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Of course, that's to be expected, with people migrating from Reddit and all, but the title is kind of badly worded.

Feel there's a lot more argumentative and just kind of.. angry users on here. (have you seen Sync fans biting everyone's asses over saying money should be spent funding instances and not an app?)

Live laugh love Lemmy though :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, posted under a video tbag maybe a guy shouldn't get beaten to tears fir stealing cigarettes from 7/11 and I got massdownvited while someone saying they were glad the employee broke company policy of just leaving the fucking guy alone, because they don't want the liability and the losses are negligible.

Like he's stealing from a big Corp tbag steals from it's workers, WHO CARES?! I certainly wouldn't care enough to beat a man with a board!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The lack of bots help. Honestly I wasn't sure how many posts on the old site were made by actual people anymore (or just hired propagandists/"advertisers") .

My last scroll through the front page had the stink of CHATGPT + paid posters/reposters on it and the comments were just repeated deja vu.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m super tired of seeing all this circlejerking over sync and people acting like I’m crazy for not spending money to make an app ad free when I could just keep using my free ad free app

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I use Jerboa because it's fine and it's FOSS. No ads, acceptable content management, and frankly, not being really amazingly fine tuned means I don't want to stay on it forever. I would rather send my money to my instance admin to keep the server running.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not really, actually. More spam though, in that sense it’s more Reddit-y.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I just wanted to read some Strange Planet and Extra Fabulous Comics... Maybe a little Pizzacake... See what the latest memes are... I had no idea what Barbieheimer was until CNN told me...

I haven't used Reddit in a good couple of months, but there are some things I miss. Anyway, I promise not to reply to anything with "This"...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Beans were popular a couple weeks ago. I see more random memes than reddit, it's still a wild wild west of funny memes.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm already having Reddit style debates so definitely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too many bad faith weirdos

The ratio of good discussions to that noise is pretty good though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

With online discussion, there always will be. The only really thing you can do is to know when is the best time to abort a conversation. Especially in Reddit-like social media, when one person is getting downvotes then they are assumed to be wrong, then the hive mind brain kicks in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, for sure

Know when to stop, and also just knowing when not to comment in the first place honestly

I’ve found myself swiping to reply to a comment and just realizing it’s a waste of time when i could be contributing to an actually good discussion instead

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, when I look at the All communities list, I'm not yet seeing an endless flood of groups with "_irl", "circlejerk", or groups for every single damn anime in existence.

So, thankfully, it's not feeling too Reddit just yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

groups for every single damn anime in existence.

Subreddits for small niche interests is the thing I miss most from reddit and the only thing I return for now and then. Maybe I don't care for those singular anime, but I'm glad the people that do have/had it available to them.

Right now I can't watch twitch whole working so the only places to get a quick update on evo (what many consider to be the biggest fighting game tournament yearly, happening now) are reddit and twitter. Not great imo.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, though that's largely because the assholes that migrated tend to be idiots, so it took them a while to get past the learning curve.

Luckily, we have a block function.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit migrant here. I actually much prefer the conversations here. Comment threads are still small enough to be manageable, people seem more patient and helpful, and overall, it's less toxic.

As for the Sync drama, I'm perfectly happy with Connect, but I'm looking forward to Boost, which was my Reddit app of choice.

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