There are pretty much only a few posters that post about hegseth. It’s not everyone. But if you mute those people, it would cut down on your hegseth viewing.
The differences is that you have the power to make a new community or Lemmy site with blackjack and hookers. (Piefed is kind of like that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers.)
Kind of. I don’t think the Internet will ever return to the heyday of Reddit.
Once governments and groups recognized that social media actually does move public opinion, that was the end of good, anonymous social media.
The ways to bring some of that back aren’t great. A community where everyone’s verified is much better, but it’ll be quite different from the Reddit days where you’d have (usually real) ridiculous subject matter experts chiming in on random threads.
You don’t get that with a small, verified population. And when you don’t have verification, well forever now have effectively psyops intending to influence you.
Well we can assume political discussions have a lot of psyops and people with agendas. I appreciate that many of the loudest voices/posters make it very obvious ;)
Some of the craziest niches aren’t on here (like if you clean sewers and septic tanks, DM me, you ought to do an AMA) but I have encountered people replying on mostly tech related topics on programming, linux, asklemmy, no stupid Qs where someone with niche tech knowledge did answer (i couldn’t find the original comment link, sorry). My knowledge is in trains, electricity, Japanese and Japanese electric trains, you can ask me about.
Voat was setup to be a one-to-one clone of reddit, minus any moderation and it failed because it was one-to-one. Lemmy/federation is functionally different.
It failed because apparently the only people who left were right wing nuts so the only content they had was right wing shit. There’s at least some Linux on lemmy…
Its kind of already happening here - just for different reasons.
There is very little engagement on Lemmy besides in a few communities. What little engagement there is - is driven by a few users.
Even broad conversion topics get very little engagement.
I get not everyone wants to be a topic “starter” (i know I don’t), but they can’t even bother to either:
1: just post a tiny comment (look at “what are you watching” in the movies / TV subs on piefed.Social; seems like a real easy topic for anyone to engage in and yet there’s only ever like 10 posts and zero upvotes)
2: upvote topics or posts; While the points don’t matter - they still show and promote engagement.
There seems to be more discussion here if Linux, open source etc & not just the pointless questions that Google can answer. More conversations I enjoy reading responses and opinions. IDK I’m a noob & I like it here.
If you really want a community to take off, you have to basically schedule yourself to make content there.
The lessons from every group I’ve grown (and haven’t) is that consistency is key. You have to develop the habit in other people, and it might take a long time to start.
If you want to be a Twitch streamer, for instance, you have to do it at the same time every day.
I’d note that the same phenomenon exists on Reddit. You’d be surprised how many subreddits on a site much larger are maintained purely by the power of a few posters who feed the community with posts.
I’d also argue that television and movies on piefed.social, per activity, are much more active than what you suggest there.
same. only a matter of time till it happens here too
I’ve just recently moved, and I barely see any difference. Same US politics dawn to dusk, just more Linux and commies.
Block those communities if you don’t want to see them. They won’t be hurt because they won’t know.
There’s some nuance in that
a) I treat US politics as entertainment for the last ten years — seeing Trump crush over Mamdani, are you kidding, it’s top kek;
b) I like to know the zeitgeist on the platform where I spend time;
and c) US politics are in almost every major community anyway, regardless of its topic — just like on Reddit.
I wouldn’t mind not seeing twenty posts about Peter Whatshisname Kegsbreath missile-ing Venezuelan fishermen. I got it the first time.
There are pretty much only a few posters that post about hegseth. It’s not everyone. But if you mute those people, it would cut down on your hegseth viewing.
The differences is that you have the power to make a new community or Lemmy site with blackjack and hookers. (Piefed is kind of like that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers.)
So piefed is the software where the anti-commie zionist nazi’s are fleeing to to escape the evil communist devs of lemmy? Good to know!
Kind of. I don’t think the Internet will ever return to the heyday of Reddit.
Once governments and groups recognized that social media actually does move public opinion, that was the end of good, anonymous social media.
The ways to bring some of that back aren’t great. A community where everyone’s verified is much better, but it’ll be quite different from the Reddit days where you’d have (usually real) ridiculous subject matter experts chiming in on random threads.
You don’t get that with a small, verified population. And when you don’t have verification, well forever now have effectively psyops intending to influence you.
Well we can assume political discussions have a lot of psyops and people with agendas. I appreciate that many of the loudest voices/posters make it very obvious ;)
Some of the craziest niches aren’t on here (like if you clean sewers and septic tanks, DM me, you ought to do an AMA) but I have encountered people replying on mostly tech related topics on programming, linux, asklemmy, no stupid Qs where someone with niche tech knowledge did answer (i couldn’t find the original comment link, sorry). My knowledge is in trains, electricity, Japanese and Japanese electric trains, you can ask me about.
How is piefed going? It looks like a really great alternative.
Absolutely fine. I can interact much better with the fediverse on here except search. I find Lemmy does search functions better currently.
That’s not losing too much. You probably don’t even have to sign in to use lemmy’s search.
Voat was setup to be a one-to-one clone of reddit, minus any moderation and it failed because it was one-to-one. Lemmy/federation is functionally different.
It failed because apparently the only people who left were right wing nuts so the only content they had was right wing shit. There’s at least some Linux on lemmy…
Reddit also mass banned the worse people around that time and I suspect they did it to internationally poison the user base of Voat.
this is actually what federation means to solve.
everyone can make their own lemmy!
I’m just going to leave that to the self-fellating elephants.
you can always go back to reddit if you prefer a centralized system.
Yeah I’m not saying what everyone thinks I am. I’m not smart enough to do it, so I’m gonna let the people op posted about do it.
Matter of time?? The libs of reddit have been infesting here for awhile now
what’s a lib
They mean a liberal.
.ML is a instance for people who support Russia. So they hate anything to do with progressive ideas.
LMBO no .ml is the marxist leninist instance for communists
Whats a liberal
Someone who agrees with liberal philosophy, basically the proposition that every individual has inherent rights & liberties.
Its kind of already happening here - just for different reasons.
There is very little engagement on Lemmy besides in a few communities. What little engagement there is - is driven by a few users.
Even broad conversion topics get very little engagement.
I get not everyone wants to be a topic “starter” (i know I don’t), but they can’t even bother to either:
1: just post a tiny comment (look at “what are you watching” in the movies / TV subs on piefed.Social; seems like a real easy topic for anyone to engage in and yet there’s only ever like 10 posts and zero upvotes)
2: upvote topics or posts; While the points don’t matter - they still show and promote engagement.
Its honestly rather frustrating.
There seems to be more discussion here if Linux, open source etc & not just the pointless questions that Google can answer. More conversations I enjoy reading responses and opinions. IDK I’m a noob & I like it here.
If you really want a community to take off, you have to basically schedule yourself to make content there.
The lessons from every group I’ve grown (and haven’t) is that consistency is key. You have to develop the habit in other people, and it might take a long time to start.
If you want to be a Twitch streamer, for instance, you have to do it at the same time every day.
I’d note that the same phenomenon exists on Reddit. You’d be surprised how many subreddits on a site much larger are maintained purely by the power of a few posters who feed the community with posts.
I’d also argue that television and movies on piefed.social, per activity, are much more active than what you suggest there.