• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    I find the maturity level miles above reddit. Or maybe years-since-middle-school above reddit would be more accurate. Having said that, doomscroller mentality is still strong in the fediversre, but that seems inescapable. And tbh Lemmy and PeerTube are the only parts of the fediverse I use, since I’m not on Instagram or the various other things with federated alternatives.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        It kinda already is. The number of misinformed boomer comments aren’t nearly to the scale of Reddit or Youtube, but I’m seeing them more often

  • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    7 days ago

    Because Fediverse is non-judgmental, I don’t know who any of you are or what you look like, and Fediverse hasnt reprimanded or banned me yet.

  • EvasiveSpecies@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Reddit banned me and it genuinely felt like a much too toxic place in hindsight. It’s less stressful on here as well. Plus I needed a similar alternative as most specialized forums nowadays are dead and I am fond of the easy community style.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 days ago

    I don’t follow individuals, no one person is worth that, I don’t do that kind of allegiance or need to interact with a crowd of sycophant followers. So that eliminates a lot of social media right away. Threads, substack, instagram, whatever. Not interested in individuals.

    I was on reddit for over a decade. Towards the end the subs became…meaningless? Reposts, bots, hive mind, karma removed, and generally if you weren’t first to post you got zero interaction at best, at worst someone just wanted to disagree with you and downvote. Ask a question and you were stupid for not knowing the answer. Not worth it, and them came all the API issues, forcing the app, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining some subs while letting shitholes like T_D carry on… death by little cuts.

    I much prefer forum-like settings, where most everyone can participate with everything and the Fediverse offers that. So here I am. Yeah, it’s not perfect, defederating is a thing, some servers are ideologically heavyhanded, it has some similar issues with users and mods as the other place, but at least the stupid Karma removed isn’t a compounding factor.

    I still use some facebook groups for hobbies, they just don’t exist here or have zero activity. But that’s about it for my social media.

    • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
      1·
      7 days ago

      I realized a few weeks ago, when a question was asked about what all the off-shoots of the fediverse were, that the “lemmy-style” of social media is the only one I like (piefed,etc included). I realized all the other ones focused on “following users” which is why I never got into them. I use voyager a lot to lurk when I’m away from the pc and it doesn’t even show who posts it.

      I just have no desire to follow an individual, company, influencer, or celebrity shit. I’m here for the content, poster be damned (but respectfully appreciate their contribution). I want a subscription feed based off of categories, just wish there was a video platform that did the same thing (I was always horrible about not using subscription feed for youtube and mostly only used it for local and news).

  • vapordays@leminal.spaceEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    Everyone on reddit is so pedanticly confrontational, to make it worse, most people like that are just really confidently wrong and therefore it’s an insufferable place. This also pretty much goes for all of mainstream media. Everyone has a shitty fucking opinion about basically everything now, and will fight you over everything no matter how big or small

    Poisoned ass society and this seems to be a tad of an enclave

  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    I like that they’re all connected — I can follow the portion of my friends who prefer a more Instagram type of social media, or a more TikTok style of social media, or a more Reddit style of social media, all from my mastodon account.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    one. control. I did kbin over lemmy initially because its features were more robust and moved to piefed because it had and was adding many more options in general. two and actually this should be first. Non corpo. Im done with centralized control of my internet interactions.

  • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    5 days ago

    I don’t, it’s like the worst parts of reddit with more bots and as an American there’s a very obvious and clearly organized attempt to stop people from voting for democrats. Every thread filled with idiots blaming democrats for what republicans do and then proudly claiming they vote third party or don’t vote like that’s not voting for republicans. Watch, if I get any replies there’s gonna be gpt comment filled with Russian propaganda saying how it’s actually all the democrats fault.