Ask Lemmy

People calling each and every one an extremist, fascist or nazi for no other reason than they are being blinded by their own inability to understand their counterparts viewpoint. As irony would have it causing themselves to become extremists, often proclaiming they wish voilence or sometimes even death upon other people.

I am forced to see posts in communities I am banned from for having an anti-ai stance AKA a working brain. I didn't block all of them soon enough.

What I am saying is that you should still be able to block communities you are banned from. Seeing them in my feed and being unable to get rid of them is like seeing cockroaches in a kitchen.

People keep supporting socialism when it is painfully obvious they don't know what the word even means.

Not every positive thing the government does is "socialism"

Social programs instituted by the government are not "socialism"

What you're actually supporting is democratic socialism and has nothing to do with communism or socialism as a philosophy.

The fucking politics oh my god, in every fucking community good lord. No way to filter it out either.

I've run into or seen folks who can't walk away from a bad conversation.

One of the most interesting aspects about the Fediverse is also the most confusing one in practice: the communication across different platforms. E.g. the ability to communicate from Lemmy to Mastadon is incredible. However whenever that happens, it's difficult to even realize that it's happening. It could an extremely useful feature, but currently, at least on Lemmy, it's just confusing.

In Lemmy itself I'm annoyed by (too) many things, but mostly they are related to our behavior and stubbornness. Nonetheless, with all its faults overall Lemmy is still my "favorite" social media.

Having to block 30 different communities because they're all literally the same community.

It's even worse for NSFW communities. We don't need eleventy billion communities for the same super niche porn content.

That and people posting the same things on multiple communities because it technically fits even though there's already a niche community specifically for that topic.

1. Lemmy is by and large populated with ex-Redditors, who bring with them some of the same hivemind on certain topics. Eg: Lemmy is very anti-AI or nuanced discussions thereon. Nuclear is bad, etc. Makes bad faith discussions on certain topics almost certain.
2. As everywhere else - there's too much "you're either on my team or you're against me" - though notably less than in other spaces
3. Upvote / downvote counts: these should be yeeted into the garbage pile of history.

Things Lemmy does well

1. Less performative engagement.
2. Less American (but arguably that's still too much for some).
3. Despite it all, a measure of civility still exists. Rare.
4. You can create your own instance and be ungovernable :)
5. No algorithmic engagement bullshit (so far)
6. I don't feel like I have to walk on eggshells every time I post something.

I personally find Lemmy a great deal more pleasant to interact on, with strong pre 2010 forum vibes and I feel that's a good thing. YMMV

TL;DR: There's a lot less "look at me, look at me!" on Lemmy and it's all the better for it.

Probably the lack of diversity among instances.

Everyone is still afraid of defederation, so we don't truly embrace what the fediverse is capable of.

One thing I've found is that people tend to have no chill. I've shared some posts with friends that don't use it and multiple times they've responded with "why are they so serious"

the Nazi-bot repost spam. So fucking tired of seeing twit-shit here

I still don't understand how to navigate the ins and outs of Lemmy and I've been here since RIF was killed

It's full of ignorant twats, just like everywhere else. The only difference is in what they are ignorant about