What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!
This may be an unpopular option since I've already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I'd like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing "PORN" on my screen.
At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.
I absolutely hate the love for revenge violence. Stuff like celebration people running over protestors in their cars because they were forced to stop on the road. Or bleeding out after someone got shot when they robbed a store.
This includes that fact that you can basically guarantee every thread contains at least one comment claiming "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"
The “hivemind” ignoring the correct information or even worse, encouraging the wrong information.
Does anyone else remember the whole Boston Bomber fiasco (i.e. We did it, Reddit)?
Please don't let /c/asklemmy become like /r/askreddit, which had half of the front-page posts being the same sex related questions every month.
"Women of reddit, what non sexual thing that guys so makes you horny?"
"What is the sexiest thing you regret doing?"
"How many cocks have you sucked while your cat judges you while waiting for you to feed it?"
It was bullshit.
When someone would ask a good question that you also wanna know the answer to, but then all the "answers" were just jokes bc everyone wanna get upvotes. I dont really mind jokes but those times it was a bit sad, then sometimes no one would answer for real bc i guess they see 10 replies and assume surely one of them is real already.
Also repost bots.
And apple vs samsung feuds.
And sometimes looked like whenever some people try to organize action or protests, comments just spamming that "protests do nothing" or "voting does nothing," or "what is this gonna do," not suggesting any other solution either, almost like trying to encourage apathy? Or discourage action. Sometimes i wondered if those were bots.
Also the r/wooosh when someone didn't understand a joke. .-.
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“Women of Reddit: what’s the sexiest sex you ever sexed (and why)?”
Sponsored posts, banner ads, algorithms, and other advertising-industry fuckery.
A reply that's just "r/(some subreddit name)."
A robot trying to sell stolen fan art printed onto t-shirts.
People childishly self-censoring non-sweary words. "Sex" isn't a bad word, but writing "s*x" suggests you probably shouldn't be allowed on social media at your stage of development.
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Photos of people’s wives or girlfriends - often taken without their wife or girlfriend’s consent - playing video games, with vaguely condescending titles about it “only being the Sims / Animal Crossing” and half the replies being absolutely vile. As a Woman Who Plays Video Games, it was awfully annoying.
Spez
I hope that the mod-user relationship will be healthier here. (Bias, I was a reddit moderator.)
Some reddit mods were crap, this is true. Powermods and sub collectors were real. They did shit up a few communities.
But these people were a very small proportion of all moderators. Most moderators I met were chill, and just wanted to chip in to their respective communities to give back, in a way. Volunteering for internet janitor duty, because no matter how much people use the term as an insult it turns out public spaces need janitors - or they get filled with shit, trash, graffiti (and not the cool kind either, mostly badly drawn swastikas). It's not a position that should be glorified, or anything, because that's weird, but I hope that some semblance of basic respect can be maintained here on Lemmy - both ways, meaning no powermods but also no defaulting to assuming mods suck.
I happen to love megathreads. When a major breaking news happens I want to discuss it with the community, not read a dozen smaller threads repeating the same.
"This." These comments add nothing to the discussion. I get that people want to show their support an argument/content, but that's what upvotes are for. If you want to show your support for something, then at least try to think of something worthwhile to add to the discussion while expressing your support.
Spez
During the final days I spent on the platform, Reddit was starting to become very generic. Many subreddits, despite being about theoretically different topics, devolved into a generic Reddit frontpage community. Even if Lemmy becomes a lot more popular, my hope is that the communities here will stay somewhat distinct and won't become as much of circlejerks.
Karma whoring bots
Power mods, shadow banning, corrupt admins
Official NFTs collectible.
Spez
Greedy CEOs
onlyfans plugs everywhere
Hatred towards emojis.
Reddit downvotes anything with emojis. Like why? Do you guys not have friends? Everyone uses emojis these days when texting.
I will admit I used them WAY less before I started dating my girlfriend, but if you try to be social in any way, you will need to just accept emojis.
Plus they look cute, and convey emotions. Not sure what there is to hate? 🤔
karma
I think megathreads are useful for things like an album release or a weekly episode release. It gives a place for conversation to occur without flooding the community with duplicate posts. I think the megathreads you're referring to though are the ones where it's like "New DIY-ers, ask questions here!" I agree that those should stay gone. No one reads them and they aren't helpful.
Megathreads were an improvement over the same story being posted a hundred times (not an exaggeration).
With regards to the question: the bigotry, the boy's clubs, the tactics to deliberately exclude some members from the conversation. I doubt Lemmy will avoid them wholesale, but maybe they will be curtailed and limited to a few instances.
