What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

This may be an unpopular option since I've already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I'd like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing "PORN" on my screen.

At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.

When people turn a popular post into an Oscars Acceptance Speech

ETA: wow thanks for the upvotes!

ETA2: omg my first gold award?? I couldn't have made it without my mom and Jesus through whom all things are possible

This.
ETA: thanks for one upvote!😃
ETA2: thanks for two upvotes!😀😀
ETA3: woah?! 3?!?!?! thanks for three upvotes!😁😁😁
ETA4: this is more upvotes than I have money in my bank account! thanks for four upvotes!💵💵💵
ETA5: INASANE!!! thanks for five upvotes!😍😍😍
ETA6: I’ve never had more than SIX!!! thanks for six upvotes! 😱😱😱😱😱
ETA7: thanks for seven upvotes! I want to thank my mom, my brother, Jesus, Scott, Bill Gates, and my cat!!!🤗🤗
ETA8: What? Why y’all downvoting me now? Bring it back to seven!😤😤😤
ETA9: Unbelievable. -400 upvotes now. I lost my house, my car, and my job because of this! 😔😔😣😖😖😖😭😭
/s
- Best Lemmy comment so far
- How do I give Lemmy gold?
I also hate "happy cake day", and "this". Especially "this". It's a worthless comment that adds nothing more to the discussion than a simple upvote.
- This
I always thought that was a sign it was astroturfed. Like my post? Give Reddit money!
I had my entire Oscars Acceptance Speech all ready to go in 2018 for nothing. Stupid Frances McDormand.
😂 this really annoys me on Quora. I never understood why one feels the necessity to do so.
Everyone there just recycles the same old shit.
I remember when doing that was pretty fresh and funny.
I wonder how many sad Gen X ers are stuck on there because they are emotionally attached to their Karma score.
For a second, I seriously thought the fediverse logo next your username was an award 😂
- Hey, it can be one if you believe it! It's well-deserved commendation for your contribution to the Fediverse.
Hilarious.

Can we stop talking about Reddit? Let it go.

Moderators who coddle bigots.

Bigots.

"Thanks for the gold kind stranger"

All I want is that top comments under posts are something insightful and related to the post, and not just the same one liner boring jokes that keep getting upvoted for some reason.

Creative writing presented as truth

Karma-whoring. It's already started with the stupid "upote my can of beans" posts... Dude nobody cares about your internet points, either activity participate or fuck off to Instagram.

Please don't let /c/asklemmy become like /r/askreddit, which had half of the front-page posts being the same sex related questions every month.

"Women of reddit, what non sexual thing that guys so makes you horny?"

"What is the sexiest thing you regret doing?"

"How many cocks have you sucked while your cat judges you while waiting for you to feed it?"

It was bullshit.

i think it's the wrong direction to try to police questions but instead empower users with the ability to filter by text or flairs
sex of sex, what is the sexiest sex you have ever sexed?
- Gotta admit though, it was pretty cool when that subreddit simulation bot generated an askreddit thread titled something like "Redditors of Reddit, what's the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?"
Remember this classic:
Ladies of Reddit - what is the most sexiest thing an overweight gamer has done that made you immediately want to have sex with him/be his girlfriend?
I don't know why the mods of r/AskReddit still accepts these kind of posts when it would be more appropriate to do an NSFW r/AskReddit (if it doesn't already exist).

The “hivemind” ignoring the correct information or even worse, encouraging the wrong information.

Does anyone else remember the whole Boston Bomber fiasco (i.e. We did it, Reddit)?

I absolutely hate the love for revenge violence. Stuff like celebration people running over protestors in their cars because they were forced to stop on the road. Or bleeding out after someone got shot when they robbed a store.

This includes that fact that you can basically guarantee every thread contains at least one comment claiming "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

r/the_donald or anything like it. Kindly fuck off with all of that shit.

Comments like:

„This!“

Use the upvote button and shut up.

~~Came here to say this. Beat me to it.~~
They're already here. And they're getting upvoted. I will never understand why anyone would upvote this crap.
This
(you brought this on yourself)
yep, this!
This!
This /s
Can we make "that" a lemmy thing instead? Still works and dummies are gonna post these kinds of comments anyway, but at least we can kind of own it.

When someone would ask a good question that you also wanna know the answer to, but then all the "answers" were just jokes bc everyone wanna get upvotes. I dont really mind jokes but those times it was a bit sad, then sometimes no one would answer for real bc i guess they see 10 replies and assume surely one of them is real already.

Also repost bots.

And apple vs samsung feuds.

And sometimes looked like whenever some people try to organize action or protests, comments just spamming that "protests do nothing" or "voting does nothing," or "what is this gonna do," not suggesting any other solution either, almost like trying to encourage apathy? Or discourage action. Sometimes i wondered if those were bots.

