Compassion >~ Thought
I meant the case for Midwest.Social was left wing.
I thought for Reddit people were also saying that it was left wing, due to calls for Luigi-type violence, but what are you saying about it being due to right wing? To clarify, I genuinely am asking, bc I left Reddit nearly two years ago and except to look something up quickly in specific subs, have not read e.g. r/popular since then, so I don’t have any sense of what that culture has been like.
You would think that they would learn to distinguish the poisoned pills by the comments that say “you suck”, but many automated tools really are they dumb.:-)
It shocked me to realize how authoritarian Lemmy was, after moving over to it from Kbin.social as it died. And it has only gotten worse over time - e.g. it used to say which mod removed something, while now it just says “mod”, which is particularly disadvantageous when there is no modmail so you would have to DM them in some other space like Discord or Matrix or some such.
Tbf, Lemmy was mainly marketed to instance admins, and only after the fall of Reddit did people try to pin their hopes to make it a viable alternative for common, non-techie users who don’t use Arch Linux btw. Then, several alternatives did not pan out - Mbin seems stuck in its development after breaking away from Ernst, as too does Sublinks (the main dev had a baby), though PieFed is indeed coming along nicely, and giving me hope by providing democratization of moderation (by creating tools, such as keyword filtering, that allow for the end user to curate their own experience rather than have to rely upon a mod to do everything).
And Rust is a really difficult language, even for people who already know C++. And there wasn’t really much competition until PieFed, so whether intentional or not it may not matter, but basically if we want something then we need to first build it. As we are doing!:-)
In that particular case I believe it’s left wing - echo chambers can function on both sides.
I am sure that the really real extremists are elsewhere, not here where everything is visible on the clear and open web. Similar for the left and right side, as well as other types too (e.g. climate). But in general this place does skew more towards leftism, when politics are discussed. And, like Reddit also, sometimes people are literal actual children, though here people do trend towards being older, and more educated, particularly in regards to using Linux.
Social media connects humans together, and all that that entails.:-)
To fill that niche, there’s always Hexbear, or diluted 1000-fold, the still Alt-Left lemmy.ml instance.
I don’t begrudge someone being “stupid” or ignorant, I begrudge them being obstinate and willfully remaining that way, especially when it crosses over into taking away my own freedoms.
It is helpful to have posts from multiple communities delivered to you though, in a conjoined “Feed” - e.g. here is an example of a PieFed one called “Fediverse”. Personally I disagree with not showing the full name of the community in the feed like that, but when you click on an actual post you see at the top the entire thing including what instance it is located on (and for some, the little icons can differ as well, which I particularly see for communities located on Beehaw, which really helps to distinguish e.g. technology on Beehaw from technology on Lemmy.World, etc.).
Tbf, federation delays occur for every instance - and in particular Lemmy.World is well known for how they cause them.
OTOH, the flagship instance PieFed.social does have quite a bit more of those than I’ve typically seen on any Lemmy instances. Here is a list of other PieFed instances readily available to join. They won’t have features be added as quickly, but might be more stable.
The feeds are also (now), in addition to being user customizable, shareable as well. So yes you can create your own, but also you may not have to, and instead just find one already made and maintained by someone else with similar preferences:-).
Mostly relating to small matters of polish. Like there’s a post preview feature, but that isn’t provided (yet) for comments.
One super annoying feature is when you receive a notification for something that you cannot actually see. Sometimes it relates to all the variety of auto-collapsing or auto-hiding of comments (therefore I turned all of that off), but e.g. you can receive a notification from someone that you have added to your block list if they reply to you, yet you will then be directed to a page displaying an error (when instead, that notification itself should have been removed by the PieFed backend).
Oh, and searching is crap (tbf, Reddit’s is too? However, Lemmy’s is fairly great, and about to get even better by separating out post titles I hear), plus while cross-posts are properly joined together, you cannot actually initiate a cross-post from PieFed.