I realize this basically makes me satan to a lot of redditors so I never talked about it over there, but I HATED the whole cutesy schmoopsy poem shtick a couple of users would do that everyone would upvote to the top of a handful of threads every day. An AI could be churning out that saccharine doggo speak and nobody would ever know the difference, but people go nuts for it.
ı fElT cUte tOdAY. Pm mE fOr mY n*DeS. bots
I'm getting real sick of seeing comments made by someone who clearly didn't read or understand a post/comment. It's hard to tell if it's genuine stupidy and a lack of reading comprehension or a purposeful troll. Either way, it's annoying and I hope to at least see a lot less of it on Lemmy, if not gone altogether.
Those damn comment copying bots. (Or any kind of malicious bot actually..)
"On mobile, apologies for bad formatting."
As if posting from a mobile device somehow prevents you from using paragraphs and punctuation? Give me a break. You either can't be bothered, which means you're not worth interacting with; or you had to repeat at least a high school English class or two growing up. Either way you need to stop blaming your fucking phone.
spez
Ads
Purchased upvotes
Evil robots
you know, basic stuff
Rage bait, Karen videos, violence
Shadowbanning.
Comments that require a, "well, back on Reddit..." explanation. Could include comments about that guy's dead wife. That one kid's broken arms, etc.
A tolerance for the propagation of disinformation.
Room for disagreements is necessary, but so is stopping people who never cared about agreeing in the first place. Giving the dishonest this freedom has only silenced the honest by burdening them with layers of crap to cut through before their speech is heard.
Powermods who collects the title more than doing the actual moderating.
There's nothing wrong with talking about reddit right now, it's the biggest ongoing news to all of us right now. It will never really go away in your mind, in time you'll just be indifferent towards it.
The most important thing is again, to remember what reddit did to turn into what it is, and not repeat the mistake here.
"Third reply downvotes" and other types of bullying done for absolutely no reason. Also, people misleading others to disgusting communities just to troll them, for example (and I am paraphrasing the names of the communities): "misspell the community's name to c/vercute instead of c/verycute and you accidentally get a sub full of gore" or "check out c/audioing, it's definitely not people doing a very disgusting thing to one of their body parts". I do, however, like the fact they're bringing the whole subreddit swap meme - for example: on Reddit we have had r/trees and r/marijuana_enthusiasts and I've seen that implemented into Lemmy instances already. I wouldn't get rid of that, I think there are some traditions that are neat and don't harm anybody.
Help me name my pet, because I have no creatively or originality and am a karma whore.
Just less outrage, more harmony.
Toddlerisms like danger noodle (snakes) or velvet hippos (pitbulls I think)
Power-tripping users that somehow have access to hundreds of sub-communities and lean heavily on automodding and just reacting by absolutes because they lack problem solving skills.
Shitty, unfunny jokes that spiral into lengthy comment chains that are a chore to weed through. Keep that shit on Reddit, because everyone pretends they're some downtrodden, unspoken stand up comedian on there.
Thought policing.
Word policing. Yeah I get that we shouldn't say n***** and stuff. But, why go through the trouble of censoring swears? I mean come on, we've grown up to have the privilege of airing those words out!
Dehumanisation. I feel as though people are increasingly becoming ok with other people being punished for their involvement in something that is genuinely wrong/evil/bad. But the people experiencing the steepest punishments are almost never the people with significant culpability for the wrong/evil/bad decisions.
"Just following orders" might not be a great excuse, but punishing pawns for a king's choices isn't an effective deterrent or remedy either.
Businesses, Celebrities, Internet "personalities", parasocial relationships. Anything that turns things into a popularity contest rather than genuine 1 to 1 conversation.
shills; toxicity; brigading; endless conspiracy theories.
obligatory _
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I'd love more political debate without censorship from either side. I want to hear every argument either side has, even if the argument is dumb. I want to hear the rebuttals people give for the beliefs I have, because that is the only way to check myself.
I would like regulation for these discussions to be more about personal insults, rather than if an idea is deemed too offensive or not (which is arbitrary to begin with). When a debate devolves into insults, there's no point in continuing the conversation anyway.
Including typos, or just misinformation in post title to get correcting comments, "tricking" the algorithm
Removing posts for no reason. It was damn near impossible to post anything on reddit because it would get "removed by moderators". It was so heavily abused. Boost still showed removed posts on my feed and at least half the posts I opened were "removed" and almost all the good posts were always removed. Fuck reddit.
Death-penalty-for-jaywalking moderation.
“What the title says…” I hate when people start the body of their post referring to the title of the post as if isn’t self-explanatory, that the two are related.
/r/jailbait 🤮
people bot-posting for karma or similar bullshit
Ads and rage bait content farm
The pile of different dumb awards like "wholesome" or those expensive diamond things.
I really hope that the political communities don't devolve into just useless name calling.