Also the r/wooosh when someone didn't understand a joke. .-.

/u/spez

Ads.

Fuck ads.

People who don’t know/acknowledge the difference between “free speech” and “hate speech”

unfortunately lemmy already has those people, but luckily enough they seem to organize in tidy communities that are easy to defederate

/r/MadeMeSmile portrayed toxic positivity which felt out of touch with reality.

"I made my bed today. First time in 14 years 🙂"

45 thousand likes and 2 thousand comments.

Sponsored posts, banner ads, algorithms, and other advertising-industry fuckery.

A reply that's just "r/(some subreddit name)."

A robot trying to sell stolen fan art printed onto t-shirts.

People childishly self-censoring non-sweary words. "Sex" isn't a bad word, but writing "s*x" suggests you probably shouldn't be allowed on social media at your stage of development.

Trigger warnings; not once did I click on a post in Reddit and not have an accurate expectation of what I was about to see.
c/StronglyAgree
- c/yup

My cat didn't get any love over on insert community name here. I hope you guys updoot me more than they did.

Cringe horny sexual questions on the main page every day: Reddit, what sound do you like to hear when you do the sex with your female partner? (and the post has 999999 upvotes and 99999 comments)

The ragebait fake text message screenshots that plague subs like antiwork.

Wow, your dickhead boss is stupid enough to put all of that in writing and has the exact same style of writing, spelling and grammar as you do? Isn’t that a coincidence!

/r/nothingeverhappens
This is posted in sarcasm as I always hated that kind of response

“Women of Reddit: what’s the sexiest sex you ever sexed (and why)?”

"Sir, you have just won the internet" "Thanks for the gold kind stranger" "I too choose this guy's [placeholder]" And the other corny overused reddit lines

Communities with videos of violence and assault, justice porn etc. I hate those, this is honey for conservatives and fascists, they love it and it disgusts me.

I watch fight videos to remind myself that the world is dangerous.
You’re right that it has to do with me becoming conservative.
I was liberal until one night I was attacked by a drunk rando. Traumatized me. Woke me up. Made me realize how fucking deeply horrifying violence is. Armed myself, because I’m worth it.
I didn’t make any conscious decision to switch, but I remember the exact moment I realized how fundamental the second amendment is. It was when I tried to buy pepper spray and was told I needed a permit. This was a homeless guy who’d just been attacked, being told he needed government paperwork to get a weapon.
I would explain more except this wef wef app doesn’t scroll correctly so I can’t see what I’m typing.
But yeah. I’m fascinated by violence now. And now that it’s been a decade since that attack, I find myself starting to feel safe again. Which is a very bad thing, because the world is NOT safe and falsely believing it was nearly ended my life. So I watch videos of guys getting slammed into concrete, despite the fact I hate it, to remind myself how fragile I am.
(scrolling seems to be fixed now?)
So that’s why I watch videos depicting street violence. And that’s how it’s related to my conservativism. Definitely not a coincidence.
Long story short, I’d say my being leftist ended the day I discovered how scary reality actually is, in a visceral and real way that no video or description of violence ever could show me. Once I realized what was at stake, I started thinking clearly about problems like violence (I couldn’t afford to pick ideas based on their level of pleasantness anymore), and realized that being ready for it is the only way to prevent it.
You cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent war
— Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
- You know you can be a liberal and still own a gun, right? And sure, most liberals don't want Joe from off the street to walk in and buy a gun with no further investigation, but most don't want to ban weapons outright. Guns should be in the right hands, in the right circumstances. You talk as if believing the the 2nd amendment immediately makes you conservative.
- Just throwing this out there, but while this is the direction you went to deal with the trauma you experienced, do you feel like it's the healthiest path? I have a loved one with PTSD from trauma. There are many ways to deal with it, but I dare guess that therapy (with the right therapist for you) may give you better, healthier tools.
  I only wish you well, and hope you find peace.
- Why downvote this comment? He hasn't said anything harmful or hateful, and conservative means different things depending on the context. Conservatives are not always regressive or republicans or fascist.

Safe spaces for fascism. Spez let The_Donald and its imitators fester for years, thus turning Reddit into a de facto Nazi Bar. Thus years of harassing non-fascists & minorities, brigading, spouting bigotry, disinformation and toxicity while the admins yawned.

Toddlerisms like danger noodle (snakes) or velvet hippos (pitbulls I think)

Karma. I feel like that will push Lemmy in a way that isn't healthy.

I hope that the mod-user relationship will be healthier here. (Bias, I was a reddit moderator.)

Some reddit mods were crap, this is true. Powermods and sub collectors were real. They did shit up a few communities.

