Spyke
sh.itjust.works

The repost bots syncing vapid content from Reddit.

"Lemmy isn't Reddit" but here are hundreds of communities that have no engagement outside of a bot mirroring Reddit content.

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"communities"

kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it's just a bot talking to itself.

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folkravreply
lemmy.ca

I’ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?

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Deebsterreply
lemmy.ml

Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.

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Agreed, in reddit I just browsed my subs and found some new ones every so often. In lemmy I browse all and block communities I'm not interested in.

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Zagorathreply
aussie.zone

Block lemmit.online dude. Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months. Or block @[email protected], because Lemmy has supported blocking users for even longer.

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sh.itjust.works

Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months.

Depends on your instance; mine only switched last thursday.

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Same, and I still haven't figured out where to go to block instances instead of individual communities

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I have one account I blocked it on and one I didnt.

Its useful for dumbscrolling.

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Lets be real, the comment section of some of the meme communities is best left behind.

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It's awesome they keep it to just a few bot, blocking it will clean the hell up your feed.

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I never knew the joys of spaghetti hentai until I saw a reposting bot on Lemmy. RIP spaghetti hentai bot. I'm not sure why it died.

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Wait, the Reddit bot still works?

How so if Reddit changed (dumbed down) their API?

Anyway, I blocked that bot since long ago hah

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lemm.ee

To be fair, that was a lot of my Reddit, too. Antiwork and work reform were constantly on the front page lol.

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Echo Dotreply
feddit.uk

It's more a vent for them than anything else because they never actually do anything.

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minoreply
lemmy.ml

You are saying this is a good thing right?

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kratoz29reply
lemm.ee

Does it make a difference to do it here though?

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Define difference. For me personally it's pretty cool to finally have some sort of community that seems like minded on at least the surface level instead of just constantly being stared at as if I were a fish who just questioned the usefulness of water.

Will it spontaneously make come about utopia? Probably not but if that's your lower bar for doing anything I'm pretty sure you are gonna have a bad time.

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Just block the communities, or even the two most notorious instances as a whole. The user experience gets 100x better.

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Don’t forget your thigh high socks and furry butt plug after you install Linux.

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teawrecksreply
sopuli.xyz

I'm not familiar, is Nuance the new hip distro I should be using?

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lemmy.world

People saying how it's no better than Reddit, without contributing anything but vitriol and negativity.

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lemmy.ml

Yeah it does seem a bit more pessimistic than reddit to me, I wonder why it is

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folkravreply
lemmy.ca

Interesting, I feel the opposite. I have had a few run-ins with… interesting people on here, but nowhere near as bad as on Reddit.

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lemmy.ml

What subs were/are you on? I mostly only go back for my region-specific meme sub, so I guess it makes sense that there is less negativity. Plus sometimes searches with site:reddit.com

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folkravreply
lemmy.ca

I don’t go on Reddit anymore except when some Google search brings me there hehe. I used to be mostly on gaming, tech and programming subreddits, plus a handful of hobby related subs like /r/mechanicalkeyboards, /r/fountainpens, and so on. Very little shitposting/memeing going on, admittedly.

I’m too lazy to type site:reddit.com, I just append “Reddit” at the end of my search query lol

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I’m also too lazy to setup macros outside my editor 🙈

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I feel like they're a small minority of people who came here expecting it to be exactly like Reddit, but "better" without any clear understanding of what that actually means lol

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lemmy.world

The answer to damn near every question being "the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it"

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programming.dev

A way to stop this from being the case is the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it

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voltage.vn

Well over short time scales, thankfully not :)

Rebuilding society is a lot of work I frankly don't need right now.

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SkaveRatreply
discuss.tchncs.de

I have a 30 min slot open next week Tuesday. Can we schedule rebuilding society there?

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Socsareply
sh.itjust.works

I hate going to work

Have you considered the same job, but socialism?