What I like are the comments that discuss the nuances of politics. Why things happen the way they do and the strategies, OR even other people's takes on a topic.
What Reddit turned into was <politician> is an ass or <Political party> is <Stupid/fascists/baby killers> Or <president> is too old and stupid. Nothing of substance just writing the same thing someone else wrote in the last post. Got really boring.
Questions that are almost certainly article writers from Buzzfeed fishing for content… wait a second…
Toxic gatekeeping in communities.
the black and white mindset... you're either with the hivemind or against. no room for nuanced opinions. someone posts a stupid strawman argument pro abortion/anti billionaire/etc.. you can't point out the flaw in the logic without being called a sexist racist Nazi.
example: some post about how billionaires should pay 35% tax on their net worth, you point out that people are taxed on their income, not possessions, you're a bootlicker
Awards. At least in Apollo you could hide them.
Karma
Complaints about language change. No. I am a linguist. If someone says “liberry” or “expresso” or “conversate”…I could damn well care less. No one speaks a standard language and the arbiters thereof are the community who use it every day. Nonstandard words and phrases often have their own logic to them and arise because they are necessary or because it eases communication. People have been spewing rage about this since Roman times; the Appendix Probi is a jeremiad against language changes in Latin that became the foundation for Spanish and Portuguese.
People do not speak the way you would like. This is normal. They are the X-Men of language in practice. Get over it.
Something akin to Against Hate Subreddits, that place is an utter hellhole which is one of if not the most hateful places on the site - hell even the entire internet.
The people who use it are also some of the most insufferable people you'll ever meet on the internet.
I'd also like to not see single power mods rule over hundreds or thousands of different communities, that is also cancer.
Circle jerk because of dissenting opinions, regardless of their objective legitimacy, getting downvoted to oblivion
I was going to say 'a community full of really simple questions that should have just been queried via a search engine' (this post is a pleasant exception to what I'm used to ftr), but then I saw what community this was so my final answer will be: Onlyfans ads poorly disguised as relevant material for whatever community.
Some reddit megathreads have been migrated on to the instance I am currently at
Gif’s that end too soon for “comedic value”but too often just end up feeling suuuper unnecessary and contrived.
Just stop that trend already, please. It’s 2023, not 2016.
I can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these!
Clearly, you've never been in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com before, have you?
Ads
bacon fanboys
Goatsee
r/Piracy’s megathread was very useful
People constantly asking the same questions, resulting in the same answers.
Oh wow, people wish Firefly wasn’t cancelled? This is certainly new information.
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Posting clips of TV shows to places like r/funny
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Karma, and assholes who intentionally try and misrepresent an OP because he wasn't eating everyone's ass in the first post.
Posts containing people complaining about the content of the sub not being what they want to see
RPAN or something like that. I don't know why I would go to Reddit for livestreams. I certainly wouldn't come to Lemmy for it, either.
Paywall articles, or articles from "news sites" that are all opinion pieces marauding as factual reporting
Powermods and powermods bullying you just because you said something they personally didn't like. And no, I'm not talking about racism or politics. This happened over choosing healthy dieting strategies and being active in certain dieting subreddits. Yep.
Any more beans.
A meme sub that doesn't devolve into coomposting, edgelords, or femboy fetishization after 100k
An expensive API.
Politically motivated communities, even if the community has nothing to do with politics
"What's worse than death?"
Bots.
“Ya’ll can’t behave.”
I mean, I have nothing against moderating whatsoever and I appreciate good mods. But that specific phrase always made me cringe. I just hope I don’t find every potentially controversial post already locked when I open it with YaLL CAn’T bEhAVe or similar condescending laziness at the top.
(imagine this comment is fourth in a chain of r/Whatevers)
r/ThirdSub
Anyone wants to exchange NFT avatars?
i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!
You likely mean recurring ones, but the single event-driven ones make more sense? The recurring ones simply imho reflect a lack a technological capability to filter posts in as fine-tuned a manner as people seem to desire.
Not being allowed to put your own answer in the text box of an Ask post you made so you’re forced to awkwardly answer your own question in the comments. I genuinely hated that rule on AskReddit.
American politics. Impossible.
Sorry commenting again because I wanna say I so agree about megathreads. I thought it's just me being picky, and maybe I should just be glad for the organization. But really, I didn't like them all so much because sometimes it slowed a topic or stifled the conversation about a topic. And it really seem to make the topic be more hidden. (I understood sometimes to have one big thread organizing links for example, but for some things it seemed to hide a subject from wider view, and even tho searching posts wasn't so good on Reddit, trying to search through the megathread seemed worse..)
All the mindless circlejerking and echochambers. I hope the federation helps split up communities about the same topic which should help prevent echochambers from being as strong, and keep people seeing more information and opinions about the same topic.
