Not that anyone cares, but I give up on lemmy
Everything I post, even if factually correct, is downvoted within seconds without explanation
Every thread is a circlejerk of the same 3 topics, I learn nothing on lemmy
I’ve been sending people here everywhere else I go on the internet but I regret it now, every time I log in here it just makes me feel like shit
I really believed lemmy could grow to be an alternative to reddit but it’s 100% not happening and this place is going to die
I mean it’s very possible that I’m the asshole, but fact of the matter is I do not enjoy being here anymore and will no longer be contributing
I think this just means that the honeymoon is over.
In all seriousness, this is a common feature of any social media or human experience (hobby, relationship, etc) in general. When something is new and we are in the exciting discovery period, it seems great. After a while, the warts start to show. Some things begin to seem repetitive.
Lemmy does not have as much content as larger and older social media. It has limitations. the way people vote content is different from other sites because the structure and culture of the platform is different.
This is not to deny anyone’s experience. If you are no longer enjoying it or getting something out of it, take a break. That’s good advice for any social media.
I care. Sorry to see you go. The fediverse can still grow, I suggest you at least stay to lurk and see. It’s just not happening at the pace we were all hoping for at the time. Is reddit really that much better? You’re not an asshole for being honest
It’s not going to grow, it’s dying, and now I’m actively going to steer people away from this place
Where are you going / steering towards?
Dunno, outside in the woods i guess
Not sure about hostile, but I swear I see more downvotes these days that I used to!
Used to be you got downvoted for being a dick. Now you get downvoted if someone doesn’t like you. Just like Reddit I guess?
I see so many sometimes that I half-expect someone to reply to something I’ve said saying they have the death sentence on 12 systems.
I’ll be careful
Redditors moved here, and brought those habits with them, I guess 🤷♂️
That’s what I was thinking too
Do we have a justunsubbed magazine?
I dunno I was trying to find a community like this to make my final thread lol
I guess it depends, personally I find it way better than the alternatives. Sure you have people with different opinions but thats a good thing, just block the trolls and assholes and carry on.
Just block the hostile people and move on.
It’s more of a hivemind mentality that I see sometimes, but reddit is about the same or worse in that respect.
I mean nobody should be on reddit either but the problem now is there is literally nowhere to go
80% of the Internet is troll farm owned.
You have a few recent comments and a few older posts with downvotes, but most of your posts are overwhelmingly upvoted.
The downvotes were earned, and maybe you should give more consideration to why people were disagfeeing with you on those few topics as there were replies that made the reason clear.
“If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoes.”
This post screams: EVERYONE MUST LIKE ME OR I LEAVE!!
No im upset because there is literally nowhere on the internet worth spending time anymore, and i thought lemmy was the last stronghold
Someone gave you an honest, well thought out comment and you went to “there is no where left on the internet”.
The saying stands. You you smell shit while walking around, there was probably some shit around. If you smell it all day, check your shoe.
Maybe the internet is not for you.
I mean it’s almost universally shitty at this point
Would give my left nut to go back to 1999
You are telling on yourself here, what do you actually want?? An echo chamber? If so, they are EVERYWHERE.
If you desperately need the entire goddamn web to be one giant echo chamber (specific to your preferences, no less), you can kindly fuck off. The internet is not for you.
Maybe go outside. Get some fresh air and stop putting all of your interests in a social media platform.
Nah I actually just give up. I put effort into typing comments here and I realized it’s not worth it.
Why spend time on self reflection and improving one’s understanding when you can just quit instead?
-Mediocrities
Speaking of self-reflection… You’re not wrong but you didn’t need to be so mean about it. Especially in this context.
And that goes for all of you too.
Nah, I was nice at first but they don’t want to acknowledge the reality that most of their stuff is upvoted so this is the perfect context to mock them.
Why is it the perfect context to mock them? It seems like you just care more about getting upvoted than treating another human being with empathy.
Self reflection is hard; I don’t begrudge you for shying away from it. But don’t act all high and mighty in that case.
Okay, that was always allowed. Goodbye!
I partially agree. I do think that people in Lemmy - including me - are getting more hostile than before, but I also think that this doesn’t tell us the whole picture.
Lemmy is slowly developing its own social norms, apart from the ones in Reddit. This means that a lot of behaviour and discourses that would be accepted in Reddit aren’t accepted here, and vice versa.
I’ll give you two examples of the later. I don’t know if any applies to your case - again, those are examples.
- In Reddit, it’s common to use certain disingenuous forms of argumentation, such as using “I don’t understand” to convey “I disagree, but I expect you to waste your time explaining your view in minimal details while I keep distorting it”. (It’s a type of sealion BTW.) Here people are far more eager to call you out.
- If you derail a non-political discussion in Reddit with intrusive politics, there’s a high chance that you’ll be downvoted or even told to fuck off. Sadly, here people are a bit more eager to give you a free pass, as long as they agree with your political view.
There’s also a third factor that likely plays a role: here you can see the exact amount of downvotes. In Reddit you don’t, you just see the total score. So for example, a post at +25-10 here will show that you got 10 downvotes, but there it’ll show simply “+15”.
Is it surprising to you that posting this right wing shit got you down voted? Denying the lived experiences of residential school survivors?
How is that right wing? That article is factually correct
Nobody is denying residential school survivors, the fuck are you talking about? This is exactly my problem with this place, and your misinformation is already being upvoted
You’re not wrong. It’s just reddit 2 now here. I barely post anymore with all the tankies, trolls, and idiots.
It’s not even reddit 2 because there is no content. Lemmy is an absolute waste of time
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All threads feel AI generated but they are real people, it’s absurd
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I don’t know how that’s possibly true but I think it is
Lemmy is an absolute waste of time
You say that like it’s a bad thing
It’s basically self inflicted torture at this point and I don’t know why I do it to myself
Probably healthier to go back to daily drinking
That depends on which communities you’re subscribed to.
Absolutely non of them. They just make their way everywhere.
I browse All, top 6 hours, and there is hardly anything of value
I’ll take tankies over fascists any day …
I want a community of both and I want to see them debate
You learn nothing by surrounding yourself with people you agree with
Bye now…
I’m in no position to tell you to stay or go, after all it’s your life to lead, nobody else’s…
Having said that, I can’t help but notice from taking a rather cursory glance at your post history that most of your posts are pretty well up-voted.
The only posts where you seem to be heavily down-voted are political posts, which by their very nature will invite disagreement - this is especially true when the posts you’re making touch upon rather controversial/inflammatory topics.
And if that’s what you’re complaining about being down-voted for, then you’ve really only yourself to blame for inviting that disagreement into your life.
Nobody can force you to stay here if you don’t enjoy being here anymore.
That being said, your post history isn’t that bad at all. We all say things that garner heaps of downvotes sometimes, and that is especially going to be the case in more heated communities like those related to politics. Honestly, I don’t even think up/down votes should even be a thing here and copying them from Reddit was just importing toxicity, but that’s just my two cents.
It’s not even the downvotes exactly it’s just that there is zero discussion when there is a disagreement
Why would I bother posting an opinion if it’s just going to get instantly buried
