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Yes! As well as “Only ever use hardened
FirefoxLibrewolf and Duckduckgo, every other product is the literal devil”I mean…we have quite a bit of evidence of at this point that Google and Microsoft are creating problems for the future of the internet and technology in general.
I won’t say they’re the literal devil but I can’t say I’d argue with anyone that says they are.
Calling out horrible practices and encouraging people to use the alternatives that don’t do that shit…yeah, I’m not seeing an issue.
I’m not talking about the tech giants, but the loudest groups here treat alternatives like Brave, Vivaldi, etc. the same way
Iirc the isue with brave for most is that it was made by a “Nazi” (https://www.change.org/p/brendan-eich-brave-software-stop-providing-a-revenue-stream-for-white-supremacist-paedophiles). Personally the issue for me is that it wants to torrent for me but I want qbit to do it, and it’s chrome based. Vivaldi is also chrome based iirc, which is also a problem for people who don’t like the tech giants or the internet DRM bullshit google is trying to pull rn, but unless I’m mistaken idt they’re the worst other than that whole “chromium” thing.
Frankly, if you’re still all-in on the Windows or Apple ecosystem, there’s no way to pull you to Linux.
The best Linux spokesmen has been Microsoft lately. I’m not using Linux because I necessarily want to. I want to keep using my clean version of 10, but they’re taking that choice from me. I’m using Linux because I won’t tolerate that shit at this point.
So Linux folks can be as aggressive as they want, it won’t move the needle either way. People are either willing to try it to escape Apple and Microsoft, or they aren’t.
Were you online before Facebook? It was mostly nerds in the 90s and half nerds in the 2000s. You came to a car show and are upset that people are talking about cars. You’re on Wall Street asking “what’s up with all the suits?”
Literally no one is going to tone it down.
This platform is almost 100% idealism and politics. Any hobby/technical community goes completely inactive.
Second this. A lotta dumb political crap.
What I wanted was the style of old school forums to discuss games, movies, sports teams etc and that’s not what this has turned out to be. Was happy at first and as the weeks have gone by I find it’s almost the same as Reddit (and even worse in some ways.)
Way too many political arguments and posts, to the point where it’s a turn off because it’s injected into everything.
Be the change you want to see in the world
I’m annoyed by all those Facebook-type boomer comics you see on basically all meme subs. Reddit culture managed to get rid of them, but for some reason people here seem to love them
Look, sometimes people enjoy brainless humor and that’s okay. People have hard days. Twelve hours in the field days. Sometimes people are tired and just want something easy and that’s perfectly valid.
As the sages of old said, “It’s okay to not like things. It’s okay, but don’t be a dick about it.”
I know, I don’t really care, I’m just replying to the thread :)
It’s annoying but also interesting to see that people upvote different things
Any example? Out of curiosity
This would be the last one I saw. I probably have plenty more examples in my downvotes, but I don’t think they’re accessible on Lemmy :(
How is it boomer ?
Kids don’t like anything that doesn’t have foul language, sexual innuendos, or involves subtly.
That said, while I liked the comic linked, it had no business being posted in a meme community.
Sincerely, A boomer
Kids don’t like anything that doesn’t have foul language, sexual innuendos, or involves subtly.
I’ve never heard such a boomer thing to say lmao
Anyway, the main thing I dislike about it is the art style. The jokes can be funny sometimes but they usually aren’t really jokes to me
That was the joke…
Thanks, now I get what you mean
Lots of wanna be communists that are well intentioned but have little real world experience
My wife studied sociology, that includes the work of gramchie, Dubois, Lenin, Marx.
I didn’t, but I got plenty of exposure. What’s clear to me is that hardly anyone actually knows what communism is. That includes Allies and opponents of it.
They all think they do. But they really don’t.
It’s really goddamn preachy. There’s a real sense of superiority a lot of users have that I don’t recall as much on Reddit.
There’s also the fact that small communities are dead and it’s next to impossible to grow them, so you’re stuck with the same people on the front page every day.
Just lack of numbers. Reddit’s at it’s best when I can use it to discuss some incredibly niche topic. That early 2000s RTS that nobody remembers? Got a few dozen redditors still posting memes. New indie game drops? There’s enough redditors on it that we can talk about it.
But lemmy seems really bad for trying to enjoy any community that isn’t a big political or meme centerpiece. Any particular game or IP that isn’t a lowest common denominator? It’ll get maybe 3 posts a month.
No more interesting discussions of gameplay mechanics or inspirations or character analyses, no burning out an entire workday browsing the top all-time and giggling like an idiot, it’s just dead here.
The same massive numbers that made reddit insufferable for some are what make niche communities inhabitable at all.
It’s perfectly fine to use both platforms and still enjoy the niche subs on Reddit. It’s a shame they’re not all in one app/website but it is what it is.
