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[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

I've got no problem with the communists. I like having a part of the internet that isn't completely commoditised and filled with ads and people trying to sell side hustles. I hate the search function.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

What I like: flexibility for clients,nice people,etc.
What I dislike: not every community is here and some of the communism here as well as finding a instance you want is not the easiest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

What I like: The effort and persistence of the developers

What I dislike: The ActivityPub protocol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

like: people are nicer here!! it also still has the old forum/chatroom vibe, and if the admins suck on an instance you can just. join another. and still subscribe to communities from the old instance. modlog is also pretty cool, allows for transparency between mods and users. i also cant doomscroll because like the other person said, there's an 'end' to it.

as well as editable titles lmfao

dislike: niche communities are hard to find, and the ones that do exist are usually empty. also some of instances' ui/css is extremely fugly and i physically cannot use it (why i left the fediverse before) (also the nice css was one of my reasons for joining dbzer0). also the tankies, but at least they're contained within hexbear, .ml and lemmygrad.

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

What I like: It is definitely nicer than Reddit was.

What I dislike: It lacks some of the communities I was frequenting in Reddit when it was good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It's still in the sweet honeymoon period before getting ruined by redditors who compulsively shit on everything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Like: It's not Reddit.

Dislike: The userbase is too small and there are way too many circlejerks in some communities and you get bashed to hell if you dare to disagree with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I'm not sure about the circlejerk thing. I am vehemently anti car and would like to circlejerk on one of the many "fuck cars" communities, but any post that gets some attention gets filled by comments of people not from those communities.

So I very often see posts where I agree with the content but the discussion and the comments are all over the place, from car apologists that are like "but IIIIIIIII live in the woods therefore public transit is not feasible for anyone", and it makes "circlejerking" difficult.

Like, if you have a community about mushroom and want to have enthusiasts discussing mycology, it'll be fine until a thread becomes popular and fills with users not from that community, asking what is mycology and why they should care.

To be honest, I had the same issue on reddit too and that's a major reason why I stopped going there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

The sidebar says email is optional but it's required to sign up, and your required to wait for approval before you can post.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I like the relatively sane moderation compared to Reddit.

I dislike the heavy far-left/communist presence here. I’m a lefty myself, but a lot of people here are extremists in my opinion, little better than the far right.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Please tell me which subs you go to find extremist leftists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

They’re all over the place, but I suppose I encounter them most in the news and politics forums.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean iunno about subs but for instances hexbear is largely known as the tankie instance. For the other kind of extreme leftists, the anarchists seem much more spread out even than they were back on reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm a new user and I don't know the lingo yet. Can you tell me what a tanky is?

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

I wish I could filter communities by language.

Also one thing I like is the open war we have with memes with censured bad words for fucking fuck's sake

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

I think the problem is that people think the memes are created by the person uploading, as if they chose to censor it.

Someone is just sharing a funny they saw on Instagram, there's not much more to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Yup I know, some people uncensor the memes before posting and that always makes me laugh

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I dislike that Lemmy is such a left-wing echo chamber. Reddit had a much wider variety of opinions being voiced openly; on Lemmy, there’s almost none. It doesn’t take long to figure out what’s acceptable to say here and what isn’t. It’s a kind of self-gaslighting because it can make you feel like the opinions of the average Lemmy user represent the wider population when that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Also, there are almost no blue-collar workers here, and most discussions revolve around office jobs and big city life.

EDIT: and the extreme levels of cynicism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The US has a left lean ("left" by US standards). What I mean by that is it's not an even split. The majority of Americans lean left. The only reasons the right has any power in this country is due to the first past the post voting system, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the electoral college.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I meet Trump supporters everyday. I see signs on the lawn in every town. I hear them speak in media regularly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Personally don't like the constant echoing of political positions or takes but that's in my experience equal on both platforms.

I cba. The thing I like more on Lemmy is slight more civilly discussions or what's being shared.

Just hate how its always have to be polarized to what side you lean on ot emphasis on.

Defaulting on the American aspect of things as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Defaulting on the American aspect of things as well.

As always ofc, but I feel like less so here. Though the Western aspects are still predominant for sure - UK & EU as well as USA.

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[–] bpt11 7 points 1 day ago

I have loved my time with Lemmy so far. I feel like people are much kinder here compared to Reddit, it feels like a genuine community of people that are willing and able to help one another out and chat and talk, without the people of Reddit that just bully and make fun of for no good reason other than just because. I think that’s the biggest reason I prefer lemmy over Reddit, along with the benefits of being decentralized and federated.

But I miss the near infinitely larger user base on Reddit and the things that come with that. On Reddit I can find a community for pretty much anything I can imagine. I’ve always loved using Reddit as a tool to help me learn, because regardless of what it is I’m learning I can find somewhere that I can ask any question I could think of, and 9/10 times someone out there out of the millions of Reddit users can give me a decent competent answer. That’s my favorite part about Reddit. That is, if they don’t just call me stupid and tell me I’m an idiot or something like that.