PieFed is great for a new person to join the Fediverse, or for an old hand (who knows how to go to Lemmy in order to get around these limitations) to use as a daily driver, but it hasn’t reached feature parity yet with Lemmy.
OTOH, it has already surpassed Lemmy in so many ways, and Lemmy is not without its quirks as well. Chief among those might be how authoritarian it is - there is a modlog, but no modmail, and the account name of the mod who performed an action is actively hidden, replaced with just “mod”. Also the “instance blocking” feature is horribly misnamed, as it only acts as a community mute, whereas in contrast, PieFed has a true instance blocking feature that I use to block all users from lemmy.ml, regardless of what community or instance they are posting to. No need for an instance admin or defederation or anything - and you can reverse it anytime to boot! That one feature alone is what enticed me to join it, when it was much less developed - that feature is so helpful!
As are the hashtags, categories of communities, keyword filtering, and the list just goes on and on. Ahem, but yes nothing is perfect, and it does have quirks, some of which can be quite annoying. Fortunately the pace of development is extremely quick, and the dev very friendly and responsive.
Go to the community, e.g. [email protected], and just to the right of the name, you’ll see a bell icon. If that has a slash through it, which it should by default, then you will NOT receive notifications for that content. Toggle it to ON if you want them though.
I have greatly reduced my number of notifications from communities, since they can really pile up, especially for high-volume communities, and all the more so if you don’t check them multiple times a day. But for very rarely posted to communities, they can be a great way to ensure that you won’t miss something by other ways of reading, like your Subscribed or one of the Topic Feeds, which just recently were made to become user customizable and also shareable.
You can also sign up to receive notifications for Feeds too. Or a user. Or a post - most anything really. You can also toggle OFF notifications for a post or comment that people keep bothering you with, without having to delete it (this happened to me a couple times, once on Hexbear.net and again in lemmygrad.ml).
There are some quirks that PieFed still needs to fix, but overall I’m so happy with it! I’m glad you are enjoying it as well. Keep us all updated, in communities like this one, if you have other questions or feedback or anything - the Fediverse is getting active again all of a sudden, with all the enshittification happening on Reddit recently!:-)
That would be great! Avoidance of not just leftists but extremists of any persuasion is the chief reason cited by so very many people for refusing to come over to Lemmy. Which by turning away content creators, leaves Lemmy stagnanting.
Nobody wants this place to turn into a safe haven for the Alt-Right, yet for some reason so many people do not bat an eye at what I’ve started calling the Alt-Left here.
It really would be great though to be able to check in on politics as needed, but then for one brief period even if only for ten damn minutes be able to turn all of that OFF!:-) Which I can on PieFed, but I see so many people on Lemmy begging for that, not knowing how to accomplish that (bc on Lemmy, you can’t, and even on PieFed - well… look at this very post here, no separator is ever going to be perfect:-).
Tbf, from the perspective of someone who is THAT far left, I’m sure it does sorta all blend in to look the same:-). Even so, that is no excuse to remain in willfull ignorance. I don’t have to agree with any particular position to understand it, nor to respect either it or the people who believe in it (especially if their set of facts differ from mine - not everyone has the luxury of sorting all of that out, at any age and social status and time period in their personal life).
I’ve flat given up posting content such as Fareed Zakaria, and barely bother to post highly leftist but somehow still not leftist enough content such as Innuendo Studios’ The Alt Right Playbook.
+ also @[email protected]
Beware of that one, it’s got… “issues”, and is not a great recommendation for someone trying to get away from the exact same type of stuff happening on Reddit.
must I get involved in senseless flame-wars?
Yes, you must. Now get busy! (/s)
Activity includes voting.
Isn’t it fantastic!?
(I bet nobody would say that on Reddit 😁)
I think the Threadiverse offers a much higher rate of commentors to lurkers than that. Posting itself might be the same though.
It looks like a lot of the new accounts are on Lemmy.World (PieFed shows an icon next to usernames when the account is <2 weeks old:-), so I expect sometime in the next six months to see them move to another instance. Like Discuss.Online if in the USA or feddit.org if in the EU, etc.
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