But these people were a very small proportion of all moderators. Most moderators I met were chill, and just wanted to chip in to their respective communities to give back, in a way. Volunteering for internet janitor duty, because no matter how much people use the term as an insult it turns out public spaces need janitors - or they get filled with shit, trash, graffiti (and not the cool kind either, mostly badly drawn swastikas). It's not a position that should be glorified, or anything, because that's weird, but I hope that some semblance of basic respect can be maintained here on Lemmy - both ways, meaning no powermods but also no defaulting to assuming mods suck.

Photos of people’s wives or girlfriends - often taken without their wife or girlfriend’s consent - playing video games, with vaguely condescending titles about it “only being the Sims / Animal Crossing” and half the replies being absolutely vile. As a Woman Who Plays Video Games, it was awfully annoying.

u/spez

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

Too much politics. During the election on Reddit, everything was either ecstatic “Trump good!” or smug “Orange man bad!” posts with no actual content. My list of blocked subreddits ballooned, and that helped. Maybe I’ll have to do that here.

Thanks for the gold kind stranger

Rampant onlyfans promo on as many communities as possible.

Why are so many people hating on the only fans girls? It's free nudes you get for zero effort. These thots filled every niece subreddit with content. Why not let them get some advertisement from it. That's a win win in my book
- Yes and no to an extent. I support them being able to advertise for their stuff somewhere, but subs need to take a stance on what they allow. So much you see on reddit is the same photo x-posted to 50 subs and often not "fitting" into the sub, it just becomes spammy.
  Stuff like gonewild becomes wildly different if it becomes just a promotion-sub. Can't there just be that instead?

Leftie spaces being overtaken by USSR\China\North Korea stans. That just another win for opponents.

You know Lemmy was created by a tankie? (https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379?)
- I know. It's still not comparable to reddit. For the very least, they allowed other instances to be created with their code. I can dislike the way they go from the common point in socialism to ml, but still prefer them over corpos and place credit where it's due.
- We flew to the moon on the wings of the third reich, doesn't mean we stop exploring space.

DAE

Banana for scale

5/7 with rice

Generic ask Reddit threads

All that shit can go to hell.

"This." These comments add nothing to the discussion. I get that people want to show their support an argument/content, but that's what upvotes are for. If you want to show your support for something, then at least try to think of something worthwhile to add to the discussion while expressing your support.

People constantly asking the same questions, resulting in the same answers.

Oh wow, people wish Firefly wasn’t cancelled? This is certainly new information.

"On mobile, apologies for bad formatting."

As if posting from a mobile device somehow prevents you from using paragraphs and punctuation? Give me a break. You either can't be bothered, which means you're not worth interacting with; or you had to repeat at least a high school English class or two growing up. Either way you need to stop blaming your fucking phone.

"Came here to say this"

Also, while I will tolerate it, I hope we tone down the doggo speak

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Heckin right
Very insight, much smortness, wowe i am sick with myself.
Agreed. If you agree with / like a comment but have nothing to add to the discussion, then upvote and move on. No on cares that you in particular liked or agreed with a comment.

Pun threads. They're not clever. They're the same, old, recycled jokes, and they just get progressively worse with every reply.

I would always downvote pun trains. I struggle to understand why anyone would upvote them. Incredibly cringe.
- The fact that this is so consistently the general consensus here so strongly reaffirms my decision to move here from reddit. It's like we've cut out the cancerous userbase who were progressively making reddit more shitty. More toxic, hateful, immature.
  It was bad enough with the irrelevant comments, but 1/4 of the content I'd see would be posted in incorrect subreddits. Like r/Awwww and r/funny shitposts had been flooding r/nonononoyes and mindless drones would upvote the content because they liked it, regardless of whether it was the right content for the right sub.
  When I'd draw attention to it, the stupid responses I got from obliviously unhealthy users were always mind-boggling ignorant and always hateful. Now I can enjoy substantive relevant content here while those toxic morons self-destruct reddit along with their admins. Feels so satisfying!

Political Propaganda for the upcoming presidential election

I’m feeling insecure and shy, please rate my anus.

6/10, 8/10 with rice
I need to see sharpie first

u/spez

I happen to love megathreads. When a major breaking news happens I want to discuss it with the community, not read a dozen smaller threads repeating the same.

Power-tripping users that somehow have access to hundreds of sub-communities and lean heavily on automodding and just reacting by absolutes because they lack problem solving skills.

Shitty, unfunny jokes that spiral into lengthy comment chains that are a chore to weed through. Keep that shit on Reddit, because everyone pretends they're some downtrodden, unspoken stand up comedian on there.

Thought policing.

Word policing. Yeah I get that we shouldn't say n***** and stuff. But, why go through the trouble of censoring swears? I mean come on, we've grown up to have the privilege of airing those words out!

Perma bans

~~perma bans him~~ (joking of course ;D )
- If only Reddit would do the same thing that FB does. I would gladly take a month ban from time to time to stay on Reddit. But, they got me and like lots of other people, I didn’t say anything bad. Oh well, hopefully Reddit will go down in flames in 10 years or so.

