• MetalGeeK
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    1 year ago

    New to Lemmy,

    Which instances would everyone say is the least reddit powermody? (I’m sure none is the answer, but if you had to choose)

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      Probably lemmy.ml, the official instance.

      I know they allow some instances that sole purpose is to hate on liberals, which is annoying to see so many aggressive political posts (any extremest is annoying), but they are easy to block yourself.

      Beehaw is good, but they de-federate EVERYONE. I see posts from the admins there nearly daily talking about new instances they are de-federating from today. They also disabled down-voting, and community creation.

      https://beehaw.org/post/798826?scrollToComments=true

      https://beehaw.org/post/567170?scrollToComments=true

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        I think it’s awesome that they are disabling downvoting. One of the worst things about reddit was that comments were downvoted and authors deleted their comments because of it. All because of sensitive snowflakes.

        And as for defederation, they have 100% right to do what they want to protect their community. It’s a community that is used to being disliked or hated. It’s a very good thing that they can have their own popular instance on the web without being forced to moderate hateful posts.

        Put it another way, should they be forced to moderate hateful posts so you and I can enjoy seeing their posts? I think we are fine without it, and specially knowing that they are happier this way.

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          Beehaw is lovely and everyone is free to do as they please, but I genuinely think everyone on social medias should be striving for something like what Beehaw is. It’s a pipe dream, but trying to aggressively foster positivity and counter outrage is just good hygiene. Negativity breeds negativity and it’s extremely difficult to keep spaces positive, but I think there’s also a path dependence here that has made the internet so much more toxic than it needs to have been, even off of other social medias which have encouraged that exact toxicity for the ease of clicks. It’s frustrating seeing all the misrepresentations of what beehaw is, out and about, but oh well. Appreciate the levelheaded view on the defederations.

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            1 year ago

            It’s because of the karma system on reddit. It’s easy to start caring about that and then the downvotes matters.

            I guess here on Lemmy it doesn’t actually matter.

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              1 year ago

              I actually enjoyed collecting downvotes as much as upvotes. Not that I would specifically try for it, I just spoke my mind.

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        1 year ago

        Cool. I signed up for the right one then.

        It’s wild browsing Lemmy and it’s full of users that think reddit wasn’t biased enough in one direction.

        whoo lawd.

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          1 year ago

          People are wary of alt-right folk taking over Lemmy like what has happened with most alternative social media. Maybe too concerned, who knows

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            1 year ago

            That’s what federation is meant to solve. And “alt-right” is a subjective, overused and regularly abused term anyway.

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          The first people to get kicked off of reddit are the shit stains that no one likes. It’s to be expected. Of all the reddit alternatives, the fediverse is the least extreme, IMO.

          Fortunately we are now in the voluntary migration period, but it’s only comfortable for those of us that can stomach the less desirable elements and primitive UX. It’s then up to the rest of us to make the place tolerable for normies, if we choose to do so.