I was so tired of seeing blatant lies and misinformation being spread just because it fit people's narratives. Like those "dawn project" tesla videos, people hate musk so much (which I'm sure all the much worse billionaires love), so they feel they must hate teslas too, so they keep spreading those videos that have been debunked and proven incredibly questionable that were made by a competitor that's been failing to compete. That's just one tiny example. Don't even get me started on the outright lights and misinformation people spread about crypto.
And of course if anyone ever tried to correct anyone, share actual facts, real articles from trusted sources, anything that went against a particular thread's circlejerk, you would just be harassed, personally insulted, and downvoted immediately. It was so hilarious and sad spending time responding to someone's bullshit with real information and a real argument just for them to do a one-liner personal insult based on nothing, because they knew they didn't actually have anything but the circlejerk is all that really ever mattered.
I'm ranting, but this attitude people have of just not caring about reality when the lies fit what the circlejerking hivemind wants is one of my biggest gripes about modern internet and it's incredibly dangerous. It's exactly the mindset that trump supporters have that allows them to believe whatever the fuck they want and that led to people dying at the capitol, and it's the type of mindset that will eventually lead to far worse things if social media companies don't do more to combat misinformation and echochambers.
A reason to leave
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Stupid drama and community rivalries. And ads in apps.
spez
Crappy UI Design
Asking for proof of this is like asking for proof that the Constitution exists. It's a very common thing I referenced. Western anarchism has a more positive history but largely linked to furtherment of the cause over actual progression of liberties.
Cuba: https://www.thedailybeast.com/fidel-castros-horrific-record-on-gay-rights
USSR: https://www.thecollector.com/harry-whyte-gay-communist-writes-to-stalin-soviet-union/
CCP: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268580918812265
My point in bringing it up is that it's extremely easy to craft a narrative that starts including relatively positive forms of speech in with the banning. That includes these little forums and your approach is exactly what happened on Reddit eventually leading to the current influx of members here now. The second you start restricting speech is when the forum starts consolidating power.
Donald Trump was elected president primarily because he could control his messaging and direct different narratives to different demographics. He was unable to do that as president so he lost the next election. By encouraging the siloing of information sources, you enable that behavior.
Mouseovers that are easy to inadvertently activate and block a massive part of the site
Overused memes.
I feel that the urban patois of YouTube commentators would lend Lemmy the credibility and gravitas it needs to survive. We should also rename Lemmy something along the lines of Reddit2.0 Rebooted to draw in the premium users. I think the capricious and autocratic style of the Reddit moderation team would improve the discourse and dissuade free thinking individuals from expressing troublesome opinions that contradict the narrative of a quality clickbait shitpost.
Spez
Least original post: the dumbass comments parroting the same joke from 2018. It's not even bots, it's the zeitgeist and it's only gonna get worse. Insert 'old_man_shouts_at_sky.gif'
I never want this crappy comment section. In long threads there is a load more option but it opens a new site with the comments. Then you go back and scroll the whole way down again 🙄
I was hoping people would drop the /r/something+porn naming of communities, alas that doesn't seem to be the case
Power mods. Let's hope all the fediverse instances stick to a max sub limit.
Powermods and fat hate. Lizzo is more healthy than 95% of the losers that are so intereted into the "promotion of a healthy role model" and I don't see as many people saying anything about the rampant use of drugs or alcoholism there is in the famous people, so come the fuck on!
Up votes. Actually wait a minute.
In all seriousness, any dumb, little thought out comments.
I would like to hope Lemmy is the Reddit of old before the masses ruined it.
I'm loving Lemmy right now.
"This is my official formal letter to ____ topic/game company"
Gtf outta here. It's just a damn post. There are no official letters on a forum post putting you above anyone else and a multi-million dollar company is not gonna look and think seriously about your opinionated changes. Because that's all it is no matter which way it's written.
Account names that are based on the user's real name, e.g. JohnDoe33
Unless you're a famous person or topic expert and identifying yourself is important context, save the real names for Facebook; this is an anonymous brand of social media. Plus I think at least some of those "real name" accounts ended up being bots masquerading as humans...
Adds
Lemmy is awesome
google en passant
askhistorian would be one that I missed.
I also would like those episode discussion subs.
Whitepeopletwitter/blackpeopletwitter/anything that involves just posting screenshots of something funny someone posted elsewhere. If it's worth posting, post it as text yourself, you coward.
Their mods.
Censorship
astro trufing gov shills that happen during big social event like the railroad strikes that died in the us or how i like to call it RAILWARS
or the weird shadowban censorship that happens when you say certain phrases on redditr.
or some powertripping mod from r/news perma banning folks for commenting opinions
Your mom
Liberal echo chamber