Are you doing your part?
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This site is just way too diffuse and has too few real people actively participating. It is also missing some very basic things that would accelerate engagement. Right now, your profile doesnt tally your upvotes. This should be a pretty simple fix and would promote visibility into who the top contributors are and the perceived quality of their upvotes.
Organized events would also keep momentum going. I remember back when reddit had AMAs that were actually interesting and fun instead of thinly veiled opportunities to plug a recent project while talking to someone's PR manager.
The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage (blech), but maybe something that fills the screen by default, and improves readability? Comment sections are less easy to follow than on pre-IPO reddit. Native hoverzoom would also be nice. Is there anywhere to actually have an exchange with the people running Lemmy?
The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage
There are apps and other frontends to choose for the websited. There is also https://piefed.social/
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Fren world?
I guess? I only heard about it long after I quit reddit. It's banned now and it may have been banned even before I quit for all I know. Someone here mentioned it a few weeks ago and that's the only way I knew it ever existed.
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Not true! you can get into arguments with random people about Marxism AND Linux!
You can even meow at a transfem :3
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Lemmy doesnt have any proper discussions though. Its just memes. Personally i have to check reddit to actually get proper content to learn something from.
But still, Lemmy is at least not big tech!
All the pro of Reddit and 100% Big-Tech-free... (just 15% Tanky).
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This site is just way too diffuse and has too few real people actively participating. It is also missing some very basic things that would accelerate engagement. Right now, your profile doesnt tally your upvotes. This should be a pretty simple fix and would promote visibility into who the top contributors are and the perceived quality of their upvotes.
Organized events would also keep momentum going. I remember back when reddit had AMAs that were actually interesting and fun instead of thinly veiled opportunities to plug a recent project while talking to someone's PR manager.
The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage (blech), but maybe something that fills the screen by default, and improves readability? Comment sections are less easy to follow than on pre-IPO reddit. Native hoverzoom would also be nice. Is there anywhere to actually have an exchange with the people running Lemmy?
Personally I'm really glad that we don't have karma farming on Lemmy. It creates a lot of content for reddit, but it's mostly regurgitated low quality filler.
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I guess? I only heard about it long after I quit reddit. It's banned now and it may have been banned even before I quit for all I know. Someone here mentioned it a few weeks ago and that's the only way I knew it ever existed.
Fren world was banned (along with other subs of similar premise) in 2019.
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A platform without ads or evil corpo ownership? Yeah, I'd scared too.
I do. I mention Lemmy whenever I reddit
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Lemmy doesnt have any proper discussions though. Its just memes. Personally i have to check reddit to actually get proper content to learn something from.
But still, Lemmy is at least not big tech!
Be the change you wanna see. They set this up to be as user driven as possible. You can start communities, discussions, all of it. I started a Zombie community to have somewhere to discuss my take on season one of Fear the Walking Dead. Not much engagement yet but ya gotta start somewhere. It'll never take off if everyone who isn't permabanned keeps slipping off to reddit.
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Not true! you can get into arguments with random people about Marxism AND Linux!
I don't think there's anywhere online where Marxists with arguments can't find you
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no carma is a deliberate feature
makes the comments more of a sensible people talking, less of a standup show.
They could make it optional to each seperate instance in the Fediverse. I could see it being popular on Lemmy for the Dopamine hit. Less so on some of the more focused or political instances.
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Fun fact, I got banned from reddit the other day for saying something sarcastic. So I did the appeal thing, but all I said was "Fuck you, you fucking gaggle of cave brained cunts." And... they reversed the ban. So I guess, they dont even bother reading whatever shit you write in the appeal, they just look at the comment and uphold or rescind the bot ban. Pricks.
I'm surprised they even looked. I've never cared about getting subreddit banned but was always careful to avoid a sitewide ban. Not one of my appeals was ever upheld.
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If it makes you feel better, not enough people who saw that movie recognize that the protagonists are the bad guys. So, it sort of comes out in the wash?
It's complicated by the fact that while the film is satirical, the book is not. And some critics criticized the skill by which the satire was made "Some critics, such as Roger Ebert and Owen Gleiberman, recognized the satire,[139][140][141] but often found that this commentary was indistinguishable from the promotion of the fascist utopia it was satirizing." (Wikipedia)
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The movie doesn’t give you enough info. It’s just entertainment. All you know is Earth is being attacked by bugs and there’s sort of a desperation to beat them. The “draft” for citizenship is really the only indicator something is off about society.
"The mobile infantry made me who I am today" reveals his two amputated legs
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I’m fairly certain linking Lemmy, even once, yields a shadow ban.
I cant even make a new Reddit account for anything, even from a relatively new IP after moving.
Reddit tracks things like the hardware associated with an account so you'd need a new IP and new phone/computer and email adress.
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Yeah, they've been ringing the ban hammer quite hard lately.
I love lemmy, but I still miss my niche communities.
They're super easy to start here
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"The mobile infantry made me who I am today" reveals his two amputated legs
That’s a statement that could be made by any soldier in such a fictional situation and not specific to the politics.
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There is discussion but the userbase's interests arent super wide so at the moment its techy and politicsy. Which is fine at least we arent following reddit which started out with racists, atheiests and child porn.
I've recently been checking out reddit to see discussion on a few topics not covered here, MMA and beyond all reason. I'm shocked by how low quality the comments are. I can open a 900 comment thread and not see a single comment that discusses the thread topic or discusses anything.
Atheists are way less likely to create child porn than a catholic priest.
Don't make me pull out citations and evidence based data in this thread. I'll do it.
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A platform without ads or evil corpo ownership? Yeah, I'd scared too.
Like I get the meme, but maybe rethink it? It’s also giving
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Reddit tracks things like the hardware associated with an account so you'd need a new IP and new phone/computer and email adress.
I happened to move. And in theory, Cromite's anti-fingerprinting should hide that, but it's possible I accessed it with the wrong browser some time...
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This site is just way too diffuse and has too few real people actively participating. It is also missing some very basic things that would accelerate engagement. Right now, your profile doesnt tally your upvotes. This should be a pretty simple fix and would promote visibility into who the top contributors are and the perceived quality of their upvotes.
Organized events would also keep momentum going. I remember back when reddit had AMAs that were actually interesting and fun instead of thinly veiled opportunities to plug a recent project while talking to someone's PR manager.
The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage (blech), but maybe something that fills the screen by default, and improves readability? Comment sections are less easy to follow than on pre-IPO reddit. Native hoverzoom would also be nice. Is there anywhere to actually have an exchange with the people running Lemmy?
You might try piefed? It's a fediverse platform so still links/syncs etc with lemmy and everywhere else but the UI is nice and I think it does a lot of the stuff you mention (except for the ama style stuff.) I followed PugJesus here (and am using Piefed right now) and exported all my feeds etc so the switch was relatively painless.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions etc. I probably won't be able to help but uhhh, I'll commiserate?