Other Redditors. Can we just be on Lemmy and move the fuck on?

I wonder how much of a userbase this thing has who have never been on Reddit, though. Probably not more than a handful?
- Id be interested to see a giant set of polls for Lemmy and Kbin in which people submit whether they came from another site or not, which one, and at what time.

karma

/r/jailbait

Also no trophy's, ever. Unless it's like a Mario Kart Lemmy Tourney. Then sure. But for a sub like that? NOPE.

the black and white mindset... you're either with the hivemind or against. no room for nuanced opinions. someone posts a stupid strawman argument pro abortion/anti billionaire/etc.. you can't point out the flaw in the logic without being called a sexist racist Nazi.

example: some post about how billionaires should pay 35% tax on their net worth, you point out that people are taxed on their income, not possessions, you're a bootlicker

The general attitude that people have where they need to be right at all costs and will insult you for thinking otherwise.

Like, it's okay to admit that you're wrong and have your views changed.

👍

/u/spez

The smug, smarmy attitude Redditors are known for even when they're obviously wrong.

A tolerance for the propagation of disinformation.

Room for disagreements is necessary, but so is stopping people who never cared about agreeing in the first place. Giving the dishonest this freedom has only silenced the honest by burdening them with layers of crap to cut through before their speech is heard.

Just general karma whoring...

The lack of karma should help that atleast
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Corporate shills.

To stop talking about Reddit. Reddit is dead to me!

Bad news, Reddit is a zombie.
- Reddit's looking for brains, because it's clearly got none.

Powermods and fat hate. Lizzo is more healthy than 95% of the losers that are so intereted into the "promotion of a healthy role model" and I don't see as many people saying anything about the rampant use of drugs or alcoholism there is in the famous people, so come the fuck on!

Spez

spez

Karma. Chasing a high score leads to shitposting.

IT barely lasted a weak. Theres already So many Karma farm posts

I love megathreads for when I have to sleep through an event and I want a detailed recap

Yeah I gotta jump on the pro mega thread bandwagon here. On r/politics I can only imagine how worthless the front page would become if they had let every big story be posted in individual posts.
And we can't rely on users, because some people will like different sources (WaPo, NPR, CNN, whatever) more than others. We also don't want some bot magically hiding "duplicate" posts because who knows if it will do a good job? A big long list of similar submissions collected in one place for everyone to see is the best worst option.

u/spez

Take my upvote / angry upvote / upvoted

Links pointing to Reddit content

Twitter too. Especially if it's not via nitter.

Hatred towards emojis.

Reddit downvotes anything with emojis. Like why? Do you guys not have friends? Everyone uses emojis these days when texting.

I will admit I used them WAY less before I started dating my girlfriend, but if you try to be social in any way, you will need to just accept emojis.

Plus they look cute, and convey emotions. Not sure what there is to hate? 🤔

🖕😡
I don’t know, posts from trolls that contain multiple “🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣” we’re very annoying,
🐢💨
If I recall correctly, it wasn't about appending an emoji to the end of your comment like you just did, but rather about the type of comments that would be 50% or more emojis, that for some reason are very prolific on the Internet.
And I would say there were two good reasons for this. First, these comments rarely conveyed much meaning, the emojis were used to exaggerate the emotional message, but little else.
The second (and more serious one) was the decline in English proficiency among native speakers (especially youth) that was ascribed to use of emojis and emoticons.
Google commissioned a study back in 2018 that showed, that most adults are not confident in their own spelling, and blame the emojis for it.
- If I see a comment with an emoji or two, I could care less. If I see a comment that is just agreement and emojis, I downvote the hell out of it.
  Just upvote and move on. Don't clutter up comments with useless emojis. That just suppresses relevant discussion. It's as useless and dumb as the comments that simply say "This."
  That's not to say I'm downvoting due to emojis, but rather due to irrelevant discussion. But I will admit if I see a comment that is filled with them (but still has relevant discussion) I downvote because I'd rather not have comments devolve into FB mom quality emoji-laden garbage.

Ads

Shitty repost bots. Actively ban bots pretending to be humans.

Bots. Endless bots where you don't know if the comment or post is a real person. Sign ups need a barrier to filter out bots.

Honestly, I'd be happy if most bots were gone. Even the "helpful" ones. 12 years on reddit and I can count on one hand the number of self-identifed novelty bot accounts that didn't immediately annoy me. Oh, you wrote a bot that identifies when a post is a haiku or when the words in a comment are in alphabetical order? Very clever. No thanks.

