Reddit is proprietary and centralized. Lemmy is free and federated. That's why I love Lemmy.
yeah, thats probably why reddit is basically just twitter now
Personally, I was surprised that you get as much help -- and frequently even more -- in channels that are like 1% of the corresponding reddit ones.
I think the reason is that total numbers mean little, and your ratio of reading-to-responding matters the most. If you're surrounded by people who like to help each other, then they can easily process and actually read all new posts, and reply to newbies. If you're surrounded by people who just like to skim through and not dive in to the actual question/post, you get brainless upvotes/downvotes and of course frustration.
For me, lemmy is not flawless, but it's pretty good.
UPDATE: be careful to not over-read simply "Local" news, but stay on the topics that interest you though. Otherwise, you may get overwhelmed by bots or propaganda, which also exists here. E.g. you read your stuff and then suddenly encounter "Russia Today" and such? Block both the author and the channel immediately. I'd recommend that at least - your choice ofc.
i dont really read news unless its in my niche
also true, reddit feels more like ragebaiting social media rather than a place for forums and such
but lemmy feels like it was made by people, for people
theres still bait here and there but its rare
Could use more communists but it's p good
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came for the beans. stayed for the nonsense.
errrrmmmm thats just silly ME in a nutshell :3 BOIIII 😂🫱(this was satire if you couldn't tell)
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i particularly hate the just buy another one crowd. redditors are awful and though there are some here, it's still a nicer place to be.
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exactly THIS 🥹🤤
hexbear doesn't even have downvotes.
But if I don't get downvotes, how will I know that I'm making people mad?
you'll see a pig shitting on his own balls
i think thats a bit too far for me, its kinda like the whole youtube dislike bullshit 😭
I tend to prefer it as an approach. Hexbear is a left unity site, it doesn't have a predominant ideology, so down votes as a way to discipline ideology don't work nor function properly. Downvotes are most useful on sites with ideological conformit, like Lemmygrad.ml.
that was done to protect brands. hexbear did it to protect trans people, and it creates a culture of articulating your disagreement rather than silently downvoting and moving on
is that a good thing? i think im getting mixed signals
I can tell you that its great for my mental health, it completelly removes the tribal fighting aspect of "my number is higher" so im more interested on what people are actually saying and how to respond. If your opinion is shit people will still let you know, but you will see why and can think about it. Also, with all AI and US propaganda machine I would not be surprised to know that reddit today is mostly bots and inventing reality.
ohhhh yeah that makes sense, personally i still prefer downvotes (i think) but i totally see why it can be good to not have it
They ended up removing the downvotes because the mods there spent all their time inspecting who left the downvotes and it resulted in several extremely embarrassing meltdowns. You can imagine how ludicrous this was, as people don't always downvote stuff they have some vehement ideological disagreement with. They might just not like spam, or feel like a bit of an asshole towards a person (I mean, nobody ever followed reddiquette anyways, so that's fine).
While I agree with removing downvotes in principle, as I almost never vote on anything in anticipation of when certain people finally add "RSS feeds of what you have upvoted, saved, & downvoted" as a feature, the principle being explained here by others is not the real explanation.
This might sound harmless but the site mods (I get it, it's funny to go full censorship on people who sideye your friends) have actually spent several years claiming that democratic party Zionists are leftists, & painting anyone who disagrees with them as a chud. They still maintain that burning the Israeli flag is vaguely antisemitic (which is itself antisemitic, as Israel is not intrinsically tied to the fate of all practicing Jews, that's ethnonationalism dressed up with woke.) Just be normal and hang out.
This might sound harmless but the site mods have actually spent several years claiming that democratic party Zionists are leftists, & painting anyone who disagrees with them as a chud. They still maintain that burning the Israeli flag is vaguely antisemitic.
Would anyone from Hexbear like to chime in and tell me whether this is true? Do you or the Hexbear mods actually believe that burning the flag of the nation state founded & perpetuated by rapists, murderers, and thieves is vaguely racist against Jews?
If you're bewildered by the flag thing, consider an American who gets mad at you for burning the US flag. You're like "wtf man I was looking at pictures from Vietnam and I'm pissed off". They're like, I totally agree with you maan, Vietnam was fuucked, especially how US soldiers had to go there, but you're setting ALL 50 STATES ON FIRE. You can't just burn the US flag because it physically represents America. You're actually burning indigenous land.
This is how they explain that burning the Israeli flag is antisemitic. Because they slapped a star of david on it, you're burning the jews. In fact, isn't it kind of antisemitic to attack a nation flying this flag, thereby setting it on fire? 🤔🧐
maybe im just an idiot or have really bad arguments and opinions
I hate how reddit relies on bullying people... all of them, who behave so similarly to one another over there - that is the result of bullying and conditioning until they match that desired social norm.
To be honest, I actually got banned from reddit shortly after I made more of an effort to show kindness to people and communicate in a more casual, natural way for me; less like redditore are known for. It could just be a coincidence but it felt like getting banned for breaking their social-programming.
And yes I've had your experience where they pretend to not know what you're talking about. If you still need something like Google pay, I hear that revolut is good.
MOST<< redditors thinks that what they do is perfect and works for everyone no matter what, kinda sad actually 😭😭
I like to think I was banned for similar reasons, but I'm pretty sure it was because I was commenting in a gatcha subreddit that was really circling the drain regarding taste. Folk were putting up questionable images of questionable body types and I was getting annoyed that the game was falling so far. Got banned for calling a spade a spade. Ironically, the sub was banned shortly after.
Thankfully I cant have the same issue here because all the niche interest communities are dead, lmao!
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