I use a few social media platforms at the same time. I’m used to seeing the same things on each platform. That’s how the internet has been for years - you read the same things on the same five sites.
To be fully transparent, Lemmy isn’t at the top. I don’t post much and I lurk. Sometimes I post a comment here and there.
But this past week, I’m seeing more and more interesting content in the “Everything” section of Lemmy that I didn’t see in my other social media feeds. New communities and more interesting convos.
Uncertain if the fediverse has gotten a wave of new posters, some algorithm has changed, or every other social media company is sucking more and more thanks to America Team Police…
Just wanted to share my extremely limited anecdotal non-fact checked viewpoint.
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The thing that I love about Lemmy is at least it’s not as infected with bots as other places. It’s the equivalent of going to rancher’s market to get my spicy comments and bickering ya know.
Definitely! I’ll look at the upvote counter(stupid me I know) and think to myself ‘oh that’s not much engagement’ and then remind myself that it’s actually real people(most likely) and not just bots.
the equivalent of going to rancher’s market
A few more bugs, way less poison?
It’s much more peaceful and organic than other platforms. I’m glad I removed reddit from my life two years ago. I don’t miss it one bit.
how do you know it’s not bots?
shugs if they’re good posts with engagement, i might be down with it :)
yeah thinking of some of the ppl ive met on the internet, id rather be talking to a bot lol… jkjk
but i think finding out after the fact that i was interacting with a bot somehow seems soulless… like, something i like about the internet is the (small) feeling of still being connected to the world. and that’d be lost if i knew i was interacting with a bot. i imagine there’s people who feel differently, but i think that’s nuts. if im interacting with a bot, i want to know it.
also like, in responding to you, i hope to further some intelligent discussion and positively affect the world. if you’re a bot, then that’s hopeless. or maybe im just affecting the ai model positively, idk.
Bots vs people
You think there are a lot of bots on here? I noticed a few influence agents pushing israeli bullshit, forget the instances. They had a suspiciously large number of votes for them. Others are grinding axes, hard to say which might be influence agents necessarily, but plenty that could be, pushing wrongheaded opinions that when challenged with reasoned arguments reply with personal attacks and obscure the issue with slander. But that is learned behavior from the top down so it could be they just emulate rotten people.
You could be right: The bots have been very bad but I agree that I’m seeing them get shutdown faster lately.
Yeah I think So, bots.
There seem to be more and more comments and I have seen posts with almost 1000 upvotes in top 24h in ALL. It was usually more around the 300.
Not sure about divergence, but there are definitely a lot more interesting posts now. I’ve tried fediverse (kbin) when the reddit API shit happened. I’m a gamer and there weren’t many interesting gaming posts at the time so I returned back to Reddit like a week later. This time with the Discord bullshit I gave fediverse another try and it’s so much better now. It’s still not as many compared to Reddit but at least there are actual content I enjoy scrolling.
I’ve been noticing a rampant increase in bot farming attempts, so that’s at least a signifier that we’re definitely becoming popular with the regulars
It’s always amusing browsing all with ‘new comments’
How so? I check that one occassionally, am fairly new to lemmy, I didn’t notice all that much different about that one but idk.
Oh it’s like old forum mode, where comment in an old thread bumps it to the top. It lets you see if people are still replying in a week old thread
As more of the world is moving into the #boycottUS movement more people are moving to open source alternatives. I personally wish more people would move to more open source things rather than alternative closed source things that could be sold to a US company.
Exactly. It’s like people that move to Bluesky, which is under private control, and then are shocked when abuses start there.
The problem is exactly that social spaces shouldn’t be privately owned and a source of profit. Until you address that, the slop hellsites will always wind up that way.
I decided to look into Lemmy in the last week. You’re welcome!
I come for conversation. Granted its just snippets here and there but im not here to got links or media dropped on me without context.
It feels a lot more organic. Once in a while, I get into a heated argument where we go back and forth.
But it doesn’t feel like I’m arguing with an obvious troll. Just two people with disagreements.
On Reddit, argue with someone and they go, “Yeah will you’re a cuck and you post on lolcats” and then you find out theyre a Indian teen or a bot.
