Well, I'm here now. So there's that.
You're welcome. /s
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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I feel like there's less Canadian content. After the Reddit API Exodus, there was a fair bit, but that dropped off.
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It seems more active now. Which has been great!
The cell phone apps are a lot better nowadays. They look a lot better.
I've been posting more fedi content instead of just the popular links.
Not enough jeans. :(
Real answer: there's been an uptick in the amount of content lately, which is great. I've also unfortunately noticed an uptick in belligerent comments, which often detracts from the conversations taking place.
Getting a bit busier these days
I got banned from the Canada community and according to the mod log, it was for homophobia and bigotry.
That really rubs me the wrong way because I’ve never ever posted anything like that. I’ve been the subject of homophobic and bigotry based bullying my whole life and the only comment I posted on that topic there was an account of my first hand experience of being catfished on Grindr and then outed as bi on the towns facebook page and subjected to ridicule and harassment.
I mean the nice thing about Lemmy is you can always create your own community, and if that's not enough, your own instance.
It removes a bad mods ability to completely dominate, because there's always an escape hatch for folks who are just done with their shit.
I mean the nice thing about Lemmy is you can always create your own community
You can do that on most platforms. It isn't worth the effort unless you can pull users into your new community. That's hard.
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People here have gotten progressively meaner and I am seeing more and more AI slop. Also the quality of memes have fallen off a fucking cliff in all meme communities.
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It's become much more moderated and controlled. I think reddit is actually less controlled. I'm seeing conversations about Swedish immigration that would never be allowed on Lemmy.
On the other hand, I saw that Luigi was not allowed to be mentioned in Reddit now in some subreddit.. So... Lol.
Every person and every platform has its biases and values, so it's not as helpful to think of moderation and control as more-or-less, so much as what is being controlled.
For example, reddit's revenue model led them to censor moderators during the API fiasco, and some of the communities on Lemmy since its early days are continuations of quarantined or banned subreddits. Meanwhile, most Lemmy instances take a stand against bigotry which would fly without a worry on reddit. This is a result of each platform's values, what they as a community (or in reddit's case, business) consider tolerable. reddit has the added constraint that they can't alienate their advertisers and other sources of income, and face increased scrutiny from mass media (news articles are usually the cause of controversial subreddits finally getting enough attention to cause them to be banned).
Change your instance. You can still use lemmy and see what you want. No need to switch to a new service.
That's the beauty of this place. Make it how you want.
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Lemmy has a bit more active users which is great. However, I have also noticed that Lemmy has gotten similar things as Reddit these days. Different opinions are not welcome, quick/ angry comments (politic community though)
However, Lemmy now has a decent app(s) such as Voyager. I also love that Lemmy does not restrict/ block users from using swear words (at least the instance I’m on does not).
Though in all honesty, I mostly use an RSS-feed such as Reeder and InoReader.
Different opinions are not welcome, quick/ angry comments
I feel like Lemmy is consistently hostile to different opinions. It's a real disappointment.
I, unfortunately, have to agree and that’s why - most of the times, I just check Lemmy posts through RSS-Feed.
I sometimes hop onto Voyager and comment on posts/ articles. But the more hostile, twisting of words and such are happening. The less I will be using Voyager to comment and just use the RSS-Feed to see the posts.
I really liked Lemmy in the early days when people went from Reddit to Lemmy. Miss those times.
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- Less buggy
- Instance blocking