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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] sphere_au@reddthat.com 78 points 1 year ago (41 children)

I've checked both Reddit and Lemmy since I created my Lemmy account yesterday. Reddit has lost a number of subreddits I used to read and the feed seems decidedly less interesting overall. Although the equivalents to all the subreddits I used don't necessarily exist here, there is some good information here (particularly IT-related) and I think the overall feel of the community here is better - people seem (so far at least) largely pretty reasonable and there aren't the armies of contrarians or downvoters just wanting to spread their anger at the world to everyone else. So, overall, win some, lose some, and if I end up just here instead of Reddit, I think any losses there will be offset by gains here. Which if you think about it makes Lemmy look pretty good, given that it is (a) relatively new; (b) volunteer-run and funded; (c) much, much smaller than Reddit.

[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

People say Lemmy is too complicated for most people, well that’s probably a good thing as it naturally filters out the people who only want to incite anger for upvotes. There’s no love on Reddits main subreddits anymore

Also it’s not that hard to understand anyway.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I appreciate talking to people from all walks, though. If a community wants to filter people it should be explicit and on purpose.

[–] chrisshaw@twit.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@CanadaPlus @Senseibu well I'm reading this on mastodon, so that's pretty wild.

In general, it's probably going to be difficult for a community to filter people out

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

And I can see this back on Lemmy. Fascinating!

I'm pretty sure you could still be banned from Technology@beehaw.org. I wonder how that would show up back on Mastodon?

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