Honestly, the insistence that Lemmy has better discussions than Reddit. Mostly even popular posts have too few comments to constitute any in depth discussion. I won’t be going back to Reddit but I miss the vibrancy.

Tankies.

You can't have a discussion about anything without some tankie blaming it on Ukrainians / the west / capitalism, etc.

"Oh you stubbed your toe on the table? See, tables are oppressive furniture of the bourgeoisie. The Chinese government wanted to make all tables toe-stubbing resistent, but that would affect IKEA's bottom line and the pharmaceutical industry's profits. I have a source from tankiepeoplesmagazine to back this up."

All the empty communities without any motivation from the creating user to actually be involved in their own community. I honestly think they should be deleted if they're not active. Inb4 "be the change/create your own". No, I don't want to run a community so I don't create a community. Neither should you. Nobody benefits from all these empty reservations of space. It might actually hinder the people who have a need for a community. It's like showing up at an empty store. "Oh I guess I'll go somewhere else for this then"

I’m annoyed by all those Facebook-type boomer comics you see on basically all meme subs. Reddit culture managed to get rid of them, but for some reason people here seem to love them

This platform is almost 100% idealism and politics. Any hobby/technical community goes completely inactive.

Lots of wanna be communists that are well intentioned but have little real world experience

It’s really goddamn preachy. There’s a real sense of superiority a lot of users have that I don’t recall as much on Reddit.

There’s also the fact that small communities are dead and it’s next to impossible to grow them, so you’re stuck with the same people on the front page every day.

Political extremists. So about the same as Reddit, though they seem to be a little more frequent/outspoken here. Also funnily enough the complete opposite side of the spectrum. Used to get called a dirty commie because I believed in Nationalized healthcare, but now I'm apparently a facist for not worshipping the CCP.

The number of pro-communist posts in here is comical. The amount of anti-capitalist posts is almost comical. Obviously related to some degree.

The lack of posts outside of a few main news and politics communities is frustrating.

Just lack of numbers. Reddit's at it's best when I can use it to discuss some incredibly niche topic. That early 2000s RTS that nobody remembers? Got a few dozen redditors still posting memes. New indie game drops? There's enough redditors on it that we can talk about it.

But lemmy seems really bad for trying to enjoy any community that isn't a big political or meme centerpiece. Any particular game or IP that isn't a lowest common denominator? It'll get maybe 3 posts a month.

No more interesting discussions of gameplay mechanics or inspirations or character analyses, no burning out an entire workday browsing the top all-time and giggling like an idiot, it's just dead here.

The same massive numbers that made reddit insufferable for some are what make niche communities inhabitable at all.

• The amount of people that like to shit on the U.S. constantly... Like damn I get it, we definitely have problems, but people here would have you think it's like the wild wild west over here... I promise I'm not fearing for my life every time I go out.

• The extreme left views (I'm liberal myself but some of the things people say here really have me scratching my head sometimes)

• The amount of Windows bad, Linux good posts.

• The amount of people that immediately shit on Apple because of privacy, but use an Android device that accesses the Google Play store (yes I know you can install custom privacy roms, but let's be real, how many casual users are doing this?)

• People always asking if something is FOSS...

These are just a few off the top of my head.

The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.

That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There's very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.

I'm left on the political spectrum but by and large y'all fuckers are over the deep end.

The pro china/Russia stuff is super weird. Also the hex bear goons brigading everything.

Despite being a techie myself, I'm frequently irritated by how much technical conversation there is on here. I seem to see comments all the time that use some unrelated computer programming concept as a metaphor or a similar non sequitur. It reeks of intellectual elitism and is just a reminder of what a small community we still are. I kind of miss the amount of 'normal' people on reddit with more varied interests. That said, generally speaking the quality of conversation on here is really high which is amazing.

This place is a far worse echo chamber than Reddit, and mods fall right in line. I've seen too many posts get downvoted to hell for simple opinions, and other 'dissenters' get posts removed that should have just been part of open discussions.

