Are you doing your part?
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Not true! you can get into arguments with random people about Marxism AND Linux!
that's what .ml stands for, right?
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I stand corrected then.
I thought its whole loophole thing was that it was legal which is why something that disgusting wasn't removed.
I don't know how they didn't remove something that was actually illegal from the site earlier. Double gross. Evil. Ew.
I doubly don't understand why something that was illegal wasn't removed WAY earlier.
The issue is when the entire sub is filled with people who look young enough to be under 18 its very hard for admins to tell when they're actually under 18. After the ban the fashion sub posted people clearly under 18 and used the excuse that its fine because they're clothed and they're just reviewing the fashion.
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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!
There's no lack of people willing to have discourse. No one is asking the questions.
People go to Reddit with hard questions (an other things) they want to crowdsource
People don't come to Lemmy with it, but other than not knowing which tech forum to ask it in, there's no reason they can't.
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Honestly I like the conversations here, it reminds me a lot of the old internet.
FLAMEWAR
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Honestly, that's not accidental. Reddit's a hot mess right now..
Once the IPO dropped last year, the algorithm started steering users to the least productive, most rage-bait inducing content. I was on many art-related subs and within 6 months, my feed pivoted to the political feeds.. MurderedByWords, LeopardsAteMyFace and others. The AppleHelp and VintageGaming and VintageApple where I had the best, most in-depth conversations all but vanished from my home page feed.
Oddly enough subs like anime_titties (which was non-US based global-only news with the sub's title used to keep the 50-cent Army from seeing it as the Great Firewall doesn't like anime_titties) also went down my feed list. Then mystery subs with really rage-inducing content like NewsHub which was lots of middle-east and Gaza related stuff appeared - and I hadn't ever visited that sub.. stuff that I han't even heard of showed up.
NGL, I fell right into it. It's slick, that's for sure.
Eventually the rage-bait posts got me.. I had started to get snarkier and snarkier and the mod-bots bumped me yesterday - within a minute - of making a metaphorically mean post. I spent the evening on old reddit getting at the unarchived content I'd posted and manually deleted it. Then managed to get to the delete account page and left. 14 years. Oh well.
The AI they're using isn't as well trained as they think, (hence the Reddit stock tanking in the past 2 weeks) and of course Steven MIller (the real POTUS right now) is looking to go after the mainstream social media sites.
It's getting a bit schizophrenic, what with the fear of the Trump Administration meddling on one hand and the algorithm on the other driving engagement by highlighting the EXACT strident content that makes it a target.
Oooooffffff. Fun times ahead.
Oddly enough subs like anime_titties (which was non-US based global-only news with the sub’s title used to keep the 50-cent Army from seeing it as the Great Firewall doesn’t like anime_titties) also went down my feed list.
This is actually not quite correct. It may be a side effect but originally that sub was created because moderation sucked in a different global news sub. If I remember correctly that sub started getting flooded with lewd anime so the new sub was created for global news but named ironically in the tradition of r\marijuanaenthusiasts and r\trees
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FLAMEWAR
WAHHHGARBL
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Welcome to 2025 where the platform that promotes nazi rhetoric are the victims.
Name a platform that doesn't have people promoting nazi rhetoric
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that's what .ml stands for, right?
100% accurate
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There's no arguments about that, other than the murder
TUVIX WAS AN ABOMINATION!
Plus, my head cannon is that Severance is based entirely on the Tuvix incident.
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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!
What sort of discussion are you seeking? I'm spending most of my time in the comments, droppin truth bombs on dey heads.
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There's no lack of people willing to have discourse. No one is asking the questions.
People go to Reddit with hard questions (an other things) they want to crowdsource
People don't come to Lemmy with it, but other than not knowing which tech forum to ask it in, there's no reason they can't.
plus niche populated community for every possible topic
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Keep chugging along.
Reckon if I subtly cross-post to r/MelbourneTrains I'll get banned on Reddit haha
One way to find out
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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!
!showerthoughts@lemmy.world
!asklemmy@lemmy.world
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...and Star Trek.
Don't forget Lotr.
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plus niche populated community for every possible topic
very true, but slowly getting negated by deleted posts and militant moderation, maybe we'll hit a middleground eventually
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Name a platform that doesn't have people promoting nazi rhetoric
Disturbed
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But Lemmy isn't growing. In fact, it's declining: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000
(When looking at these stats, remember that the post and comment counts are all-time comments/posts that are available at that specific day on the platform. In June 2024 there were more total comments than now, and in November 2024 there were more posts than there are now.
And all numbers are including the NSFW instance.
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https://piefed.social/communities
Piefed search is your answer. You can filter by activity. It also has feeds too that are topic themed.
I'd actually argue its way easier now to start new communities on the Fediverse than Reddit, for a variety of reasons.
That kinda highlights the problem. Search "scuba". There are 4 separate communities:
There are 39 total posts between them, but the one tied with the most posts has zero active users. The one with the most comments ranks 3rd in posts and only has one active user. The one with the most active user only has 2 comments according to the search.
If I search the same term on sync while signed into .world, I get different communities and very different user counts for those that are in both searches:
None of these communities are really active. But between them they would have had have the user base to get it going. Finding a community and getting the critical mass needed for it to thrive is made much harder with this amount of fragmentation.
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That kinda highlights the problem. Search "scuba". There are 4 separate communities:
There are 39 total posts between them, but the one tied with the most posts has zero active users. The one with the most comments ranks 3rd in posts and only has one active user. The one with the most active user only has 2 comments according to the search.
If I search the same term on sync while signed into .world, I get different communities and very different user counts for those that are in both searches:
None of these communities are really active. But between them they would have had have the user base to get it going. Finding a community and getting the critical mass needed for it to thrive is made much harder with this amount of fragmentation.
Oh I agree, that's why some users push for consolidation of communities into one single community. I'm just noting that abandoned communities on the fediverse are better presented on Piefed as if there is an active community in the topic you're looking for, it will be obviously visible ahead of all the others.
As for reddit, there's not really much left to make on Reddit anymore. Almost every name is taken and sat on by moderators - and it's pretty hard to meaningfully advertise any new community.
Not that I think Scuba Diving has enough base users on the Fediverse to begin with at this point. Most of those users subscribed are likely abandoned accounts.
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Oh I agree, that's why some users push for consolidation of communities into one single community. I'm just noting that abandoned communities on the fediverse are better presented on Piefed as if there is an active community in the topic you're looking for, it will be obviously visible ahead of all the others.
As for reddit, there's not really much left to make on Reddit anymore. Almost every name is taken and sat on by moderators - and it's pretty hard to meaningfully advertise any new community.
Not that I think Scuba Diving has enough base users on the Fediverse to begin with at this point. Most of those users subscribed are likely abandoned accounts.
It's the reddit community I most consistently miss. The community there is huge and very active, as are spinoff subs like underwater photography.
But I decided to leave reddit in 2023 with the API changes, and I've resisted going back. I like Lemmy, but I feel like I just have to keep my feed set to all, whereas on reddit I had a highly curated list of subs.