My god yes, also people who make horrible bots that interrupt the conversation just to push their owners' spelling or punctuation preferences.
It's prescriptivist, elitist, and even ableist. Also, social media by nature is colloquial, not formal - it feels like being told off for not wearing a business suit at home on the weekend.
I agree with you in principle, but personally it drives me nuts whenever I see "could of", "I could care less", "nucelar", etc. But I admit that it's a personal thing and don't correct anyone. That said, whenever I do see them corrected by others, it feels very cathartic. Also, I'd rather someone correct me when I make mistakes like this.
I'd like to say that I've seen comment of yours about language before and I want to say I really respect this. I know for me some words are harder to say in English (like rural - though I have practiced! But atm when I say sounds a bit like roool lol) and before seeing on Reddit, I wouldn't have thought that conversate isn't considered a word by so many! It doesn't seem so wrong to me. And it helps to know there are people in the world like you who wouldn't just be disgusted by the difference.
AAVE is a good example of this. Despite being branded as "street talk" or even "black people are too dumb to speak proper English" by racists, a lot of the so-called "mistakes" are actually just following grammar rules consistent with a variety of African languages, that held over after slaves were forced to speak English.
- That's completely different from speaking bad English. For example, "I could care less" isn't cultural language, it's stupid. It means the opposite of what you're trying to say.

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Rage bait, Karen videos, violence

Least original post: the dumbass comments parroting the same joke from 2018. It's not even bots, it's the zeitgeist and it's only gonna get worse. Insert 'old_man_shouts_at_sky.gif'

“This.”

Politically motivated communities, even if the community has nothing to do with politics

Ads

Purchased upvotes

Evil robots

you know, basic stuff

Horny people from Lemmy, what is the Horniest thing you've....

But it's probably a matter of time.

Sexy people of Reddit, what is the sexiest sex you ever sexed?
Not as long as redditors keep parroting “tankies” and “it’s too complicated” every time Lemmy is brought up lol. They’re doing the dirty work for us.
- I can understand why they might say 'its too complicated' but why tankies? I saw what appeared to be a fairly large tankie instance (lemmygrad.ml) but beyond that I wouldn't expect there to be an undue presence. And they are certainly tons of tankies over on Reddit too so...

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That new ugly UI.

It's so damn cluttered.

Megathreads were an improvement over the same story being posted a hundred times (not an exaggeration).

With regards to the question: the bigotry, the boy's clubs, the tactics to deliberately exclude some members from the conversation. I doubt Lemmy will avoid them wholesale, but maybe they will be curtailed and limited to a few instances.

Overzealous mods.

Endless OF spam.

Corporate shills.

Permanent bans. Except for egregious cases, ALL bans should be for a certain number of hours to cool the situation down, and then let it go.

Power mods... Except they are already here and banning opinions they don't like. Good thing it's super easy to make a new account on here.

Stupid drama and community rivalries. And ads in apps.

people bot-posting for karma or similar bullshit

Links to Twitter. Never had an acct, the site is horrid, and I will not go.

Realistically, everything we dislike on reddit is pretty much unavoidable once there is a certain number of people, outside of being ran by some capitalist shills, hopefully

An expensive API.

Low IQ moderators who do a billion dollar corporation's work for free just because they want the smallest modicum of power.

People farming karma on subs like /r/aww.

Like not even reposters. I’m instead talking about the people who camp that sub and ruin threads by criticizing diet, etc.

If you post a photo of a dog that’s even slightly overweight, God have mercy on your cursed soul.

Paywall articles, or articles from "news sites" that are all opinion pieces marauding as factual reporting

Communities as hashtags.

You know what I want to see start, though? /r/switcharoo. Please please please we need to somehow start a good ol Lemmy switcharoo.

Karma whoring bots

AskReddit topics:

"Who is a very popular and esteemed actor but actually is pretty bad at acting?"

"What's a cheap thing that is actually expensive?"

I don't care about ads on Reddit. They aren't intrusive, although I don't like fake "organic content". I think the worst thing is seeing the same thing over and over again in the same sub, being reposted by bots. It's OK if it's from time to time, but they don't even try to change the title.

Spez.

Just less outrage, more harmony.

Long, thought out posts with replies that consist solely of something like "you're"

Unoriginal and boring "ask" threads

I really hope that the political communities don't devolve into just useless name calling.

What I like are the comments that discuss the nuances of politics. Why things happen the way they do and the strategies, OR even other people's takes on a topic.

What Reddit turned into was

is an ass or

is <Stupid/fascists/baby killers> Or

is too old and stupid. Nothing of substance just writing the same thing someone else wrote in the last post. Got really boring.

Power mods like that awkward turtle loser

I was going to say 'a community full of really simple questions that should have just been queried via a search engine' (this post is a pleasant exception to what I'm used to ftr), but then I saw what community this was so my final answer will be: Onlyfans ads poorly disguised as relevant material for whatever community.

