I keep seeing the same names popping up. I think it’s rather cute!

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    11 months ago

    Yup, it’s fun. And im happily blocking all the tankies in between the great people. Account name like StalinSomethingSomething… nope.

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      11 months ago

      Well a few months after leaving reddit I do feel a lot better in general so I’m not surprised.

      I go back occasionally to check for something or just to see what things are like. I dunno if it’s just gotten insanely more toxic since July or if it’s just been that way for a long time but oh my god. Every comment section is just angry and bitter and hateful. I was looking at a post yesterday and thought it was cute and interesting so I open the comments. Every single one of them were either saying it was fake, that it was stupid, that it was cringey, that it didn’t make sense, etc. It’s like no one has an ounce of positivity on that site.

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    11 months ago

    TL:DR; I agree and I love it here!

    Yeah it certainly feels that way to me too. I can’t speak for the rest of the Fediverse platforms (Friendica, Misskey, Mastodon, etc.) but Lemmy is certainly a tight-knit, active and generally friendly group…

    You should have seen how it was like here before May this year, when there were only a few dozen users that posted or commented anything at all across all servers, call that tight knit.

    Still, I’m so proud of everyone for help in keeping a friendly vibe for the most part, and for user reporting and mod actions keeping trolls at bay. There was quite a bit of concern that when people migrated from Reddit en masse that it Lemmy would be taken over by the same uninspired drivel or become a Reddit repost site. What we got are very healthy meme and shitpost communities with shitposters who engage with commentors, tech news, politics, environment news with active discussions where people have disagreed with each other without getting in a complete rage about it, and cute animal pics like !aww@lemmy.world and !superbowl@lemmy.world.

    There’s still progress to be made on parts of the technical, moderation and community sides. For my part, I’m trying to post more and my goal this year is to share a lot pictures of the cityscape to Lemmy.

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    11 months ago

    I very much enjoy running into folks from the various crafting communities in other contexts, bumping into Mastodon friends on Lemmy and vice versa and then dropping into each others PeerTube comments.

    Irl I live in a small town and absolutely despise not being able to leave the house without running into someone who knows us. But for whatever reason I find it adorable on Fedi 🤷‍♀️

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    11 months ago

    I love it here on lemmy and it looks like the recent federation problems have been resolved.

    So I‘m looking forward to lurk less and interact more in future.

    Let us all build a better Reddit!

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    11 months ago

    That’s generally not a good thing…

    That means it’s more likely to be an echo chamber or just bots auto posting…

    You want a lot of diversity - within specific groups sure, the same names are fine but across groups that’s a bad sign.

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      10 months ago

      I do admit, it is a bit of an echo chamber on here for some groups :(

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      why are “echo chambers” considered bad? i come to communities to chill and chat with like-minded people; not to argue and get into fights.

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        10 months ago

        Well the simple reason is you can get stuck in certain world views or ideas which are wrong and hurt others.

        In most cases you’re fine, like talking about your favourite TV shows or whatever. But it’s also easy to get stuck in a view like visiting your country’s instance and it turns out it’s a bit radicalised against immigrants, or certain places where you end up blaming everything on women and the “woke movement”.

        In a lesser way it can get you stuck in toxic ideas (e.g., PC/Playstation/Windows/Xbox/Linux is better than the other one and you are dumb if you disagree!).

        Just depends on the community at end of day, but the more echoey chamber it is, the more likely you’ll end up with those sorts of us VS them world views that are a bit blind and horribly biased.

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          It would be nice if lemmy.world mods followed that. I got my posted deleted for “supporting Imperialism” for arguing that focused attacks on Houthi terrorists is ok.

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    I definitely recognize some of the mods, and some of the key players in the communities that I follow. There’s good people here, and I believe it’s going to keep getting better.

    I wasn’t paying attention to usernames as much when I first started. For whatever reason, I’ve started to pay attention to the names, as well as the instances. I like seeing where people are commenting from, and it even gives some insight into places or things I might be interested in as well.

    Sometimes I’ll check out a person’s profile to see what things they’re commenting on. This feels kind of creepy a little bit. I don’t think anyone really cares though, so long as you’re not being abusive or something.

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      11 months ago

      Sometimes I’ll check out a person’s profile to see what things they’re commenting on. This feels kind of creepy a little bit.

      It’s okay for me, people should use throwaway accounts for very personal stuff anyway

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    I saw many names frequently pop up on reddit, it was the reposter’s and karma whores.

    I see many names frequently pop up on Lemmy and it’s people trying to fill the same spot.

    Frankly this is exactly what I don’t want to happen. This small time celebrity like worshipping that comes with certain posters was extremely popular on BBboards and made it incredibly hard and uninviting for new people to join in these already established communities.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, it’s funny to see this be heralded as a good/wholesome thing when I know back on Reddit it was maligned as “power users”.

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        10 months ago

        The difference is probably that here if you disagree with admins, mods or power users you can just migrate your community to another instance.

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          Also on Reddit being a poweruser meant that you could probably sell/loan your account to shady advertisers, which isn’t as much of a problem here since the Fediverse isn’t monetized by ads.

          Additionally, I think power users are a problem if they’re just blindly spamming posts without engaging with the community, not so much if they’re just organically filling the void with posts.

          I <3 lemmy’s prolific posters. o7

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    11 months ago

    Mostly only the very active users moved over from Reddit, so we have a lot of content for not as many people. But it’s nice how active and invested most people here seem to be.

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    10 months ago

    I have a really bad habit of never looking at anyone’s names…

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      10 months ago

      There are specific users with emoji names that stand out a lot all of the time.

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        10 months ago

        Interesting! I wonder if the Eternity client doesn’t show that? I have never noticed it at least. I am also in the habit of never looking at names though. Maybe it is good to be in the habit of remembering names because it humanizes the people on the other end or so?

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          For me profile pictures helps a lot. You could go to Settings->interface->comments->show avatar