But I feel hopeful that Lemmy can get to a similar point some day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It takes some time to block out stuff to make Lemmy usable. So much anime, bots and dumb American politics.

It's nice there are a bunch of apps for Lemmy, but using it without an app is not very welcoming. It needs a lot of improvement (e.g. manually compose urls to subscribe to communities on other servers).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Honestly I've been raw doging Lemmy. I chose an instance that doesn't block anything and I haven't blocked a single thing. I just scroll past the politics and usually sort by new comments. I don't see many bots at all

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Like

Editable titles

"All" here vs other social media is much better

It's more likely that arguments are civil. There are still quite a few venomous arguments but I've noticed that it it proportionally less.

On Reddit or Facebook, if you didn't like a group you left and made your own. If you didn't like the admins, tough shit. Here, if you don't like the admins, you can use a different instance.

Likes and dislikes are separate, and are in some cases viewable who submit them. I feel like this keeps people a little more honest.

I like the modlog and transparency. It's so much easier that when someone complains about unfair mod action, to see if they are in the right or exaggerating.

There is an "end" to Lemmy. There isn't just infinite content to scroll through.

Dislike

Smaller user base means that niches that Reddit filled just aren't here.

There is an "end" to Lemmy. There isn't just infinite content to scroll through.

Neutral

The types of common negative personalities here are different from that of Reddit. Reddit has more misogyny, classism, antinatalists, and obnoxious atheists. (As opposed to the chill atheists.) Lemmy has quite a few people that are pretty shitty to those that are disabled or cannot get out of some situations. If you cannot work towards the greater good without any rest, can't escape a bad situation, or can't just extend yourself further, you are trash. There are also more fringe beliefs here. I do like it because of the different perspectives, even if I very strongly disagree. (It makes me think!) Unfortunately we still have the dumbass arguments about generations but you can't have it all.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Dislike: every post inevitably has someone complaining about capitalism, Trump, police, Musk, …

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Likes: the small community, traditional forum vibe. No ads, no oppressive corporate hand to keep things advertiser-friendly. Interests and views tend to align, but I can have a healthy disagreement on many issues with most users here. Only a few famous borderline trollish users that aren't fun to chat with, most overt trolls are quickly dealt with.

Dislikes: heavy use of downvoting simply unpopular opinions (a mild annoyance). Difficult to pick between posting in a rarely active niche community and a very active but general community (sometimes I just crosspost). The threat of centralization, with Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml having by far the largest communities (I would like to see more active communities spread across sites, though I make an effort sometimes to comment on different servers). Some big features I'd like to see that still seem far from implementation, such as multi-communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Btw, both Mbin and PieFed have "categories" of multiple communities, so that you don't have to sign up to or explore each community entirely on its own.

Also, you may find it interesting: lemmynsfw, lemm.ee, and sh.itjust.works each have significantly more active monthly users than lemmy.ml. Though lemmy.world does have something like 80% of them on just that one. https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active_month

Until 0.19.6 comes out of beta and Lemmy.world upgrades to it, it's actually hard for any other instance besides it to remain up to date with content.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I like the way Lemmy functions, with things like an open moderator log and the way that instances can be created to prevent too much control from one singular instance from pushing people completely off the platform if they have bad moderation, for example.

I don't like the users. For every one user that is nice and wants to have a legitimate conversation, there are like 300 that just want to fight/argue or spew politics into a non-political conversation. The number of users I have blocked on Lemmy is far longer than the amount of users I ever blocked on Reddit, and my Reddit account existed for about 10 years. This Lemmy account has only been around for about 1/10th of that.

One of the biggest strengths of Lemmy is also one of its biggest curses. Due to its federated nature, anyone can create a new instance. The problem with this is that particularly nasty users can keep creating accounts on instances they keep creating in order to harass people they don't like. So even if you block them, they just switch to a new account, etc. They can also do this for vote manipulation, not like that really matters on Lemmy but Lemmy users seem to have fallen victim to the same problem Redditors had: seeing a comment with 0 or -1 score and then completely disregarding whatever it said, not reading it and downvoting it automatically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Here's a ~~hard~~ (edit: damnit! "hint"!) that when I noticed it, improved my experience on the Fediverse enormously. Enough to convince me not to leave it outright as I nearly did. Pay attention to what instance someone is from. It's no 100% guarantee... but it's not useless either. This is like 1000% more relevant for someone on an instance other than Lemmy.world, but it still helps for you too.

The aggressiveness also varies by community, so likewise, some of those are just straight up worth blocking (so that you don't keep forgetting and end up replying in it yet again and again) and finding alternatives for.

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