This may be an unpopular option since I've already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I'd like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing "PORN" on my screen.

At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.

When people turn a popular post into an Oscars Acceptance Speech

ETA: wow thanks for the upvotes!

ETA2: omg my first gold award?? I couldn't have made it without my mom and Jesus through whom all things are possible

Moderators who coddle bigots.

Bigots.

Creative writing presented as truth

Can we stop talking about Reddit? Let it go.

"Thanks for the gold kind stranger"

All I want is that top comments under posts are something insightful and related to the post, and not just the same one liner boring jokes that keep getting upvoted for some reason.

The “hivemind” ignoring the correct information or even worse, encouraging the wrong information.

Does anyone else remember the whole Boston Bomber fiasco (i.e. We did it, Reddit)?

Karma-whoring. It's already started with the stupid "upote my can of beans" posts... Dude nobody cares about your internet points, either activity participate or fuck off to Instagram.

I absolutely hate the love for revenge violence. Stuff like celebration people running over protestors in their cars because they were forced to stop on the road. Or bleeding out after someone got shot when they robbed a store.

This includes that fact that you can basically guarantee every thread contains at least one comment claiming "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

Please don't let /c/asklemmy become like /r/askreddit, which had half of the front-page posts being the same sex related questions every month.

"Women of reddit, what non sexual thing that guys so makes you horny?"

"What is the sexiest thing you regret doing?"

"How many cocks have you sucked while your cat judges you while waiting for you to feed it?"

It was bullshit.

Comments like:

„This!“

Use the upvote button and shut up.

r/the_donald or anything like it. Kindly fuck off with all of that shit.

/u/spez

People who don’t know/acknowledge the difference between “free speech” and “hate speech”

When someone would ask a good question that you also wanna know the answer to, but then all the "answers" were just jokes bc everyone wanna get upvotes. I dont really mind jokes but those times it was a bit sad, then sometimes no one would answer for real bc i guess they see 10 replies and assume surely one of them is real already.

Also repost bots.

And apple vs samsung feuds.

And sometimes looked like whenever some people try to organize action or protests, comments just spamming that "protests do nothing" or "voting does nothing," or "what is this gonna do," not suggesting any other solution either, almost like trying to encourage apathy? Or discourage action. Sometimes i wondered if those were bots.

Also the r/wooosh when someone didn't understand a joke. .-.

Cringe horny sexual questions on the main page every day: Reddit, what sound do you like to hear when you do the sex with your female partner? (and the post has 999999 upvotes and 99999 comments)

/r/MadeMeSmile portrayed toxic positivity which felt out of touch with reality.

"I made my bed today. First time in 14 years 🙂"

• 45 thousand likes and 2 thousand comments.

The ragebait fake text message screenshots that plague subs like antiwork.

Wow, your dickhead boss is stupid enough to put all of that in writing and has the exact same style of writing, spelling and grammar as you do? Isn’t that a coincidence!

Ads.

Fuck ads.

u/spez

My cat didn't get any love over on insert community name here. I hope you guys updoot me more than they did.

“Women of Reddit: what’s the sexiest sex you ever sexed (and why)?”

"Sir, you have just won the internet" "Thanks for the gold kind stranger" "I too choose this guy's [placeholder]" And the other corny overused reddit lines

Karma. I feel like that will push Lemmy in a way that isn't healthy.

DAE

Banana for scale

5/7 with rice

Generic ask Reddit threads

All that shit can go to hell.

Communities with videos of violence and assault, justice porn etc. I hate those, this is honey for conservatives and fascists, they love it and it disgusts me.

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

"Came here to say this"

Also, while I will tolerate it, I hope we tone down the doggo speak

Sponsored posts, banner ads, algorithms, and other advertising-industry fuckery.

A reply that's just "r/(some subreddit name)."

A robot trying to sell stolen fan art printed onto t-shirts.

People childishly self-censoring non-sweary words. "Sex" isn't a bad word, but writing "s*x" suggests you probably shouldn't be allowed on social media at your stage of development.

Safe spaces for fascism. Spez let The_Donald and its imitators fester for years, thus turning Reddit into a de facto Nazi Bar. Thus years of harassing non-fascists & minorities, brigading, spouting bigotry, disinformation and toxicity while the admins yawned.

