I joined Lemmy a few weeks before the API change. I loved the conversations. I loved how the content was slower but more engaging, and less politically charged. There was nobody shitting on Elon Musk, or Twitter, or Reddit.
People were having meaningful, engaging conversations about random stupid memes. It felt like the early days of the internet… It felt like a small community of outcasts that all got together and posted shitty memes for the sake of giving someone else a feed of shitty memes to scroll through while they were taking a shit… Or not taking a shit, apparently…
But now that the Reddit API change happened… It’s like the super toxic part of Reddit was skimmed off the top and sent our way.
Every popular post is negatively charged. Every comment has an underpinning of hate. Everything is spun with some time of agenda that feeds half truths to make it look like whole lies.
What happened here? I thought this place was supposed to be better then Reddit? To not have some corporate overlord algorithm controlling us as part of some toxic hivemind?
Does anybody know of a Lemmy instance that has been spared from this proto-molecule outbreak?
You must be in the wrong subs. I see nothing about Reddit except post like this 😬😬
I haven’t really noticed that, but I also haven’t dug into the comments too much recently. But, of course if thousands upon thousands of redditors jump onto this platform it’s going to change the culture. Maybe try beehaw.org. they are.known for blocking a ton of instances but i think it’s heavily moderated towards people being trolls.
It’s my hope that a lot of the people who want to turn lemmy into reddit will get bored and leave since the interface isn’t as convenient as reddit
Eh, I’ve been enjoying lemmy. Tbf, a lot of the newcomers are here because Reddit and Spez shat the bed. Of course it’s going to start to feel like Reddit if the people that were most active on Reddit come here because they were what made Reddit, Reddit, if you catch my jist.
Wow. Considering your down-votes and some of the comments: Seems most of the people don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
But you’re right. Everything on lemmy has changed drastically. Including the tone, how people interact with each other, …
I like to compare this to the time people went from twitter to mastodon. that caused all sorts of misunderstandings and culture clashes. But lemmy was kind of small, much smaller than mastodon was. so the culture that was here a few weeks ago is just gone. the thousands or millions of people that came here barely noticed the few people and posts that were already there.
give it some time. let things settle. i get what you’re saying. they just arrived, scream at each other, are generally just loud and have strange manners from the perspective of someone who deliberately avoided reddit before. but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. we can have meaningful conversations, niche communities etc even if there are now many more loud people with a completely different style on this platform. it won’t ever be the same, though. precedent from the early days of the internet is: a large influx of ‘normal people’ will destroy your communities. but i’m hopeful for the future. this definitely is a chance to spread something nice to a lot of people. we have to establish a healthy culture now. but that’s doable.
Eh, I’ve been enjoying lemmy. Tbf, a lot of the newcomers are here because Reddit and Spez shat the bed. Of course it’s going to start to feel like Reddit if the people that were most active on Reddit come here because they were what made Reddit, Reddit, if you catch my jist.
That “hivemind” is just people. If you want to hide from it, you need a place where they can’t find you. That is not a Fediverse that seeks to provide an alternative to the major social media networks.
Fortunately, the Fediverse can accommodate you, but you’ll have to work for it. You need to find an Instance that has that kind of culture you’re looking for, that closer, cooler, tighter-knit one.
But you can’t ask the whole service to stay that one way that makes you happy. That’s not fair to the rest of the world, no matter how much one may dislike it.
Don’t just find somewhere that feels nice, find one where they intend to stay that way.
