If you still use reddit, do you feel bad for doing so?
If you still use reddit, do you feel bad for doing so?
I still use reddit for some niche topics that have like zero activity on Lemmy. But still, I feel kinda bad over it... What about you people?
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Using reddit makes me feel bad. It's full of such inflammatory rage bate. Even in the niche communities I was part of, there were multiple posts every day just stirring the pot. Lemmy right now reminds me of reddit in its early days, back when people were trying to have actual, meaningful discussions.
After the api-gate, I had a moment where I asked myself "what things have I actually learned on reddit that I otherwise wouldn't have learned?" And the answer was nothing. Actual, helpful, insightful discussions just don't get attention over there anymore. I get way more mileage out of my RSS feed than reddit.
I've found the tone here on Lemmy to be more positive and more informative. Don't change, y'all.
It’s full of such inflammatory rage bate
But how is that not just a function of the size of the audience there? We see political trolls crawling out here, too, as the number of commenters increases.
I think you're right, but I have hope. I believe in us lemmings, lol.
I mean part of the thing is that the federation allows instances to be more strict. Right now, Reddit has a huge financial disincentive for clearing out bots. If these bots bring in attention, and bump up their numbers, then the company looks better. Here, instances can be more aggressive with banning them. I do agree it will be more difficult as there's not as much money coming in here to help deal with bots as instances get larger, but at least the incentive is there.
You have a point. I would say though that the subreddit mods generally have an incentive to keep their sub running amicably even if the site admins have an incentive to just increase engagement numbers regardless. But we do have the capacity for instances where the admins better support the mods versus Reddit.