/u/spez

u/spez

Photos of people’s wives or girlfriends - often taken without their wife or girlfriend’s consent - playing video games, with vaguely condescending titles about it “only being the Sims / Animal Crossing” and half the replies being absolutely vile. As a Woman Who Plays Video Games, it was awfully annoying.

Pun threads. They're not clever. They're the same, old, recycled jokes, and they just get progressively worse with every reply.

Just general karma whoring...

Thanks for the gold kind stranger

I hope that the mod-user relationship will be healthier here. (Bias, I was a reddit moderator.)

Some reddit mods were crap, this is true. Powermods and sub collectors were real. They did shit up a few communities.

But these people were a very small proportion of all moderators. Most moderators I met were chill, and just wanted to chip in to their respective communities to give back, in a way. Volunteering for internet janitor duty, because no matter how much people use the term as an insult it turns out public spaces need janitors - or they get filled with shit, trash, graffiti (and not the cool kind either, mostly badly drawn swastikas). It's not a position that should be glorified, or anything, because that's weird, but I hope that some semblance of basic respect can be maintained here on Lemmy - both ways, meaning no powermods but also no defaulting to assuming mods suck.

Other Redditors. Can we just be on Lemmy and move the fuck on?

I love megathreads for when I have to sleep through an event and I want a detailed recap

The smug, smarmy attitude Redditors are known for even when they're obviously wrong.

Rampant onlyfans promo on as many communities as possible.

Political compass meme was a breeding ground for fascists. Who would have thought a sub about reductionist political thought would attract bad actors.

To stop talking about Reddit. Reddit is dead to me!

Spez

All the fake AITA posts.

I happen to love megathreads. When a major breaking news happens I want to discuss it with the community, not read a dozen smaller threads repeating the same.

Spez

Horny people from Lemmy, what is the Horniest thing you've....

But it's probably a matter of time.

Power mods. Many of the ones who ran Reddit's biggest subreddits like iBleeedOrange and Awkwardtheturtle were major assholes.

The fact that reddit and its subreddits became huge echo chambers that downvote and challenge anything that isn't the current public opinion.

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Spez.

"This." These comments add nothing to the discussion. I get that people want to show their support an argument/content, but that's what upvotes are for. If you want to show your support for something, then at least try to think of something worthwhile to add to the discussion while expressing your support.

I’m feeling insecure and shy, please rate my anus.

Karma whoring bots

Karma. Chasing a high score leads to shitposting.

_'s of reddit, what is your experience with _?

Not a _, but...

Ads

During the final days I spent on the platform, Reddit was starting to become very generic. Many subreddits, despite being about theoretically different topics, devolved into a generic Reddit frontpage community. Even if Lemmy becomes a lot more popular, my hope is that the communities here will stay somewhat distinct and won't become as much of circlejerks.

“This.”

Spez

Using autism as an insult. And the r-word. I'm sure I'll see both, but I wish there were a corner of the internet free of mocking people with disabilities.

Overzealous mods.

Endless OF spam.

Corporate shills.

Permanent bans. Except for egregious cases, ALL bans should be for a certain number of hours to cool the situation down, and then let it go.

Links pointing to Reddit content

Power mods, shadow banning, corrupt admins

Edit:Typo.

If an edit changes the context of the comment, then sure, put up an edit note. But no one cares if you erase typos.

The "obligatory" jokes, copypasted every time someone writes a certain thing. I would always downvote them. I am thinking about blocking users that continue that here.

Bots. Endless bots where you don't know if the comment or post is a real person. Sign ups need a barrier to filter out bots.

Karma farming. Imagine all the people posting content for free.

First comment being, from a automateded bot.

I hope Lemmy won't become far right or far left platform

Official NFTs collectible.

Corporate shills.

That new ugly UI.

It's so damn cluttered.

"On mobile, apologies for bad formatting."

As if posting from a mobile device somehow prevents you from using paragraphs and punctuation? Give me a break. You either can't be bothered, which means you're not worth interacting with; or you had to repeat at least a high school English class or two growing up. Either way you need to stop blaming your fucking phone.

“This.”

Spez

Shitty repost bots. Actively ban bots pretending to be humans.

I couldn't see anyone else mentioning it so I will. Ads. My mind is at peace without them

People replying "this"... motherfucker that's what the upvote button is for.

ads, just that

Greedy CEOs

karma

spez

I actually liked megathreads, they usually meant big news and I didn't have to read 20 posts about the same thing.