I've said this before, even in a lighter tone, and those posts mysteriously disappeared. I'm betting this one will be removed too.

The obsession with Linux and privacy. Every post it seems like anyone using windows is committing a cardinal sin. I have had to use linux in the past, and let me tell you, I don't intend to go back to it unless forced to. I still have mental scars of trying to update my gpu drivers

If anything Lemmy users so far have been much less annoying than most reddit users. I feel like I'm reading through less garbage, and comment sections don't look like the same joke repeated ad nauseum.

Not the users but lemmy itself. Sorting by hot is pointless since you see the same post for days at a time. I get lemmy is small but shit it can't be that hot for that many days.

Bots copy pasting content from Reddit.

There are community filled only with that, no upvotes, no comment, no nothing.

When you finally block the bot those communities disappear as the bot is the only active user.

People not marking nsfw content nsfw.... Front page is a minefield whilst in public transport

Incessant posts about Reddit (and Twitter).

Hexbear neonazi tankies one one side, overbearing blocking on the other.

Some of them keep talking about their Ex (Reddit).

The defederation topic and how it impacts me.

I'm an adult, if I find something offensive I'll either block it or ignore it. However, not giving me the choice offends me and IMHO goes against what Lemmy and the fediverse was suppose to deliver.

I understand (and read) the reason's why site owners defederate and I view it largely as "Lemmy isn't mature enough to support more granular blocking - yet", so I wait patiently and hope this trend towards defederation doesn't turn into a powertrip by site owners "for the good of their users...."

The wannabe communists and those trolls from Hexbear.

I'm a socialist but the level of communism here gives me a headache. Wish I could block the whole hexbear instance

What is a tankie?

Lots more pro CCP shills on here. Smh.

Super opinionated people who are completely blind to the thing they're discussings shortfalls.

See: anything to do with Linux.

not the users, but there isn't really enough discussion on here it seems like, just general memes. i like memes and shitposting but a man can't live on shitposting alone

Obsession with Reddit, Linux, being communists. Everyone here is a former reddit mod/addict, I'm not surprised. This place is somehow worse than reddit in a different way.

So I couldn’t help myself, and looked at a bit of your posting history.

Gotta say, you seem a bit angsty. If you have opinions different from what’s mainstream here (though I’m not sure arguments about Linux are really mainstream, even here), that’s all well and good, and a decent enough reason to not enjoy your time here.

But your engagement seems somewhat anger driven, and that seems to colour your challenges here, where feeling like you’re the lone voice of wisdom seems to fuel your angst.

The lack of them, I guess?

There are lots of communities, but many of them are absolutely dead. My fav subs were BJJ, Hajime No Ippo, Squared Circle, and CS Career Questions. None of them are active here.

Linux supremacist and the wannabe commies are pretty annoying.

Other quality of life features would be nice. Like searching for a specific post

Extremism - Reddit as its share but also has millions of "normies" to balance things out. Here there doesn't seem to be any moderates.

The platform itself is dysfunctional and will prevent any real growth in average users.

Just TOO many Linux fanboys/martyrs, it is a good OS but damn stop trying to go full on religion with it.

There are so many tankies here. CCP propaganda and Stalin apologetics everywhere.

As much as I'm skeptical about the unchecked power of corporations, I feel like Lemmy tech enthusiasts are completely hostile to the more mainstream kind of enthusiasm that actually like a well designed product.

Like, you can whine about the theoretical problems of a centralized service all you want, but if you're not syncing with OneDrive (or an alternative, though those are kinda worse) on your Windows computer you're literally sabotaging yourself. I could go on about other examples, but I'll limit myself.

I don't care if you think Linux is better. For the average person, Linux is incomprehensible. Now don't get me wrong, I like Linux too! I use Linux for my servers, and it's a great option to have. But the ideologues who push it to everyone are infuriatingly dumb, and serve only to push people out of the tech community.

