You can help change that!
I posted a cool meme a while back, and would appreciate the upvote: https://lemmy.ml/post/46803836
So, I got site-wide banned from reddit a while ago due to using the word “purge” on a post
So, you're leaving out the details as to why you really got banned. It's not because of the word itself, you used it in a context you knowingly placed it in.
We don't need millions of users to thrive as a community.
Well…duh! Reddit had a massive head start plus they’ve sold their soul to the money guys to ensure that they remain a staple part of the normie diet.
Furthermore, Reddit is a home for propaganda that gets artificially inflated by bots and state actors, thus leading to insane upvote counts.
Here, we have a refined palate. We don’t have 1000 posts of slop, we have 100 posts of open source trans autism. Once you train your taste buds to be accustomed to nutritious content again, you won’t be able to stomach the slop anymore.
It’s an adjustment, but it’s worth it, and in the end, I feel like this place has been better for my mental health.
Welcome to Lemmy. We greet you with open arms.
I do miss some of the niche subreddits, and the free, often OC, highly cultivated porn. Unfortunately, the real quality porn largely disappeared during covid due to everyone having to monetize their hobbies just to survive.
Came for the open source trans autism, stayed for the…well I stayed for the open source trans autism too, but you get my point.
We don’t have 1000 posts of slop, we have 100 posts of open source trans autism. Once you train your taste buds to be accustomed to nutritious content again, you won’t be able to stomach the slop anymore.
rotflmao
also: very true, i'm ashamed at the amount of slop i used to ingest.
What about Star Trek though. Or is that covered by Trans Autism.
Anybody got that shocked pikachu lying around. I think OP needs some
Welcome. I too disagreed with the wrong people on Reddit and can no longer participate there.
Yeah presently Lemmy is not Reddit-scale. But, it also is not Reddit-moderated, or Reddit-algorithmed. I find I can sign into Lemmy, do a bit of scrolling and commentary to scratch my itch, and get on with my day. No dynamic selection designed to retain my engagement through emotional manipulation, a far lower population of malicious bots and actors, and generally more thoughtful discussion.
Quality beats quantity. Federated social breaks the toxic monoculture. Distributed media like this is able to support a broader diversity of people. In the end, this is the future.
This is a pretty comprehensive take on the difference in vibe
Lemmy is a lot less artificially self reinforcing
It's funny everyone is suddenly getting banned.
I was on Reddit for at least 10 years. Made a new account, kept arguing against racists
Got banned for racism, obviously by the Nazis. Never got banned in the last 2 decades. And pretty sure none of the racists got banned
But it's no surprise lemmy isn't as big. That's not a bad thing. Reddit is overrun by the same lobbyists and people who have ruined Facebook and made it no longer fun
Reddit is boosted by thousands of bots, and has a significantly larger userbase.
And even though there is higher quantity of discussion, the quality might vary heavily.
Reddit has a dramatically larger userbase.
Also significantly more bots masquerading as people
Sure, their bots on their own likely dwarf us as well, but even taking them out reddit is dramatically bigger than us.
Lemmy MAUs is in the thousands.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances (35k active users)
Yes, there are way fewer people here than in Reddit
fewer people, drastically fewer bots
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
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