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.
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.