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Garbage is more entertaining than the same 5 political posts reposted between 40 instances and the only OC being posts that bitch about Reddit. This place is NOTHING like old reddit.
Sorry but not sorry, this place is borderline worthless. Until sometime figures it how to keep every sub becoming a commission echo chamber this is an interesting experiment that is dead in the water.
It's not that bad, stop being a doomer. It's better than reddit is right now at least.
Ironic language. Didn't be a dinner. That could fix up the place.
no one's forcing you to be here talking about reddit
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize stating the reality precluded me from having an interest in an open protocol or interest in seeing these communications evolve.
I guess my responding to the delusional post above was out of line and totally off topic 🙄
I interpreted “old reddit vibes” to be more about there being an actual discourse on posts more than being about the subject matter of the posts. If you look at the comments on reddit, they all just agree with each other because they’re the most popular opinions so they get the most upvotes. The thing I like about here is that I can still read that popular comment, but there are few enough total comments that scrolling down a bit leads to discussions that would have been buried in downvotes there. But since they didn’t define “old reddit vibes” I could be misinterpreting as easily as you!
This site being small really lends to the individual experience. Misinformation isn't on max here yet.
Then why are you here bitching about it?
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize stating the reality precluded me from having an interest in an open protocol or interest in seeing these communications evolve.
If you hate a thing, it's really easy to avoid it usually, particularly in this case
This is what I'm seeing here.
"Lemmy would be better if it wasn't an echo chamber. There's no variety in opinion."
"Well, if you don't agree with us you can leave!"
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Where "agree" means "don't find it to be a shitty platform"
Just seems like an odd thing to get defensive about.
And it seems odd to me to use a platform to talk about how much you dislike it.
If you don't like it Giiiiiiiiiit out!
It's painful to see the technically adept push away everyone away.
The reason I was/am still here (for now) is this was the only true FoSS platform. I don't like that bluesky and meta are our best hope at an open platform.
But yeah fuck me for pointing out that this user base is toxic doomers who have poor communication skills.
Trying to make that one a fact eh?
👌👍
Lemmy has an active and engaging user base.
Thanks to Lemmy, I don't feel a need to return to Reddit, but I agree that we're still essentially in "pale imitation" territory and I'm not sure if that will ever change.
In Twitter terms, it's like everyone left for Mastodon but are really just waiting for a Bluesky to come around. I'd prefer to keep whatever platform I use open and free, but I'd like "approachable and vibrant" along with it if possible, which Lemmy is still struggling to accomplish.
Block political communities
Block !reddit@lemmy.world
And if you really think this place is worthless, why are you still here?
Maybe you just need to take a break from your phone for a few hours?
Also, check out different sorting methods (like most comments 6/12 hours)