“What you’re saying doesn’t match the community over there at all. I don’t you’ve ever even used it and are just trying to sound important. There’s a lot less of people like you over there too.”
followed by “how much is Reddit paying you to bash better communities to stop people from leaving to go to them?”
You can lead a horse to water…
Less bots, less reposts. Sure, some people suck, but at least they’re people. Or much better bots. I guess there’s no way to know for sure.
Well, a lot of people already know Lemmy is full of mostly assholes. So, getting people to come over to a failing fractured network with only the worst kind of mods is… not appealing to most.
was going to ask op why he was insisting but now i’m more curious: why are you still here? xD
Because I’m the same kind of scum as you.
‘ATechnicalSquid’ is right tho regarding Mods. Many people here don’t wanna accept it, but Lemmy can be as much of an echo chamber with the same powertripping mods as on Reddit.
Sure, but the “federated fiefdoms” design allow one to move servers and find one with less powertripping mods.
had that problem over in the comics community where a mod arbitrarily decided to make the community “child friendly”. no comics or comments about things that kids can’t see/hear.
eventually the mod got tired of all the shit they were getting and left.
my point is, if this were Reddit, the mod would remain in charge and all the people of the community speaking out would have been permabanned globally.
Agree.
That’s true, but at least I feel like I’m talking to actual human beings.
We of the squid community disavow this one.
I don’t understand but thank you for your service
Spoiler
In the screenshot, you’re talking with someone whose username is /u/ATechnicalSquid.
Oh forgive me, I am fairly drunk this evening
I’ve seen some crap over here on Lemmy.
I think it’s better than reddit.
:shrug:
The way you said it was perfect imo
I just stopped going on reddit at all, much happier now
Thanks for fighting the good fight! A couple of thoughts from a former greasy salesman:
A) Are you meeting what OP needs or wants? OP says they’re trying to quit reddit because they’re wasting their life there. If they’re trying to quit social media, not sure recommending a different style of social media is going to help.
B) Probably best to come in ready for typical responses e.g., “there’s no content!” “Too many crazies” (say what you will, until you learn to avoid .ml etc, the fediverse can really suck for the vast majority of “normal” folks.)
C) Maybe have good examples of communities, instances or whatever that you want to recommend. Being able to point to concrete examples etc always helps!
Good luck!
I love promoting the cool rocks comm. It’s just so wholesome and welcoming.
A) Are you meeting what OP needs or wants? OP says they’re trying to quit reddit because they’re wasting their life there. If they’re trying to quit social media, not sure recommending a different style of social media is going to help.
Excellent point. One selling point tho, is that because Lemmy/Piefed is smaller, you often “reach the end” of your subscribed communities after a short period of time, which makes social media manageable.
But yeah, it’d be healthier to say “maybe you need to take some time off, and if you want to come back, try Piefed/Lemmy”.
I have been here 3 years and I’m actually quite happy with the fact that it’s not a content fire hose.
It’s much healthier for me. 10 minutes a day, quick check, and I’m out.
I came here from Reddit. Helped to mod a community on there, one of a team of about a dozen and it took about an hour a day, just a constant onslaught of offenders. Also was invited to help with another but I was not hardcore enough in a politically correct way, not heavy handed enough for them, they wanted a very safe space. Reddit is huge so there is some of everything but overall moderation is more heavy handed & micromanagey.
I mod a slow but active community here. 3 years I think, and less than one report per year. People are mostly so nice or at least funny enough when they aren’t, almost no reports, almost no moderation needed. Not one off topic post, even. It’s a dream.
Yeah I mod [email protected] and it’s pretty chill. Once in awhile I’ll get two people bickering in the comments or something doesn’t really fit the community, but months go by without any issues.
IMO the strongest argument here is simply that Lemmy has mod logs while Reddit moderation is opaque and more automated, because those are verifiable facts. Any comparison of the quality of moderation itself is necessarily going to be subjective and anecdotal, in part because Reddit and its mods actively prevent objective evaluation to sweep their crap under the rug.
How do u access the mod logs? Is that possible in the app Voyager?
I don’t know about that app but here’s the modlog page on your instance: https://sh.itjust.works/modlog
They’re right though, the active communities here are modded mostly by extremists and people who love echo chambers.
Just takes one power trippin’ bastard to ruin somebodies experience.
There are shitty mods on lemmy too, but there are also, I suspect, some people (though some might not even be people) who are just extremely hostile to anything Fediverse.
Some of them might just be too dumb or lazy to learn how to set the scope of their filters when looking for communities, so they only see their own instance and think it’s kind of a dead place, but I suspect a lot of them also argue in bad faith and generally just go out of their way to trash anything they see as a potential reddit competitor whether it’s legitimate criticism or not.
This is why I view the learning curve that come with using federated platforms as a nice built in filter that stops a decent number of idiots from staying here.
