Leraje @ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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It's amazing how many snowflake comedians start crying about being cancelled and then go on to have numerous netflix specials about it. Almost like they were never actually cancelled in the first place but they learnt that if they said they were enough times, the terminally dim people who enjoy their material will pay money to see their bully fantasies played out on stage by an old rich guy.

In my own personal experience, Nextcloud;

• Needs constant attention to prevent falling over
• Administration is a mess
• Takes far too long to get used to its 'little ways'
• Basics like E2EE don't work
• Sync works when it feels like it
• Updating feels like russian roulette

I'm not suggesting hateful content wasn't edited or removed, I'm saying when I went back there was a lot of it that had obviously just been posted. I've no doubt it's mostly gone now if I went back and looked (which I really don't want to do unless I absolutely have to) but my point is that it happens so much and so often that its often there for awhile if a mod or mod team is a bit slow off the mark. It's indicative of the type of user on there.

I also don’t understand this infatuation with “old reddit” when that allowed subreddits like coontown to exist.

I guess when I think about 'old reddit' I mean reddit as it was before there were even subs or when subs first launched. Reddit was created by Digg users who were annoyed with Digg's direction. There was a lot of hope and effort put in to it being 'better' - not just technically but also in terms of ethos. I'm the first to admit I stupidly just ignored the influx of bad subs like the one you mention or jailbait etc. But it's become impossible to ignore to the point where it feels like its a constant drip-drip of hate content that mods are barely on top of.

And even without that outright race (or gender, or sex, or sexuality etc) based hate, reddit just feels to me like there's a constant undercurrent of aggression and sneering. Maybe, like I said before, it's always been there and I was just so used to it I became inured to it but revisiting it after several months away it was impossible to not notice.

It is different. I had cause to go back a week or two ago to look for an old post of mine and I did have a bit of a poke about in my old subs too. It was like a war zone. Blatant no fucks given racism, incel level women hating, transphobia and ableism of the most vitriolic kind. And these weren't just the massive general subs, some of them were niche interest subs where I felt I belonged at the time. Has it changed to become like that since June or was I just so used to it before that that I'd never noticed how toxic it was? Did I just used to shrug and say to myself 'well, that's just reddit'. Literally everyone seemed angry and hateful.

I'm not claiming the fediverse is perfect or free from that sort of shit but either through the practicalities of federation, or better moderation or a smaller userbase or a more mature userbase or a mix of one or more of those things it doesn't feel exclusionary to me. I often see on posts like this some people calling Lemmy a left-wing echo chamber and whilst I do agree there's more people of a left-wing bent on here I think echo chamber is a bit much and is a phrase maybe used by those who live in a country without a functioning left-wing political party. I've not encountered a communist or tankie since Hexbear fucked off back to their kindergarten.

As for the Guardian article, they've fallen into the same trap as I'm concerned the fediverse might fall into by federating with Meta - assuming high numbers equal success or victory. If you have corporate/economics based mindset I can see how that works, but to me success equals a popular, useful community site entirely free from algorithms and other forms of manipulative control. One that isn't gathering data via ads and tracking on its userbase to sell on (lets remember that reddit weren't upset that AI were scraping reddit, they were upset that the company weren't seeing any money from that). A community that grows organically, with all that that implies - sometimes growth might be very slow, it might stop entirely for awhile, maybe even reverse - but the emphasis should be on the people making the community better.

Reddit forgot somewhere along the way that it was the users who made reddit what it was. Look at the stats for r/askreddit - in particular the posts per day and comments per day - look at the trend since 2020. There may well be the same amount of users on reddit, but we all know a certain percentage of them are bots and even if they weren't, just looking at those two graphs tells you everything about people's level of interest in participating on reddit.

The only thing high user numbers guarantee sites like reddit is ad revenue. Nothing else.

If anyone seriously judged me for not being on a particular website I'd have to consider their competency at managing life.

I think it's because, like all good escapist fiction, the setting plays a part but it's the people you remember. On the surface they're novels about the Royal Navy but really, like Star Trek, they're novels about friendship and people.

Keyoxide

I should've been clearer - the speed issues were to do with installation (and updating) rather than running speed. The whole process seemed very slow and hung quite often. But, as I just said to @Varyk, maybe that was a misconfiguration on my part.

I'm definitely not an Ubuntu hater at all, its just the culmination of a few things like the Snaps coupled with Canonical's slightly weird attitude was enough to make me want to switch.

As for LMDE, I definitely recommend it. It's solid as a rock and once I put Gnome on it, was exactly how I wanted it.

The install process mainly - it used to hang quite a lot for me. But, maybe that was something I had misconfigured.