But what I disliked about reddit was when trolls from some subreddits would spam CP to get other subreddits closed

onlyfans plugs everywhere

I think megathreads are useful for things like an album release or a weekly episode release. It gives a place for conversation to occur without flooding the community with duplicate posts. I think the megathreads you're referring to though are the ones where it's like "New DIY-ers, ask questions here!" I agree that those should stay gone. No one reads them and they aren't helpful.

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ı fElT cUte tOdAY. Pm mE fOr mY n*DeS. bots

Take my upvote / angry upvote / upvoted

Those damn comment copying bots. (Or any kind of malicious bot actually..)

I'm getting real sick of seeing comments made by someone who clearly didn't read or understand a post/comment. It's hard to tell if it's genuine stupidy and a lack of reading comprehension or a purposeful troll. Either way, it's annoying and I hope to at least see a lot less of it on Lemmy, if not gone altogether.

Ads

Megathreads were an improvement over the same story being posted a hundred times (not an exaggeration).

With regards to the question: the bigotry, the boy's clubs, the tactics to deliberately exclude some members from the conversation. I doubt Lemmy will avoid them wholesale, but maybe they will be curtailed and limited to a few instances.

I realize this basically makes me satan to a lot of redditors so I never talked about it over there, but I HATED the whole cutesy schmoopsy poem shtick a couple of users would do that everyone would upvote to the top of a handful of threads every day. An AI could be churning out that saccharine doggo speak and nobody would ever know the difference, but people go nuts for it.

Links to Twitter. Never had an acct, the site is horrid, and I will not go.

Realistically, everything we dislike on reddit is pretty much unavoidable once there is a certain number of people, outside of being ran by some capitalist shills, hopefully

I can hope it won’t but I know it’s gonna happen anyway - the chronically online mentality that was everywhere on Reddit.

On reddit it always seemed like a lot of people (or at least the most vocal ones) never actually go outside and have this very idealized and unrealistic view on the world.

Witch hunts. Remember the fiasco after the Boston Marathon bombing?

Gatekeeping communities. A lot of the niche communities basically would push you away if you don't have the latest or greatest, or if you had a slightly differing opinion than the rest of that community

Karma and all the issues it brings

The absolutely childish gaming default posts of "hidden gems" that aren't hidden, "ain't much but it's mine" and stale ass memes. Stuff like that makes my eyes roll. Not just the default gaming sub but it started to creep into most places.

/r/jailbait

Also no trophy's, ever. Unless it's like a Mario Kart Lemmy Tourney. Then sure. But for a sub like that? NOPE.

c/Xporn when X is not sexual. Like r/foodporn, r/earthporn, or r/animalporn.

Ads

Purchased upvotes

Evil robots

you know, basic stuff

Questions that are almost certainly article writers from Buzzfeed fishing for content… wait a second…

People farming karma on subs like /r/aww.

Like not even reposters. I’m instead talking about the people who camp that sub and ruin threads by criticizing diet, etc.

If you post a photo of a dog that’s even slightly overweight, God have mercy on your cursed soul.

Mile long pun threads in posts that aren't even humourous.

The state of certain subreddits was abysmal. Damnthatsinteresting, mildlyinteresting and all the others were just the same thing reposted and crossposted.

spez

/s on stuff that's so obviously sarcastic. The begining of that to me was a big indicator for how stupid the reddit userbase had become.

Reposts of questions from a few days ago like this one

Rage bait, Karen videos, violence

Long pun chains

So. Much. This.

Long looping chains where the same 3 comments are repeated.

Shadowbanning.

AskReddit topics:

"Who is a very popular and esteemed actor but actually is pretty bad at acting?"

"What's a cheap thing that is actually expensive?"

So called IT experts who only know solutions by rote. If the question is out of their scope they almost always respond with “why do you want to do that? You really want to do this instead” and then promptly give you basic instructions that don’t actually answer the question.

I'm just tired of the same old jokes. "Uh oh, his shoes fell off, he must be dead."

A tolerance for the propagation of disinformation.

Room for disagreements is necessary, but so is stopping people who never cared about agreeing in the first place. Giving the dishonest this freedom has only silenced the honest by burdening them with layers of crap to cut through before their speech is heard.

Well I saw there's already a "The Donald" type group so that's just fuckin' lovely.

