Reddit community is probably the worst and most toxic group of people I’ve ever had the displeasure of interact with on my life.
It’s nearly impossible to have a serious discussion without a single rage bait comment.
I tried for the last time talking about a theory I made up, pretty serious post and a little long, then I go back to read if someone kindly tried to argue or show reason in the comments, the first comment I see is:
You don’t have a theory, you have a fantasy
It’s just insufferable, I don’t know why I keep interacting on that shitty platform.
While it’s true you see the same behavior on Lemmy sometimes, it’s incomparable to Reddit. I truly hope there’s not a mass migration from Reddit to Lemmy in the future or it’s just the beginning of the end for Lemmy as well.
I’ve seen some Reddit-like toxicity here a few times but it was pretty rare overall. It’s a reasonable decent place to discuss and interact with others.
That aside, I noticed “brain drain” in my favorite technical subs. Serious drain, as in “commenters haven’t even read documentation,” much less contributed any code.
Also, my favorite fandom subs have gotten more… echo chambery? Fanatic? Star Wars fandom-like, perhaps. They have a really shallow depth of knowledge now, but they treat it like gospel. Novels? Speculative lore/fanfics? No way, not anymore.
…Not that it matters.
I’m perma-shadowbanned on Reddit, for no discernable reason. And no recourse. So I’m certainly not contributing any expertise.
I keep saying this when I was on Reddit: just avoid the front-page or just don’t interact with anything from the front-page. It’s full of immature folks looking for shallow dopamine hit.
I truly hope there’s not a mass migration from Reddit to Lemmy in the future or it’s just the beginning of the end for Lemmy as well.
I have a mixed feeling about this. On the one hand, I want to interact with more people and hear various perspectives and see more interests. I wish that the community that I was part of in Reddit could come here. But on the other hand, I agree that it could mean the same troglodytes will also flood Lemmy.
It’s mostly the very popular subreddits that conflict is likely to be encountered, and where mostly the smart-aleck assholes come to congregate and try to pit themselves against another like in a PVP server.
I remember when Reddit PVP was just a fun April Fool’s game…
The point of Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit without the algorithmic bullshit, bot flooding or extreme moderation. There are plenty of other resons for Lemmy, so pick your poison.
Just stop interacting with Reddit completely. Trust me, you will he better for it. It’s just a shadow of what it was and is just regurgitated bot slop that was sourced from Reddit to begin with.
I only wish Lemmy gets the same kind of traffic. I needed feedback for something and now that is gone. But you have a point of leaving Reddit
Yeah, you won’t find many niche communities here, unfortunately. However, you can usually find answers in what could be considered adjacent communities. People may still be helpful. As a random, off-the-cuff example, if you had a specific question about a model of synthesizer, you could probably get away with asking something in a music community that has a decent amount of traffic.
Users that have been around a bit know the challenges with limited communities so slightly off-topic, informational discussion is usually handled fairly well.
I also missed the traffic at first, but I don’t any more. Hell, it used to be super quiet on Lemmy not too long ago but it really has picked up. Along with the traffic came more trolls, more arguments, etc, but it’s not too bad. Less traffic, but feedback can be much higher quality and it’s easier to reach consensus with multi-user discussions.
At the end of the day, Lemmy isn’t Reddit. Once your dopamine receptors have the chance to adjust, it’ll be ok. It may feel like there is less participation because people aren’t being algorithmically driven to controversy. In many ways, Lemmy can be closer to what “real” Internet discussion is like.
But Lemmy has built a somehow different community I can feel it.
It’s not just a replacement to me anymore, I see as something with true value that Reddit won’t ever provide. With its own issues as well.
But compared to Reddit omg, I don’t understand, it seems like Reddit people are constantly fighting and trying to kill each other, there’s no health discussion of any sort.
I guess I should value Lemmy more, at least for now, it’s a good place overall.
Reddit was always more toxic than not. Lemmy is still toxic in places, but the worst of it is contained in its own echo chambers. Lemmy has cross-instance drama more than cross-community drama.
It’s just easier for like minded people to congregate around the instance of their choosing rather than just a single subreddit or specific Lemmy community. That does cause community fragmentation, but personally, I would much rather it be that way.
