I’ve been on-and-off bored with Lemmy for this reason.
Lemmy (the software and devs) is really cool and deserves praise for a neat platform with a neat idea.
Lemmy (the overreaching community) just hasn’t been very appealing. A lot of the same reasons why I didn’t like Reddit are here and I’m not sure how to feel about it.
Building on the lack of nuance, I think the obsessive complaining about Meta/Threads, $politician, $billionaire, Reddit, or X (formerly Twitter) is among the worst. It’s the same spattering of complaints basically week-to-week, with comment threads parroting the same 8-word uninsightful, exaggerated, or incorrect takes. There’s entire accounts commenting 15-30+ times a day comprised entirely of these “doom-and-gloom” one-liners.
obsessive complaining about Meta/Threads, $politician, $billionaire, Reddit, or X (formerly Twitter) is among the worst
Community gave me feedback and upon reports, I purge Elon Musk whining related posts on c/technology. We just need more active and adaptive quality mods that benevolently moderate.
I totally get what you’re saying, and those things drive me up the wall too.
I’ve ended up curating my feed heavily, blocking and filtering words, users and communities that don’t interest me. Since then, I rarely see any of the whining. If your client supports filtering by keyword, it might dramatically improve your Lemmy experience :)
I make great use of filters on Mastodon and it’s improved my experience tremendously for much of the same reasons over there. On Lemmy I use Voyager so it is an option.
I’m hesitant to do keyword filtering because I also host an instance, and I’m concerned that I’d miss something that needs to be handled. I didn’t really care so much about wanting to keep an eye on stuff until people were posting malicious content affecting other servers a few months ago.
I’ve been on-and-off bored with Lemmy for this reason.
Lemmy (the software and devs) is really cool and deserves praise for a neat platform with a neat idea.
Lemmy (the overreaching community) just hasn’t been very appealing. A lot of the same reasons why I didn’t like Reddit are here and I’m not sure how to feel about it.
Building on the lack of nuance, I think the obsessive complaining about Meta/Threads, $politician, $billionaire, Reddit, or X (formerly Twitter) is among the worst. It’s the same spattering of complaints basically week-to-week, with comment threads parroting the same 8-word uninsightful, exaggerated, or incorrect takes. There’s entire accounts commenting 15-30+ times a day comprised entirely of these “doom-and-gloom” one-liners.
Community gave me feedback and upon reports, I purge Elon Musk whining related posts on c/technology. We just need more active and adaptive quality mods that benevolently moderate.
I’m glad to hear your community raised this up and that you’re receptive about the feedback. I’ve subscribed and will give it a shot!
I totally get what you’re saying, and those things drive me up the wall too.
I’ve ended up curating my feed heavily, blocking and filtering words, users and communities that don’t interest me. Since then, I rarely see any of the whining. If your client supports filtering by keyword, it might dramatically improve your Lemmy experience :)
I make great use of filters on Mastodon and it’s improved my experience tremendously for much of the same reasons over there. On Lemmy I use Voyager so it is an option.
I’m hesitant to do keyword filtering because I also host an instance, and I’m concerned that I’d miss something that needs to be handled. I didn’t really care so much about wanting to keep an eye on stuff until people were posting malicious content affecting other servers a few months ago.
Ah! That rules out filtering. I don’t envy what you have to trawl through all the garbage to keep the rest of us safe!