As a whole, this site has too many ideologues, and not enough nuance. It's like the whole "Reddit atheist" phenomenon but worse: people here are unquestionably critical to an absurd degree, and refuse to accept that there may be alternative viewpoints on what they're saying.

And I'm not fond of capitalism either. I just think that the constant negativity is draining.

I keep blocking any communities mentioning Linux on my feed, yet it still never stops.

Everyone just talks about Reddit and Linux. Also people are just generally jerks on here. I don't comment much because I just see people getting dragged for not being as knowledgeable as others.

People complaining about the promotion of FOSS on a FOSS powered site. Lemmy amd Mastodon are a golden opportunity to get people onboard with FOSS, no shit they're going to evangelize it. Not to mention the early adopters were obviously FOSS devs.

The political opinions of the average Lemmy user are a lot more radical and the users themselves come off as a lot more arrogant than the average Reddit user.

Which is honestly shocking to me because I thought Redditors were bad. I block any community that is about politics or users that try to inject politics where it isn't pertinent.

Arguing about which instance is best / instance superiority / complaining about users from _______ instance.

My friends, we are on a collective group of web pages being hosted an run by individuals as a fucking hobby. Shut. Up.

To the admins, thank you.

People here are way to eager to get into political arguments out of nowhere, usually in bad faith. The front-page is covered with doomscrolling content, being here too long makes me miserable and hopeless. The rest of the content is mostly tech stuff, which can only be interesting for so long.

What I miss from Reddit, is the variety of diverse communities, people having fun and polite conversations, a sense of humor, and a lot of happy content or stuff that's interesting but not limited to tech.

At this point, I feel like the technology is much better and the user base much larger, but the user group is so extremely specific.

I wish people from all political spectrums would engage in a civil conversation here and not reduce it to mockery and attacking. What's the point of discussion if no one leaves with something new to think?

So many damn Linux memes and supremacy posting.

On a more real note though, a bunch of the smaller communities I was part of on reddit, and nearly every specific gaming sub I was in aren't here, or at least aren't anywhere near as active.

The most annoying thing is hexbear and that everything needs to be political.

Especially when it's that cringe combination of both

Sense of humor is a very limited resource on here, I've found.

Lot of linux users here.

I once asked a linux user how his day was, and he said "Marked as duplicate, question locked."

I asked what that meant and he said "Artie Efemme"

There was a period about a month ago where things were surprisingly thoughtful and well-considered for the most part. Then another wave of probably younger redditors came in and they brought with them all of the reactionary meme-ish way of talking. You can't make people not be how they are, but I was sad to see all of that awesomeness diluted.

But who knows, maybe given enough time, Lemmy and the fediverse will make an impact on these people and they'll see that it's better to live in a society (albeit a digital one) where people make an effort to listen and to respond thoughtfully as opposed to getting something out just to get it out.

Being really eager to defederate over relatively minor crap. What's the point of Lemmy then, man?

Lotta radical communities here who like to brigade posts on other, completely unrelated communities. Conversations were calmer with fewer slurs being thrown around a couple months ago.

They aren't sports fans. One of the things I do most often on Reddit is participate in various gamethreads in /r/nfl, /r/cfb, /r/hockey, /r/baseball, etc etc etc. There are gamethreads on Lemmy, mostly on the fanaticus.social instance. I'm the only one I've seen post in them, except for bots.

My only real complaint is that some of the groups I was in on reddit either aren't here, or are super small here. As far as the people go, maybe I've just been lucky but most folks have been pretty nice, and thus far I haven't really run into the extremist stuff some folks ahve mentioned.

The privacy crowd that is rather large on Lemmy reminds me too much of a stereotypical paranoid conspiracy theorist, pushing for things solely for their privacy features, even if everything else about the product is garbage. 9 times out of 10, even the people advocating for certain privacy features have absolutely no need of them, and they get overly upset when certain criminal groups take advantage of these privacy tools for the exact same reasons they advocate to use them; they're just doing very questionable things to necessitate the extreme privacy.

