Here is my notes from using Lemmy:
- There is core limitations on Lemmy which cannot be fixed even on the long term( for example finding communities via search. Results from .world is very different from the result that your instance fetch, no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit,…etc);
- Herd mentality is very deep on Lemmy, compared to other social media websites;
- People seem to take disagreements in opinions personally, which is weird on it’s own;
- Lemmy users would like to have a working cancel culture so much that they would have no problem deepthroating a dick to get it;
- Lemmy users and with them Digg 2.0 users, hate with passion anyone who criticize their platform and is ready to go against logic to defend it;
- Lemmy Admins and moderators seem to have a control fetish: on Reddit, it was very normal and easy to me to reach out to a mod to restore my posts or to explain himself and even discuss and change rules or reverse discussions. Yes there was some of them who also had control fetish, but in the communities which I used to use that was kind of rare. Meanwhile here there is no modbox functionality which complicates talking with mods;
- Some Lemmy users seem to be easy to obsessive over things.
I feel there needs to be disclaimer on Lemmy servers/introduction page to warn people about negativity on the platform, but I don’t think it will ever happen.
About moderation, I feel the only outcome that will happen is bad moderation (IMO) will keep happening on the platform till either the servers hosting communities go down or till the mod become inactive.
On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon, while Lemmy developers did not even try to help them by implementing third party upload functionality(Imgbb, catbox, imgur,…etc) in the app and the web front end to lighten the load on the server admins. Right now most Lemmy servers I know of are protected by Cloudflare and pictures uploaded on some servers don’t open natively(you need to click it as a normal link and pass cloudflare verification to see image).
It’s what it’s here. but I just wanted to lay out what I think about Lemmy culture, moderation and software.
Edit:
More proof for my point:
Bleep is a person who has changed my life, Ive never seen someone be so misinformed and at the same time so far up their own ass they pop out of their mouth. It is genuinely impressive.
I see alot of my teenage self here; doubling down on opinions of subjects i was way too uninformed about to actually have valid opinions on. I did manage to get better though, but that was because i listened to the people who disagreed with me. Especially when proven with the straight up facts that told me i was wrong. Not doing that is in my eyes intentionally malicious or what people refer to as trolling.
But I really am happy to have witnessed Bleep, even if i havent interacted with them very much. It has been a great exercise to know what content to ignore and report that otherwise looks “fine” on a surface level. So in that regard I thank Bleep.
On any other level, idk how they came to the conclusion/opinions they did, but i am more than curious to read a study on it!
consider this - Lemmy is not reddit.
“am I the idiot? Nooo, everyone else is just wrong. Ladidadidaaaaaa”
You should’ve seen this place when maga activist was killed last year. Also can’t see none of your images except last two, lol.
Lemmy Admins and moderators seem to have a control fetish
have you considered the reason for this may be your posts and takes are just shit?
He did lead off with he enjoyed Reddit. The Lemmy corner of the fediverse is a very different culture than today’s Reddit (although I think it feels just like 2012 Reddit).
If a new users were to be outside these norms on Lemmy (such as a AI slop enjoyer or Windows 11 user) then it would probably feel hostile.
I guess the question would be for OP, are you willing to stick around and possibly change some of Lemmy’s culture, your own mind, or possibly both? Or are you just looking for a corporate approved hivemind echo chamber clone of Reddit?
Not that this place can’t be an echo chamber, but federation prevents that so much more than on Reddit. Lemmy has no financial incentive to push an agenda or rhetoric; it’s all grassroots
Well, yes, but how is all that differs from Reddit? I see Lemmy as an exact copy of Reddit, but with more accessible API and fewer moderators. And fewer people, of course, too. Oh, and lags. All servers, except for some big ones, lag.
I feel there needs to be disclaimer on Lemmy servers/introduction page to warn people about negativity on the platform, but I don’t think it will ever happen.
or you know, follow the damn community rules so your posts don’t get deleted.
I was talking there about users interactions on the platform, not moderation.
Then this comment makes absolutely no sense in the context of comparing Lemmy to reddit.
Why so?
Because the negativity on Lemmy is no worse than reddit
IIRC three is maga trash, so please don’t let them taint your perception of lemmy as a whole
no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit
I can just paste an image or whatever directly into a comment field and it’s automatically uploaded and linked. For new posts, it’s drag-and-drop right onto the browser. This might be instance-specific, but what functionality were you hoping for?
