Never went back to reddit. But i get it. My current blocklist on lemmy is longer than it ever was after 10 years of reddit. The relative amount of weird stuff on here is too damn high for a normie.
Good riddance to Reddit. Unfortunately there are certain niche topics that are discussed only where people choose to discuss them, and if that means Reddit than so be it… 🤢🤮 (though I now lurk rather than comment or even vote - it just not seem worthwhile to engage while having to be constantly on guard against the heavily contentious user base there, plus also fuck spez obviously 🙃).
Here on the Threadiverse I got so tired of blocking so many people that I graduated to blocking entire instances. Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are already defederated from on PieFed.social, but I also blocked lemmy.ml. Not for the communism btw - slrpnk and dbzero are true communist instances - but for all the continual assholery and alternative facts spouting, it simply improved my experiences here by 99% to do so.
I understand very well why new people flee rather than stick in long enough to figure out how things work enough to do the same. This is just one more reason why, despite how often people talk about being desperate to leave X behind, the Fediverse model is not even considered. If we don’t make this a place welcoming to non-technical normie users, then they… I dunno, won’t feel welcomed, I suppose? (And exceedingly few instances seem willing to defederate from lemmy.ml, or even make it opt-in for new users rather than simply throwing them straight into the deep end and leaving them to their own devices.) Also I see multiple conversations here dedicated to promoting murder (of politicians or whoever), so I wonder how much longer it will be safe to access such “antifa” current (at least that is what it will be labeled as, language correctness having been entirely set aside) for people located in the USA - which makes up such an exceedingly large fraction of the Reddit (and former Reddit) user base.
Same. Blocked .ml, blocked so many sublemmies, blocked certain topics and names and just a few users. With that its a pretty sweet experience. But when i visit logged out for one reason or another it gets ugly really fast.
Sometimes i get FOMO because a lot of .ml users post in a topic which i just cant see. But i made the mistake to unblock .ml twice and regretted it just in a few hours.
Yup. The most batshit insane comments I’ve ever heard come from there. I think it may have to do with the echo chamber effect, where they continually pass around their ideas to one another but anyone who actually scrutinizes them gets booted out, so what’s left is just a hot mess.
I’ve never once regretted my decision to block ml. I have enjoyed some conversations with people on there in the past, but overwhelmingly it simply is not worth it to me.
Either that or you get bombarded with communist apologia until you learn which domains to avoid
Unfortunately many people instead simply leave Lemmy entirely (and then complain about exactly that over in r/RedditAlternatives).
Never went back to reddit. But i get it. My current blocklist on lemmy is longer than it ever was after 10 years of reddit. The relative amount of weird stuff on here is too damn high for a normie.
Good riddance to Reddit. Unfortunately there are certain niche topics that are discussed only where people choose to discuss them, and if that means Reddit than so be it… 🤢🤮 (though I now lurk rather than comment or even vote - it just not seem worthwhile to engage while having to be constantly on guard against the heavily contentious user base there, plus also fuck spez obviously 🙃).
Here on the Threadiverse I got so tired of blocking so many people that I graduated to blocking entire instances. Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are already defederated from on PieFed.social, but I also blocked lemmy.ml. Not for the communism btw - slrpnk and dbzero are true communist instances - but for all the continual assholery and alternative facts spouting, it simply improved my experiences here by 99% to do so.
I understand very well why new people flee rather than stick in long enough to figure out how things work enough to do the same. This is just one more reason why, despite how often people talk about being desperate to leave X behind, the Fediverse model is not even considered. If we don’t make this a place welcoming to non-technical normie users, then they… I dunno, won’t feel welcomed, I suppose? (And exceedingly few instances seem willing to defederate from lemmy.ml, or even make it opt-in for new users rather than simply throwing them straight into the deep end and leaving them to their own devices.) Also I see multiple conversations here dedicated to promoting murder (of politicians or whoever), so I wonder how much longer it will be safe to access such “antifa” current (at least that is what it will be labeled as, language correctness having been entirely set aside) for people located in the USA - which makes up such an exceedingly large fraction of the Reddit (and former Reddit) user base.
Same. Blocked .ml, blocked so many sublemmies, blocked certain topics and names and just a few users. With that its a pretty sweet experience. But when i visit logged out for one reason or another it gets ugly really fast.
Sometimes i get FOMO because a lot of .ml users post in a topic which i just cant see. But i made the mistake to unblock .ml twice and regretted it just in a few hours.
Yup. The most batshit insane comments I’ve ever heard come from there. I think it may have to do with the echo chamber effect, where they continually pass around their ideas to one another but anyone who actually scrutinizes them gets booted out, so what’s left is just a hot mess.
I’ve never once regretted my decision to block ml. I have enjoyed some conversations with people on there in the past, but overwhelmingly it simply is not worth it to me.