I just found them incredibly slow and I don't like the fact that Canonical have a good go at forcing you to use them, even going as far as not shipping Flathub.

I am in no way an expert - I do use the terminal for some things (node apps etc) but other than that, I use the GUI for everything.

I must be one of the few people who quite likes Snyder's work. Yes it's stylistic-heavy but in terms of Rebel Moon, given it was supposed to be a Star Wars movie, they'd clearly relied on being able to use Star Wars lore in place of some character development. And then, also consider this release has been heavily chopped to be kid-friendly. It was OK. I'll certainly be watching the directors cut and I suspect it'll be as good as the Justice League cut, which was really good.

Just like with Threads, you have to ask - why are they doing it? What's in it for them? How good an internet citizen are they? And the answers for me, just like Threads, are not good for the fediverse.

Some of the replies to people against Threads federating are that those of us who don't like the idea are isolationists who don't want the fediverse to grow. They're wrong. Nobody I know is protesting WordPress federating, or Discourse or Flipboard or microblog or (if it happens) Tumblr. The fediverse getting bigger is not a bad thing. But the likes of Meta and reddit are not good internet citizens. Being picky and having standards about choosing to federate with entities like that is the most responsible thing we can do.

Bumpers, no heel taps!

1. The Aubrey/Maturin series. Now you might think you'd hate a series of 20 novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars because when I finally gave in to my friends constant pressure to read them, so did I. I was wrong, they are brilliant. Very well written and often very, very funny. The movie Master & Commander is based on two or three of them. It's like if Star Trek was set in the 19th century and on an actual ship.
2. The Wolf Hall trilogy. Everyone thinks they know the story of Anne Boleyn and Henry, but this trilogy is unique - set from Cromwell's perspective.
3. Farseer trilogy. Fantasy fiction done right.

I miss some of the communities I used on reddit that are still either quiet or very quiet over here, but I also recognise that unless I ramp up my participation in them, I haven't really got grounds to feel negative about that. Besides, using social media less is a plus to me.

I love there's no ads, tracking and 'suggestions' - in short, no algorithm. The apps are (mostly) open source and the community are appreciative of that.

I used to get news from reddit and can get it here too, there's no difference in quality or quantity. Politically, I appreciate the de-emphasis on hateful content and it helps I'm on an instance where the Admin is on top of their game in that respect. It is noticeably more left-wing on here but since I am too I guess that's not an issue for me. It's certainly way better than Reddit in that respect where I'd stumble across fairly extreme right-wing opinions in (supposedly) non political subs every day.

People seem, by and large, much calmer and more reasonable here and less inclined to attack en masse. I've noticed a distinct improvement in my overall mental health but I think that might have more to do with not being on reddit than being on here.

Lemmy is what we make it. For those of us who came over in the Summer, Lemmy/KBin is less than 6 months old. Let's not paint it into being one thing or another just yet.

There's replies to this post that I can't see whilst logged in. No idea why, a foible of federation maybe.

“We” created the Fedi to have interoperable systems and to give users autonomy over their accounts and their feeds. That’s why there’s an option for users to block other users and even entire servers.

Not sure what the scare quotes round 'we' are for, but anyway, personal autonomy is a great thing, but when your autonomy negatively affects other people's desire to remain on a platform, then its not so much autonomy as selfishness. I'm well aware users and instances can be blocked, but when Meta start truly ramping up Threads we'll be talking hundreds of millions of users and god knows how many domains/instances. Trying to avoid hate is going to become the primary thing some people have to do. Or just leave the fediverse.

No one is doing that.

Yes, they are. There are whole instances out there dedicated to (so called) minority groups who some of the hate groups on Threads, both now and in the future, will come after. They already do this on Twitter, TikTok, etc etc - do you think they'll just not do that on Threads? Or that Meta will moderate them appropriately?

You see it as the Fediverse promoting Meta but we see the opposite.

Is that a joke? You honestly think that by federating with Threads, your average Threads user is going to see the promised land of the fediverse and switch in significant numbers?

I’ve literally never seen anyone say this except FediPacters as a strawman

Then you've not been paying attention.

I try to ease up on the c word when I think I might be replying to an American because I'm aware it has pretty hideous connotations over there.

The screenshot is taken by an Instagram user. It shows an area of the screen Instagram uses to promote Threads to Instagram users by showing them Threads content.

It's not the users Instagram content that is shown but the post Meta are using to promote Threads to Instagram users, that's why it's the same. Lots of users are (or were) seeing it.

If you like Hellripper, you might want to give Pest Control a blast. Modern take on 80's crossover thrash.

Not a clue. I totally sympathise with your feelings on the matter but I've not heard of an instance offering that.