awful system at triggering bots and it’s moderation system. I think we SHOULD have moderation always to keep guys like that away and innapropriate stuff, otherwise you’ll have another 4chan.
However I think Reddit is just too power hungry with bans for no reason as well, I’ve heard people here got banned from Reddit for “Violence against ICE” it’s ridiculous.
Overall, I’d like this website to be more free.
I want Lemmy to do a better job than reddit at keeping fascists from being free to spread their poison.
What fascists? They’re rarely here.
Tankies, too? They’re already here.
What fascists? They’re rarely here.
Yeah, that was my point when I said it was already in a better situation than Reddit with defederation. They’re rarely here because they get quickly defederated. It’s part of why I’ve stayed.
Tankies, too? They’re already here.
Yeah and they’re also mostly defederated too
They’re rarely here because they get quickly defederated.
I think it has more to do with their not wanting to be here & online communities voluntarily segregating themselves into their respective ideologies[1].
Defederation is not an effective control against the individuals you want to contain. As we can see with tankies, their annoying conduct rarely rises to the level to result in bans from the unblocked instances they join.
As for spreading their poison, I don’t think people are mindless automatons who must become awful when exposed to offensive rhetoric all day. If mere exposure is all it takes, then they probably lacked decent principles. Sheltering a fragile position that disintegrates at the slightest challenge due to ignorance is a weak strategy that doesn’t build a firm, reliable foundation.
A better solution is to develop a sturdier position on principles everyone is keenly familiar with to effectively defend. They acquire that familiarity through observed & practiced success to defeat challenges. The best answer to speech we dislike is better speech that condemns & challenges it. People need robust principles to do that & acquire them by doing so.
a problem for civil engagement & deradicalization ↩︎
As for spreading their poison, I don’t think people are mindless automatons who must become awful when exposed to offensive rhetoric all day. If mere exposure is all it takes, then they probably lacked decent principles.
Tankies are kinda deceptive and manipulative tho. They pretend to be leftists, then when Mamdani gets elected, they started slandering him, calling him a “zionist” or some bs, even tho he’s a Muslim.
Reason why their shit doesn’t work on me is because I was born in one of those “communist” countries they constantly praise about, which is very contradictory to my lived experiences. I know enough to recognize tankie bs and also the far-right bs.
Its not good against individuals, but it keeps this from becoming a space where they can congregate and try to attract people in the pipeline already.
Of course people aren’t automatons, but people can and do often unconsciously mirror and internalize things they see as normal in a community. Defederation does do a good job of keeping the bulk of Lemmy from being a Nazi bar, so that will happen less here. Its not a perfect solution, but its better than reddit in that regard.
I don’t know why you keep bringing up tankies, you do realize they founded the site right? I don’t think that gives them any special right to be here, but its also hard to imagine Lemmy without tankies. Its a part of what makes the space unattractive to fascists, and I’m not going to pretend I don’t enjoy seeing Hexbears tear their posts into pieces. I think the numbers of tankies here is a lot lower than some users would have you believe, and the main instances are largely defederated or default blocks. I’m fairly content with how that is working out.
As for the rest, you won’t be able to debate fascism into the ground. Fascists have to be crushed through collective action. People differ on what that would look like, in my ideal we would band together march through the streets and dismantle the engines of war that fascists rely on. Burn the factories, abolish their institutions, and set about the work of preparing the world for climate disasters. They’re not going to fall over and stop being fascists because of perfect inescapable logic. They’re going to stop being fascists when the tools they would use to oppress us both physical and cultural are broken and they see they cannot win. Your debate tactics will have a place breaking their cultural tools, but it has to be accompanied by a large enough unified front to make fighting back infeasible, and the removal of avenues for them to retake control by physical destruction of weapons, weapons manufacturing, and vehicles of war including those used by the police.
This is unpopular but I’d like to see LESS niche communities. I dont want to see 1000 game communities I want to see one game community where all the people are making threads about the games they like. When its big enough then that game can split into its own community.
Because i may not go out of my way to find a community like guild wars 1 but if I see a post about it in the games community I’d join in. The interest isnt always there it needs to be created sometimes. And it can be created by people seeing threads of interested people talking about their interest.
Yes, thank you! This is a big mistake that I’ve seen new online communities make since at least the beginning of the internet. I first saw it with the old forums. Start a forum site for subject X, create sub-forums x1 through x57 for every possible subtopic, no matter how minor or niche. Go into most of those subforums, you only hear crickets. To encourage activity, most subjects should be concentrated in few forums at first, until those forums become too busy. Only at that time is it a good idea to split into subforums.