Numbers are a double edged sword. Yes, Reddit has lots of active niche communities that are active because of its massive user base, but once you get to anything not niche, there are so many users that any sort of constructive discussion is nearly impossible are you’re drowned out from the masses. Using Reddit only for the niche stuff (with ads blocked, of course) and Lemmy for anything else seems like a reasonable solution.
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The amount of people that like to shit on the U.S. constantly… Like damn I get it, we definitely have problems, but people here would have you think it’s like the wild wild west over here… I promise I’m not fearing for my life every time I go out.
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The extreme left views (I’m liberal myself but some of the things people say here really have me scratching my head sometimes)
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The amount of Windows bad, Linux good posts.
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The amount of people that immediately shit on Apple because of privacy, but use an Android device that accesses the Google Play store (yes I know you can install custom privacy roms, but let’s be real, how many casual users are doing this?)
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People always asking if something is FOSS…
These are just a few off the top of my head.
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my pixel 7 pro uses grapheneOS. been using it for ~2 years now. loving it a lot.
(broken link BTW) damn, really? feels like 2 years for me lol.
guess I’ve just got a shitty memory then xD
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The number of pro-communist posts in here is comical. The amount of anti-capitalist posts is almost comical. Obviously related to some degree.
The lack of posts outside of a few main news and politics communities is frustrating.
It’s sad so many capitalism cheerleaders migrated here, considering most of us are literally here fleeing capitalist greed rot.
Some just refuse to learn. The sunk cost fallacy of “I’ve committed my life to this thing, and no amount of evidence will ever make me accept my mistake as a mistake!”
Should have just stayed to be disrespected by Spez in the name of his profit. He’s a good capitalist.
do you think capitalism is good or something
It’s far from perfect, but it isn’t the cause of every single issue anyone’s ever had like people on here would have you believe
What’s funny is these tankies are making the whole left look bad and I have to remind myself that these people are a tiny minority of disaducated extremists and not to let them put a bad taste in my mouth for anything socialist. I noticed their existence and rhetoric was pushing me right and now I’m realizing they’re very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable. A social democracy is what I look forward to, not licking putin’s aashole.
and now I’m realizing they’re very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable
You wish. And that sounds like something one of them would say, “left is when good, if they do a bad, they’re on the right.”
At some point, we have to face the facts that there are also bad people on the left. It is what it is, it doesn’t mean the whole left is bad, we can squabble about proportions of hexbear/lemmygrad user types to liberals all day, but to pretend that any leftist that says dumb, authoritarian, or downright immoral things is just a right winger trying to discredit the left is Q level “Crisis Actor” style conspiracy horse shit, with all due respect.
I’m realizing they’re very likely conservative trolls, fascists trying to make the left undersireable.
lol no
I agree with your overall sentiment but disagree on them being right wing trolls (which is exactly what the right claims about those who don’t buy every word). There really are people on the left that extreme in real life too and they need to be tuned out. Disagreeing with them doesn’t make you more right leaning either.
Of systems that have been implemented the best systems have been capitalist based systems.
Unironically yes
Capitalism is the economic equivalent of Nature’s own survival of the fittest.
No one will claim that capitalism is being implemented perfectly, that’s for sure, but the number of communist clowns on Lemmy is absurd. Bunch of 14 year olds trying to be edgy.
Chill the fuck out with the linux supremacy. I hate windows too but linux is not as friendly and efficient as you think.
The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.
That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There’s very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.
Lemmy.world is defederated from hexvear if you’re looking to be totally free of them. Obviously you would have to join lemmyworld and some people don’t want to do that for various reasons, which is totally fine, but you’ll get a ton of content without the spam.
It’s VERY noticeable when I’m on an alt account (either to view c/piracy or because the DDOS attacks have .world down) and a hexbear user is in the comments. Defederation was 100% the right decision and I’m eager to block the instance on all my alts when it becomes possible to.
I’m on lemmy.world and there are still commies fucking everywhere.
Problem is I like c/piracy. I don’t pirate much, but I do everything I can to avoid ads, and i self-host a lot of stuff, so there’s a lot of overlap between my interest and the content there.
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Not the users but lemmy itself. Sorting by hot is pointless since you see the same post for days at a time. I get lemmy is small but shit it can’t be that hot for that many days.
I have better luck using “Top Six Hours.”
You mean “active”? “Hot” always shows super new stuff even if it doesn’t have a hundred, or even fifty, upvotes.
Despite being a techie myself, I’m frequently irritated by how much technical conversation there is on here. I seem to see comments all the time that use some unrelated computer programming concept as a metaphor or a similar non sequitur. It reeks of intellectual elitism and is just a reminder of what a small community we still are. I kind of miss the amount of ‘normal’ people on reddit with more varied interests. That said, generally speaking the quality of conversation on here is really high which is amazing.
