I really want to like it too. The UI experience on kbin has been good enough that I have stuck around despite the issues. Plus I like the culture of the site and the users I share it with. It would be a shame to leave it.
But this glitch in particular has really hampered it's usability for me, and has me thinking if I should have my primary account elsewhere until thinks get more reliable there.
Commenting has been fine, but posting threads on the otherhand has been broken for me over the past 24 hours, and its affecting some other users as well, though it might not be affecting everyone.
What happens is I'll post a thread or a photo in a community, and get this error message. I refresh, the post appears in my profile, but not in the community I posted in. I'll get some other weird glitches too, like after some time passes, it becomes visible to others, I'll get replies in the thread, but won't be able to see them or reply, and so on.
I've encountered bugs on kbin before, but this one has been the most devistating cause it affects my ability to even post content. Before I would only get this error when upvoting on some threads, or when I tried to block a spammer.
I've been trying to be more willing to listen recently. Of course there are some people who don't want to have a dialogue and will just post their anger and run. I don't engage with these posts cause the user was looking for a reaction rather than a conversation.
But if someone is willing to explain why they feel the way they do about something, willing to hear criticism, and perhaps even ask me questions, I'm more likely to engage with them.
If I had more control over the types of ads I saw, I would accept this. Often I'm shown something very unpleasant in order to sell a dumb mobile game or something. If any of them had to follow the same rules many content creators had to, they would never be allowed.
The state of ads right now feels like what if Elsagate videos were mandatory to watch? If I really want to support a creator, I donate to them.
Honestly, I would rather Lemmy attract its own community naturally rather than it be the place all redditors pipe into. I think most people who have already come from there can agree the culture is not really conductive to quality discussion, and we've started to see some of that leak into Lemmy as well.
Rather than just copy/paste reddit's users and culture, we should try to develop both on their own. Create an environment that users want to spend their time on. Then through word of mouth on other platforms they entice people here. I don't think just being the place redditors flood after every fuckup is healthy for the growth of the platform. As a Mastodon user, I'm kinda glad it isn't the primary platform Twitter refugees are flocking to.
I honestly prefer fediverse remain as that complex open source alt, because it's one of the few filters we have for users here.
I honestly don't believe rapid growth is healthy for any platform, and we've even seen it here with how comments and memes are getting increasingly vitriolic and offensive. Fuck, antivax memes are starting to appear on lemmy.ml's meme community.
I'm starting to think Beehaw had the right idea with vetting users, because there people here who think Lemmy should be another 4chan.
If there is one thing I have learned from lemmy so far, is there are a lot of weirdos on here with an axe to grind. world and ml get regularly DDOSed, there was the time when world got hacked and got a ton of horrible stuff posted to it, and there was that one user who claimed a lot of communities and sat on them, only to vow revenge when they got banned.
Meant it to be more of an all out brawl of the different groups, but realized it looks like people are cheering on the libertarian after it was too late. Oh well, at the very least I think it also shows Lemmy's general disdain for tankies.
Roundcat @ Roundcat @lemmy.ca Posts 2Comments 94Joined 2 yr. ago
Gaaawwwd! >_<