I realize it won’t be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it’s a perfect signal that I’ve done more than enough scrolling for the day
The current scale of Lemmy is appealing. It doesn’t have the same breadth but I happily trade the toxic elements of Reddit, etc, for a little breadth.
I never though of it like this. But I like thinking of it this way. I am excited to watch lemmy grow though. I have faith that it will go and become a lot more popular. At that time, it will be nice to have more niche communities that are active.
It’s true for more popular sub forums but it sucks for hobbies and more niche topics.
The opportunities for discussions and such is fun, but I miss the memes from Reddit. Lemmy is almost painfully unfunny.
I’m also enjoying participating in forums I would never touch in any other medium. I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.
I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.
Honestly, it gives me hope.
My best experiences online have been as part of smaller communities where you can actually know and recognize other people. I see people commenting on threads and I can remember them talking in a different thread (or multiple threads). So it is much easier to know ‘ok that guy is touchy about this thing but is otherwise a decent person’ and not treat everyone like a 1-dimensional character.
There is also a place to politely challenge others, especially when you see more out on a long (touchy) expressions.
I describing myself there on that limb as well of course. I’ve found myself well challenged several times on a limb.
Ugh the crusaders are the worst, they’re just nasty
I find the people that I disagree with have much better points
Yeah same. I’ve had many more educational moments on Lemmy, in both directions, than I ever did in 10 years on Reddit
I’m just happy that I dont have to scroll through dozens of puns before I get to the first coherent post.
Le this narwhal bacon midnight that’s what she said doggo.
It is nice to not have to doomscroll too much in Lemmy.
it is nice having Enough content
Comment quality is also very well balanced…
Just be aware that there are many haters here too. A few days ago I posted a positive message about the EU and… oh my God… what a wave of negativity and hate I get. It was just like we - in the EU - are now living under the authoritarian regime of the EU. My reaction was… I’m out of here, so I’m not in that community anymore. I hoped that Lemmy was a more “positive” community, but that seems to be a naive world view. There will always be haters and they are everywhere.
I find that the EU has much better representation on Lemmy vs Reddit.
Where did that happen? I couldn’t find the community from your comment history
The word youre looking for is „russian-american trolls”
The EU is neither a Regime, noir Authoritative. It is our current best way to never repeat the stuff that happened during the cold war in the USA by requiring everything to be open and accessible to the public. The EU is literally what you shape it to be. If you have a problem with what kind of laws the EU is passing, you have a problem with the people voting, not with the system itself.
Except there is a lot of unelected entities persuading governments. Germany for instance was going green with solar and wind, yet imported Russian energy as a backstop as they shut down their nuclear reactors.
That kind of Davos influence can cause permanent harm to a country, as their energy prices are 3 times higher than the US now as they burn lignite, leading to deindustrialization as they try to compete with China in EV.
If I buy BYD over Volkswagon will Germany have caused more climate change or less?
Yes, but these are unwanted laws passed by EU. These laws are not integrated into the EU itself. Yes, its a fucking joke that our democracy still does not have a good way of kicking out all the unwanted Nazis, but it dosent mean that the system needs to be destroyed (like the bots are saying). It just means that we need to expand the system more.
I would argue germany is going right because its pretty much 1938 again here. I mean, in the alternate world of the AfD these fuckheads are talking about how they would have won the election if the „Pedophile lobby” hadn’t brainwashed everyone with their Woke mind virus. Like, I might as well just take way too much of my meds again and see what I dream during my trip and these fuckheads would believe it as long as I say Heil Hitler at the end.
They also want to censor climate misinformation
Also yes, they are literally setting themselves up for a fascist takeover with those laws, but I would argue that’s the price you pay when you implement democracy and then try to fight fascism with authoritarism instead of offering quality education.
So since the 4th Reich is already coming, next time we should actually not just quit at killing the Nazis in 1961
I do agree with all of your comment. I am left wondering if this is just the end result of fiat currency debasement, leading to decades of debt accrual, and now higher interest rates due to aging global demographics; a phenomenon most central banks have publications on.
Which is something Ray Dalio talks a lot about, maybe this populism and divide is just a symptom of a larger problem. Germany does do unsustainable immigration to help deal with their aging demographics, which could easily lead to unequal asset price inflation and then nationalism/xenophobia.
Then obviously CBDC and an attempt to perform financial repression, since financializing housing to derive new money supply to grow aggregate demand won’t work any more.
While do find myself using Lemmy a little too much, because of the lack of time-wasting and dopamime-hitting algorithms, I find less incentive to spend more time on Lemmy and other Fediverse socials.
I love this too. I get bored after a while on Lemmy which…is a really good thing. Get some news and memes, and get off.
Them’s some good memes huh
I take breaks for weeks at a time when I’ve literally seen everything.
I disagree, I’d like a greater variety of topics especially on general conversation communities.
Agreed, I like being able to refresh and see all new content. Does it always interest me? No, but at least I had variety. I’m hoping Lemmy will get there soon, but for now I’ll just vote and comment on lemmy and browse reddit without interacting in any way.
Feel free to create more posts!
If you really want to test out what part of Lemmy you’re actually interested in…
unclick “Show Scores, Show upvotes, Show Downvotes, and Show Upvote %” in your profile settings for a week and report back on what changed for you.
But then how do I jump on the Upvote/Downvote Bandwagon?
It’s funny because people who think they’re above the whole bandwagon thing still don’t realize how just seeing the numbers causes a response in them. This site is 1,000x less interesting in a social aspect when you can’t see that engagement, you’ll find yourself logging in less and less till you just don’t see a point in it.
