Bring back people getting excited about stuff.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    11 hours ago

    I haven’t noticed this. And I browse all. If you’re encountering that much toxicity there may be a common ingredient…

  • DarkSirrush@piefed.caEnglish
    15·
    11 hours ago

    Have you not blocked the negative instances? Most of what I see are positive posts, or news articles.

    • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      Haven’t been around in awhile, is mbin officially dead or is it still being actively developed just without much use?

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        Kbin is dead. Hopefully Ernst is himself not physically dead, but has stopped contributing. It was quite the fiasco as Kbin.social had to be defederated from since it was sitting un-administered and thus being used to spread spam across the entire Threadiverse.

        Kbin’s fork Mbin is still going strong, though with fewer users as time passes. There is even an app for it now: Interstellar.

        It serves a very niche area though, where you want to interact with both the microblogging style Mastodon on the Fediverse and also Lemmy+PieFed on the Threadiverse (with newer additions being added e.g. nodeBB and flarum) using the same account rather than dedicated ones for each platform. Personally I feel like the UI is too geared towards the former and ignores what is much more commonly observed in the letter. Plus it follows Ernst’s trends to rename every little thing where e.g. downvotes are “reduces”, except it’s more complicated than that bc downvotes themselves still exist - except they don’t, in that they don’t affect the sorting (or maybe that was the reduces?) - plus they are now publicly visible, except again they are not (actually “boosts” are, reduces are not, and I forget whether they are or not for up and downvotes).

        Even at its peak it never topped 1k monthly active users (according to this site), so compared to Lemmy’s ~35k the ~0.7k users of Mbin are practically unnoticeable.

        PieFed is the new hot thing, with many features that Lemmy lacks, and some even that Reddit itself does not have. It is still being polished but its pace of development is extremely fast! 😁

    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      12 hours ago

      Also on PieFed.social all new accounts automatically join 4 positive communities 😇

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          If you mean something that could access all of its features, the reason that isn’t happening yet is because the back-end API is still very minimal. But they’re working on it, and the progress so far is amazing!! 😍

            • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              7 hours ago

              I thought that things like combining comments across all cross-posts, categories of communities, user-customizeable and shareable feeds, ability to block all users from an instance, etc. were not supported yet.

              Perhaps “minimal” is the wrong word though: maybe “basic” would have worked better, with most of PieFed’s most well-known and touted features not having been included yet, unless I missed it and they are now?

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    21·
    18 hours ago

    I was just thinking to myself it’s been so good around here, YPTB has barely had any activity for weeks.

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      I’ve had a couple cases I could’ve presented there, but it just wasn’t worth it to me to take the time to gather the evidence and write out my case. There’s good reason I’m neither a lawyer, nor a politician.

  • sk1nnym1ke@piefed.socialEnglish
    1912·
    17 hours ago

    I wish that when people disagree with a comment or post, they would give a brief explanation for their disagreement instead of just downvoting.

    • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
      201·
      16 hours ago

      I disagree that people should always leave a comment as that is going to both cause more arguments over small details and if there are many downvotes then it is going to basically spam their inbox.

      Sometimes it is nice if one of the downvoters explained if it wasn’t obvious, but sometimes the comment is just so bad that explaining is worse than a bunch of silent downvotes.

      • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.worldEnglish
        76·
        16 hours ago

        Nothing was said about requiring it, but I agree that it’s a bit annoying when there’s downvotes without anyone justifying even a single one of them.

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
          53·
          16 hours ago

          The downvotes also clearly seem to mean different things to different people.

          Generally I think they’re just used for spam, extreme racism/homophobia etc, cruelty, bullying, or offensive content - but some people are clearly just chucking them around willy-nilly for very little reason.

          • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
            154·
            16 hours ago

            People having reasons that don’t align with yours doesn’t make them willy-nilly.

            • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
              103·
              16 hours ago

              Sorry I wasn’t clear, I mean that some people (I assume) use downvotes just to mean “I don’t agree with the thing you said” rather than “this is extremely offensive/cruel/horrifically bigoted/spreading dangerous misinformation” etc - even on something really minor like “I prefer this tv programme to that one” or “I like this foodstuff made in this way”.

              • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
                8·
                14 hours ago

                Some people do use it to mean they don’t agree with the thing that was said. Heck, I will down vote certain comments because they are a detriment to the conversation even if they aren’t misinformation because they might be derailing or ignoring the context of the conversation.

                I also down vote some comments for being unnecessarily rude even if I agree with them.

                I just have a low bar for what deserves up and down votes, but there is always a reason. Heck, I just upvoted your comment to counter a down vote.

              • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
                5·
                15 hours ago

                If something is extremely offensive/cruel/bigoted/etc, it probably needs to be reported and not just downvoted… Unless it’s some community for hateposting, that kind of stuff is almost always straight up against the community rules.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    12 hours ago

    I used to post regularly in a variety of spaces about things I was interested in.

    If you post a single thing that a mod has a problem with, you get instantly banned from the most empty spaces, like WHY? I post a sfw pic to a comm that is loosely associated because there’s no more specific place to post and I get insta banned, why why why?

    Not even disrespectful or toxic stuff, literally just posts that don’t meet all the criteria of the requirements that aren’t even fucking listed unless you go to the comm in a web browser.

    it’s extremely discouraging, and after only after like a year on this space, I’m already thinking about ditching Lemmy.

    Edit: idk who replied, but you’re blocked, probably after harrasing me.

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      92·
      11 hours ago

      You’re tagged on my client as toxic. You’ve got a modlog a mile long on different instances, different comms, different mods, much of it for being uncivil, advocating violence, etc etc. I’ll venture out on a limb and say you’re the common factor here.

      • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        10 hours ago

        Isn’t it great you can just open up a log that lets you delegitimize the concerns of others? Such a lazy and malicious way to think and behave.

        Too bad none of that has to do with my post.

        None of my posts about my interests were uncivil.

        Also, if you can’t interact in good faith, I’m just going to block you, too, like the other people who whine at me with invalid arguments.

        You clearly responded here because you felt you would get dopamine being malicious twoards a valid target, you didn’t come here to have a conversation.

        Are you capable of refuting any of my claims without invalid personal attacks to get off?

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      I don’t know if some of them are just new to being mods or if they’re crusty, clenched long-time mods but yeah I’ve been banned for absolutely the stupidest reasons here.

      Moderating isn’t really fun, so you have to have a lot of people who want to do it, and Lemmy’s still finding its people.