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lemm.ee

“ The same job, except I’m now paid the same at my part time barista job at Starbucks.” (I guess the /s wasn’t obvious enough)

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lemmy.ml

Are you under the assumption that Socialism is when everyone is paid the same for different jobs? Lmao

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lemmy.world

What would a discussion about socialism be without someone who has no idea what they're talking about about chiming in?

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Fair, haha. It's always funny to directly see the exact same incorrect talking points time and time again that have no basis in reality except via red scare propaganda, like you can trace it

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Linux and the whole FOSS everything thing.

Except when it comes to entertainment. Then it's "Don't touch my Plex"

Decide: FOSS everywhere or where applicable and don't force your vision onto other users.

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lemmy.world

Really? I generally see people responding to Plex stuff by recommending jellyfin.

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Yeah sure. But it's (plex) usually mentioned first and then either by the foss evangelists (the annoying kind) or those not willing to spend money on plex and just wanting to recommend something else (the not annoying kind)

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lemmy.world

Stumble across an interesting community that's been dormant for a few months

Decide to try making my own post there to see if others will follow and get the community going again

Get immediately downvoted by the subscribers who haven't posted anything for 6 months and yelled at for posting something that's not exactly what they wanted to see there, even though it clearly fits the rules

Make a few more posts in hopes of winning someone over then give up because people are being dicks or just not engaging at all

Eventually give up and watch the community die again

This has happened to me several times since I started using Lemmy lol

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Post food in food porn. Gets ridiculed because my food is an abomination and should not be called by the foods name. See others post butchered regional food that i definitely know the locals will not recognize as that food. That post gets praised for putting an effort. WTF?

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I dare someone to post a pic of a deep dish pizza there. You’ll get wrecked.

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Abirdreply
sh.itjust.works

Is it really that in depth? I mean good looking food is what I'm there for.

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What I expected was food appreciation no matter how it looks or how it strays from the traditional recipe. But what I got was someone telling me that what I posted was not a traditional food yet I'm seeing other non tradional food getting praised.

I simply want food appreciation not food gatekeeping.

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Honestly, just keep posting. You'll bend them or they'll start posting their own interests.

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Which communities?

I've tried posting in metalcore, dnb, and phonk and the users don't get mad at me or anything but there's just not that much engagement.

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lemmy.world

It feels more like a community.

Like it's not quite what message boards used to be, where every user seem to have their own unique identity that everyone seems to be aware of... But it's more so that then something like Reddit.

I've seen users call out other users saying things like You must be the guy that posted that thread the other day... Or something like that

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Fizzreply
lemmy.nz

I like that a lot of servers do regular "check in" threads where users just talk about what they've been up to.

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We used to have this on some of my communities on Reddit. Sadly, even though total activity numbers seem to be back to normal in those subreddits, the casual chat thread is a shadow of its former self.

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One for the scrapbook, one for the noticeboard, one for the dunny, and one spare just in case.

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aussie.zone

> thread about whatever

> half the comments are discussing how things have failed to federate properly

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Me either, but... is it because the comments about not federating properly aren't federating properly?

The world may never know.

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TORFdot0reply
lemmy.world

I haven’t really seen that since August. But things were pretty bad June and July after the API debacle

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A ran into it earlier this week. Though it seems to have been caused by someone from Mastodon trying to interact with Lemmy. Some of their replies came through, others didn't. And images attached to posts work, but not ones attached to comments.

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lemm.ee

The most Lemmy thing for me is that I see more wholesomeness here than on Reddit, I'm not sure if that is the answer you were looking for, but that has been my experience so far.

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Because Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

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lemmy.world

Fuckwits trying to spam their YT channel with a 20 minute video containing one minute of information

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People complaining about privacy of everything, including lemmy itself (this is a good thing).

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slrpnk.net

Not reading articles and just commenting on the headline. It's extremely disappointing that habit carried over from reddit.

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Fizzreply
lemmy.nz

As someone who tries to read the articles a lot of them actually suck. They barely contain more info than the headline and hit you with an annoying pop-up or paywall.

I would not ever recommend reading any gaming related news article.

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Highly recommend Firefox with uBlock origin, and there's an addon called bypass paywalls clean which does exactly what it says.

