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I'm a long time Lemmy lurker and occasional Redditor. Since the Reddit influx, I've watched the frequency of shitty Reddit-type behavior, e.g., combative comments, trolling, and unnecessary rudeness, just sky rocket.

I'm happy to have more content on Lemmy, but I wish the bad actors and assholes would have stayed on Reddit.

Yes, I realize the irony of posting this on a new community that's basically a Reddit transplant.

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

I think that it'll get better over time, for structural reasons: since Reddit is a big instance with lots of users and only a few admins, the admins give no fucks on how you behave there. (And if you're banned by a mod, you create another username and problem solved.) Here however individual users are more precious for their instances' admins, so admins have more reasons to keep their instances clean of people likely to piss off other people. And, even if they don't, I predict that instances with notoriously rude individuals will get defederated. The net result is that those users will have low visibility for other users.

What concerns me the most is not combative, trolling, and unnecessary rude users. It's the stupid - users who are able to reason but actively avoid it. It's the context illiterates, the assumers, the false dichotomisers, the "I dun unrurrstand" [with either an implicit "I demand to be spoonfed as per my divine right", or an "I disagree but I'd rather pretend that I'm a stupid than outright say it"] and the likes. People tend to pat those users on their heads and talk about esoteric stuff like "intentions", but I don't think that they should be socially accepted here, as they drive the dialogue level down and make the place less fun for other users.

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[–] irkli@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not reddit, it's body count. I used bbs's in the late 70s, fidonet in the 80s/90s, internet when gopher was new, and it's all sweetness and love when the crowd is small and gets "worse" when more people show up.

That's in quotes because it's not worse, it's more. Aside from trolls who require the anonymity etc, assholes are just people you don't like. Their friends like them.

It's why scaling is so important and to have tools to keep communities small and manageable.

Facebook's moderating one billion people is a stupid made up problem that will be solved by it dying of bloat.

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tech hipsters have a detrimental effect on everything they touch. Please stop.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The irony of someone with your handle calling anyone a tech hipster is immeasurable with today's technology.

Regardless, the post is about shitty Reddit behavior, of which your comment is a sterling example. If doesn't actually add anything useful to the conversation, you're just being an ass. Why? Who knows, but it just makes the place more unpleasant than before.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Your post is a boring rehash of the same old "eternal September" complaints from the mid-90s. My username has nothing to do with it.

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[–] RocksForBrains@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Idk why you're swinging for low hanging fruit. Your 10 day old account speaks to a Reddit migrant as well.

Ironic.

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