• Snot Flickerman
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    1084 months ago

    If you weren’t sick of gallowboob years ago, prepare for folks like him to become even more insufferable.

    • @[email protected]
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      704 months ago

      Someone made a post years ago of all the super users and I blocked them all and it was a really fun experience until others rose up again and I didn’t have a list.

      I ended up blocking anyone with 6 digit post karma that I came across.

      • Boozilla
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        4 months ago

        Wow, I remember that awesome post. I did the same thing as you. And you’re right, it made for a much better experience for a while there.

        I have discovered blocking early and often helps a lot on lemmy, too.

        • @[email protected]
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          274 months ago

          Lemmy is too quiet though, I block and sometimes tag but I genuinely see the same people in these threads every day, I wouldn’t be long being alone in the platform.

          • @[email protected]
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            164 months ago

            Lemmy should have shined when the API kicked in, but we had a number of users being shouty ass hats that probably helped to drive users away. Fortunately they seem to have quieten down since for one reason or another, but Lemmy adoption doesn’t seem to have increased again yet - maybe one day.

            • @[email protected]
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              4 months ago

              Ultimately the super loud leftists were super annoying. I’m not saying their message or stance was good/bad or anything, I’m just saying that most folks don’t come to places like Lemmy or Reddit to talk political theory. Those lemmygrad hexbear types can’t get through a post about a bump on a log without talking about politics and social theory.

              Conservatives would get the same opinion from me but they are far fewer here, so I have no notes on them.

              • @[email protected]
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                254 months ago

                For what’s it worth, I’m glad the shouty ones were leftists because otherwise I wouldn’t even give lemmy a chance.

              • @[email protected]
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                34 months ago

                They haven’t calmed down, they’re just defederated from most major instances when you add up all the instances they defederated from and all the instances that defederated from them.

                • @[email protected]
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                  34 months ago

                  When did I say they calmed down? They just got blocked by everyone who cares to. Instance blocking is the tits.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    I didn’t say you said they did. My point is that it means they’re one sign up away from bothering everyone else again, they would just need to join another instance that’s federated with the majority.

              • @[email protected]
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                14 months ago

                I didn’t take any notice of which instances they were from. The people I’m thinking of didn’t talk about politics - they were shouty about other things.

              • @[email protected]
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                14 months ago

                It was also loud without much good communication.

                If you’re not that technologically inclined, or not a developer, you’re not going to know what all the yammering about APIs are about, and how it affects your experience.

                The moderators on r/Blind protesting might be all well and good, but it’s not much of a reach for someone to not see how them being impacted would affect your user experience.

                Same for all the shouting about power users, apps, and moderator tools. That’s not a concern for most users, especially the ones who either already use Reddit on the computer, or just downloaded the Reddit app.

                There wasn’t a good, clear, short, coherent message, nor much of a sustained, co-ordinated effort to explain the issue, not what it would mean for users that aren’t that technologically inclined, or engaged.

                It basically ran into the whole average familiarity issue.

            • @[email protected]
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              14 months ago

              It didn’t really help that the protest got sabotaged by moderators who did the protest, and continued using the site while ostensibly protesting. Couple that with poor communication, and it got received as much ado about nothing by a portion of the user base.

              Especially since you had Reddit users who didn’t want to move to another site. It certainly didn’t help that Lemmy is still very immature when it comes to moderation tools/automation, and that if you’re a newcomer, the whole server/instance thing is rather unintuitive if you’re used to the “central hub” type system of Reddit.

          • @[email protected]
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            24 months ago

            Is there a way beside Sync to tag people? It’s the feature I miss most in any other client, and the main reason I keep using that instead of an open source alternative.

                • HACKthePRISONS
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                  04 months ago

                  the experience is a little different, since, instead of seeing articles with a comment count, I see comments and articles in reverse chronological order all together on one timeline. essentially, the Lemmy community “boosts” every comment and article, and I subscribe to the community.

                  it’s a great way to find conversations happening RIGHT NOW but it is not a very good way to see which threads are popular/up voted

                  as far as I can tell, direct messages and user reports are flat-out broken between the services, so you’ll want to maintain a Lemmy account anyway for those uses.

                  if you can get over all that, you might like it. it’s twitter-like.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    14 months ago

                    I think I’ll keep both and see which I enjoy best. Thank you for your explanation, it was appreciated.

          • Boozilla
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            14 months ago

            I hear you, but I haven’t noticed a drop in quantity or quality that I care about. If someone is an aggressive weirdo on here, I don’t want them stepping on my chill. I don’t miss them at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          174 months ago

          I love that you can block by instance though, it’s like wiping out whole ghettos of garbage all at once.