The current limitations:
- You can’t keep it in uncompressed format(like PNG for example);
- You can’t upload big pictures;
- Depending on the server it might take moderate to large amount of time to upload pictures;
- You can’t upload videos and GIFs.
It might seem like minor problems, but it still causes a friction, compared to uploading to Reddit.
These are mostly issues created by the fact that lemmy is run via self-hosting on limited hardware, rather than being run by a company with a $2 billion in annual revenue. Personally I think it’s a small price to pay to not be on Reddit.
Well, they have a small point though:
By allowing to upload to a third party image host and allowing to embed images from other sites directly into Lemmy, the load on servers could be reduced while also allowing for larger/higher quality files.
This would obviously come with a downside to privacy.
The current solution would be: upload a highly compressed file to Lemmy and then link to the external high-quality version in the post.
An alternative solution from Lemmy devs could be, to allow external sources and hide the image until the user confirmed they want to load it from an external source. Or just… Add a toggle to settings to automatically load them.
I mean, with federation and all, everything in Lemmy is an ‘external’ source anyway unless you trust every single federated instance. So why not allow external image hosting/file hosting sites as trusted sources.
So go back to reddit?
Not really helpful.
You can’t keep it in uncompressed format(like PNG for example);
All the memes I upload are .png-files and I never had that issue.
Big pictures depends on your instance, it’s up to the admins to set a limit.
Most of those sounds like limitations of your home instance. PieFed has no problem handling PNGs and upload size / time would depend on the instance settings (and hosting I suppose).
You’re right about the last one though, video upload support could be a lot better, but I don’t think GIFs should be an issue (unless they’re massive)
For the media to magically appear after writing something, probably.
Lemmy users would like to have a working cancel culture so much that they would have no problem deepthroating a dick to get it;
C’mon if deepthroating a dick is the way to get something, 50% of lemmy users wouldn’t care about what this something is.
…How, Why and more importantly where?
With their mouth. Because they like it. Wherever you want.
Reddit would have definitely been jumping down your shirt for cropping artist’s names off their work before sharing them, too. 🙄
Here is my notes from you using Lemmy:
Stop.
On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon
What ones exactly?
Don’t want to jinx it.
Yeah I wonder why your interactions here are so bad 🙄
If you called them out someone could show support if so inclined.
You want Lemmy servers to shut down?
I don’t want to talk about them shutting down. They hopefully will keep going.
Don’t want to pre declare them dead.
This is the most blatant concern trolling I’ve seen in ages, bravo.
How about you support your instance by donating to it?
I would stick to topics outside of politics and memes.
Also OP actively edits out artist signatures when posting comics and if they didn’t do that, they’d get like 90% less hate.
I agree like 70% but it extremly depends on where on Lemmy you are.
E: And I partly definitely disagree:
There is core limitations on Lemmy which cannot be fixed even on the long term( for example finding communities via search. Results from .world is very different from the result that your instance fetch, no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit,…etc);
Never had such problems. I can find all the communities I want to find. Most communities I can’t find are on instances defederated by my instance for really good reasons. Media upload speed? Depends on your internet I guess. And types of media… Yeah video-upload would be neat (even tough I don’t really need it), but Reddit had the same problem last time I used it and catbox.moe etc. aren’t that bad of alternatives. Also Lemmy is young, video-upload might be possible at some point, surely no problem which “cannot be fixed even on the long term”.
Meanwhile here there is no modbox functionality which complicates talking with mods;
… Just write them a DM? The few times I had to contact a mod this was the easy way to go.
Some Lemmy users seem to be easy to obsessive over things.
It’s the internet. There are people who are really into stuff, so what? It’s like Reddit on speed.
On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon, while Lemmy developers did not even try to help them by implementing third party upload functionality(Imgbox, catbox, imgur,…etc) in the app and the web front end to lighten the load on the server admins. Right now most Lemmy servers I know of are protected by Cloudflare and pictures uploaded on some servers don’t open natively(you need to click it as a normal link and pass cloudflare verification to see image).
You do can upload media via catbox & Co. And I for my part can see most of the media, at least when I couldn’t it was due to the media being deleted. There might have been some cases of federation issues or stuff, but they really are seldom.