This. I can use Lemmy for politics and tech/science news, but not much else.
The obsession with Linux and privacy. Every post it seems like anyone using windows is committing a cardinal sin. I have had to use linux in the past, and let me tell you, I don’t intend to go back to it unless forced to. I still have mental scars of trying to update my gpu drivers
This! I use Linux on my laptop but also have a desktop that runs Windows 10. Some people here act like windows is completely unusable when in reality it’s much more user friendly than Linux.
You have a computer made after 2015, huh?
Some of us are poor. Windows is quite literally unusable for me because the laptop I have it on can’t make it past the “pin” screen, I had a choice between steal a new PC or learn linux.
And now that I’ve learned I can never go back, there was a slight adjustment period but the ability to control everything on the system, the way it handles updates, the lack of bullshittery and candy crush ads, and ads in the file manager I hear they’re pushing now on windows, the terminal which scared me when I started is now probably my most frequently used “app,” the few windows only programs I need with no alts work in wine well enough, and if I reaaaaally wanted to I could upgrade PCs when I do have money and dual boot so I can still pop into windows if need be. And to top that, I was able to boot into a liveusb on the windows pc, mount the windows drive (bypassing my pin, btw) and rescue my files!
That’s great! I’m glad you found something that works for you. Like I said, my laptop is running Linux (Arch btw) and I’ve had fun learning a new OS and I do enjoy the lack of bloatware.
I guess what I meant to say is that people act like windows is unusable, as in, they can’t figure out how to use the OS like it’s something very complex.
I guess what I meant to say is that people act like windows is unusable
I guess what I meant to say is that it is when it won’t load my desktop. And I mean I tried, left it “logging in” for a week before I finally gave up, and that was the last time after previously giving it “a few hours” and “a day” and I wanted to see if it would ever load. It didn’t, so I’m calling that “unusable,” at least for me and my hardware/budget.
You should re read my reply and try again…
I’m just saying, unusable can mean multiple things.
That’s why I clarified in my reply…
This place is a far worse echo chamber than Reddit, and mods fall right in line. I’ve seen too many posts get downvoted to hell for simple opinions, and other ‘dissenters’ get posts removed that should have just been part of open discussions.
I’ve said this before, even in a lighter tone, and those posts mysteriously disappeared. I’m betting this one will be removed too.
You will tell people facts and you will get down voted because someone thought it’s your opinion
Mods are on a different level of power tripping here on lemmy.world. Just today my comment “rent free” got deleted by a mod (in technology) because “it might offend someone and that might lead to an argument.” That was seriously the reason I got from the mod L4S for deleting my comment.
that sounds like a fine use of moderation to me, it contributed nothing to the discussion topic
Please
idk if you’ve never used a forum before, but low-effort/low-quality contributions are often removed from discussion based forums.
Even on 4chan, notorious for supposedly having minimal moderation, would likely remove a post like that on the better boards. idk the rules of whatever technology community you’re referring to, but I assume they probably want to keep things on topic and avoid baiting and flaming shitposts
This isn’t a forum like those that you’re used to though, and “the mod didn’t like it” is not a valid reason for deleting someone’s reply and it doesn’t contribute to civilized discussion and it isn’t a civilized thing to do in the first place for someone in position of power. Maybe it’s ok if you’re a mod in your small group chat, for example, it’s your room, your safe space, but it isn’t ok in a place designed for everyone
and it doesn’t contribute to civilized discussion
That’s why the comment was deleted, Jack. You can make your own shitposting community if you truly believe it to be an injustice, otherwise I think most people would be glad that a technology community would be for discussing technology, and not looking like a YouTube comment section.
It was deleted because of subjective feelings of a mod and it doesn’t matter if you support it or not. I have already pointed out the reasons why that’s not ok. Bye.
I’m not sure in your specific case; no context, no conclusion. But in most contexts I’d probably do the same as that mod, or at the very least scold the user. Because most of the time, “rent free” is: two types of stupid (ad hominem, assumption), aggravating (it’s often a taunt), and noisy (it doesn’t lead to meaningful discussion). It’s that kind of crap that makes the community less engaging for other members.
@abbotsbury mentioned 4chan; well, that’s one of the things that I’ve seen jannies there removing all the fucking time. (For free.)
No soup for you!
But hey, at least you got a reason. I think the squirrelly bastards just remove most posts without question so they can substitute authority over their lack of nuts.
Reddit is Reddit’s echo chamber, Lemmy is “pick your echo chamber”.
Hexbear neonazi tankies one one side, overbearing blocking on the other.
lemmy really needs a way for users to individually block instances
Or common clients like voyager need it. should be doable. Would sell me on a client instantly
Connect
I swear Jerboa let you block entire instances, something I desperately wish Sync could do