Comments that require a, "well, back on Reddit..." explanation. Could include comments about that guy's dead wife. That one kid's broken arms, etc.

Power mods like that awkward turtle loser

Powermods who collects the title more than doing the actual moderating.

I think mega threads are really useful for when you're looking for credible sources.

There's nothing wrong with talking about reddit right now, it's the biggest ongoing news to all of us right now. It will never really go away in your mind, in time you'll just be indifferent towards it.

The most important thing is again, to remember what reddit did to turn into what it is, and not repeat the mistake here.

Karma system.

"Third reply downvotes" and other types of bullying done for absolutely no reason. Also, people misleading others to disgusting communities just to troll them, for example (and I am paraphrasing the names of the communities): "misspell the community's name to c/vercute instead of c/verycute and you accidentally get a sub full of gore" or "check out c/audioing, it's definitely not people doing a very disgusting thing to one of their body parts". I do, however, like the fact they're bringing the whole subreddit swap meme - for example: on Reddit we have had r/trees and r/marijuana_enthusiasts and I've seen that implemented into Lemmy instances already. I wouldn't get rid of that, I think there are some traditions that are neat and don't harm anybody.

Dehumanisation. I feel as though people are increasingly becoming ok with other people being punished for their involvement in something that is genuinely wrong/evil/bad. But the people experiencing the steepest punishments are almost never the people with significant culpability for the wrong/evil/bad decisions.

"Just following orders" might not be a great excuse, but punishing pawns for a king's choices isn't an effective deterrent or remedy either.

Single opinion echo chamber. I'm sure it'll work it's way back into the fold as folks break out into communities, but I think it's a very dangerous aspect of social media I hope we can get rid of eventually.

obligatory _

I only want to see the number of upvotes and downvotes like in the olden time.

Entire post that are just a screencap from a tv show with an unedited quote as the title. Those used to flood any show specific sub to the point of annoyance. They add nothing to the conversation.

Help me name my pet, because I have no creatively or originality and am a karma whore.

Circlejerk communities. They almost always end up being worse than the actual places they make fun of.

Just less outrage, more harmony.

constant cyclejerk to farm upvotes. also the fact that on reddit if you dont commonet within like 1hr of post creation you have basically no chance of getting top voted / talking on that thread

the black and white mindset... you're either with the hivemind or against. no room for nuanced opinions. someone posts a stupid strawman argument pro abortion/anti billionaire/etc.. you can't point out the flaw in the logic without being called a sexist racist Nazi.

example: some post about how billionaires should pay 35% tax on their net worth, you point out that people are taxed on their income, not possessions, you're a bootlicker

This.

Toddlerisms like danger noodle (snakes) or velvet hippos (pitbulls I think)

Long, thought out posts with replies that consist solely of something like "you're*"

Power-tripping users that somehow have access to hundreds of sub-communities and lean heavily on automodding and just reacting by absolutes because they lack problem solving skills.

Shitty, unfunny jokes that spiral into lengthy comment chains that are a chore to weed through. Keep that shit on Reddit, because everyone pretends they're some downtrodden, unspoken stand up comedian on there.

Thought policing.

Word policing. Yeah I get that we shouldn't say n***** and stuff. But, why go through the trouble of censoring swears? I mean come on, we've grown up to have the privilege of airing those words out!

Not sure if from Reddit, but I would love to see external links open in a new tab by default.

Death-penalty-for-jaywalking moderation.

The endless reposting

Bots.

TikTok reposts.

Businesses, Celebrities, Internet "personalities", parasocial relationships. Anything that turns things into a popularity contest rather than genuine 1 to 1 conversation.

The pile of different dumb awards like "wholesome" or those expensive diamond things.

"The absolute state of this sub", said to imply that it's a delusional liberal/lefty cesspit, contrasted to the right-thinking 'real world'.

Reddit culture.

Fucking nazis...

Including typos, or just misinformation in post title to get correcting comments, "tricking" the algorithm

Sorting by controversial. It became an unhealthy habit for me. Almost like I was enjoying my anger.

Prison rape jokes.

All the “helpful” bots filling the comments with annoying messages.

Removing posts for no reason. It was damn near impossible to post anything on reddit because it would get "removed by moderators". It was so heavily abused. Boost still showed removed posts on my feed and at least half the posts I opened were "removed" and almost all the good posts were always removed. Fuck reddit.

