Checking post histories and holding it against users, presenting Lemmy as "a site" instead of interoperating and independent instances where one can tailor ones experience, not advocating finding more suitable communities...

Very reddit behaviour to my eyes.

Leave if you want. I really don't care.

I know you don't, that's the problem. I moderate a very small community for man united supporters which is supposed to be an alternative to reddit to discuss football. I feel like I'm contributing plenty, but if even if I wasn't, I'm contributing more than people who actively discourage users from sticking around.

Shouldn't we be encouraging users to lemmy? Doesn't it hurt the overall experience if there are fewer users and opinions? Won't it just become an even more extreme echo chamber than reddit?

I'm sorry that I apparently haven't taken the post in the jokey way it was intended, but it does highlight a number of issues with the lemmy userbase, surely you can agree with that at least?

Accusing someone of using something "straight from Reddit's playbook" is (ironically) copy pasted straight from the lemmy playbook. I'm not accusing evrryone of anything, just pointing out the problems I see with a large portion (not all) of users.

Anyway, I'm all about enjoying life. I enjoy it less here than I feel like I could and it seems to be very detrimental to the growth of lemmy.

Edit: I called someone an entitled renter because they were pissed off that their friend had decided to sell their house. Is that unfair...?

Why did you delete the example from this post bud?

You know, the one where I called someone an "entitled renter". I thought it was a decent example tbh, even if it WAS framed entirely out of context to make me sound like I was attacking all renters (of which I'm one).

You know what? I'm back in, this whole discussion is exactly what I was missing. Thanks dude x