Canât tell you how strongly I disagree. It feels like the first people on Lemmy are the most insufferable know-it-all and holier-than-thou types from Reddit. Say anything about Microsoft or Windows? Hereâs 15 commenters telling you how much better they are for having Linux, and 2 commenters on topic, only to be called inferior by the Linux users. Same for Photoshop, same for social media, same for any paid software.
And everyone who has an opinion must insult anyone who disagrees like itâs political Twitter, only by people who think theyâre smarter cause they were never on Twitter.
Lemmy is so toxic itâs delaying its development. People lurk cause there are too many assholes talking over everyone else.
The only thing thatâs better is there are less of those âum ahcktuallyâ, pedant types. If you say âeveryoneâ, people mostly understand you donât literally mean âeveryone.â
You must be a car driving capitalist tankie to be hatting on this place.
jk, I definitely agree. This place is way more radicalized than Reddit, or at least it isnât nearly as diluted by bots so it seems more prominent⌠Some dope people around here but Iâm definitely losing hope that this place will grow into a cool place.
Itâs all the same topic posts and the same hateful comments, but you canât even find small active communities to get away from it.
I like risa on startrek.webaite, for one. you can def find cool communities.
Good to see your input and how many people agree with it. I kinda agree, I am one of those jerks that will pray for open source alternatives, lmao, not so for paid or social media. Still being part of majority, I agree with you. I kinda miss the christian memes from reddit, it used to take the bible and interpret in some way, not as it was written.
As somebody said, lemmy have instances. I donât think we are in the need to make more, but idk about that and itâs just an opinion. I think the next step is creating communities that a lot of people miss from reddit but feel they wouldnât be welcomed due to existing communities and the current mindset in Lemmy instances.
Thanks for the comment and saying what a lot of us have been wanting to say.
I think the instance really matters. My âallâ feed is full of toxic assholes but my subs are mostly rad folks.
The problem is not a technology one, and creating a copy of the thing you hate isnât going to get different results.
I never expected it to be better than reddit, actually I expected it to make things much worse through increased isolation of mobs. It does.
Only thing an individual can do is be the change they want to see and be nice to people, and resist the urge to âotherâ everyone they interact with.
That said⌠if this is OPs lived experience we should be happy for them. Theyâre having a positive experience that we all want.
Curious, Iâve seen it all over lemmy. Iâve got a couple different accounts for⌠reasons, and on one I tried to make the point that for some demographics, like my parents/grandparents, Windows is the best OS. I was immediately berated for MANY reasons including, being a failure for not educating my family, not caring about my familyâs safety, personally signing them up for the FasTrack to identity theft and scammers, and that Linux is ACTuaLLY simpler and easier to use.
This is pretty tame compared to the piracy guys as well.
and on one I tried to make the point that for some demographics, like my parents/grandparents, Windows is the best OS.
Yeah youâre pretty much objectively wrong there. With OSX you couldâve had a point but Windows is a nightmare if you have to administer a box for family.
âŚdonât tell me your parents and grandparents absolutely have to use 3ds Max.
Same here. Maybe Iâve found a nice echo chamber to inhabit. Back when I was mostly using Lemmy.World I saw a lot of weirdos, but for some reason migrating to a different instance seems to have solved that problem. Maybe OP just needs to find an instance that works for them.
When I left Lemmy.World I stopped seeing toxic behavior on the regular. I am not sure why this is. I am following all the same communities I was before, so itâs not like I left any toxic communities. Even the hexbear people seem mostly civil now. Itâs like all the crazy people left.
Maybe you just need to find an instance that suits you?
Say anything about Microsoft or Windows? Hereâs 15 commenters telling you how much better they are for having Linux,
Eh. Thatâs like the repeat of âReddit is an anti-American circlejerkâ: No, it isnât. Never was. It was simply the place where many Americans first learned that people who live beyond the brim of their burgers actually exist, and have opinions.
Youâre on a FLOSS platform. Donât be surprised if fanboying for an aggressively monopolistic multinational with inferior technology, held up by duct tape and bribes to system integrators, doesnât make you friends.
Uhh yeah no. I was on reddit for over a decade and the anti-american circle jerk (that is alive and kicking on lrmmy, btw) became much worse over the last few years.
Lemmy loves to pretend itâs culturally superior to reddit, but now weâve just concentrated the elitists and political extremists into a smaller pool of users.
No, neither reddit or lemmy are anti-American. Not even unamerican. Itâs much, much worse: Theyâre non-American. Reddit by I think a small majority, lemmy much more so.
If, then, a random jingoist Seppo comes along and considers themselves and their dysfunctional country godâs gift to humanity, well, itâs easy to predict how much people will cheer that on.
Add to that another, equally exceptionalist, breed of Seppos, just that those donât think the US is the greatest thing to ever grace humankind, but the worst. Thatâs not anti-American either, theyâre still exceptionalist and theyâre still Seppos. Hexbear and lemmygrad are full of them.
Also yâall donât get what taking the piss entails.
I agree with the sentiment that we are on a FLOSS platform, so most people are going to prefer Linux.
But the rest of that comment is silly.
Saying anything about Windows/Max doesnât mean the commenter is fanboying.
Also, are you saying you dont believe social media was manipulated to interfere with American politics?
And the last one really cracks me up about making friends. âAggressively fanboyingâ Windows or Mac doesnât make you friends, but fanboying Linux does? You and I are definitely in different areas of CS then ha!
I think âfanboyingâ in general is the actual issue
Also, are you saying you dont believe social media was manipulated to interfere with American politics?
I sense a veritable iceberg of a conspiracy theory, there: You think Reddit and lemmy are âanti-americanâ so as to influence American politics?
Pretty much anyone outside of the US doesnât need an ulterior motive, be given money or whatever to talk shit about the US: Youâre providing ample of reason and opportunity to do that as is, thereâs no need to get the Russians or whoever involved. Also theyâre only stoking flames (on both sides and a couple more), without a base level of idiocy they would have nothing to work with.
Saying anything about Windows/Max doesnât mean the commenter is fanboying.
Why if not for that would they get a negative reaction to that here, then?
âAggressively fanboyingâ Windows or Mac doesnât make you friends, but fanboying Linux does? You and I are definitely in different areas of CS then ha!
âŚyouâre in CS but not a developer or devops? You work at a soul-sucking job writing software for machinery or such that for have to run windows? Like, dunno, ATMs? And you and your colleagues developed Stockholm Syndrome?
