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Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago (9 children)

The comment "This" is annoying to me. Just use the upvote button!

[–] hllywluis 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This. I usually try to avoid commenting just β€œThis” and try to give more explanation why I’m saying that. Feel like that’s the proper way of doing it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Personally I am commenting and posting much more now than ever on reddit. I want to transition to lemmy and see it grow as I refuse to use the Android reddit app.

I am not typing/imagining a comment and then not posting it here either like many people do on reddit. It seems like a good time to become less of a lurker.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago (12 children)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Reddit has a longstanding reputation for being a hive of scum and villainy (like hosting the_donald for years, or kotakuinaction, etc). I really hope that Lemmy keeps with the general left-leaning vibes of the fediverse overall, hopefully being a good space for queer people, women, people of colour, etc.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think you do have to be careful here though. If you're too permissive you allow bigotry, but if you're too restrictive you cut off honest, good faith debate and create echo chamber silos where beliefs are never challenged.

Bigotry should never be accepted but that means non-discriminatory opinions, especially ones you disagree with, should be allowed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Good faith is the key here. I'm all for disagreements leading to lengthy discussions and even some controversy as long as everyone is arguing in good faith.

I can't stand trolling, outright bigotry, and the normalization of literal fascist opinions as a mere "disagreement". If a "disagreement" (you know which ones I mean) will lead to people dying if enabled, I'm pretty happy keeping those ideas out.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

/r/jailbait needed a spotlight in the national news from Anderson Cooper to get dealt with.

But (allowing for the fact that I'm still learning) by its nature I'm not sure the fediverse can stop these things in total, but the particular instances you subscribe to can. I'm unclear if INDIVIDUALS can ban instances (as far as I can tell they cannot) which I think might be a good addition. But instances can ban other instances, and eventually the fediverse will figure out which instances to put in the time-out corner for the rest of us, I think. But it will take time and might be a bit of wack-a-mole.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Posting pictures too much, including pictures of tweets or pictures of news headlines.

Please link to the fucking article.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Mods who are running 10 major subreddits. It gives them too much power to steer opinions.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The shadow cabal that ran Reddit

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[–] taladar 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Getting banned in one subreddit you never participated in for daring to have a comment (regardless of the content of that comment) in another subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I see the same shit in the Fediverse though. Mastodon admins blocking a server just because they refused to participate in a shared block list.

Someone’s going to make a script to ban a non-local user based on your remote posts, I guarantee it.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Can't wait for the screenshot of a Reddit post of a Lemmy post of an Instagram post about Elon tweeting some shit.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Upvote/downvote counts mangling. Just show the real numbers, don't mess with them with an unknown "algorithm".

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Mod culture is always odd to me. I kind of wish there was more community modderation, and less dictators for life running things.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

gatekeeping, censorship, shadowbans from commenting in a different community, echo chambers.

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[–] deva 28 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Mods locking threads because β€œy'all can’t behave” jfc just ban accounts breaking the rules and let the rest discuss

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Realized another - the awards that reddit created were out of control. I didn't mind avatars too much since customization can be fun and it was optional, but the awards are spammed and shown on most reddit clients.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I actually support awards here with the option of hiding them, i think it'd be a good, relatively ethical way to monetize lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

funding is better than monetizing a platform

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As a new community we need to identify and stamp out bad actors immediately and thoroughly (spammers, selfservers, ads disguised as posts, brigading, illegal content, racism, you get the idea).
We can't control if they create their own instances, but we can isolate them.

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[–] hllywluis 25 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Lol I think over my 11 years on reddit I only had 1.6k karma.. And while I love internet points as much as the next guy it's much healthier not to even see an overall count on here. Makes me hope that they don't add it so I don't have to be constantly worrying about what my overall score is.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (13 children)

The forced 'inside jokes' that filled so many threads, so many times you would see a post and be able to predict the top comment and its replies. Hoping that the lack of account karma helps with that.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Flair would be nice, but I think Lemmy should do it its own way with hashtags. It would be cool to search for hashtags within specific communities, subscribed communities, entire instances, and all instances.

[–] LlamaSutra 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

People taking the voting system so seriously. On Reddit people got offended by being downvoted. Sometimes people downvote just because it’s sitting at a low number.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The power that the admins have. While most subreddit bans were justified, in my opinion, it just felt really off for them to have so much power.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Here admin has even more power, except it is limited to their own instance. So it is more on the user to be prepared. You don't want to be too attached to your data on a single instance. The instance might be abandoned, down, gone; the admin might go crazy. And the solution isn't to have the admin be more reasonable. The solution is to hedge your bets on multiple instances and multiple communities.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Shadow banning.. one of the most Orwellian moderation tools ever.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • Karma penalty limits
  • Reposts
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thirsty comments. Puns. Meta humor.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Reposts! The same 20 jokes being reposted on r/funny to the point that they're no longer funny.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A relatively small thing: the 500-comment viewing limit for normal accounts. So many times on Reddit I've been put off engaging with posts with 500+ comments knowing that nobody would see it. It's stupid because comments are just text and unless the software design is absolutely terrible then simple text comments shouldn't take up bandwidth at all.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Funny that Reddit pretends to be saving you bandwidth by not loading comments, but has no problem loading 100MB of javascript bloat.

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