I mean im sure many folks are all sorts of ages. I have blocked accounts were the responses are swears or other bull trump.
same- I come cause I reddit banned my 14 year old account cause of a trigger happy mod. Lemmy gives the vibes that brought me to reddit in 2012. I try to stay away from the political threads cause of the surveillance state but oi can’t really help myself
It comes and goes here
America Team
Isn’t it “Team America”?
Fuck yeah!
They may not have seen that movie but its incredibly correct. :)
yeah I agree to I avoid “All/Everything” and just build my fave feeds:
Browsing “all” I can get through “top 12 hours” in about 30 minutes.
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
Yeah and no. When I moved from Reddit, which I also browsed on /r/all it would be an ever ending stream of content.
When moving to Lemmy the amount of content was much less, even more so in 2023. It’s been getting better and better since then.
It was a shock at first and my immediate reaction was of disappointment. However it quickly became apparent how addicted I was to the phone, and not having the content and an absolute refusal to go back to Reddit, meant I started living.
Lemmy has been an absolute plus to my life. I am grateful.
Well said!
I find that I often use Lemmy to point me to music, books, movies, etc. instead of just being an end in itself.
Also I find myself posting more. The fact that niche communities tend to be smaller means that I can be an important part of those communities.
If I didn’t like Motorhead I’d still be on reddit. /s
I think it’s partly because reddit has become an overflowing bucket of shit where bots accuse bots of being bots and real humans get permabanned for breaking bs rules or saying no-no words.
Like “Linux” in linuxsucks101…
honestly it’s really not
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I’m using Sync (I’m lazy with getting new apps and it hasn’t pissed me off yet) and the button is called “Everything”. So I guess it’s the All section!
As someone who used Sync up until I was forced to replace my phone recently, I recommend Summit.
Sync is no longer developed I don’t think. Thunder is the closest and majorly configurable.
That explains the “sync” logs I’ve been seeing! Is sync a good user experience?
Sync was a fantastic Reddit client (I started using it back in 2016), then during the API debacle the dev turned it into a Lemmy app and frankly it was the best on the market by a wide margin. But then he just vanished, and various things have gradually stopped working as it’s not keeping up with the latest Lemmy updates. When upvotes stopped working a few months ago, I bit the bullet and have now moved to Summit, which has the closest user experience to Sync of all the Lemmy apps I’ve found (although it doesn’t have anywhere close to the same level of polish as Sync did).
I love Sync but be aware that it is no longer being actively developed. It has some bugs that will never be fixed, and might break entirely in the future.
I’ve been using “Thunder” and so far it’s done a pretty wonderful job of things. Very easy to view and scroll on a phone. A lot of options you can set and customize.
Thunder was still not quite what I was looking for last time I tried it. I am very happy with Summit now, personally.
Haven’t tried summit. Thunder is pretty close to a clone of what I was using on reddit before the api fiasco they had and I bailed. Relay for reddit.
Swapped to voyager as my main, thunder doesn’t let you reply to dms which is annoying every once in a while.
Does it not? I never get dm’d. Lol
You can view them but can’t reply. When digg needed invites I was giving codes to ppl in dms and couldn’t there.zl
Has the developer confirmed he’s dropped the project for good, or is he still just MIA? I know he’s gone over a year between updates before, so unless he’s announced that he’s done, there’s still a small possibility of an update in the future.
This is longer than he’s ever been MIA for before, this time I think it’s about 2 years since the last update, and there are several literally critical bugs. But this is the downside with absentee developers like that, you never know for sure whether it’s abandonware or not. But he seems to be actively working on other stuff still so I just don’t think Lemmy took off enough in popularity for him to feel like it’s worth his time monetarily. Makes sense if this was always more of a business than a passion project, which is the way it appears to be to me.
The least he could do would be to just say that he is done developing the Lemmy app. Just vanishing is a dick move.
Especially when one of the apps payment models is a monthly subscription. I hope most people have cancelled by now, but subscriptions tend to be sticky, which is partly why buisnesses like them so much.
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I’m sure that’s what they mean. I scroll with “New/All” and this is a fantastic way to read new stuff you have never heard about BUT the caveat is: this is an enjoyable scroll ONLY after you’ve developed a good block list of users, instances and communities. Otherwise, you’ll get inundated with the few but very vocal and toxic communities that make Lemmy feel like a clone of Reddit/Twitter/etc.
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