Lemmy is a bigger echo chamber than reddit (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by willis936@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I find the quality and variety of discussions on the fediverse to be lower than what I had on reddit. Lemmings have strong preconceived notions and little interest in changing viewpoints from new information. I think I'll be switching back.

Edit: you'll find that most of the comments deny any shortcomings of the culture and go directly to invalidating my opinions via character assassination. If lemmy was a community that actually stood for the ideals which it espouses it would take constructive criticism in the spirit in which it was intended. QED.

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[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Why not just access via browser? If they try to hit you with the "unverified" or "NSFW" content pop up, just put 'old.' before reddit in the URL. I refuse to put that shit app on my phone for spez to use as a data farm.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

old. is unusable in mobile browsers.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Apart from having to zoom a lot, it’s still manageable. I’m on IOS, and I have both old and new reddit as bookmarks on my homescreen. Then I have SinkIt for Reddit that makes the mobile browser version more tolerable if I choose to not use old.reddit. Never needed to install the official app.

[-] TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I do! Firefox with pretty much everything blocked. It's just annoying that Spez has made it so I basically have to

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