MaximilianKohler @ MaximilianKohler @lemmy.world

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You clearly didn't read the post because "changing reddit" is not at all what it advocates. It's quite unfortunate that the population here seems to be as bad or worse than reddit's.

Oh, nice. I see you do this for a living. Congrats. You're making the world a much better place.

Not at all! I'm sure that people with poor mental health, or people on the cusp of such, would all benefit from being gaslighted by people with ulterior motives.

Thanks! You and others have made some very insightful comments! The majority of comments and votes in this thread are clearly "organic from intelligent people who fled reddit because it was trash".

I'm glad there are none from people with a clear agenda who asked GPT chat “how can I insult someone and attack them with ad hominems without breaking lemmy.world’s rules?”.

More and more I’m thinking that social media is just screwed. There is no viable alternative to the old reddit in sight. It’s all bots, special interest groups fighting for influence, and low-intelligence people sucking up mindless fluff content and regurgitating garbage.

Even in this thread, the majority of comments and votes are clearly not "organic from intelligent people who fled reddit because it was trash".

A bunch of the comments in this thread seem to be from people with an agenda who asked GPT chat “how can I insult someone and attack them with ad hominems without breaking lemmy.world’s rules?”.

More and more I’m thinking that social media is just screwed. There is no viable alternative to the old reddit in sight. It’s all bots, special interest groups fighting for influence, and low-intelligence people sucking up mindless fluff content and regurgitating garbage.

I'm the one that linked to a plethora of scientific evidence to support my statements/stance.

Certainly possible. There are also many entities that have invested in reddit who have an interest in reddit's continued growth.

Another highly intelligent and well-informed comment. Thanks for helping make Lemmy a high-quality site!

will you make a post on your blog complaining that no one on lemmy want your poop, and then post it on reddit?

Given that nothing about this post or the blog had anything to do with "offering people my poop", I'm more likely to make a post complaining that Lemmy is full of astroturfing and/or extremely unintelligent people. Certainly in no way an improvement over reddit.

I hope the author does step away. I'm concerned for their mental health.

Thanks for your concern. I'm sure comments like yours will be very helpful for people with poor mental health.

Does this make reddit dangerous? Absolutely not.

I think your comments are a huge oversimplification of the arguments I made.

You're on an alternative. They already exist. You're also preaching to people who already agree alternatives are important.

Indeed. I'm sharing information to keep people informed, and hopefully we can have good discussion (leading to action) on the various pros and cons of reddit alternatives.

As much as I hate to agree about anything with this ridiculous person

Why are you accusing me of being a ridiculous person?

All that said, there's a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between craving control and mental health manipulation. OP be out there with a hand glider trying to make that leap.

This is simply ignorance on your end. As I mentioned in a previous comment, there's a link included to more information. Feel free to click on it and learn something new. It's pretty disappointing to see Lemmy users exhibiting many of the worst behaviors of people on reddit -- i.e. overconfident willful ignorance.

A very mature and intelligent response. Thanks for helping make Lemmy a high-quality site.

It’s interesting that whenever I post about this on any site there’s always at least one person who shows up to post random pro-reddit lies. Such as “you were banned for spreading misinformation” or “you were banned for account sharing because you used the same email across multiple accounts”, along with various other insults of course.

The pro-reddit astroturfing on reddit was quite blatant during the recent API protests, but Reddit’s tentacles are far-reaching to other sites as well.

Umm… what?

There's a link included to more information. Feel free to click on it and learn something new.

The main issue is that Lemmy lacks many basic features that are included in Reddit, either by default or via RES and Toolbox addons. I listed some in the OP and the OP link.

I chose Xenforo because it's been around for a long time, is feature-rich, and the most polished/professional software.

I also wasn't considering hosting my own Lemmy instance at the time, which I now recognize as a future possibility, if it continues to develop more basic features.

That seems an argument not to start your communities on lemmy.world.

Lemmy.world was the main one targeted, but they all use the same software and have the same vulnerabilities.

you could just start a community on a friendly instance

The problem is knowing how long that instance will be friendly to you. Will they start blocking other instances you want to interact with? Will other instances start blocking them? And so on...

I'd be interested in your reasons why. The Lemmy limitations I listed are pretty important for me.

It is most aimed at community creators, not users. It's true that users have limited options & autonomy either way.

But from my experience, forums tend to have less of the "mod corruption" issues that Reddit has. Probably because a forum is a monetary investment and they have an incentive to draw people in. Whereas lots of people just mod on reddit for power.

Lemmy only federates Lemmy instances as far as I know. Forums have lots of benefits that Lemmy instances do not. They're way more polished due to being around for so much longer.