This platform is almost 100% idealism and politics. Any hobby/technical community goes completely inactive.
Second this. A lotta dumb political crap.
Most of the crap itself isn’t even political. Just dumb crap people from “political” communities.
What I wanted was the style of old school forums to discuss games, movies, sports teams etc and that’s not what this has turned out to be. Was happy at first and as the weeks have gone by I find it’s almost the same as Reddit (and even worse in some ways.)
Way too many political arguments and posts, to the point where it’s a turn off because it’s injected into everything.
I’m annoyed by all those Facebook-type boomer comics you see on basically all meme subs. Reddit culture managed to get rid of them, but for some reason people here seem to love them
Look, sometimes people enjoy brainless humor and that’s okay. People have hard days. Twelve hours in the field days. Sometimes people are tired and just want something easy and that’s perfectly valid.
As the sages of old said, “It’s okay to not like things. It’s okay, but don’t be a dick about it.”
I know, I don’t really care, I’m just replying to the thread :)
It’s annoying but also interesting to see that people upvote different things
Any example? Out of curiosity
This would be the last one I saw. I probably have plenty more examples in my downvotes, but I don’t think they’re accessible on Lemmy :(
Thanks, now I get what you mean
Just lack of numbers. Reddit’s at it’s best when I can use it to discuss some incredibly niche topic. That early 2000s RTS that nobody remembers? Got a few dozen redditors still posting memes. New indie game drops? There’s enough redditors on it that we can talk about it.
But lemmy seems really bad for trying to enjoy any community that isn’t a big political or meme centerpiece. Any particular game or IP that isn’t a lowest common denominator? It’ll get maybe 3 posts a month.
No more interesting discussions of gameplay mechanics or inspirations or character analyses, no burning out an entire workday browsing the top all-time and giggling like an idiot, it’s just dead here.
The same massive numbers that made reddit insufferable for some are what make niche communities inhabitable at all.
It’s perfectly fine to use both platforms and still enjoy the niche subs on Reddit. It’s a shame they’re not all in one app/website but it is what it is.
Numbers are a double edged sword. Yes, Reddit has lots of active niche communities that are active because of its massive user base, but once you get to anything not niche, there are so many users that any sort of constructive discussion is nearly impossible are you’re drowned out from the masses. Using Reddit only for the niche stuff (with ads blocked, of course) and Lemmy for anything else seems like a reasonable solution.
Which early 2000s RTS?
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
An AoE2 licensed reskin that added new mechanics like shield generators and air units. Still have fond memories of it, and it’s been absolutely wild to see that there’s still a community for it after all these years.
Lots of wanna be communists that are well intentioned but have little real world experience
My wife studied sociology, that includes the work of gramchie, Dubois, Lenin, Marx.
I didn’t, but I got plenty of exposure. What’s clear to me is that hardly anyone actually knows what communism is. That includes Allies and opponents of it.
They all think they do. But they really don’t.
It’s really goddamn preachy. There’s a real sense of superiority a lot of users have that I don’t recall as much on Reddit.
There’s also the fact that small communities are dead and it’s next to impossible to grow them, so you’re stuck with the same people on the front page every day.
Chill the fuck out with the linux supremacy. I hate windows too but linux is not as friendly and efficient as you think.
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The amount of people that like to shit on the U.S. constantly… Like damn I get it, we definitely have problems, but people here would have you think it’s like the wild wild west over here… I promise I’m not fearing for my life every time I go out.
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The extreme left views (I’m liberal myself but some of the things people say here really have me scratching my head sometimes)
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The amount of Windows bad, Linux good posts.
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The amount of people that immediately shit on Apple because of privacy, but use an Android device that accesses the Google Play store (yes I know you can install custom privacy roms, but let’s be real, how many casual users are doing this?)
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People always asking if something is FOSS…
These are just a few off the top of my head.
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my pixel 7 pro uses grapheneOS. been using it for ~2 years now. loving it a lot.
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The number of pro-communist posts in here is comical. The amount of anti-capitalist posts is almost comical. Obviously related to some degree.
The lack of posts outside of a few main news and politics communities is frustrating.
It’s sad so many capitalism cheerleaders migrated here, considering most of us are literally here fleeing capitalist greed rot.
Some just refuse to learn. The sunk cost fallacy of “I’ve committed my life to this thing, and no amount of evidence will ever make me accept my mistake as a mistake!”
Should have just stayed to be disrespected by Spez in the name of his profit. He’s a good capitalist.
do you think capitalism is good or something
It’s far from perfect, but it isn’t the cause of every single issue anyone’s ever had like people on here would have you believe
What’s funny is these tankies are making the whole left look bad and I have to remind myself that these people are a tiny minority of disaducated extremists and not to let them put a bad taste in my mouth for anything socialist. I noticed their existence and rhetoric was pushing me right and now I’m realizing they’re very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable. A social democracy is what I look forward to, not licking putin’s aashole.
I’m realizing they’re very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable.
lol no
I agree with your overall sentiment but disagree on them being right wing trolls (which is exactly what the right claims about those who don’t buy every word). There really are people on the left that extreme in real life too and they need to be tuned out. Disagreeing with them doesn’t make you more right leaning either.
Of systems that have been implemented the best systems have been capitalist based systems.
Unironically yes
Capitalism is the economic equivalent of Nature’s own survival of the fittest.
No one will claim that capitalism is being implemented perfectly, that’s for sure, but the number of communist clowns on Lemmy is absurd. Bunch of 14 year olds trying to be edgy.
The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.
That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There’s very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.
Are there any star wars or halo communities I should know about? I’d probably follow them.
Incessant posts about Reddit (and Twitter).
Fuck yes, it’s like hanging out with hundreds of bitter ex-boyfriends. We don’t care about your past relationship, it has been months. Just shut up and move on.
Despite being a techie myself, I’m frequently irritated by how much technical conversation there is on here. I seem to see comments all the time that use some unrelated computer programming concept as a metaphor or a similar non sequitur. It reeks of intellectual elitism and is just a reminder of what a small community we still are. I kind of miss the amount of ‘normal’ people on reddit with more varied interests. That said, generally speaking the quality of conversation on here is really high which is amazing.
I keep blocking any communities mentioning Linux on my feed, yet it still never stops.
Average Linux user lol. Have you tried arch?
I hate that I even have a vague idea what that means.
You’ll have to leave Lemmy altogether for that, I’m afraid. A lot of Linux True Believers here.
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So many damn Linux memes and supremacy posting.
On a more real note though, a bunch of the smaller communities I was part of on reddit, and nearly every specific gaming sub I was in aren’t here, or at least aren’t anywhere near as active.
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Hexbear neonazi tankies one one side, overbearing blocking on the other.
lemmy really needs a way for users to individually block instances
Or common clients like voyager need it. should be doable. Would sell me on a client instantly
Connect
Sync has it
I swear Jerboa let you block entire instances, something I desperately wish Sync could do
