I keep seeing the same names popping up. I think it’s rather cute!
Somebody has to fill this place with content…
Sorry
Comments and votes are content too.
Sorry, I’m just making a bad joke about my frankly unhealthy posting habits.
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And this is my second account. The previous one had over 1000 posts and a similar amount of comments.
According to one of the latest kurzgesagt videos we all should be in smaller communities like this and large ones like Facebook and Reddit are generally bad for our mental health.
Well a few months after leaving reddit I do feel a lot better in general so I’m not surprised.
I go back occasionally to check for something or just to see what things are like. I dunno if it’s just gotten insanely more toxic since July or if it’s just been that way for a long time but oh my god. Every comment section is just angry and bitter and hateful. I was looking at a post yesterday and thought it was cute and interesting so I open the comments. Every single one of them were either saying it was fake, that it was stupid, that it was cringey, that it didn’t make sense, etc. It’s like no one has an ounce of positivity on that site.
I see OPs point - fucking Stamets replied to me! Good stuff. Love it!
It’s really a mix of both. More heavily the way the site has been for years because people love drama more than anything else. If you want the sweet serotonin of karma, you’ve gotta be simultaneously the funniest, meanest, and most jaded person in the room, and everyone is jockeying for that position.
It just breeds assholes by design. I’ve noticed my own behavior has changed, too, since leaving that place, although partially that’s because I just didn’t want to be like that anymore.
But it really has been noticeably affected since the protests. I was originally trying to stay for one single sub I was in, because they were the kindest, calmest community I’d met since back when forums were a thing.
Just the best group, for reasons none of us really understood and some of us kept trying to find psychological commonalities to explain. Truly 98% of them were people I’d chill with irl and I still know a few on discord. And also here. If you’re reading this, hello!
But the migration away was enough to completely alter the atmosphere imo. A lot of the more conscientious users left for other pastures, leaving behind those that were more neutral or even openly hostile about the protests.
There began to be fights and insults thrown where before this, any aggression had been unusual. The posts took a turn that reflected that feeling and I really stopped bothering with the place after a few months. I’m still a bit sad about it and there are things that I miss, but there just wasn’t enough to hold me anymore. It seemed to increasingly echo every other part of the site.
For the moment, this place is quieter but better. We still get dumb shit every now and then, but it’s not to the same degree and hopefully never will be. As above, I blame the demographic. We’ve grouped all the people with stubborn morals into a little room and it turns out they have things in common. I do miss a couple people I used to see everywhere all the time when kbin first ramped up, but we run in different circles and they’ve gotten lost in the crowd.
And yes, btw, I am also going to name you one of my favorite users to see around. You seem as kind as you are prolific.
They banned those of us who were challenging the bitterness and hate. Whenever I’d argue against bitterness, they’d call me a bootlicker, and within a couple of comments, a nazi.
Eventually, I got banned from reddit for being a nazi.
So now that their “hey maybe stop being so bitter and take responsibility” nazis are all gone, they’ve concentrated themselves into an echo chamber based on resentment.
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I’ll go to YouTube to support kurzgesagt
I wish kurzgesagt joined the fediverse. They are quite big (21M followers). Being able to watch them here without going to youtube would be a nice step in the right direction.
That would be great
Yes, that’s one of the nice aspects.
Thanks to @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz and @BrikoX@lemmy.zip for their tech posts, and @ZeroCool@slrpnk.net and @realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city for the movies posts, you guys rock
Back at ya Blaze, it’s always a pleasure running into the other moviesandtv regulars!
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Yeah it’s like a village!
Lemmy is basically my own Animal Crossing.
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Same ol’ faces… Almost has the feel of forums of yesteryear…
needs human momentum. every bit counts.
I wonder if others have some favourite posters that you they quite often?
For me, it’s @Stamets and ThePicardManuever but I’ve noticed a couple other prominent posters lately although their names haven’t stuck for me just yet.
I’ve been a mindbleach fan since Reddit
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I had not, but I don’t read the names. I will endeavor to notice. Thank you for the heads up.
I saw many names frequently pop up on reddit, it was the reposter’s and karma whores.
I see many names frequently pop up on Lemmy and it’s people trying to fill the same spot.
Frankly this is exactly what I don’t want to happen. This small time celebrity like worshipping that comes with certain posters was extremely popular on BBboards and made it incredibly hard and uninviting for new people to join in these already established communities.
I very much enjoy running into folks from the various crafting communities in other contexts, bumping into Mastodon friends on Lemmy and vice versa and then dropping into each others PeerTube comments.
Irl I live in a small town and absolutely despise not being able to leave the house without running into someone who knows us. But for whatever reason I find it adorable on Fedi 🤷♀️
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That’s generally not a good thing…
That means it’s more likely to be an echo chamber or just bots auto posting…
You want a lot of diversity - within specific groups sure, the same names are fine but across groups that’s a bad sign.
It’ll largely be an echo chamber regardless of size. The fediverse tends to lean into tech, and is very left wing. If you don’t fit the bill, you are either driven off, de-federated with, or realize the content posted here isn’t what you’re looking for, and you leave.
I don’t mind the small knit community, as I agree with most stuff, but this simply isn’t a place you can host competing ideas, or at least not feasibly. This isn’t a place for open discussion. You get down voted for your opinion, even if it is a shitty one. This isn’t the fediverse I want to see. I want to see people upvoted for their opinion, and enticed to engage with whatever discourse is present, regardless of views. Downvotes should be reserved for trolls, bots, and fascists. Everyone else should be welcome.
Downvotes should be reserved for trolls, bots, and fascists. Everyone else should be welcome.
Definitely. Downvotes can be monitored by admins now, hopefully this can help
why are “echo chambers” considered bad? i come to communities to chill and chat with like-minded people; not to argue and get into fights.
Well the simple reason is you can get stuck in certain world views or ideas which are wrong and hurt others.
In most cases you’re fine, like talking about your favourite TV shows or whatever. But it’s also easy to get stuck in a view like visiting your country’s instance and it turns out it’s a bit radicalised against immigrants, or certain places where you end up blaming everything on women and the “woke movement”.
In a lesser way it can get you stuck in toxic ideas (e.g., PC/Playstation/Windows/Xbox/Linux is better than the other one and you are dumb if you disagree!).
Just depends on the community at end of day, but the more echoey chamber it is, the more likely you’ll end up with those sorts of us VS them world views that are a bit blind and horribly biased.
It would be nice if lemmy.world mods followed that. I got my posted deleted for “supporting Imperialism” for arguing that focused attacks on Houthi terrorists is ok.
It could also intimidate other groups out.
I do admit, it is a bit of an echo chamber on here for some groups :(
I definitely recognize some of the mods, and some of the key players in the communities that I follow. There’s good people here, and I believe it’s going to keep getting better.
I wasn’t paying attention to usernames as much when I first started. For whatever reason, I’ve started to pay attention to the names, as well as the instances. I like seeing where people are commenting from, and it even gives some insight into places or things I might be interested in as well.
Sometimes I’ll check out a person’s profile to see what things they’re commenting on. This feels kind of creepy a little bit. I don’t think anyone really cares though, so long as you’re not being abusive or something.
Sometimes I’ll check out a person’s profile to see what things they’re commenting on. This feels kind of creepy a little bit.
It’s okay for me, people should use throwaway accounts for very personal stuff anyway
agreed.
I love it here on lemmy and it looks like the recent federation problems have been resolved.
So I‘m looking forward to lurk less and interact more in future.
Let us all build a better Reddit!