If you weren’t sick of gallowboob years ago, prepare for folks like him to become even more insufferable.
Someone made a post years ago of all the super users and I blocked them all and it was a really fun experience until others rose up again and I didn’t have a list.
I ended up blocking anyone with 6 digit post karma that I came across.
Wow, I remember that awesome post. I did the same thing as you. And you’re right, it made for a much better experience for a while there.
I have discovered blocking early and often helps a lot on lemmy, too.
Lemmy is too quiet though, I block and sometimes tag but I genuinely see the same people in these threads every day, I wouldn’t be long being alone in the platform.
Is there a way beside Sync to tag people? It’s the feature I miss most in any other client, and the main reason I keep using that instead of an open source alternative.
I read Lemmy from Mastodon and user notes are a core feature
Ah thank you, I’ll look into it
the experience is a little different, since, instead of seeing articles with a comment count, I see comments and articles in reverse chronological order all together on one timeline. essentially, the Lemmy community “boosts” every comment and article, and I subscribe to the community.
it’s a great way to find conversations happening RIGHT NOW but it is not a very good way to see which threads are popular/up voted
as far as I can tell, direct messages and user reports are flat-out broken between the services, so you’ll want to maintain a Lemmy account anyway for those uses.
if you can get over all that, you might like it. it’s twitter-like.
Lemmy should have shined when the API kicked in, but we had a number of users being shouty ass hats that probably helped to drive users away. Fortunately they seem to have quieten down since for one reason or another, but Lemmy adoption doesn’t seem to have increased again yet - maybe one day.
Ultimately the super loud leftists were super annoying. I’m not saying their message or stance was good/bad or anything, I’m just saying that most folks don’t come to places like Lemmy or Reddit to talk political theory. Those lemmygrad hexbear types can’t get through a post about a bump on a log without talking about politics and social theory.
Conservatives would get the same opinion from me but they are far fewer here, so I have no notes on them.
For what’s it worth, I’m glad the shouty ones were leftists because otherwise I wouldn’t even give lemmy a chance.
It was also loud without much good communication.
If you’re not that technologically inclined, or not a developer, you’re not going to know what all the yammering about APIs are about, and how it affects your experience.
The moderators on r/Blind protesting might be all well and good, but it’s not much of a reach for someone to not see how them being impacted would affect your user experience.
Same for all the shouting about power users, apps, and moderator tools. That’s not a concern for most users, especially the ones who either already use Reddit on the computer, or just downloaded the Reddit app.
There wasn’t a good, clear, short, coherent message, nor much of a sustained, co-ordinated effort to explain the issue, not what it would mean for users that aren’t that technologically inclined, or engaged.
It basically ran into the whole average familiarity issue.
I love that you can block by instance though, it’s like wiping out whole ghettos of garbage all at once.
Unidan punching the air right now
Here’s the thing…
He’s right behind you.