I'd love more political debate without censorship from either side. I want to hear every argument either side has, even if the argument is dumb. I want to hear the rebuttals people give for the beliefs I have, because that is the only way to check myself.

I would like regulation for these discussions to be more about personal insults, rather than if an idea is deemed too offensive or not (which is arbitrary to begin with). When a debate devolves into insults, there's no point in continuing the conversation anyway.

“What the title says…” I hate when people start the body of their post referring to the title of the post as if isn’t self-explanatory, that the two are related.

Reposts, and people repeating the same tired jokes over and over.

/r/jailbait 🤮

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Mass downvotes for saying anything that goes against a set narrative and that annoying oh no song.

people bot-posting for karma or similar bullshit

Any more beans.

Ads and rage bait content farm

Punctuation-free one-word posts so people can be involved without having to participate.

"Sexy sexers of Reddit, what's the sexiest sex you ever sexed?"

"AITA for saying a single unkind word to the man/woman who keeps me as a literal slave, beats old ladies and kicks puppies in the street?"

Toxic gatekeeping in communities.

Some subreddit that don't let you post.... question. Why? That's the stupidest thing ever.

"Thanks for the gold kind stranger!"

all the excessive awards

people making entire threads of stupid puns

typing out song lyrics

that dumb broken arms thing

The swamps of Degobah.

Power Mad Mods. The ones in r/StarTrek were horrible, banning people for any “negativity” and actually banning people for what they said in other subreddits.

/u/Spez

Too much politics. During the election on Reddit, everything was either ecstatic “Trump good!” or smug “Orange man bad!” posts with no actual content. My list of blocked subreddits ballooned, and that helped. Maybe I’ll have to do that here.

Snarkiness, snobbery, walking on eggshells, opinion downvotes and in general the unbearable attitude of most redditors.

He Gets Us...

I really hope that the political communities don't devolve into just useless name calling.

What I like are the comments that discuss the nuances of politics. Why things happen the way they do and the strategies, OR even other people's takes on a topic.

What Reddit turned into was is an ass or is <Stupid/fascists/baby killers> Or is too old and stupid. Nothing of substance just writing the same thing someone else wrote in the last post. Got really boring.

r/thathappened or any variation of the above, or even stupider, one of those posting the name of the sub and some goofball below asks to be included in the picture of the post that they uploaded to said subreddit

I don't care about ads on Reddit. They aren't intrusive, although I don't like fake "organic content". I think the worst thing is seeing the same thing over and over again in the same sub, being reposted by bots. It's OK if it's from time to time, but they don't even try to change the title.

I also choose this guy's

r/Piracy’s megathread was very useful

This is (mostly) only in car subreddits, but actual car owners getting insulted and ridiculed for their new car choice by teenagers. I've seen this before on Reddit and this triggers me to no end.

Karma

Bots

A better and less toxic mod relationships to the common users on their subreddits. Dear god its like most of them think they are "King of the World" my brother in Christ you are working for free on website making millions of your labor and you ain't getting nothing. Get your head out of ass.

The Hobby Lobby Jesus scam commercials

Awards. At least in Apollo you could hide them.

bacon fanboys

Power mods. Let's hope all the fediverse instances stick to a max sub limit.

You realize that if things get weird enough at Reddit, they may attempt federation (or at least to pull federated content).

Leftie spaces being overtaken by USSR\China\North Korea stans. That just another win for opponents.

Circle jerk because of dissenting opinions, regardless of their objective legitimacy, getting downvoted to oblivion

“doggo wans hugs plz” speak

I was going to say 'a community full of really simple questions that should have just been queried via a search engine' (this post is a pleasant exception to what I'm used to ftr), but then I saw what community this was so my final answer will be: Onlyfans ads poorly disguised as relevant material for whatever community.

Paywall articles, or articles from "news sites" that are all opinion pieces marauding as factual reporting

Something akin to Against Hate Subreddits, that place is an utter hellhole which is one of if not the most hateful places on the site - hell even the entire internet.

The people who use it are also some of the most insufferable people you'll ever meet on the internet.

I'd also like to not see single power mods rule over hundreds or thousands of different communities, that is also cancer.

Some reddit megathreads have been migrated on to the instance I am currently at

Tik tok videos

Edit: I never took the time to learn how to spell it

Gif’s that end too soon for “comedic value”but too often just end up feeling suuuper unnecessary and contrived.