This platform is wonderful but the people on it circle jerk politics and aren't open to discussion. The community has dramatically shifted left. We're very far from the center now.

Came for the platform, considering leaving for the people.

About users? Too wholesome. I feel like I need to be on my best behavior

About Lemmy?

— Why do I need to login so frequently?

— Why do my filters keep resetting?

— But most of all, lemmy doesn’t yet have the volume to keep some of the more specialized communities active

— and I wish we could get r/AskHistorians to rebuild here ?

— and how the eff do you do markup here?

— and why does the context button only work half the time?

— and how do I see my comments, especially when the context button isn’t working and I’m trying to figure out what someone replied to me about

I can't keep track of who is defederating whom, I don't really want to host my own instance here but I want to decide myself what I do or don't see

It's been, what,two months?

Are we seriously trying to create an arbitrary divide and pick fights already?

That some people tend to ask boring and repetitive question about Lemmy vs Reddit.

Reddit tier memes being spammed around everywhere, I have so many meme subreddits blocked among other stuff

I have a sense that the islands (instances) are concentrating/amplifying more extreme views echo chamber style. I'm sure it was there on reddit too... but I feel like I am exposed to more far right and far left viewpoints that are presented in a toxic/offensive manner on lemmy. It happened occasionally on Reddit but it is daily on lemmy. I am browsing All to find new content and not really liking what I find.

Nothing so far. Sure, it's smaller and there are growing pains here and there, but the folk pretty nice here. Think I'll stay for a while...

Most annoying for me is calling for or defederating from instances which have diverse points of view. This is inclusivity hypocrisy. Ignore or block what you don't want to hear. Don't speak for me. You may have supporters that think the way you do, but there are multitudes who think differently. It's the antithesis of equity to silence different opinions, no matter how offensive they are to you and/or to those who think like you. Simply block them so you do not have to endure differing, offensive speech [even if you consider it "hate" speech]. What I hate, others may adore. So just block it.

Bot accounts archiving/copying posts from Reddit. If I wanted to see them I’d go to Reddit. Some of these bot accounts I can’t even block because of a bug, maybe do to sheer amount of posts from these accounts.

I mean, this is kinda just an internet problem in general, but it's just a prevalent here on Lemmy as anywhere else, so it does count as something annoying Lemmy users doing. And that's just general aggression

It seems like saying anything is a great way to get someone downright furious with you. Again, that happens everywhere, I just wish there was less of it on Lemmy. I think FOSS topics are a great example. Just in this thread alone you can see people already getting just... really worked up on both sides of the FOSS subject.

People get really aggressive about what qualifies as a good meme, ffs. And there also just a general culture online (it's died down recently, I think? It was really bad starting in 2016, imo) of humorous aggression, where reacting in really aggressive ways just as a joke is really common, which leads to misunderstandings and causes people to get actually mad if they aren't in the loop of the joke in the first place.

On a bright note however, I have noticed there's a lot less bigotry being treated as acceptable on here. Transphobic memes and stuff of that nature would show up in random communities on reddit a lot more than should ever be acceptable, and they would occasionally (not always) get more support in the comments than they should. Here on Lemmy it seems folks are a lot more proactive in shutting that stuff down before those types get a foothold here. Hopefully it stays that way.

The Grammer Nazi's are here to

Still talking about R. Get over it! Move on!

Their annoyance with Reddit users. "Quit trying to Reddit my Lemmy!"

For me it's been the people trying to turn this into a carbon copy of their Reddit experience. I get the desire to fill the void after leaving Reddit, but this is a different place with a different group of people and a different social dynamic. We don't need copies of the subreddits we had on Reddit. We don't need separate communities for every type of meme or joke like we had over there (yet). Creating niche communities is a little premature when we don't even have the larger ones reading critical mass yet.

