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[–] opensourcedeeznuts 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.

That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There's very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here

It's been increasingly noticeable for me. That and the Linux die-hards (can see why the "how to tell someone's a Linux fan" meme exist now)

I'm in the same boat with communities as well. Very little for stuff like Destiny or Game Dev, and even when those communities exist they're typically a lot lower in quality.

Only reason I haven't gone back to reddit as my main site is because the mobile app is actually as bad as people say. But I've been visiting reddit communities via web browser a lot more frequently over the past fortnight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Exact same experience here. Small communities may as well not exist. I’ve been browsing Reddit in a web browser a lot more recently because it’s the only way there’s interaction about my hobbies.

[–] opensourcedeeznuts 1 points 1 year ago

I'm one of those Linux Die-hards (well, I use Pop! so I guess I can't be that die-hard) so I actually enjoy the privacy/FOSS discussions, but totally see how it would be annoying.

But yeah I've slowly been moving back to Reddit in-browser because of the spam and the lack of communities here. I won't be caught dead using their app though. If they disable mobile web I'll either stop using Reddit again or find a way around it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lemmy.world is defederated from hexvear if you're looking to be totally free of them. Obviously you would have to join lemmyworld and some people don't want to do that for various reasons, which is totally fine, but you'll get a ton of content without the spam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's VERY noticeable when I'm on an alt account (either to view c/piracy or because the DDOS attacks have .world down) and a hexbear user is in the comments. Defederation was 100% the right decision and I'm eager to block the instance on all my alts when it becomes possible to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm on lemmy.world and there are still commies fucking everywhere.

[–] opensourcedeeznuts 3 points 1 year ago

Problem is I like c/piracy. I don't pirate much, but I do everything I can to avoid ads, and i self-host a lot of stuff, so there's a lot of overlap between my interest and the content there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Are there any star wars or halo communities I should know about? I'd probably follow them.