3rd party apps for browsing
the real reason we’re all here
3rd party apps.
Reddit apps addicted me to ad free content delivered in the way Eternity for lemmy does, and that’s no longer available for reddit.
Superiority complex.
The UI is just way, way, WAY less obnoxious.
I do wish it had the niche communities though. Stuff for individual games, etc.
– Frost
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Federating with mbin and Piefed
Honestly everything other than variety and scale of communities. It’s not as big of a compliment as it sounds like though - Reddit is almost unspeakably shitty. Pay a visit to the front page or whatever they call it now and be greeted by nothing but ragebait, hornybait, gender war content, political discussion with zero critical or individual thinking, and 500 popular communities that are completely undifferentiated because they form a singular bland monoculture circle jerk that just repackages the day’s hot topic in whatever shoehorned way it can into every subreddit (Lemmy is starting to do this too though yay…). The only difference between it and tiktok is the UI tbh
this comment is poetry.
lemmy does totally lack the vibrant niche communities. i loved the circlejerk communites especially ragging on the stupid stuff in hobby subs, but that can’t be here because the mainstream hobby communities have zero users or activity.
I feel like folks are a lot more willing to be polite and have a discussion versus an argument. Granted, I suspect the federation process and finding a host helps with that.
The only things it DOESN’T do better is have a large number of users and has the same problems with poor moderation (because they are both just randos with no real checks or balances to their modicum of power so it’s very easy to abuse).
It is less addictive.
I think that the relative lack of content is actually a feature for this reason - sometimes I open Lemmy out of habit, but I see the same content and go do something more worthwhile instead.
The !superbowl@lemmy.world. No doute.
Crossposting from another fediware. Can’t do that outside the fediverse, of course.The mods are significantly less arbitrary in enforcing rules, with the exception of the instances that we all know. There are still some goofy exceptions, but by and large the mods are less power trippy.
Literally everything except having the plethora of niche subs.
There’s at least less astroturfing and AI posing as real people, if nothing else.
there is much astroturfing of russian policy on lemmy
is it astroturing it just a lot of smug young ideologues sitting in their basement blaming capitalism for their lack of happiness?
astroturing implies they get paid.
You don’t find it a bit ironic to be calling out people criticizing capitalism for making people miserable as “smug” while being incredibly smug?
I wonder if there are safe guards to stop a bot army from impacting the discourse, or if it’s just because it’s a less known platform.
I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight, e.g. of IPs used to create accounts.
Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I’m sure some people will have done just that.
there isnt. but no one cares about this place to infect it
Nah i saw some infections earlier today on few politcal posts. It was just blatantly calling ukrainians nazis and 2022 style Russian disinfo, and rt.com news. I got in trouble for reporting it by the admins, and was belittled by the crowd.
I mean the purpose of disinformation is to create disinformed people, so unless they have a very conspicuous activity history, idk why people assume any account posting that stuff is a bot
That’ll only hold true while the platform is not popular, unfortunately
I don’t think the platform will ever be popular. Picking an instance is a big enough barrier to entry to stop most people.
higher barrier of entry = a higher % of the posts are made by intelligent people.
obviously it’s still massively outweighed by the stupid shit, I’m just saying I see it more than I saw it on reddit.
Absolutely the truth for most Fediverse platforms. It takes cognitive effort to join and get started.