Some Lemmy sites have had the correct idea, where they don’t allow users to create communities. There should be a process where admins manage whether it makes sense to create communities after evaluating requests. Unfortunately, the decentralized nature of Lemmy makes this difficult to control, because as soon as one instance does this, someone wanting to create a new community will just move to another instance that allows it. I’m not sure if there is a solution to this.
How about community taxonomy?
Say there’s a gaming community.
Then there’s a PC gaming community, then a MMO game community, and there’s communities for individual games subdivided into that.
So if you’re in /c/PCgaming, posts in /c/GuildWars will (by default) show up in your feed.
If you are in /c/GuildWars, you (by default) get the hyper focus, and exposure from your post filtering up to more general tiers.
But this sharing is toggleable too. For example, you could choose to only float it up to the “MMO” level without drawing in the /c/gaming crowd
And this structure kinda naturally fits underlying database structures anyway.
Reddit could not evolve like this, but now that we kinda know what niches exist, that could be constructed from scratch and maintained.
I think this is an awesome idea! It would allow people to have the freedom to create any community they wanted, but still keep posts concentrated enough for visitors to see activity they can participate in. Excellent, maybe you could propose this to the developers of Lemmy and Piefed? Is Mbin still being actively developed?
As a whole, Lemmy isn’t really big enough to branch out into individual game communities just yet. They just end up petering out.
I wouldn’t be against it since r/games is used for mainly game announcements and r/gaming is a facebook tier cesspool. I wouldn’t mind a community like that.
There’s already the fact that whatever algorithms there are haven’t been and likely won’t be tweaked or pushed to maximize engagement.
Heck I’m not even sure if upvotes are particularly critical to what I’m getting served…
I really appreciate that about lemmy.
Comments shot from the hip don’t shoot to the top and stay there.
A lot of these communities automatically sort by new, at least when it’s not very populated, or by the so-called hot or active comment sorts. They seem to have a better (less biased?) algorithm in general, even if that means I see something so stale or unengaging that I ask myself why they bothered in the first place. It takes all kinds though.
Still, to me, that sorting practice helps more nuanced, variably informed comments get decent air time. Ya gotta scroll it before you dole amirite?
Keep supporting 3rd party apps
Never start replacing vowels in 9 out of every 10 words with astrixes.
Ast*risks
I wish it was 100% devoid of nazis, fascists and other authoritarians.
Unfortunately the main developer of the software is a genocide denying tankie dipshit so fat chance of that happening.
I just got blocked from .ml for calling someone a tankie. Good riddance.
There are literally openly communist communities on Lemmy… 🤦🏻♂️
“Communist”
Looks inside
It’s just a bunch of failed Vanguardist movements that ended up becoming Authoritarian State Capitalism
Authoritarian State Capitalism
Yeah exactly, communism.
Communism is by definition a stateless, classless society. A “Communist State” is therefore an oxymoron.
The more I read about state capitalism, the vaguer it seems.
an economic system where the government plays a central role by managing key industries and manipulating market outcomes
is the most coherent definition I can find. Examples
- the centrally planned, command economy of the USSR with wage labor
- the liberalized market economy of the PRC with some large state industries, a strong private sector, foreign investment, market-based trade
- the Norwegian economy with state ownership of the oil industry & some companies and ownership stake in large, publicly traded companies
- United States with its publicly funded bailouts & recent state ownership stake in some publicly traded companies.
Some economists argued it’s merely state socialism & planned economy relabeled.
Whatever it is, communist states like USSR & China have long claimed they’re transitional.
Communism is by definition a stateless, classless society.
No, that’s a communist society, a purely unsubstantiated, speculative utopia that has never once been realized & probably never will. Belongs in the realm of mythology.
Communism is the ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society. Much like Christianity with the 2nd coming of Christ, adherents insist it’ll happen someday inevitably. No possible way their great prophet Marx was wrong.
A communist state (also known as a Marxist–Leninist state) is a government consisting of a socialist state following Marxist–Leninist political philosophy with a dictatorial ruling class that promises to achieve a communist society. Unfortunately, while belief systems like Judaism had the sense to warn adherents against trying to force their dream utopia prematurely, Marx lacked such sense to urge the crazies against it.
Regardless, the overzealous failures here are some strain of communist: they follow the ideology.
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National socialism is by definition socialist therefore it is left wing and Marxist.
Lmao what bruh 🤣
You’re appealing to definitions as if they matter in real world contexts.
If I created a group called “the bad people killers” and started killing people would that “by definition” mean everyone I killed was bad?
Communism may be defined as a wheelbarrow full of monkeys for all that matters, in the real world every self-sufficient communist regime was a shitshow of state capitalism, coercion, censorship, and state violence. All the drawbacks of capitalism and none of the perks.
