To be fair, the content quality on Lemmy has been about the same from what I’ve seen.
Bots all over the place, low-effort quips instead of discussions bubbling up, lots and LOTS of low-quality armchairing, personal attacks and flaming instead of actual discussion…etc
It was good for a month or so during the reddit 3rd party app purge, but quickly went downhill.
I think it’s a bit of both. Content itself is pretty lacking tbh - and I say this as someone who hasn’t exactly contributed any quality content, but I have definitely enjoyed the overall community, it reminds me a lot of reddit 10 years ago tbh.
Did you try some of the smaller instances? Big instances will inevitably face the same problems that Reddit has/had. A platform is as good as it’s users, and you can only moderate up to a certain point untill it becomes straight up censorship. Sadly more people also means more trolls and shitposters.
But yeah it’s still annoying and I fully agree with what you said.
This is actually a feature of Lemmy. If you open Lemmy and sign into your account in the browser you can go to content settings and there’s a box you can uncheck for show bot accounts. Be aware this is all bot accounts even helpful ones line automods and such and it will affect the bota that autopost from Reddit as well. You’ll see a downturn in traffic. But I thought it was worth the trouble.
God the quips became so popular and incessant it was really annoying. The comment used to be a good source of relevant information and there were some really funny people in there but now it seems to be drowned out by the same one liners or bots.
To be fair, the content quality on Lemmy has been about the same from what I’ve seen.
Bots all over the place, low-effort quips instead of discussions bubbling up, lots and LOTS of low-quality armchairing, personal attacks and flaming instead of actual discussion…etc
It was good for a month or so during the reddit 3rd party app purge, but quickly went downhill.
My experience has been almost nothing but positive. A few snarky replies, but 99% positivity and good discourse otherwise.
I think it’s a bit of both. Content itself is pretty lacking tbh - and I say this as someone who hasn’t exactly contributed any quality content, but I have definitely enjoyed the overall community, it reminds me a lot of reddit 10 years ago tbh.
Stay out of the political subs if you want to keep it that way.
That’s just a good general tip for the internet: avoid politics and religion.
And something people have forgotten since the old days of forums: don’t feed the trolls.
That’s a given on any forum
That’s true of pretty much anywhere in life.
Yea but like Lemmy is a bunch of hobbyists running on donations. That’s not saying much for Reddit.
Truthfully hexbear has a lot to do with it. Could use a fediverse purge of that level of shitposting
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I’d say .world has been the most reddit-like for me. Overall it’s still good here but I’m also looking forward to it simmering down for a while.
I haven’t actually noticed hexbear at all and I’m on an instance that isn’t defed
I’m on lemmy.ca on a bunch of Canadian communities and it’s not like that at all.
Yes some communities have been under attack by bots and people posting CSAM but otherwise it’s been pretty civil.
I haven’t had anything remotely like this when sticking to my subscribed communities.
Did you try some of the smaller instances? Big instances will inevitably face the same problems that Reddit has/had. A platform is as good as it’s users, and you can only moderate up to a certain point untill it becomes straight up censorship. Sadly more people also means more trolls and shitposters.
But yeah it’s still annoying and I fully agree with what you said.
I very specifically don’t experience this but maybe that’s because I’m using sync and have deliberately blocked bots from showing up in my feed.
How do you block bots using Sync?
This is actually a feature of Lemmy. If you open Lemmy and sign into your account in the browser you can go to content settings and there’s a box you can uncheck for show bot accounts. Be aware this is all bot accounts even helpful ones line automods and such and it will affect the bota that autopost from Reddit as well. You’ll see a downturn in traffic. But I thought it was worth the trouble.
God the quips became so popular and incessant it was really annoying. The comment used to be a good source of relevant information and there were some really funny people in there but now it seems to be drowned out by the same one liners or bots.
I agree with this. There’s some problems that need to be addressed. Hopefully sooner rather than later