It all depends on one’s interests. If I was primarily a lurker, like I was back on The Old Place, I probably wouldn’t find enough historical content to keep me invested in the Fediverse, for example.
Absolutely true, but I’ve lurked at the old place occasionally and it’s seriously overrun with bots/ai in the most popular subs. I get your point though, there are still places you can’t find here. The fucked up attitudes are shocking though. If you look at any place-specific, travel sub, the snark is so rude and shitty in more than half the posts. Here, you mostly just get downvotes as trolling
I swear it happened in the few months I first started using Lemmy. I joined then a few months later I was looking for something that I couldn’t find here and ended up back on all. It was 90% right-wing propaganda and ragebait.
I legitimately think that a relatively small but overwhelmingly leftist proportion of the userbase leaving had a very negative effect both on actual discourse, and on what third-parties find productive to push there.
It all depends on one’s interests. If I was primarily a lurker, like I was back on The Old Place, I probably wouldn’t find enough historical content to keep me invested in the Fediverse, for example.
Absolutely true, but I’ve lurked at the old place occasionally and it’s seriously overrun with bots/ai in the most popular subs. I get your point though, there are still places you can’t find here. The fucked up attitudes are shocking though. If you look at any place-specific, travel sub, the snark is so rude and shitty in more than half the posts. Here, you mostly just get downvotes as trolling
I went into the comments section a few times since, as an observer. Whole place has shifted right, hard.
I swear it happened in the few months I first started using Lemmy. I joined then a few months later I was looking for something that I couldn’t find here and ended up back on all. It was 90% right-wing propaganda and ragebait.
I legitimately think that a relatively small but overwhelmingly leftist proportion of the userbase leaving had a very negative effect both on actual discourse, and on what third-parties find productive to push there.
Yeah, The Old Place literally is beginning to feel like Facebook. A bot reposts some rage bait and a million oblivious commentors eat it up.