They do have a history of removing threads and posts that get too popular though. I remember several incidents where highly upvoted comments and posts about Lemmy got removed for seemingly no reason.

It’s probably impossible for them to entirely prevent discussion about Lemmy so they instead astroturf and try to manipulate the discussion to portray the platform in a bad light. It seems to be an extremely effective tactic, unfortunately for us.

Reddit’s obfuscation of upvotes and downvotes is problematic, and makes it trivial for them to manipulate any discussion if they feel like it. Not to mention their ability to just nuke anything they don’t like with no repercussions.

Analog masturbation just hits different. Or so I’ve been told

If the boot fits…

If you have only been here for a month it’s not enough time to judge if the culture is changing, no?

Also you’re saying two different things, that people are negative and rude and that they aren’t expressing any passion. I think some users are negative and rude, but they definitely still express passion even though it isn’t always positive. Lemmy users have always held strong and passionate beliefs, it’s part of why we decided to leave mainstream social media and use Lemmy instead.

Sometimes those beliefs clash, but I don’t think it’s gotten any more negative lately. Plus it varies so much from server to server and community to community. It’s pretty foolish to paint all of Lemmy with the same brush because really it’s a bunch of independent communities with different attitudes and behaviors that are also able to interact with each other.

I tried removing a bunch of the old hexbear communities. Did that help at all?

Also sorting communities by total subscribers is a bad system. It’s more useful to sort by monthly active users imo.

You can use lemmyverse to sort by active users.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

Feddit.org technically meets the criteria. Along with many other Lemmy servers.

But as far as brands that sell consumer goods, it’s slim pickings. Most of them end up going out of business and/or getting bought up by investors/competitors.

This is a good list of communities.

Are you looking to share your own artwork? Then !artshare@lemmy.world seems like a good option. Otherwise I’m not really sure. You could always start your own community to post in.

If I’m not happy with how /r/knives is run on Reddit, I can make /r/knife to compete with it.

This doesn’t work too well in practice though, as we saw on reddit. If a new user looks for a subreddit about knives, 9 times out of 10 they will find r/knives and if it’s decently active they’ll never learn about r/knife. The name squatters have a massive advantage over the alternatives based on that alone.

Granted, the instance based community system has a similar problem where the communities on the biggest instances will have an advantage in attracting new users. But it’s a lot easier to overturn because you don’t have to use a janky alternative name, and you can easily publicize poor moderation and dissent on other servers.

Without the alternative server component, holding control over certain community names is way too powerful, and over time results in a significant degradation of the usability of the site, as it becomes harder and harder to find the actual well-moderated communities. Using alternative names doesn’t solve the problem, it just provides a temporary workaround. Federation actually solves the problem in the long term.

There is definitely room for improvement on the modlog. But also moderators and admins can view the full removed comment and media, so it’s not like that’s impossible. It’s a hell of a lot better than nothing, that’s for sure.

Okay. I’ve just read like 50 comments from you in a couple different threads, I didn’t realize this all happened today.

Whatever bro. You’re not gonna bring them back. It hasn’t been swept under the rug. And they are hardly the first person to leave the fediverse.

Just gotta move on at this point, you can’t control other servers. They are going to do what they do, and you obviously disagree, as is your right, but at some point you need to accept it and look to the future. You’re not accomplishing anything by continually bitching about what happened in the past.

For the record, I don’t think you’re a transphobe or anything of the sort. I understand your frustration and agitation, but there’s really nothing more to say at this point, just let it go.

Indeed.

Although the private voting feature isn’t all that effective. First of all it doesn’t work with trusted instances (which includes many of the big ones), and secondly it only obscures the voter identity, it doesn’t completely randomize it.

See these posts for context.

https://piefed.social/post/408115#post_replies

https://piefed.social/post/205362#comment_2496068

I don’t necessarily think these limitations are a bad thing, because totally private voting could theoretically be a vector for bad actors to manipulate the visibility of content on the fediverse. This solution provides some protection for the average user but also makes it possible for admins to identify vote manipulation if it becomes a problem.

It’s another type of content aggregator like Lemmy and Mbin. Totally unique software, not just an app.

https://piefed.social/

It’s not as well known because it only started development a little over a year ago, well after the APIcalypse when most of the Lemmy userbase came over from reddit. But it’s been improving rapidly and already has a lot of innovative features that Lemmy lacks. I believe that one of those features is better compatibility with Mastodon, but I’m not entirely sure. It’s also written in Python which makes it easy for a variety of developers to contribute if they so wish.

The fediverse really do be like that sometimes.

But seriously, this is very cool and I love to see people being creative and sharing things like this. I saw your earlier post about this and it seemed like a great idea.

Also Piefed is awesome and it’s great to see more people discovering and talking about it.

I mean, you could mention the fediverse to people you know IRL and get them to join.

But I’ve only done that a handful of times, quite ineffectively, so I can’t presume to judge you.

Ok cool. Tfw there are so many great apps for Lemmy but you can only use one at a time 😔

Maybe this is just a bad angle. Doesn’t look so bad in some other pics.

Mother of God, I did not realize that he’s pushing 70k comments.

Btw are you just joking or isn’t there actually a tool that checks Lemmy profiles and gives a neat little scorecard with some stats? I remember reading a thread where someone linked it but that was a while ago.

Damn is that actually what lemming teeth look like?

Mouth closed: cutest little critter

Opens mouth: 😳 wtf

Tbf this condition is shared by many humans as well, so we can add this to the list of excellent lemming metaphors

I’m not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people away from truly revolutionary platforms.

Of course it has to seem like a plausible alternative, but is it actually decentralized or altruistic enough to make a meaningful difference? I think not.

I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it’s understandable that he didn’t. Also Bluesky isn’t an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn’t stealing so much of our publicity lately.

But beggars can’t be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.