Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.
Less lurkers and more people making comments over time. This thread is a great example.
Doesn’t actually seem much different to me. Would be nice to have a few more people for the niche communities - but I do kinda worry that Lemmy becoming popular will lead to an influx of bots.
The bots are already here. They are the ones posting all the news articles. Also, it’s not that much different because both bases share the same users.
Same for the most part. There was a period of time where it seemed like every post and comment was angry. Silly fights over semantics. That still happens but it seems like less. I see more and more English speaking European influence. Still lots of angry Linux guys but Linux seems to be in a winning season so it’s chill.
What is reddit? It’s just a fast paced forum with lots of people.
Lemmy is in essence the exact same thing. It just operates far more decentralised than reddit.
The difference over the last months/years is that lemmy as a whole is growing. More people, more engagement. That’s it.
I don’t know what you mean by “lost it’s uniqueness” the only unique part of lemmy is it’s decentralised system. And that’s still the same.
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It has gotten bigger. More active. More posts, more new content. When i first came over i would check the All page, sorted by eitber Active or Hot, and only find a couple of new posts per day. It is still nowhere near as active as Reddit was back then (probably a goos thing), but it has enough content to help me procrastinate at work now.
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LemmyNSFW died and has been replaced by FediNSFW recently. I am sure that it will be better in the long-term, but it still doesn’t seem to be back to where it was yet. I think a lot of the old posters were bots, largely re-posting from Reddit, and not all of those have been rebuilt yet. I have mixed feelings about that.
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The Connect app has gotten better and better. Love it.
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For the past year or so, Lemmy has been of a size big enougj for patterns to ripple and promulgate through it bht small enough to notice them. For example, almost immediately after New Years several different communities on different instances started to see a drastix influx of webcomic posts. Usually 4-panel ones. Usually low-fidelity ones (XKCD-style, not Girl Genius for example). And usually oned with some sort of error or controversy. Rage bait to get the comments going, but nothing controversial enough to get banned or removed.
There would be new accounts made that just posted a handful of these comics quickly, and sometimes argue with people in the comments. Once people like me started pointing out the pattern they started deleting the posts and accounts after a couple days. I’m not sure when it stopped, but i have not noticed one for probably a month.
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Honestly? Not much.
Well, I guess that I am just too lucky to able to find it so easily. 😂
The biggest change for me was losing Lemm.ee. That was a blow. I had probably the most thriving (not by much) synthesizer community. I haven’t had the heart to try and start it back up elsewhere.
I arrived during the API debacle.
Some things are better, content and activity.
Some things are worse, spammers, AI proponents who harrass you despite the clear community-wide dislike of the plagarism machine, fascist chuds trying to mainstream rascism, misogyny, and ableism.
Basically each new wave is another usenet September equivalent, and it feels like we’re approaching the eternal september epoch as lemmy becomes more widely used. Soon we’ll have to deal with state actor bot-nets if we aren’t already.
Amounts of political propaganda are wild in some comunities and instances. But, I guess that this thing will eventually occur in any social media.
Significantly, and for the better. The is significant engagement, a large increase in new communities, and we have even had our very own memorable, memeable instances!
A bunch more assholes who take any and every opportunity to be an asshole, and tripping mods who can’t be bothered and apply blanket bans because you said a thing they didn’t agree with. What’s new.
They cannot be assholes they want to be in real life, so that they are living their dream lives in virtual world. Gotta have some sympathy for them - they are trying their best to feel some value in society.
We are lovely go bang yourself!
If I could, I wouldn’t ever leave my house! *unzips, slams door shut*
It has gotten much better. More content and general activity and nutjobs at .ml and similar got mostly isolated from the rest of the network.
I think fediverse is really shaping up as a strong reddit alternative. Most pop subjects are mirrored here and the vibe is very similar to early reddit so there no real reason to go to reddit other than super niche communities like of a tv show or something.
Most props go to the lemmy.world team as it kept a consistent big sane network running that keeps the project stable! If .world never happened I think Lemmy would have remained cess pool of social rejects like most reddit alternatives like Voat or lemmy.ml
lemmy.ml is like a degenerate wading pool of piss and misinformation.
If you haven’t been banned there you have not truly lived. Let us come together in our detest.
If you haven’t been banned there you have not truly lived
Damn, you guys really make me feel like I’m missing out lol
It is actually sad that some good comunities try to occur there and are forced to deal with the consequences of whole instance’s fame.
That’s the great thing about decentralization - we can migrate very easily!
Thanks for info, that’s what I was looking for, it means not leftist I assume.
The ml in Lemmy.ml stands for Marxist-Leninist. Anything past that is for you to unpack; in my uninformed opinion, however, it seems that .world has an irrational hate boner for .ml.
there are increasingly a greater number of nutjobs, spammers, and hostile/miserable/angry people. my block list is like 300+ now. 6-9 month ago it was like 12 people.
2 years ago it was mostly super nerds just nerding about.
This actually means that Lemmy has a progress in moving along the adoption curve. These are both very good and somewhat bad news.
I’m curious what your threshold for blocking is. I don’t block anyone. I appreciate dissenting opinions. I can totally appreciate that there are bad actors out here, but a blocklist of 300+ sound like a curated echo chamber.
Feel free to block me.
people calling me/others names, spamming agendas, or generally being hostile nutjobs pushing some extremist agenda and accusing anyone who isn’t in agreement with them as being the enemy, and that the enemy should be killed.
oh and people who personally harass you, like going around commenting on multiple unrelated comments you made to repeatedly call you names, and downvote you, of course.
And that all sounds absolutely reasonable. I’m just having a very different experience on Lemmy, and that’s the main reason why I found it odd, so appreciate your clarification.
And this is not to say I haven’t stumbled upon some shitheads, it’s just the frequency is low enough to be not so noticeable, not something I really put effort into addressing. If it were higher for me, I’m sure I’d find myself doing the same thing you are.
I have been on here for about 20m this morning, and blocked 5 people already.
Why? Because they made hostile/unhinged replies in another threads insulting other people over an opinion or a story.
Based on your description, it looks like you are visiting Lemmy.ml a lot.
there are plenty of other nutjob instances than .ml
Fair.
A lot less beans nowadays
Its gotten significantly less optimistic and more cynical. Its in my opinion more of a reflection of the state of the world than a Lemmy specific issue but it affects Lemmy users more because this isnt a space that allows people to live in ignorant bliss.
I run on another reddit alternative that was apparently an offshoot refuge after Squabbler shit hit the fan (so extremely niche yet somewhat active community) with a completely different demographic of users to Lemmy (mostly middle-aged centrists/liberals that couldn’t tell apart a Linux distro from a macbook), and I can tell you.
It’s universal.
I posted something the other day about how nice it was to wake up and have your feet hit a warm rug that’s been baked in a sunbeam first thing in the morning, and shityounot the replies I immediately got ranged from “Why even bother getting out of bed” and a list of things that are “far superior” to a warm rug. Just blatant whataboutism all the way down, and almost made me consider that if I had posted the opposite, about how much I dislike that sort of thing, if people would have then flipflopped and disagreed lol
Then I came to Lemmy for a break, and the first post I saw was a photo of someone’s pet bunny next to some food they’d ordered, and every single comment was about how OP was a bad person and should be ashamed of themselves for using a delivery app. It was fucking wild.
I think it’s genuinely just the state of the world right now. Everyone’s enraged as hell and seemingly have zero real world outlets for it. So it all just gets funneled into stranger interactions online.
I just try not to read replies and generally move on with my day rather than absorb all that insanity. If people really need an outlet or whatever that badly they can go scream at ChatGPT for an hour lmao
