Majorllama

I’m digging that one hurricane in south America that looks lost.

If Biden was too old. Trump is too old

If you need fake Internet points to motivate you to be a good person then you are probably not a good person.

I’m not saying you specifically OP, but just in general. If karma was the only reason someone was civil on reddit that gives off the same vibes as the people who ask why we aren’t out raping and murdering if we don’t believe in God.

That still doesn’t address the fact that not all instances are created equal. And it’s not immediately apparent which instances block others.

You make a good point. The key difference is that some instances block other instances (or at least that has been my understanding of how Lemmy works from my limited time here). So depending on where they sign up they might not even be able to access certain subs.

Plus the “duplicate” subs on reddit tend to be one of two reasons. The original moderators let the sub die or enough people didn’t get along with how the original sub was being moderated and they left to make their own copy. It’s pretty rare that there are two identical subs that have equal engagement.

As someone who is “stuck” here after being permabanned on all accounts on reddit I can say that the number one “issue” Lemmy has is also the greatest part about Lemmy. The fact that every instance can have its own copy of the “same” sub.

I completely understand why someone coming from reddit is going to search up “ask” and they will see a few ask Lemmy subs coming up. At a glance they won’t know which one is “better” and why there are multiple.

Sadly most people will turn around and leave at that point. The average internet user will just go somewhere else the moment they feel lost or confused by anything. The few that might stick through it and make a post asking why there are multiple instances of the same type of sub are likely to be spoken down to by a bunch of condescending nerds that feel superior to outsider idiots. I know that many of you are very kind and welcoming, but enough of the user base are elitist pricks about everything that new users will notice immediately.

Lemmy can’t seem to decide if they want to grow or if they want to gate keep. I think the reality is that as more people are blanket banned from reddit without any reason such as myself that people will keep slowly trickling in.

The only “change” I think Lemmy needs is its user feedback. I have been banned from so many subs for completely unrelated things and without going and looking up the mod logs for my own name I wouldnt have any clue whatsoever. I would just think that Lemmy was broken constantly since it just gives you submitting errors instead of telling you that you have been banned or anything.

The “automod” messages are basically useless as they don’t tell you what rule you broke, which comment it was specifically or who actually initiated the ban. I know they aren’t always actually “automatic” bans because I have gotten messages from automod for comments I left weeks ago. So either they are the slowest and least attentive bots on planet earth or the mods of those subs are using the automod to hide behind as a layer of anonymity.

You make good points. I agree.

Yeah and I completely agree with you, but look at the comments in this thread. So many people are coming off as elitists “why should we make things easier for stupid idiots we hate?”.

Seems that many users here don’t actually want anyone else joining unless they meet their arbitrary standards for intelligence or whatever.

I don’t know if I would say itll “go away” with time. More like it will get diluted over time as more people join with varying stances on things.

See I am smarter and better than you so I know this to be the truth.

/s

I wasn’t gonna say anything but that’s another issue with the userbase on Lemmy.

It’s occupied by a lot of people who think they are better and smarter than everyone else. Not that reddit didn’t also have that problem but the smugness levels are definitely way higher around these parts.

No some people definitely suck more than others.

For example: The French.

Haha

Were the French always a bunch of pretentious elitist pricks or did that only start after some specific event?

Their food is good but it certainly isn’t significantly better than many other places.

They still smoke like chimneys.

They are still pretty misogynistic.

They make terrible cars and pretty much all their manufacturing may as well have their quality control run by Helen Keller.

Their “world famous” city smells like piss and is a filthy mess (unless they decide to clean it up for something like the Olympics).

Their police are notorious for abusing their power and attempting to silence reporters or the media.

Or they could just… Go home. Russia’s economy is going to be feeling the sting of this stupid war for a long time. The social implications of wiping out an entire generation of men is also going to have knock-on effects for a long time.

I feel bad for the Russian people who wanted nothing to do with the war in the first place.

I hope Putin accidentally falls outta a window on the top floor of the Kremlin after accidentally shooting himself in the back of the head twice.

I would be very curious to see where they draw the line lol.

I just checked Gemini and it told me all about blackwater, Waco and Ruby ridge.

I’m not sure if there is an equivalent American history thing I could search that it would bury or ignore but I’m sure someone out there can think of one.

Don’t you hate it when you accidentally drag an object along the sea floor where known communication cables are laying?

God I just did it last week. Totally an accident I swear.