It’s brought me joy in life and I’ve learned so many new things. How cool is it that we get to enjoy all of this cool stuff for free (as in cost) and free (as in freedom)?
That is all. Hope everyone has a nice day.
I feel the same way. I love 🐭 Have a nice day, too.
It’s not really free: Consider donating money to your instance in order to pay the server costs!
Good reminder. Just donated to my instance :)
Thanks, I love you too. Jokes aside, I am also new here, mostly just browsing. I love it too, makes me feel good.
Try different sorting algorithms too (like scaled)
Also try different Fedi Software too like Peertube
If you take the time to do that you have a rabbithole to loose yourself in easily
Hi… hope you all well New user here. How to change instances without creating a new account, please? I would like to explore more channels rather than this Lemmy.World one… Thanks and all the best! e.
Lemmy is the best! This is where I spend the most time in social media.
It’s a great place to be.
I like it too!
Hell yeah, I hope you have a nice day too! 😊
I wish I felt the same way, but other users are making it frustrating and draining. I’m contemplating leaving. But, I don’t know of anything similar to browse, other than Reddit and I refuse to use their app or pay a subscription for another.
Don’t let a few people ruin your experience
It’s more than a few. It’s several admins, a handful of their followers, nearly an entire instance’s users (even after blocking it), prolific posters that mod dozens of comms and people will rally behind them regardless of how much of an asshole they are being to you, and even one user in particular that was banned but is now hiding under a new account.
It’s also partly how the platform works which feeds the most toxic users. It’s how the platform seems to entice people into stricter tribalistic behavior than other platforms. Say anything that might be construed as negative towards one of the many things these groups base their entire identity on and you get swarmed by them and you can’t even defend yourself. You get downvoted to hell and they get upvoted for being assholes by their other cult-like followers. Not that votes “matter”, but it just makes it feel shitty when someone decides to be an asshole to you and they get supported for it while trying to defend yourself only gets more people against you.
There’s more, but trying to describe it all is making me feel worse.
This place sucks. It’s absolutely awful that I feel this is actually true, but reddit was better than this.
I find it useful to sign up for multiple accounts and then segregate those into browsing/posting habits for different categories. One for gaming (or other relaxed communities), one for science & tech, one for politics that I only occasionally dip into, one that’s a voting only account, etc.
At the very least, you can take a break from communities that can easily be more toxic, whenever you want. If downvotes bother you, I would also suggest signing up with a fediverse instance that disables downvotes.
Just don’t try to debate politics unless you already subscribe to the prevailing groupthink. In fairness, that’s true of any social-media forum, and the corporate ones have other problems on top.
I say its just groupthink when ppl disagree with me too, we are the same
Try expressing a centrist or - heaven forbid (I haven’t actually tried this one) moderate conservative - position on a hot-button subject and see if you still feel that way.
I have, no one gives a shit, actually why I instantly liked lemmy over reddit, I got banned from multiple subs there for saying I dislike our reliance/pushing for more h1vb visas when recent college grads here cant get jobs, super controversial on reddit got me a 7 day ban, here some ppl agree
Perhaps it depends on community but my experience has been pretty uniform: brigading, comment removal, bans, for expressing ideas that (according to opinion polls) are shared by literally most of the population. At first I was a bit shocked, now I know just to avoid politics, it’s not worth the trouble. If you’ve had a difference experience then good for you.
