Most instances on Lemmy are much, much worse than Reddit. The few ones like this one that have some free speech going on just get blocked and ridiculed. At least from reddit I can understand from a business pov that they removed a lot of subreddits. For a lot of Lemmy instances money isnt even the driving factor but just closed minded individuals and censorship.

It makes me sad since i loved to think that lemmy could be a smaller more compact community alternative to reddit but honestly its really not.

Probably the switch would become a GeForce Now device. Nvidia seems to be going full cloud.

I guess things would never go on sale just like Nintendo. Hopefully intel cards would finally gain some traction due to Microsoft and Sony probably not wanting to do business with a company that is also their main competitor (console wise)

Your post hit me right in the feels.

The internet is becoming a dystopian place. That why I love smaller communities like this. I’ve been a Reddit user but honestly I though almost all the big subreddits were crap. They were either censored to the point you couldn’t say anything that remotely hurts a snowflake or be banned/downvoted to hell or just filled with ads pretending to be articles. It was purely the small subreddits that interested me, and sadly even with those becoming more popular I started losing interest.

Lemmy might never become as big as Reddit but to me that is fine. I’ve always been a fan of seperate forums with small but passionate communities. For example I was on a tech forum where there was this one guy that was always super direct and pretty rude. But guess what, everyone respected him and his opinion because he knew a lot of stuff and actually made very insightful posts. Now try that on Reddit and prepare to be downvoted into oblivion. Reddit has been turning into trash long before the API changes and honestly a big part of it was the community, it’s becoming more vile and toxic every day and if your opinion is just slightly different than the masses you just get labeled as troll or unwanted poster. I really hope Reddit goes under but realistically I don’t think that will happen. Honestly the CEO and top layer might be bad but so are a big part of reddits user’s, most of them don’t give a shit about free speech and just want to see their popular opinion parroted. If you come to Reddit for a good discussion just stop looking because you won’t find any, it’s just “Person A is right and gets upvotes”, Person B is wrong and gets downvoted " no matter how respectful either person is.

I just hope that Lemmy gets big enough to support a decent sized active community. It doesn’t need to be “Reddit big” for me.

Downvotes are a double edged sword IMO. One one hand they help reducing the amount of actual shitposting and bots. On Reddit I mostly saw it being abused as a “I disagree” button. The problem is that there isn’t any middle way. You either downvote or upvote.

I also visit websites that have a “point system” starting from -1 (shitpost, flamebait) 0 (irrelevant), +1 (informative) and +2 (insightful). It works much better imo but I’m not sure if something like that would be possible on Lemmy. Obviously falsely mislabeling still happens but people who do that get a warning.