Odin's balls I HATED the OF ads in random subs shit. Took the fun right out of many of the communities.
- Ugh:
  r/food "Who would like a bite of my muffin?" [pic of a pair of giant boobs barely concealed in a flimsy lace bra, squished together by the arms holding up an admittedly good looking oversized blueberry muffin] (proceeds to take a blowtorch to the comments)
  r/cosplay "Who likes my take on Tiffa if she were in Dead or Alive"? (comments littered with filth and deleted by mods comments interspersed with the occasional "is a G-string really cosplay"?)
I will counter this with:
a male dominated sub that took any female participation as a tacit invitation to harassment. r/bodybuilding, I'm looking at you.

Mouseovers that are easy to inadvertently activate and block a massive part of the site

I feel that the urban patois of YouTube commentators would lend Lemmy the credibility and gravitas it needs to survive. We should also rename Lemmy something along the lines of Reddit2.0 Rebooted to draw in the premium users. I think the capricious and autocratic style of the Reddit moderation team would improve the discourse and dissuade free thinking individuals from expressing troublesome opinions that contradict the narrative of a quality clickbait shitpost.

You could have just said a mirror. We don’t all have the time to read your eloquent novels.
- Who has the time to read these days? Those scrolls aren't going to doom themselves.

Ads and rage bait content farm

So called IT experts who only know solutions by rote. If the question is out of their scope they almost always respond with “why do you want to do that? You really want to do this instead” and then promptly give you basic instructions that don’t actually answer the question.

Heck you get that on stackoverflow and github pages.
 
I post on a forum where you need to be a certified professional admin to post there, it's a thing for work. And people are dumb there too, it never ends.
"Why you running the Linux version? Just use windows" Oh why didn't I think of that? Because we're an enterprise application! I don't get to pick the platform I just fix the damn thing.

"Thanks for the gold kind stranger!"

all the excessive awards

people making entire threads of stupid puns

typing out song lyrics

that dumb broken arms thing

All the “helpful” bots filling the comments with annoying messages.

Bots and that awful app

Comments that require a, "well, back on Reddit..." explanation. Could include comments about that guy's dead wife. That one kid's broken arms, etc.

I can hope it won’t but I know it’s gonna happen anyway - the chronically online mentality that was everywhere on Reddit.

On reddit it always seemed like a lot of people (or at least the most vocal ones) never actually go outside and have this very idealized and unrealistic view on the world.

All the fake AITA posts.

The absolutely childish gaming default posts of "hidden gems" that aren't hidden, "ain't much but it's mine" and stale ass memes. Stuff like that makes my eyes roll. Not just the default gaming sub but it started to creep into most places.

Toxic gatekeeping in communities.

Karma, and assholes who intentionally try and misrepresent an OP because he wasn't eating everyone's ass in the first post.

Tik tok videos

Edit: I never took the time to learn how to spell it

Power mods. Many of the ones who ran Reddit's biggest subreddits like iBleeedOrange and Awkwardtheturtle were major assholes.

This

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I couldn't see anyone else mentioning it so I will. Ads. My mind is at peace without them

Shadowbanning.

Ads

Help me name my pet, because I have no creatively or originality and am a karma whore.

I hope Lemmy won't become far right or far left platform

Spez

“This.”

People replying "this"... motherfucker that's what the upvote button is for.

I'd love more political debate without censorship from either side. I want to hear every argument either side has, even if the argument is dumb. I want to hear the rebuttals people give for the beliefs I have, because that is the only way to check myself.

I would like regulation for these discussions to be more about personal insults, rather than if an idea is deemed too offensive or not (which is arbitrary to begin with). When a debate devolves into insults, there's no point in continuing the conversation anyway.

/u/Spez

I can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these!

Clearly, you've never been in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com before, have you?

I never really was on reddit and I am beginning to miss the lemmy that existed a few days ago, it felt a bit cozier , less hectic and friendlier overall. Now all the same old reddit posts have migrated over and it seems I see a lot more low effort mean spirited cheap 'jokes' everywhere

I think megathreads are useful for things like an album release or a weekly episode release. It gives a place for conversation to occur without flooding the community with duplicate posts. I think the megathreads you're referring to though are the ones where it's like "New DIY-ers, ask questions here!" I agree that those should stay gone. No one reads them and they aren't helpful.

Posting clips of TV shows to places like r/funny

"Third reply downvotes" and other types of bullying done for absolutely no reason. Also, people misleading others to disgusting communities just to troll them, for example (and I am paraphrasing the names of the communities): "misspell the community's name to c/vercute instead of c/verycute and you accidentally get a sub full of gore" or "check out c/audioing, it's definitely not people doing a very disgusting thing to one of their body parts". I do, however, like the fact they're bringing the whole subreddit swap meme - for example: on Reddit we have had r/trees and r/marijuanaenthusiasts and I've seen that implemented into Lemmy instances already. I wouldn't get rid of that, I think there are some traditions that are neat and don't harm anybody.