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ouRKaoSreply
lemmy.today

I think it's worse here b/c 90% of the articles I come across are paywalled, so I come to the comments to see if anyone posted the full text & I just see a bunch of comments about the headline.

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I don't find that, but when I do you can often find the page on https://archive.today/ or https://web.archive.org/. You should be able to set it so that you can pass them a url from the address bar using your browser (e.g. Firefox's quicksearches smart keywords) or search engine (Bangs on DDG, Kagi, searx), if it's not already linked from the post text.

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feddit.nl

Putting "rule" in the title for reasons I don't understand.

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I think that's the 196 community. One of the rules is that if you show up, you have to post something, so my understanding is that people just put "rule" in the title to say that they're complying with that rule.

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Hadriscusreply
lemm.ee

That's a thing only on one specific instance, I think

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lemmy.browntown.dev

one specific community, primarily one one instance. The concept of "rule" originates on r/196, where the only rule is that you have to post when you visit.

Therefore, its easiest to write "posting because rule" in the title rather than something creative. AFAIK this eventually devolved into just saying "Rule" or some sort of play on it.

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At this point it's almost a rule in itself that the title has rule in it in some way so there are many plays on the word but that's not official it's more of a community driven joke. It also came from the original 196 community on reddit.

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Reddit is full of zoomer deep fried shit post. Lemmy is full on 2012 Reddit memes and I won’t complain.

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I've blocked 20 or so meme communities and a few notorious shitposters, now it's bearable.

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being flooded with links with clickbait-y titles. back in may more posts were organic.

edit: what communities have good content made by users? i seldom find intriguing discussion on comments, but few posts are engaging on their own.

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Echreply
lemm.ee

What's funny is I don't know if this is their contribution to the thread or if they actually just wanted to delete their comment.

*Also, it's kinda weird I can reply to something that "doesn't exist". Not sure what purpose that serves.

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Zagorathreply
aussie.zone

not realising that it’s quite easy for others to see your deleted messages

RIP Jerboa 0.0.57.

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lemmy.ml

Yea that was sad then the dev went ahead and made it worse by removing the upvote and downvote counts

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Zagorathreply
aussie.zone

To be fair, it still shows downvote counts and total count, from which you can calculate upvote counts. It is kinda weird that it works that way, though, rather than just showing you upvote count too.

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Just say they shit the bed on this one . It was perfect before there was no need for remodeling like at all.

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We have the best Linux distro, no-poop weekend and eating butt tips and tricks.

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mbin.grits.dev

One person saying actually I agree with you on that, and the other person saying NO YOU DON'T YOU'RE CLEARLY A MONSTER AND YOU MUST THINK TERRIBLE THINGS

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That's just how people are now. I don't think it's specific to Lemmy or even the internet. Most people don't know how to have a discussion where lines are more blurry than a formal debate that has two opposing sides with completely separate, non-overlapping ideas.

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Seeing 10 different languages on 20 posts. For some reason I get a big mix of lots of different languages in my feed. Had to start blocking them because it was getting to much.

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lemm.ee
  • Thing happens

  • there's a specific, on the ground solution

  • fuck the government! School is indoctrination! Everything is death!

Or

  • large scale problem happens, but individuals are involved. (Driving cars, consuming products, etc)

  • "not my fault at all it's all the corps and govs. I can't do anything, I'm not responsible for my consumption, and will not change in any way. But fuck this or that!"

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lemmy.world

do you ever stop fucking shilling for your corporate lords? Like even for five minutes?

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GBU_28reply
lemm.ee

Lol following me? You're a treat.

Learn to be responsible for yourself. Start with your behavior and work outwards.

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It’s like they went way out of their way to serve as a perfect example of what you just said. Hilarious!

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lemmy.world

Since your clever little use of the report button means we can't talk there, I figured we'd bring the conversation here.

I don't get class traitors like you, and I'm hoping by yelling at you enough I can figure out at least some of how you tick.

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GBU_28reply
lemm.ee

So just admitting to platform abuse? Very cool.

