In another thread, I read a user’s comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.
Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it’s changed?
It’s gotten better. A lot. More people means more content. Sure, I have to curate it a bit, but overall it’s better.
Completely agreed! Communities are getting stronger, consolidating repeats across instances, and providing helpful comments.
The other day I was going to post a link in a community, and then checked to see- it had already been posted! Brought a tear to my eye 🥹
Content is improving but the apps well! I’m currently using Voyager (wefwef) and it’s a lot better than when I started using it (around the great Reddit exodus).
The dev said they’d be scaling down support but it’s fine for now and even if it starts lagging behind for some reason there’s a couple of great alternatives as well (Avelon works very well for example).
I decided to create a few threads after a few months hiatus and was surprised by the levels of engagement. I think the audience is hungry for content and that more people need to take the plunge and start threads.
With that said, going to /all instead of /subscribed is largely frustrating since the most frequent posts are just memes and inside jokes
The trick is to block all meme communities
A big part of this is the ranking algorithm. It doesn’t scale based on the size of the community so the large meme communities pretty much exclusively rise to the top. There’s a fix in the works I believe but I’m not sure where on the roadmap it is.
Scaled sort will be in 0.19.0, so probably in the next month, maybe 2 months
Mine’s gotten better, but it’s taken some curation to get there.
Since I joined Lemmy during the Reddit meltdown, the amount of quality content has steadily risen. I run a small instance (~25 users), so my “all” feed isn’t a deluge of everything under the sun. I also instance ban bot accounts which reduces a lot of the crap (reposts, spammy comments, etc).
Hello fellow small instance admin.
I have a few hundred users but I’m pretty sure closer to 25 actually active lol
where is the line at being small? lemdro.id just passed 1k users :)
Looking for new members? ;)
Its my first day here. I’m having a good time. Thanks for asking.
Welcome to the party!
Except Starfleet is toast.ooo
Thanks. Feels good to be here. I know some people have mixed experiences but it really is neat seeing the fediverse come to life.
Being able to browse other federated sites from one app is cool as fuck too.
Yeah, it’s really cool. I’m way more active on Lemmy than I was on Reddit, and I keep thinking of a post made by @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website. I’ve seen some people talking about stuff that is not OK/mixed experiences (see the whole thing about rqd2.net that happened TODAY here), but I’ve just kept myself in areas which are full of great people (coincidentally @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website is one of those cool people).
The federated app thing is super cool tho lol
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website is pretty much a Lemmy celebrity at this point
D’aww, you guys
Scruffy believes in this platform
Welcome!
A bit more active than when I made my account.
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It wouldn’t be so bad if the memes were good and at least sometimes original.
Only way to fix that is to start contributing
A lot more weird people now. I already miss the initial experience of a small crowd of tech people. Now it’s mostly memes, because you can’t have a good discussion on Lemmy without someone getting their perception bubble popped. I’ve been called a racist, a hater, homophobe, etc.
So of course all discussions are like “oh nice meme”.
If you’re being called racist or homophobic by multiple people multiple times…you might be.
Wow, I hope you don’t live by that advice yourself. People on social media type all kinds of crazy things. :)
Depends. There are plenty of being using “racists” wrong, particularly meaning reverse racism or not understanding systemic racism. But it depends on what you’re saying to be called those things.
Yeah I agree it depends, that’s true.
Or it’s people trying to muddy the water to both-sides something. I’ve been noticing an uptick of posts from the far-right crowd creeping out of the woodwork recently, and they’re all up in arms about people saying US Conservatives are intolerant.
Being told not to be an asshole to others isn’t intolerance. It is the intolerance of intolerance - which is a necessary part of a tolerant society.
See: The Paradox of Intolerance (which the far right nuts call the new Mein Kamp. Gross).
Yea, the one I see the most is calling something racist when it’s in any way excludes white men. It may be a far-right tactic muddying the waters, but often it’s just naivety. I fell into that trap early in my life too. Difference was I never stopped learning. The things that seemed bad on the surface became a lot clearly once my curiosity forced me to figure out how and why those things started. Turns out, and I don’t want to blow anyone’s minds here, just about everything has a backstory and a really good reason for it. Shocker I know. Doesn’t mean it all ended up working as intended or anything, and some things are truly nefarious, but ultimately glossing over the history is what leads people to these bad takes.
Interestingly I’ve had quite a few negative bombed comments on Lemmy that were nothing burgers saying really plain stuff.
Weirdly I’ve had the complete opposite experience on the other platform. Comments that were also nothing burgers saying really plain stuff too.
the bots and down-vote brigades are outta control
There is more interaction, but also a lot more crazy far-right assholes the past few weeks at least (in my experience).
I’m new to Lemmy, migrated here as of June 30. So since then I’ve been learning where to avoid reading comments. Basically just stop reading if I see enough toxicity.
But overall I like Lemmy, it still give me decent news to keep me somewhat up to date like reddit used to.
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I stopped using my lemmy instance for the most part and moved back to my lotide instance.
There was some sort of bad upgrade that killed my lemmy instance, and when I got back incoming federation was ok but outgoing wasn’t.
Discovered that I need to rate limit federation or it pwns both lemmy and lotide.
I unsubbed from a lot of communities that seemed like they couldn’t help from constantly bringing politics into stuff, leaving my feed a lot quieter. I’m sure you hate candidate X, but this is a knitting community…
Gotten better and better over time.
I’ve learned to always have a backup account on another instance and that’s decreased my downtime to almost zero.
I prefer the content here to Reddit, as Reddit seems to just be clickbait these days.
My favorite thing here is the community. Much less likely to encounter an asshole and even when people disagree, they seem to argue in good faith. Love the Lemmy/knib community feel.
man I loved Ragnarok Online lol, me and my friend spent a lot of time in that game, I don’t even know what made it so good I guess just the vibes
Always enjoy meeting another fan! We really should get a community together here on Lemmy. There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
Real talk: Original iRO were some of the best gaming times of my life. I loved the grind.
I was here since 2020, there are more “crazies” and average quality of content seem to be down, but a lot more memes and content. open source related subs seem a lot more active here then on reddit but on reddit there are open source developers talking and on here there are non it seems besides those developing stuff for lemmy.
It’s been alright. I’m still having issue with the communities I want to follow, specifically certain games or franchises, either not having enough people posting or communities just not existing.
I still stand by my decision to not use Reddit unless I absolutely have to for troubleshooting issues, but Lemmy and Kbin are lonely platforms still and that hasn’t changed since I’ve joined.
I’ve also noticed how easy it is for a bot to spam and there is little to no safeguards around it. a week or two ago, there was a bot spamming a transphobic video to almost every community I followed so my feed was flooded. if a single account can do that, I can only imagine what a group of trolls could accomplish.