Prison rape jokes.

Dehumanisation. I feel as though people are increasingly becoming ok with other people being punished for their involvement in something that is genuinely wrong/evil/bad. But the people experiencing the steepest punishments are almost never the people with significant culpability for the wrong/evil/bad decisions.

"Just following orders" might not be a great excuse, but punishing pawns for a king's choices isn't an effective deterrent or remedy either.

Using autism as an insult. And the r-word. I'm sure I'll see both, but I wish there were a corner of the internet free of mocking people with disabilities.

The

Abraham Lincoln
Michael Scott

That stuff, it's so dumb.

Also, "Username checks out"

'story time!'

“What the title says…” I hate when people start the body of their post referring to the title of the post as if isn’t self-explanatory, that the two are related.

Goatsee

"and my axe" "sir this is a Wendy"s" "Now kith" "Take my angry upvote" The pun chains, and song lyric comment chains that you have to scroll through just to see the first relevant comment. And always in the middle of those chains is something like. "This is why I love Reddit". Well, you can keep it. I do hope Schnoodle moves over here though.

I'm sorry your sense of humour is so dry.
I for one get an immense amount of joy with pun threads, song lyrics. They make me smile and laugh and sometimes groan. (I am a groan up after all! Sorry, couldn't resist) What's life if you can't enjoy what you love, even if it's a little childish. - I've always said "adults are just children with responsibilities" and I've never once been proven wrong.
The "This is why I love Lemmy" is kinda unnecessary though - just upvote it, that said I understand the need to express more gratitude and happiness than an upvote can give.
Also Schnoodle? What's a Schnoodle?
You can just tap the top comment of those song/pun chains to collapse the whole thing away. Works here too.
So... People, yeah they're the worst.
- It's not like that. I'm sure the first time I saw Sir this is a Wendy's I laughed. The 3000th time not as funny. I like a good pun too, but it's at the point even the puns are recycled. It's all reposted comments on reposted threads.

RPAN or something like that. I don't know why I would go to Reddit for livestreams. I certainly wouldn't come to Lemmy for it, either.

Reposts of questions from a few days ago like this one

Any more beans.

constant cyclejerk to farm upvotes. also the fact that on reddit if you dont commonet within like 1hr of post creation you have basically no chance of getting top voted / talking on that thread

Adds

Crappy mods and the ignorant, egotistical attitude that plagued reddit for years, making it the laughingstock of the internet.

Crappy UI Design

r/Piracy’s megathread was very useful

I also choose this guy's

This is (mostly) only in car subreddits, but actual car owners getting insulted and ridiculed for their new car choice by teenagers. I've seen this before on Reddit and this triggers me to no end.

Eh if you get a crossover SUV instead of a more practical and cheaper station wagon, hatchback or sedan that gives you more space and features for less money, I will still ridicule you.

Those damn comment copying bots. (Or any kind of malicious bot actually..)

tiktoks

Snarkiness, snobbery, walking on eggshells, opinion downvotes and in general the unbearable attitude of most redditors.

ads, just that

I'm just tired of the same old jokes. "Uh oh, his shoes fell off, he must be dead."

Incredibly out of touch Westerners who think the world should revolve exclusively around their favoured concerns. The Ukraine conflict was a very good example of this. So many dumbasses blaming countries for not cutting their ties with Russia just because it suits their worldview.

The state of certain subreddits was abysmal. Damnthatsinteresting, mildlyinteresting and all the others were just the same thing reposted and crossposted.

Circlejerk communities. They almost always end up being worse than the actual places they make fun of.

Reminds me of the meme culture in discussing politics, ugh. Absolutely hate it. Like, instead of making reasonable arguments, it’s memes and memes… and people somehow feel smart and superior while posting these.
Probably because people who choose to spend their day mocking other people or ideas aren't very good people to begin with.

Power mods, shadow banning, corrupt admins

He Gets Us...

The "obligatory" jokes, copypasted every time someone writes a certain thing. I would always downvote them. I am thinking about blocking users that continue that here.

comments optimized for maximum karma gain
This is why I don’t want account karma to be a thing here. I see other comments, even in this thread, asking for account karma. I have never treated it as a barometer of trustworthiness and I can’t understand why people do.
Account karma encourages the bandwagon behavior of obligatory jokes to pump up karma for no effort. People will still make the jokes without it, but I firmly believe it was made way worse with the psychological gamified system that was karma.
- Account karma also created a market for selling accounts because advertisers would want to buy high karma accounts. This caused repost bots to become common and they were really ruining reddit. You'd see the same few posts show up constantly.

_'s of reddit, what is your experience with _?

Not a _, but...

