• ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    being flooded with links with clickbait-y titles. back in may more posts were organic.

    edit: what communities have good content made by users? i seldom find intriguing discussion on comments, but few posts are engaging on their own.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    People saying how it’s no better than Reddit, without contributing anything but vitriol and negativity.

      • folkrav@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Interesting, I feel the opposite. I have had a few run-ins with… interesting people on here, but nowhere near as bad as on Reddit.

        • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          What subs were/are you on? I mostly only go back for my region-specific meme sub, so I guess it makes sense that there is less negativity. Plus sometimes searches with site:reddit.com

          • folkrav@lemmy.ca
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            4 months ago

            I don’t go on Reddit anymore except when some Google search brings me there hehe. I used to be mostly on gaming, tech and programming subreddits, plus a handful of hobby related subs like /r/mechanicalkeyboards, /r/fountainpens, and so on. Very little shitposting/memeing going on, admittedly.

            I’m too lazy to type site:reddit.com, I just append “Reddit” at the end of my search query lol

    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I feel like they’re a small minority of people who came here expecting it to be exactly like Reddit, but “better” without any clear understanding of what that actually means lol

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    The repost bots syncing vapid content from Reddit.

    “Lemmy isn’t Reddit” but here are hundreds of communities that have no engagement outside of a bot mirroring Reddit content.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Block lemmit.online dude. Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months. Or block @bot@lemmit.online, because Lemmy has supported blocking users for even longer.

    • robocall@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I never knew the joys of spaghetti hentai until I saw a reposting bot on Lemmy. RIP spaghetti hentai bot. I’m not sure why it died.

    • folkrav@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      I’ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?

      • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.

    • juliebean@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      “communities”

      kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it’s just a bot talking to itself.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It feels more like a community.

    Like it’s not quite what message boards used to be, where every user seem to have their own unique identity that everyone seems to be aware of… But it’s more so that then something like Reddit.

    I’ve seen users call out other users saying things like You must be the guy that posted that thread the other day… Or something like that

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      4 months ago

      I like that a lot of servers do regular “check in” threads where users just talk about what they’ve been up to.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        We used to have this on some of my communities on Reddit. Sadly, even though total activity numbers seem to be back to normal in those subreddits, the casual chat thread is a shadow of its former self.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    4 months ago

    One person saying actually I agree with you on that, and the other person saying NO YOU DON’T YOU’RE CLEARLY A MONSTER AND YOU MUST THINK TERRIBLE THINGS

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      That’s just how people are now. I don’t think it’s specific to Lemmy or even the internet. Most people don’t know how to have a discussion where lines are more blurry than a formal debate that has two opposing sides with completely separate, non-overlapping ideas.

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      No-poop weekend is a huge step down from no-poop November, but I appreciate you folk keeping the tradition alive.

  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Not reading articles and just commenting on the headline. It’s extremely disappointing that habit carried over from reddit.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      I think it’s worse here b/c 90% of the articles I come across are paywalled, so I come to the comments to see if anyone posted the full text & I just see a bunch of comments about the headline.

      • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I don’t find that, but when I do you can often find the page on https://archive.today/ or https://web.archive.org/. You should be able to set it so that you can pass them a url from the address bar using your browser (e.g. Firefox’s quicksearches smart keywords) or search engine (Bangs on DDG, Kagi, searx), if it’s not already linked from the post text.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      4 months ago

      As someone who tries to read the articles a lot of them actually suck. They barely contain more info than the headline and hit you with an annoying pop-up or paywall.

      I would not ever recommend reading any gaming related news article.

      • wanderingmagus@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Highly recommend Firefox with uBlock origin, and there’s an addon called bypass paywalls clean which does exactly what it says.