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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lot of linux users here.

I once asked a linux user how his day was, and he said "Marked as duplicate, question locked."

I asked what that meant and he said "Artie Efemme"

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Their annoyance with Reddit users. "Quit trying to Reddit my Lemmy!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I mean, this is kinda just an internet problem in general, but it's just a prevalent here on Lemmy as anywhere else, so it does count as something annoying Lemmy users doing. And that's just general aggression

It seems like saying anything is a great way to get someone downright furious with you. Again, that happens everywhere, I just wish there was less of it on Lemmy. I think FOSS topics are a great example. Just in this thread alone you can see people already getting just... really worked up on both sides of the FOSS subject.

People get really aggressive about what qualifies as a good meme, ffs. And there also just a general culture online (it's died down recently, I think? It was really bad starting in 2016, imo) of humorous aggression, where reacting in really aggressive ways just as a joke is really common, which leads to misunderstandings and causes people to get actually mad if they aren't in the loop of the joke in the first place.

On a bright note however, I have noticed there's a lot less bigotry being treated as acceptable on here. Transphobic memes and stuff of that nature would show up in random communities on reddit a lot more than should ever be acceptable, and they would occasionally (not always) get more support in the comments than they should. Here on Lemmy it seems folks are a lot more proactive in shutting that stuff down before those types get a foothold here. Hopefully it stays that way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, people need to post relevant content in order to have some relevant feed. Also, the defederation from hexbear and Lemmy.grad has helped a lot on the pro china/Russia discourse.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I did not switch from Reddit, but Lemmy really amplifies any niches that are on here to the point of extremism. It also mostly consists of nerds. Would love to see more diverse and open crowd on here.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still talking about R. Get over it! Move on!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Blithely continuing the blatant reposting of the same old submissions, especially the same two dozen years-old Twitter screencaps. Lemmy doesn't even track user karma, and it's still way too small to bother selling accounts for astroturfing! You don't actually have to karma-whore here!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FOSSLinuxPCMasterraceElonTech, Reddit was already a sausage fest, idk what metaphor to even use for Lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I like the people on lemmy. Just wish I could speak German in order to understand the 15% of content that's in German.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The constant obsession with R. Get the fuck over it and move on, OP

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

There is barely a difference in content/comments from Reddit and we act like we are so much better than Redditors

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

There's no chihuahua sub where we all post numerous daily pictures of our weird little dogs then tell each other in droves how absolutely lovely they are.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Not sure if this is a planned feature, but not being able to block instances. I can do that on Mastodon so I expected to be able to do it here as well. Outside of the usual extreme cases where defederation makes sense, that would solve a lot of "lemmy.deez user said this! why doesn't lemmy.nuts defederate from them?" bullshit. Of course there's always the option of changing instance but you're never gonna agree 100% with the owner's choices when it's something you should be able to have control over.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Elitism. People who act entitled to Lemmy attracting whatever crowd they like and not attracting the people they didn't like from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The things that annoy me about some Lemmy users are the same things that annoyed me about some Reddit users (lots of frequently upvoted meme subs that don't work for me, posting ragebait, political compass subs, etc) and I'm dealing with them the exact same way I dealt with them at Reddit throughout 10 years: block and move on. The best thing about this type of forum is that you can heavily personalize your feed by filtering/blocking/muting and you'll still have some reasonably good quality content (which includes both your niches and the potential to discover either general or specific stuff you'll like) thanks to the upvote system.

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[–] HenriVolney 12 points 1 year ago

Not enough of them to build fun and meaningful conversations

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)

These guys under obvious joke meme posts.

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