"Third reply downvotes" and other types of bullying done for absolutely no reason. Also, people misleading others to disgusting communities just to troll them, for example (and I am paraphrasing the names of the communities): "misspell the community's name to c/vercute instead of c/verycute and you accidentally get a sub full of gore" or "check out c/audioing, it's definitely not people doing a very disgusting thing to one of their body parts". I do, however, like the fact they're bringing the whole subreddit swap meme - for example: on Reddit we have had r/trees and r/marijuana_enthusiasts and I've seen that implemented into Lemmy instances already. I wouldn't get rid of that, I think there are some traditions that are neat and don't harm anybody.
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Dehumanisation. I feel as though people are increasingly becoming ok with other people being punished for their involvement in something that is genuinely wrong/evil/bad. But the people experiencing the steepest punishments are almost never the people with significant culpability for the wrong/evil/bad decisions.
"Just following orders" might not be a great excuse, but punishing pawns for a king's choices isn't an effective deterrent or remedy either.
What real world example of this did you see on Reddit?
Posting clips of TV shows to places like r/funny
All the fake AITA posts.
So I poured steaming hot Chili on my grandmothers head for not commenting positively on my new suspenders... AITA?
Up votes. Actually wait a minute.
In all seriousness, any dumb, little thought out comments.
I would like to hope Lemmy is the Reddit of old before the masses ruined it.
I'm loving Lemmy right now.
That new ugly UI.
It's so damn cluttered.
I think megathreads are useful for things like an album release or a weekly episode release. It gives a place for conversation to occur without flooding the community with duplicate posts. I think the megathreads you're referring to though are the ones where it's like "New DIY-ers, ask questions here!" I agree that those should stay gone. No one reads them and they aren't helpful.
I never really was on reddit and I am beginning to miss the lemmy that existed a few days ago, it felt a bit cozier , less hectic and friendlier overall. Now all the same old reddit posts have migrated over and it seems I see a lot more low effort mean spirited cheap 'jokes' everywhere
I can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these!
Clearly, you've never been in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com before, have you?
Megathreads were an improvement over the same story being posted a hundred times (not an exaggeration).
With regards to the question: the bigotry, the boy's clubs, the tactics to deliberately exclude some members from the conversation. I doubt Lemmy will avoid them wholesale, but maybe they will be curtailed and limited to a few instances.
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Comments that require a, "well, back on Reddit..." explanation. Could include comments about that guy's dead wife. That one kid's broken arms, etc.