I realize this basically makes me satan to a lot of redditors so I never talked about it over there, but I HATED the whole cutesy schmoopsy poem shtick a couple of users would do that everyone would upvote to the top of a handful of threads every day. An AI could be churning out that saccharine doggo speak and nobody would ever know the difference, but people go nuts for it.

First comment being, from a automateded bot.

c/Xporn when X is not sexual. Like r/foodporn, r/earthporn, or r/animalporn.

So dumb. There's already a c/foodporn but hopefully it stops there.
- unixporn already there. But tbh I don't mind these naming conventions
- What would be the name it should use instead?

I actually liked megathreads, they usually meant big news and I didn't have to read 20 posts about the same thing.

But what I disliked about reddit was when trolls from some subreddits would spam CP to get other subreddits closed

Karma farming. Imagine all the people posting content for free.

“doggo wans hugs plz” speak

TikTok reposts.

Edit:Typo.

If an edit changes the context of the comment, then sure, put up an edit note. But no one cares if you erase typos.

spez

Official NFTs collectible.

Any extreme intolerant politics, and group think

Up votes. Actually wait a minute.

In all seriousness, any dumb, little thought out comments.

I would like to hope Lemmy is the Reddit of old before the masses ruined it.

I'm loving Lemmy right now.

The fact that reddit and its subreddits became huge echo chambers that downvote and challenge anything that isn't the current public opinion.

The problem is that it's just inherent in a community. It can, and probably will, happen here at some point and probably already has to some extent. People will naturally gravitate towards like minded "in-groups" and, given enough time, that will expand into its own echo chamber.
You are upset that popular opinion favors things which are... popular?
- It's not that, it's more that usually comments that are heavily downvoted get hidden and so see less real discussion, plus reddit starts rate-limiting you when you're heavily downvoted.
  Lemmy seems to be better in that I might get downvoted, which is fine I don't give a fuck, but you don't get limited so you can still reply and have discussions.
- I don't think they are upset just could do without it

Their mods.

Memes. Communities filled with trolls and most all content created as creative writing exercises or trollbait. Communities filled with indignant self righteous members trying to force their own worldview or morals on the rest. Politicising everything.

The witch hunts my god
I could also do without the "let's normalize X thing" crowd

You realize that if things get weird enough at Reddit, they may attempt federation (or at least to pull federated content).

All the mindless circlejerking and echochambers. I hope the federation helps split up communities about the same topic which should help prevent echochambers from being as strong, and keep people seeing more information and opinions about the same topic.

I was so tired of seeing blatant lies and misinformation being spread just because it fit people's narratives. Like those "dawn project" tesla videos, people hate musk so much (which I'm sure all the much worse billionaires love), so they feel they must hate teslas too, so they keep spreading those videos that have been debunked and proven incredibly questionable that were made by a competitor that's been failing to compete. That's just one tiny example. Don't even get me started on the outright lights and misinformation people spread about crypto.

And of course if anyone ever tried to correct anyone, share actual facts, real articles from trusted sources, anything that went against a particular thread's circlejerk, you would just be harassed, personally insulted, and downvoted immediately. It was so hilarious and sad spending time responding to someone's bullshit with real information and a real argument just for them to do a one-liner personal insult based on nothing, because they knew they didn't actually have anything but the circlejerk is all that really ever mattered.

I'm ranting, but this attitude people have of just not caring about reality when the lies fit what the circlejerking hivemind wants is one of my biggest gripes about modern internet and it's incredibly dangerous. It's exactly the mindset that trump supporters have that allows them to believe whatever the fuck they want and that led to people dying at the capitol, and it's the type of mindset that will eventually lead to far worse things if social media companies don't do more to combat misinformation and echochambers.

spez

/s on stuff that's so obviously sarcastic. The begining of that to me was a big indicator for how stupid the reddit userbase had become.

The addictive design, subreddits and posts suggestions, videos scrolling like TikTok, notifications about trend posts, onlyfans bitches

randomly throwing shade at sex workers??? wtf

“Ya’ll can’t behave.”

I mean, I have nothing against moderating whatsoever and I appreciate good mods. But that specific phrase always made me cringe. I just hope I don’t find every potentially controversial post already locked when I open it with YaLL CAn’T bEhAVe or similar condescending laziness at the top.

John Oliver

Spez

Liberal echo chamber

Emojis

Gif links as comment/replies.

Not restricted to just Reddit. But the increased usage recently of "ya'll"

Blatant post upvote bias from one side of the political spectrum

As reddit became more mainstream, people started using gasp emojis. Like, seriously? There are so many gifs and ASCII art you can use to express yourself and you choose the most basic bitch 0 effort reaction?

Punctuation-free one-word posts so people can be involved without having to participate.

"Sexy sexers of Reddit, what's the sexiest sex you ever sexed?"

"AITA for saying a single unkind word to the man/woman who keeps me as a literal slave, beats old ladies and kicks puppies in the street?"