I don’t feel smug because I left Reddit. I feel sad that it turned into a vapid, sterile mockery of itself and I stopped having fun there. I like fun places. And I lost one.
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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same. only a matter of time till it happens here too
The differences is that you have the power to make a new community or Lemmy site with blackjack and hookers. (Piefed is kind of like that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers.)
Kind of. I don't think the Internet will ever return to the heyday of Reddit.
Once governments and groups recognized that social media actually does move public opinion, that was the end of good, anonymous social media.
The ways to bring some of that back aren't great. A community where everyone's verified is much better, but it'll be quite different from the Reddit days where you'd have (usually real) ridiculous subject matter experts chiming in on random threads.
You don't get that with a small, verified population. And when you don't have verification, well forever now have effectively psyops intending to influence you.
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How is piefed going? It looks like a really great alternative.
Absolutely fine. I can interact much better with the fediverse on here except search. I find Lemmy does search functions better currently.
That's not losing too much. You probably don't even have to sign in to use lemmy's search.
Its kind of already happening here - just for different reasons.
There is very little engagement on Lemmy besides in a few communities. What little engagement there is - is driven by a few users.
Even broad conversion topics get very little engagement.
I get not everyone wants to be a topic "starter" (i know I don't), but they can't even bother to either:
1: just post a tiny comment (look at "what are you watching" in the movies / TV subs on piefed.Social; seems like a real easy topic for anyone to engage in and yet there's only ever like 10 posts and zero upvotes)
2: upvote topics or posts; While the points don't matter - they still show and promote engagement.
Its honestly rather frustrating.
I'd note that the same phenomenon exists on Reddit. You'd be surprised how many subreddits on a site much larger are maintained purely by the power of a few posters who feed the community with posts.
I'd also argue that television and movies on piefed.social, per activity, are much more active than what you suggest there.
If you really want a community to take off, you have to basically schedule yourself to make content there.
The lessons from every group I've grown (and haven't) is that consistency is key. You have to develop the habit in other people, and it might take a long time to start.
If you want to be a Twitch streamer, for instance, you have to do it at the same time every day.
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... and full of karma bots
... and using use input to train LLMs
Life's hard enough as it is, one has to practice self love.
Seriously, who wouldn't do this if we could?
I don't know whether my nose would be my organ of choice, but I otherwise agree.
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As someone who was more flexible as a teenager, let me tell you that it feels a lot more like performing the act, rather than having the act performed on you.
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But that's Mastodon's mascot!
For Mastodon, this is no metaphor, just a fetish
The difference between Reddit and Lemmy is that you can post this without getting shadowed banned
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Tbf, a lemmy user is far less likely to be a bot, so... yes?
Mini rant: that’s the #1 thing I was getting sick of before exiting Reddit. It was at the point where the larger subs, think memes or technology, were all reposts of high performing posts that bots were posting. Then they’d use other bot accounts to steal the highest performing comments from under the same picture/article.
The amount of times I’d see the same post 10 times, with the same top comments all from different accounts that all cross posted between each other because they were a part of the same network was crazy. The bot population was insane at the time I left.
I’m not even talking about regular reposts which I actually do like. (I think there’s an XKCD about post exposure?) I’m talking about coordinated karma farms that would spam the hell out of the place.
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Man, y'all are wrong. People on both platforms be stupid as hell. Myself included.
What was I talkin' about?
To be honest, I need something more substantial, but I haven't found where to go after we lost forums
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Depends on what we mean by smart. Lemmy seems to especially attract the IT crowd, which in itself represents a huge swathe of specialty knowledge... which I can't claim to be part of, but hey, medic checking in! But with reddit's variety of topics to include... I mean, pretty much everything, since that website is massive: I don't think they have any kind of knowledge deficit in a general sense.
Where Lemmy really shines is in stamping out the bigotry, not just in policy but from a direct community response: drop a post with some racism or sexism or w/e and you'll be swarmed by posts telling you to fuck off and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. And I love it! :D
So, smarter? Fuck if I know. Significantly less evil? Fuck yeah!
I'm new here but this reminds me a lot of what reddit was like around 2008. I and lots of people came from slashdot, to be able to talk about things other than computers. So everyone is a nerd that cares about data and wants to have a genuine conversation, and I think that makes my experience more intelligent because it becomes less about winning by drowning interesting topics with the same rehashed jokes or tropes, and more about formulating your own thoughts as best you can.
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If I could do that I wouldnt be wasting my time here.
Auto-Fellatio Elephant on my home feed. What a day!
I mean…yes. This is one of the things I imagine I would try if I ever had the equipment.
You don't have both a nose and dangle long enough? Please answer us that you do not regardless of your bait and tackle situation, I'm not feeling like getting jealous
Uh well I’ve got a clam. But I think if I had bait and tackle?? I’d have many things to try. Including working on my flexibility.
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I do feel like I have more authentic interactions on here. It's hard not to see how much more heavily a huge platform like reddit is botted and astroturfed, and controlled by a handful of owners, mods and powerusers, compared to the nascent fediverse. Not that we don't have those things here too, I think Lemmy just hasn't had a high enough profile, yet, to warrant much attention from the same bad actors who run vast portions of reddit, X, and facebook. Here's hoping it stays that way for a little while longer.
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The irony is that reddit users would say the same about other people on other platforms.
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Colonial Americans saying they’re smarter than the British.
“Dude, you were British, we all were!”
Smart enough to stop being British
points at the usa president in 2025
Smart? Not even remotely.
Uhm... the brits have a long string of horribly incompetent (and evil) PMs and the royal family is the same level of inbred rapers of children so...
Let's not try to compare the two and acknowledge we are both horrifically imperialist nations with self destructive tendencies who just happen to be at different points on the curve.
First thing this image makes me think of are Linux users
That's what OP said, Lemmy users.
A lot of them are, the ones that aren't bots and propoganda alt accounts, but a lot of them are also only here because they would be / were banned from Reddit.
Piefed master race tho
Or left as Reddit burned down. Not everyone needed a ban to look elsewhere, we just needed an elsewhere to find.
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Given that Reddit started banning people left and right, I don't think the "banned from Reddit" bagde is one of shame.
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In my experience, Lemmy users generally seem to be more mature (with significant exceptions), but “mature” certainly isn’t a synonym for “smarter”.
Plus, reddit is SO EASY to make fun of. They might as well reward people with terrible ideas and their most obnoxious users. Spez, for example.
Lemmy users are just Reddit users but displaced.
It really depends on which time period you mean.
2010 reddit users? Pretty smart. Lemmy today feels kind of like 2010 reddit.
Reddit today? Well.....it's bots.
Do elephants do this?
No, every elephant I've ever met doesn't use Lemmy.
haven't got opposable thumbs, have they?
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