My point is that people are still just people and that toxicity is still around. We are able to self-segregate, so that helps a ton.
I hate to say it but also gen z (and gen alpha) not knowing shit about fuck is part of the problem. It’s hard to describe without sounding like I’m shitting on them. Cuz it’s not their fault.
My brother in law is a university professor and told me yesterday that the students he’s getting now can’t even read. He’s contemplating retiring early because of this.
And the kicker, he says that a college education is a waste of money at this point. He says you can learn a lot more on your own with just internet resources and no distractions from the people who are in college now.
I would have never been able to predict this sort of comment from him. It must be really bad.
not knowing shit about fuck
Please tell me that is an Ozark TV show reference:
Indirectly it might be. Never watched the show. No idea where I heard the term. “Fuckall” just seemed out of style.
They were raised on social media, social media gives a voice to the loudest and the dumbest because that drives engagement. It’s no wonder they are all a bunch of morons when thats the only thing they have known.
Boomers and gen-x had leaded gasoline making them dumb millennials had brain damaged idiots raising them to be dumb and now gen z has social media making them dumb.
Totally. Like they live in a world where the potential payout for playing the clout lottery is significantly higher than anything traditional hard work can guarantee them.
They do have agency, so it is their fault.
IMO youre wrong and it’s not your fault.
Nobody can be ever at fault, how very convenient.
Now you’re being ridiculous.
While it’s true you see the same behavior on Lemmy sometimes, it’s incomparable to Reddit
you just have not ‘found’ the communities yet. Lemmy is pretty much just Reddit 2.0 but then with more people that have technological knowledge. Keep in mind there are a lot of people from Reddit on Lemmy (both ones that left Reddit and only use Lemmy and ones that use both). Personally, I have had the displeasure (as you call it) to experience the same ragebait, toxic toxic behavior on Lemmy that is usually on Reddit.
The good thing of Lemmy though, there is no limit on the block-list. So you can block anyone who is being a annoyance.
It’s just insufferable, I don’t know why I keep interacting on that shitty platform.
If it disturbs your peace of mind, leave the comment section. Use RSS for the specific subreddits you regularly visit and keep it at that. This also gives the added benefit: When posts are removed by the user, mod or Reddit itself. You can still visit the page through RSS feed.
Lemmy feels like reddit did back in the good old days. Yes there’s assholes, but the normal amount. It’s amazing how nice things can feel when you’re not being manipulated
Yeah to be honest I was deluding myself for a long time, I mostly just answered questions and stuff there about software, audio, music, graphic design or talked about movies and music, I would rarely ever get a thank you or even an upvote for spending time to answer people. I know it’s not the point, but it just suggests a pattern of rude behavior as a whole. I don’t know why people feel the need to attack each other all the time, you can attack the ideas of the post or whatever, but now people have a tendency to make it personal right away. It’s no good.
I don’t know why people feel the need to attack each other all the time
For some, Reddit is but a PVP server of an MMORPG. Never a shortage of assholes thinking they’re smarter than the billions on Facebook.
It does feel that way. I just wanna share opinions, I don’t want to debate people I didn’t sign up for that. Especially from debaters who start with an insult and then go on with every logical fallacy there is.
True, reddit does feel a lot more aggressive when you try discussing something, not just politics. Like that tone itself, something like " anyone who does this or doesn’t do this is really dumb/ piece of shit)" I have seen this sort of comments everywhere. I don’t like the subtle aggression it shows. I’ll be honest, lemmy has their own share of it, but it’s a significantly smaller share of people than on reddit.
I’m guilty of it myself sometimes, but I recognize it and I’m trying to work on it, probably from spending so much damn time there.
I also like to help people there, but it’s not even worth it anymore.
Sharing solutions or creating content on Reddit just helps to keep the platform relevant.
Once people see there’s no value on Reddit they’ll go after different platforms, some of them naturally finding Lemmy.
I like to help people but on this context it’s just not worth it.
Right, so after 15 years of doing that I was banned for wishing the president would have a heart attack. So I haven’t really been back to help out haha.
Quite rude of you to imply the president has a heart.