You don't know how to hold 2 concepts at once so there's little point explaining it again.

Corps / corrupt gov are the source of continued climate change .

Consumers who use petroleum products are responsible for their personal consumption. Same as meat eaters, same as car drivers.

I use gas, plastic, eat meat and drive a car a few times a week. I acknowledge I have a climate impact, and try to take steps to reduce it, but I'm not perfect. I won't externalize my impact on this planet to anyone else, and hide behind in vogue language regarding "the owner class" as a means of distancing myself from my consumption. I won't hide my opinion on that either.

That's what makes me tick. That's as clear as I can make my position.

If you think I'm a shill or something, ok, good for you. You won. Finish line. Continuing on is harassment and I'm not worried about your opinion of me using the built in report features.

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sh.itjust.works

Idk why this got heated this fast, but I'd like to add a normal argument point:

Compared to how much pollution any large scale company makes to even a housing complex, the housing is marginal. You don't even need to think in battery factories, just regular ol' warehouses. The amount of plastic they throw out, just to sit somewhere else, is orders of magnitude greater than me packaging my groceries in two bags.

While I could use one plastic bag less a day, sure, but if a warehouse throws out like 2 pallet's worth of it a day, it's nothing comparatively!

The argument is valid, that I am also in the statistics. However, why should I reduce the quality of my life if anyone who matters in the statistics just simply doesn't care?

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GBU_28reply
lemm.ee

It's from another thread, dude followed me. He got banned there.

But absolutely agree. The context of my original discussion was surrounding corporations saying consumers are to blame for climate change, which is obviously wrong. Corporations blocking tech advancement to green alternatives, and corruption of governments for profit is the root issue.

I was teasing out a specific point of they made all that shit for us. The stuff on the pallets wrapped in that plastic is for us. My only point was that we all consume, we are the end of the line. We need to recognize that although the magnitude is very different, we are a variable in the equation.

It's important to check ignorance via internalization of negative externalities.

You might find my opinion on personal responsibility wrong, and that's fine. I'm just out here trying to consume less, and acknowledge my impact. (And shared my opinion on an open forum).

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You are right that the companies do what they do because we buy their stuff. But they do it in a way that is not enviroment friendly.

What I mean is, whatever happens there will be shops, and there will be a way shipment gets to them, and there will be a place where the cargo gets stored, and there will be a place where the products come from, and a there will be a source where the materials come from and go into the factory.

We only impact the last part, all the way from the tree in a forest to a shelf in a store we have no impact. It was packaged & unpackaged an unhealty number of times, it produced waste that we don't even know about. Now, imo the problem is that these big corps don't even consider wasting a dollar to recycle anything. if it's cheaper (by any margin) to buy it again, it will be bought again, and the used, well, thrown out (into the ocean, or burnt idk). By the time it comes to me deciding between a paper/plastic/bio-plastic(?) bag it doesn't matter. And the argument that we are the problem because we are still buying it is invalid, because you just simply have to buy food (for example).

I get it tho, if a billion humans all use up 1 plastic bags a day, that's still 1b plastic bags/day. However, think about the plastic (and everything else) that was used to get that product to the shelfs, even the bags themselves.

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lemmy.world

Ok now I am convinced by the timings of your posts and mod responses, including private ones that you should not be aware of, that you are a sockpuppet for an activist mod.

You actively seek out conflict with dumbshit hot takes and then use your mod powers/connections to punish those that rise to your bait.

Exactly the same fucking tactic that ruined reddit.

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GBU_28reply
lemm.ee

Huh? You can easily review the mod log. You aren't the main character bud.

If you're so convinced I'm bad business report me or block me just leave me alone.

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people being reasonable. I hadn't realized the edges Reddit had given me until I snapped at a couple people on here and was definitely out of line

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Defending totalitarian regimes and trying to get Biden to lose the upcoming election.

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People forgetting that it is not lemmy, but federation.
/posting from kbin

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Pointing out how terrible capitalism is.

Edit: I’m making fun of myself here, folks, because I do it too!

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