Longtime Lemmy Users: aside from sheer size, do you feel like the site has changed since the influx of reddit refugees, and if so, how?
Longtime Lemmy Users: aside from sheer size, do you feel like the site has changed since the influx of reddit refugees, and if so, how?
I've not been here long, but I'm curious how users who were present before the reddit drama feel about any potential changes to the content and tone of discussions.
OK, I'm going to lock this post. People obviously didn't get the message from my previous comment.
It used to be much more dominated by the tanky rethoric of the devs, and most discussions were around FLOSS/Privacy. Now it's much more diverse.
Also, lots of porn. I kinda wish it were possible to completely block instances as a user. If I understand it's on the roadmap.
Jerboa can block NSFW.
I actually hasn't see any porn when from the browser... Only when I decided to download an mobile app I got flooded by a lot of NSFW... I wonder why... Maybe the lemmy.world itself doesn't have much porn, but what is "hot" and "active" in other instances it is? That explains why going directly in to https://lemmy.world/ they doesn't show up.
I think NSFW content is fully hidden by default, but then it depends on your app/account config.
I don't want to fully block it because some NSFW is not porn and is worth seeing.
Do you normally browse all? I just browse subscribed - and this isn't a problem for me. "All" is a measure of what's popular, and porn is popular.
Yeah but right now I want to discover the new communities.
I'm on lemm.ee. I think I've seen 1 nsfw post. Under configuration there's a checkbox to not see nsfw content. I checked my alt account. The same checkbox is on lemmy.world
been here a month or so.
def seeing more abusive people show up, and nutcases who are spamming their ideological nonsense on every post who have think being first to post about their victim hood as misunderstood holders of THE TRUTH is some sort of relevant commentary and they are being oppressed by some other group of a different ideology.
this thread seems to be exhibit A.
also way more low quality shit posting and memes which i have to spend several minutes blocking each morning.
People like you show up and act like you have no ideology, that you're just a fully blank slate. You are the guest, you are bringing your ideology here. We've been around for years. We are just used to being in a minority ideology and having discourse about it, you have never seen ideology in the way that a fish has never seen water.
You're dead on about the low energy shitposting and memes tho
nah i'm just an asshole with a weird collection of opinions and viewpoints that don't fit into anyone neat little ideological camp.
one thing i cam sure of is that whatever views i have tend to piss everyone off, left, right, or center.
Yeah I really hate the gender mythology ideological nonsense
Perfect example of Reddit refugee. BLOCK BLOCK BAN BLOCK. WHY ARE PEOPLE I DISAGREE WITH IN EXISTANCE 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Maybe you could just say I don't agree with you instead of blocking things outright
How do you appear in every single thread bitching about liberals? You know your people have safe zones? Why not just go there.
Grab yourself a hot little Truth Social ™ account and you can rant about brown people and LGBTQ people all you want. Nobody will complain.
Come on, it'll be fun. Y'all can compare truck flags.
except that isn't what i said.
i guess you no read good?
While there is some bad, overall it had genuinely changed for the better. There's a lot more diversity in the kind of people here and the kind of content posted. It used to be a lot more dominated by Tankie nonsense.
Got my first explicit scatological DM from someone with no fewer than three actual slurs (n-word included) in their username yesterday, from the lemmy.world instance (yes, my instance), so that was "fun". I've also seen the same sort of posts, from the same sorts of users, elsewhere in comment sections. Fun times.
I know it's kind of getting bad here for people who like don't want to say slurs
I saw the r-word two separate time on one post and thought that was unusual.
More rude people yes. But it was to be expected. On the plus side, more content also created by people who are not rude and immature. Most are not.
The memes are way better and hitting real good these days.
Yes it's full of liberals now this used to be a leftist safe zone. Soon they will be mods and any dissent will result in permant ban
Edit: libs proved me right so fast check those salty replies bet they even Reported me. Healthy discussion involved some heat love y'all
What? The whole point of Lemmy is to be defederated. A leftist safe zone still exists, they have their own instance.
He said long time not "joined 12 days ago"
Are you talking lemmygrad leftists or real leftists?
This is hilarious and probably true.
ALSO would your solution be ONLY leftist mods, would they be any more or less likely to quash dissent and perma ban whatever they don't like?
My experience is that most extremely ideologically driven communities tend to devolve into the same heavy-handed moderation tactics. I think this happens because it’s easier to imagine that the ends justify the means, and because small minority communities that are far from the larger consensus viewpoints are going to have issues with relatively large number of outside users coming in and wanting to debate or denigrate the fringe ideology.
Nah let people fight