Just stop that trend already, please. It’s 2023, not 2016.

I can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these!

Clearly, you've never been in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com before, have you?

Goatsee

i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

You likely mean recurring ones, but the single event-driven ones make more sense? The recurring ones simply imho reflect a lack a technological capability to filter posts in as fine-tuned a manner as people seem to desire.

Power mods... Except they are already here and banning opinions they don't like. Good thing it's super easy to make a new account on here.

Screenshots of posts on other social media sites.

Political Propaganda for the upcoming presidential election

American politics. Impossible.

People constantly asking the same questions, resulting in the same answers.

Oh wow, people wish Firefly wasn’t cancelled? This is certainly new information.

Powermods and powermods bullying/stalking you just because you said something they personally didn't like. And no, I'm not talking about racism or politics. This happened over choosing healthy dieting strategies and being active in certain dieting subreddits. Yep.

Posting clips of TV shows to places like r/funny

A reason to leave

'story time!'

Relevent username

Posts containing people complaining about the content of the sub not being what they want to see

u/spez

Crappy mods and the ignorant, egotistical attitude that plagued reddit for years, making it the laughingstock of the internet.

Meme user accounts. Keep the comments relevant to the post.

Unoriginal and boring "ask" threads

Karma, and assholes who intentionally try and misrepresent an OP because he wasn't eating everyone's ass in the first post.

people who are new to the site commenting and talking about things that were relevant on it 10 years ago, like "narwhals baconing" or whatever that was all about

Any extreme intolerant politics, and group think

Not being allowed to put your own answer in the text box of an Ask post you made so you’re forced to awkwardly answer your own question in the comments.

tiktoks

RPAN or something like that. I don't know why I would go to Reddit for livestreams. I certainly wouldn't come to Lemmy for it, either.

I never want this crappy comment section. In long threads there is a load more option but it opens a new site with the comments. Then you go back and scroll the whole way down again 🙄

this

The moral high ground.

Communities as hashtags.

You know what I want to see start, though? /r/switcharoo. Please please please we need to somehow start a good ol Lemmy switcharoo.

“Ya’ll can’t behave.”

I mean, I have nothing against moderating whatsoever and I appreciate good mods. But that specific phrase always made me cringe. I just hope I don’t find every potentially controversial post already locked when I open it with YaLL CAn’T bEhAVe or similar condescending laziness at the top.

The general attitude that people have where they need to be right at all costs and will insult you for thinking otherwise.

Like, it's okay to admit that you're wrong and have your views changed.

An expensive API.

Perma bans

"What's worse than death?"

People posting the 1,972nd instance of the same question before searching.

Anyone wants to exchange NFT avatars?

"Core memory" anything. I hope to never see that post title ever again.

spez

Low effort memes and other low-quality karma-farming.

The addictive design, subreddits and posts suggestions, videos scrolling like TikTok, notifications about trend posts, onlyfans bitches

"This is my official formal letter to ____ topic/game company"

Gtf outta here. It's just a damn post. There are no official letters on a forum post putting you above anyone else and a multi-million dollar company is not gonna look and think seriously about your opinionated changes. Because that's all it is no matter which way it's written.

(imagine this comment is fourth in a chain of r/Whatevers)

r/ThirdSub

All the mindless circlejerking and echochambers. I hope the federation helps split up communities about the same topic which should help prevent echochambers from being as strong, and keep people seeing more information and opinions about the same topic.

I was so tired of seeing blatant lies and misinformation being spread just because it fit people's narratives. Like those "dawn project" tesla videos, people hate musk so much (which I'm sure all the much worse billionaires love), so they feel they must hate teslas too, so they keep spreading those videos that have been debunked and proven incredibly questionable that were made by a competitor that's been failing to compete. That's just one tiny example. Don't even get me started on the outright lights and misinformation people spread about crypto.

And of course if anyone ever tried to correct anyone, share actual facts, real articles from trusted sources, anything that went against a particular thread's circlejerk, you would just be harassed, personally insulted, and downvoted immediately. It was so hilarious and sad spending time responding to someone's bullshit with real information and a real argument just for them to do a one-liner personal insult based on nothing, because they knew they didn't actually have anything but the circlejerk is all that really ever mattered.

