I just browsed all which I rarely do, but the whole scaled feed was filled with nsfw posts from lemmit.online. What’s up with this instance? It seems they repost everything from reddit to their own instance? It really feels like those instances should be defederated but I at least blocked it myself.
I wonder if anyone actually uses lemmit.online. I’ve blocked it, and seems everyone else blocked it, too. It is good for one thing, in my opinion. Every few weeks, we get someone come up with the idea that Lemmy needs a bridge to pull in Reddit content, to make it easier for Reddit users to switch. And we can just say, it’s already there, point them at lemmit.online and be done with it. But I’ve never heard someone say it adds to this place. In my opinion it just dumps random noise here. And 95% of people don’t like to talk to bots, but want humans to talk to…
But yeah, someone put in some effort to program and maintain it. So I guess it scratches an itch for at least one person.
I need it to keep up with news from very niche groups. Lemmy just doesn’t have the numbers to achieve the same level of information exchange.
Thanks for the report. I figured someone must be using it, but seems you’re amongst a very select few people. Most other people I know who need/want to stay in touch, just go to Reddit instead. I mean the site is still there… And you’ll get the content over there including comments, votes and the ability to talk… But sure, I’m okay with either of that.
But why use many app when one app do trick?
I really only need the articles themselves. It’s more or less a glorified RSS feed. But on the off chance that I do want to read comments or interact the link to the original post is always right there.
Especially with a lot of the content being posted on there is not just nsfw but also super fringe. I feel there’s a lot of uncomfortable things being posted, but I might just be sensitive…
I think that’s just how Reddit is. Maybe a bit skewed by the selection of subs. And unlike other big US american platforms, Reddit has a history of being lenient on NSFW. They’ve always discussed intimacy there, including some niche stuff like posting pictures of their genetalia and letting other people rate it… I don’t know what to say, this is the internet… But yeah, use the features Lemmy offers. Subscribe to communities which appeal to you, and don’t just scroll through the random pile of weird stuff and then complain it’s weird and contains a lot of noise. Use the features to block and mute stuff.
I think all of this is a trade-off. We might want to embrace diversity and libertarianism. At least that’s my own personal take. And in my opinion that includes letting people use the place for mildly weird things which I don’t understand. Of course that doesn’t translate to outright bad stuff. But I don’t think we need to be a ‘smoothed out’ place. I believe it’s better to offer some technical tools to let people coexist. And we kind of have everything in place to do this. I just think Lemmy’s “All” feed is a bit detrimental to what we’re trying to achieve. I’ve subscribed to the things I like to see and I’d say it works relatively well. It’s rare that I see nsfw or cringe posts, other than the usual noise and memelords. The software takes care of suppressing that for me, and I’m libertarian enough to not mind if it exists, as long as I don’t have to watch it. YMMV. If it’s more than fringe, report it to the admins or the bot owner.
Yeah, don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mind them existing, but I don’t want to see it. My mistake maybe by browsing all using scaled sort tho, top is usually fine. But I usually just don’t browse all, I curate my subscribed comms instead.
I’d say this is likely a very specific problem with lemmit.online. I mean since everyone blocked it, there isn’t really anyone paying attention to what the bots do there, or what kind of content is stored on that instance… The active people here might not even notice if it goes rampant. If I were the admin of dbzer0 or another large instance, I’d just defederate and save the new users from making that experience.