That’s what communism, descriptively, is. The day you figure out a way to manifest reality by sheer will alone without having to deal with the real world I will be interested in what something is “by definition”
I’m of the opinion that as large as this community gets (or any community) it’s bound to have many characters.
I guess I don’t mind that much because I think A) You won’t ever have a large site where everyone 100% agrees with you all the way, unless you are on a specific political community and even then I’ve seen many infights and civil wars over small issues.
B) I’ve dealt with many of them in worse sites (Yes even 4chan) that I don’t mind them anymore, as long as they contribute in their own communities and don’t cause harm for the website then they can chirp on their communities as much as they want, I was the kind of guy that enjoyed Political Compass memes on reddit even though it got ruined by Right-Wingers now, I was on that subreddit long before though and as soon as literal Nazis joined the subreddit got worse.
C) We should absolutely have rules to ban people that post innapropriate, illegal stuff but I feel like this website should be easier than Reddit on the moderating stuff, I’m 100% on banning Nazis and fascists if they make the site worse for everyone else, though I happened to have some interesting conversations with some Conservatives. Reddit on a whole has an awful moderating system that ironically enough doesn’t ever get checked by human beings and I don’t want to see the same here, I’ve heard people that got banned because they had the mental health crisis bot even though they didn’t do anything, I’ve heard people got banned for similar ways that I did for posting a meme lol.
Take of this what you will.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I’m already having a good experience with Lemmy. A couple of features that would make it perfect for me are better discovery tools for communities and the ability to merge feeds from similar ones.
And I have to say, searching for anything (whether here or on Reddit) always feels like a bit of a challenge. A more robust search feature would be amazing! But overall, I’m really enjoying the vibe here.
Definitely, the good thing about Reddit is that it had a good player as well because I’m a guy who spent a lot of time making content, also you can upload videos no matter the size (I think) which is cool.
I’m new but also enjoying my time, I like how non judging this site is because on Reddit I’d get messages like “Uhhh OP has an interesting history” basically trolls and stuff, but It’s whatever, I don’t mind.
That’s so true about the video player and upload limits, it’s no doubt a huge plus for creators like you? And I totally get what you mean about the more welcoming vibe here; it’s one of the best things about this space.
Just a friendly heads-up as you’re getting settled: while it’s generally much kinder, Lemmy has its share of ‘interesting’ characters here too (a wonderful mix of great people and a few bad apples). But the ability to curate your own experience is much stronger here!
Glad you’re enjoying your time so far!
I’m enjoying my time so far, I’m waiting my 100 day ban pass I guess from Reddit (I’m like almost there) and see what I do, I’ll probably keep using this site since it allows me to be more free than reddit.
In general, I would also like to see this site adopting more niche subreddits, I know I can probably make a lot of those but I don’t have a lot of time to moderate stuff.
- Enforcement of accessibility.
- No reddit-style moderation: the moderators at reddit are unaccountable tyrants.
- Minimal moderation preferably little more than legal compliance & accessibility/usability standards.
- Rejection of loaded reddit moderation concepts such as
- brigading
- sealioning
- calling anything annoying harassment
- Freedom to openly criticize moderators.
Frankly it being Federated in and of itself is already the biggest advantage over Reddit in my opinion. And let’s face it all of our opinions really that’s why we’re here. That already solves probably the majority of problems that Reddit had. As for the rest though? Bots are always a problem, not all are bad of course some are quite useful, but it’s something that requires constant vigilance to monitor because Bots can and will ruin communities. The other major issue is of course moderation. How do you police the mods? On that note I think the one thing I’d like to see done is limiting of power mods. Just like Reddit there do exist mods that moderate a large numbers of different communities. This will always lead to problems.
It’s a bit more of an issue in its earlier days compared to now, but it also needs to stop copying Reddit. People aren’t going to go to Lemmy if its communities are just copies of Reddit posts.
At the same time, there’s an argument that it shouldn’t be trying to compare itself with Reddit anyway. It should try to be its own thing.
There’s always going to be people sick of Reddit’s rules as myself but you are right, let’s say Half Life 3 gets announced tomorrow out of the blue, first place I would go is Reddit to see the reactions, I think Lemmy competing on that department doesn’t make sense but I feel like Reddit needs some competition, I heard that the co-founder was building a Reddit competitor though I have no idea how that went.
This site already does something better than reddit, I love how I can just write comments thread after thread making posts without having to worry if it gets removed somehow. I love just the simplicity of posting here.
A working search function, real annoying having to use a different search engine to find thing on a website that ostensibly already has one
