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  • CultHero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I had been on reddit since 2008, I was looking for an alternative to the message boards I belonged to after the popularity of Facebook killed them off. I really enjoyed it, not the same level of community that you find in a message board but still good for conversation.

    Then trump happened and it turned to shit. It’s so fucking toxic and I ended up getting banned for defending myself. Apparently fascism is good and standing up for yourself goes against community standards.

    I’m a disabled 49 year old just looking for conversation. Facebook is also a toxic wasteland now. To say I miss myspace is an understatement but there’s hardly anyone there anymore.

    I’m happy whenever I find a place that’s put the social back into social media because antisocial media is just trash.

    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, I hate discord for many reasons but the primary reason is that I just think it is a terrible place to have a conversation. All the channels I see are always dominated by really low quality effort interaction, interesting conversations just get drowned out and lost by someone sharing another meme or responding to someone else’s low effort meme.

      As someone with pretty intense ADHD, Discord is just so fragmented with so many channels each with their own conversations all fracturing out in different directions with no capacity to keep a handle on it. I hate it.

      Fuck Discord

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      so. much. this.

      Discord is just an AOL chat room. Great for short-term conversations among 20 or fewer people. It’s not a good place to store your FAQ. It’s not a good place for large teams. It’s not a good place for anything searchable. It’s transactional. And I don’t know why people treat it otherwise.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’m so glad I finally got into Lemmy. Reddit was destroyed on July 1st but I couldn’t get into Lemmy until November because the instances were so fickle.

    In the meantime I tried saidit but quickly discerned that most of the users there were just really bad Reddit rejects. like the worst of the worst Reddit rejects.

    Glad Lemmy finally let me in.

  • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    As for funding, the servers are supported on a donation basis, with no big corporations behind them. This leads to a problem concerning user data and privacy, as there isn’t a single accountable entity behind the network.

    Bit of a weird take now, isn’t it?

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I think both things are valid points, but it’s worded in a weird way

      A more explicit pro/con would have been better

      No big corporation that controls everything

      • Pro:
      • Con:
      • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Risa had some mod issues, Tenforward was created. The people who actually post have basically all moved to Tenforward, it’s not really a war.

      • Legate Damar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        04·
        10 months ago

        A prominent /c/Risa shitposter accused the mods of transphobia, loudly quit Risa and started their own meme community (and later deleted the comments after any evidence of transphobia failed to materialize).

        Around the same time, a Risa mod removed some particularly low-effort posts despite Risa having “no rules”, which upset some users and so they fled to the other guys’ meme community.

        Now there are two Star Trek themed meme communities.

          • AdmiralPicard@lemm.eeEnglish
            01·
            10 months ago

            Stamets. He actually banned me from the new place after posting a dumb meme he just didn’t like (said I was “ban evading”). Did not know about him crying transphobia but it doesn’t surprise me, the person has a serious temper issue.

            EDIT I forgot he also retroactively removed two AI shitposts posts I made after writing a rule about it (yet didnt remove his own)