I'm ranting, but this attitude people have of just not caring about reality when the lies fit what the circlejerking hivemind wants is one of my biggest gripes about modern internet and it's incredibly dangerous. It's exactly the mindset that trump supporters have that allows them to believe whatever the fuck they want and that led to people dying at the capitol, and it's the type of mindset that will eventually lead to far worse things if social media companies don't do more to combat misinformation and echochambers.

google en passant

and my axe!

Sorry commenting again because I wanna say I so agree about megathreads. I thought it's just me being picky, and maybe I should just be glad for the organization. But really, I didn't like them all so much because sometimes it slowed a topic or stifled the conversation about a topic. And it really seem to make the topic be more hidden. (I understood sometimes to have one big thread organizing links for example, but for some things it seemed to hide a subject from wider view, and even tho searching posts wasn't so good on Reddit, trying to search through the megathread seemed worse..)

Crappy UI Design

I was hoping people would drop the /r/something+porn naming of communities, alas that doesn't seem to be the case

Least original post: the dumbass comments parroting the same joke from 2018. It's not even bots, it's the zeitgeist and it's only gonna get worse. Insert 'old_man_shouts_at_sky.gif'

The

• Abraham Lincoln

  • Michael Scott

That stuff, it's so dumb.

Also, "Username checks out"

Stupid drama and community rivalries. And ads in apps.

Powermods and fat hate. Lizzo is more healthy than 95% of the losers that are so intereted into the "promotion of a healthy role model" and I don't see as many people saying anything about the rampant use of drugs or alcoholism there is in the famous people, so come the fuck on!

Bots and that awful app

Spez

I feel that the urban patois of YouTube commentators would lend Lemmy the credibility and gravitas it needs to survive. We should also rename Lemmy something along the lines of Reddit2.0 Rebooted to draw in the premium users. I think the capricious and autocratic style of the Reddit moderation team would improve the discourse and dissuade free thinking individuals from expressing troublesome opinions that contradict the narrative of a quality clickbait shitpost.

Overused memes.

Mouseovers that are easy to inadvertently activate and block a massive part of the site

Bickering between admins and mods. Only a matter of time, though. It's already happening again over at lemmynsfw.

Account names that are based on the user's real name, e.g. JohnDoe33

Unless you're a famous person or topic expert and identifying yourself is important context, save the real names for Facebook; this is an anonymous brand of social media. Plus I think at least some of those "real name" accounts ended up being bots masquerading as humans...

Lemmy is awesome

@Mr_Bott@lemmy.world

Adds

Memes. Communities filled with trolls and most all content created as creative writing exercises or trollbait. Communities filled with indignant self righteous members trying to force their own worldview or morals on the rest. Politicising everything.

Emojis

Gif links as comment/replies.

It's already too late, but I wished Lemmy had made it impossible to upvote your own post, or made them start at -1 so one upvote puts it on 0. Granted, that's a petpeeve.

Their mods.

Up votes. Actually wait a minute.

In all seriousness, any dumb, little thought out comments.

I would like to hope Lemmy is the Reddit of old before the masses ruined it.

I'm loving Lemmy right now.

Censorship

I never really was on reddit and I am beginning to miss the lemmy that existed a few days ago, it felt a bit cozier , less hectic and friendlier overall. Now all the same old reddit posts have migrated over and it seems I see a lot more low effort mean spirited cheap 'jokes' everywhere

astro trufing gov shills that happen during big social event like the railroad strikes that died in the us or how i like to call it RAILWARS

or the weird shadowban censorship that happens when you say certain phrases on redditr.

or some powertripping mod from r/news perma banning folks for commenting opinions

Blatant post upvote bias from one side of the political spectrum

Your mom

We really need karma system here. Atleast if not during early days of account creation time, it can be later a grace period. Or else lemmy will become like quora.

John Oliver

Incredibly out of touch Westerners who think the world should revolve exclusively around their favoured concerns. The Ukraine conflict was a very good example of this. So many dumbasses blaming countries for not cutting their ties with Russia just because it suits their worldview.

Cat posts. I fuckin' hate'm!

Not restricted to just Reddit. But the increased usage recently of "ya'll"

As reddit became more mainstream, people started using gasp emojis. Like, seriously? There are so many gifs and ASCII art you can use to express yourself and you choose the most basic bitch 0 effort reaction?

The insane amount of left wing bias.

Liberal echo chamber