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[–] [email protected] 116 points 8 months ago (9 children)

The repost bots syncing vapid content from Reddit.

"Lemmy isn't Reddit" but here are hundreds of communities that have no engagement outside of a bot mirroring Reddit content.

[–] Pyro 47 points 8 months ago

I just blocked all of them when they started spamming my feed.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

"communities"

kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it's just a bot talking to itself.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I’ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Block lemmit.online dude. Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months. Or block @[email protected], because Lemmy has supported blocking users for even longer.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Every day complaints about capitalism

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, that was a lot of my Reddit, too. Antiwork and work reform were constantly on the front page lol.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You are saying this is a good thing right?

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Constantly telling people to install Linux, completely disregarding any nuance.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Install Linux

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (2 children)

People saying how it's no better than Reddit, without contributing anything but vitriol and negativity.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it does seem a bit more pessimistic than reddit to me, I wonder why it is

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Interesting, I feel the opposite. I have had a few run-ins with… interesting people on here, but nowhere near as bad as on Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I feel like they're a small minority of people who came here expecting it to be exactly like Reddit, but "better" without any clear understanding of what that actually means lol

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago (11 children)

The answer to damn near every question being "the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it"

[–] RandomVideos 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A way to stop this from being the case is the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Linux and the whole FOSS everything thing.

Except when it comes to entertainment. Then it's "Don't touch my Plex"

Decide: FOSS everywhere or where applicable and don't force your vision onto other users.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really? I generally see people responding to Plex stuff by recommending jellyfin.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I've been told the beans are pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Stumble across an interesting community that's been dormant for a few months

Decide to try making my own post there to see if others will follow and get the community going again

Get immediately downvoted by the subscribers who haven't posted anything for 6 months and yelled at for posting something that's not exactly what they wanted to see there, even though it clearly fits the rules

Make a few more posts in hopes of winning someone over then give up because people are being dicks or just not engaging at all

Eventually give up and watch the community die again

This has happened to me several times since I started using Lemmy lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Post food in food porn. Gets ridiculed because my food is an abomination and should not be called by the foods name. See others post butchered regional food that i definitely know the locals will not recognize as that food. That post gets praised for putting an effort. WTF?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Honestly, just keep posting. You'll bend them or they'll start posting their own interests.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It feels more like a community.

Like it's not quite what message boards used to be, where every user seem to have their own unique identity that everyone seems to be aware of... But it's more so that then something like Reddit.

I've seen users call out other users saying things like You must be the guy that posted that thread the other day... Or something like that

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Hey Lemmy, I need a new refrigerator. Are there any good FOSS (preferably federated) options available?"

That and Star Trek memes.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (4 children)

> thread about whatever

> half the comments are discussing how things have failed to federate properly

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The most Lemmy thing for me is that I see more wholesomeness here than on Reddit, I'm not sure if that is the answer you were looking for, but that has been my experience so far.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (5 children)

How people fight the hexbears lol

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The trans flag thigh socks + linux combo memes

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Did you intend to say GNU/Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Talking about Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Not reading articles and just commenting on the headline. It's extremely disappointing that habit carried over from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As someone who tries to read the articles a lot of them actually suck. They barely contain more info than the headline and hit you with an annoying pop-up or paywall.

I would not ever recommend reading any gaming related news article.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it's worse here b/c 90% of the articles I come across are paywalled, so I come to the comments to see if anyone posted the full text & I just see a bunch of comments about the headline.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

People complaining about privacy of everything, including lemmy itself (this is a good thing).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fuckwits trying to spam their YT channel with a 20 minute video containing one minute of information

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Putting "rule" in the title for reasons I don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

I think that's the 196 community. One of the rules is that if you show up, you have to post something, so my understanding is that people just put "rule" in the title to say that they're complying with that rule.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Whack-a-Mole blocking anime posts and instances. With Reddit it was furries. Now this. Ahhhr!!!! :-/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Don't kid yourself lemmy has got furries for days

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