And to a much lesser degree, I would like to stop seeing people say "sublemmy." But at least I understand how we got there. "Community" is such a generic term, it's easy to not realize that's what they're called.

Blithely continuing the blatant reposting of the same old submissions, especially the same two dozen years-old Twitter screencaps. Lemmy doesn't even track user karma, and it's still way too small to bother selling accounts for astroturfing! You don't actually have to karma-whore here!

FOSSLinuxPCMasterraceElonTech, Reddit was already a sausage fest, idk what metaphor to even use for Lemmy

Yeah, people need to post relevant content in order to have some relevant feed. Also, the defederation from hexbear and Lemmy.grad has helped a lot on the pro china/Russia discourse.

I did not switch from Reddit, but Lemmy really amplifies any niches that are on here to the point of extremism. It also mostly consists of nerds. Would love to see more diverse and open crowd on here.

The constant obsession with R. Get the fuck over it and move on, OP

I like the people on lemmy. Just wish I could speak German in order to understand the 15% of content that's in German.

There is barely a difference in content/comments from Reddit and we act like we are so much better than Redditors

Elitism. People who act entitled to Lemmy attracting whatever crowd they like and not attracting the people they didn't like from Reddit.

Not sure if this is a planned feature, but not being able to block instances. I can do that on Mastodon so I expected to be able to do it here as well. Outside of the usual extreme cases where defederation makes sense, that would solve a lot of "lemmy.deez user said this! why doesn't lemmy.nuts defederate from them?" bullshit. Of course there's always the option of changing instance but you're never gonna agree 100% with the owner's choices when it's something you should be able to have control over.

There's no chihuahua sub where we all post numerous daily pictures of our weird little dogs then tell each other in droves how absolutely lovely they are.

The things that annoy me about some Lemmy users are the same things that annoyed me about some Reddit users (lots of frequently upvoted meme subs that don't work for me, posting ragebait, political compass subs, etc) and I'm dealing with them the exact same way I dealt with them at Reddit throughout 10 years: block and move on. The best thing about this type of forum is that you can heavily personalize your feed by filtering/blocking/muting and you'll still have some reasonably good quality content (which includes both your niches and the potential to discover either general or specific stuff you'll like) thanks to the upvote system.

The FOSS crowd is incredibly cringey and annoying

Lemmings believe they are the good ones.

These guys under obvious joke meme posts.

A good number of them seem to be trying to import reddit into Lemmy wholesale.

Not enough of them to build fun and meaningful conversations

Lack of reading comprehension in political topics.

do we count the shitty x-post bots with 1 upvote and 0 comments spamming otherwise dead communities

People still make AcHUalLY comments here. That crap is annoying.

It's just so dry on here. So far I check in every so often just to see what's up but you can never shake the fact that Reddit has the reach and the history. Sadly I still suffer the Reddit mobile experience here and there, but I mostly just use other apps now. Lemmy just isn't close yet and the whole decentralized thing is beyond confusing for new users, I hate how many accounts I need to create.

Plus the delay to the content is huge, it's like 2 days behind the freshest news articles and discussions and stuff, and the meme content is super dated

They're still too much like reddit users.

People thinking the Reddit community is so much worse than Lemmy, like they didn't just come from there themselves and used to be part of it.

Probably the fact that people here seem to bond over the mutual hatred of outgroups/people rather than over the interest in similar things.

The quite heavy left bias shows also.

They are all so nice that I feel I have to be nice too.

I really like lemmy. A lot of people with similar interests as me here.

Seeing a lot of complaints about controversial communities, but I for one actually like them. I like the entertainment value of the drama, arguments, and trolling.

I am sick of people removed about these instances. If you don't like their content then join an instance that is defederated from them. It's that simple.

Too many reddit users have muddied the waters.

On first checking things out, I loved how the nasty responses common in reddit threads was very rare here. Arguments here are commonly well thought out and give the benefit of the doubt. As more redditers switch over, they're bringing the vitriol with them.

Also posting article links from Reddit. I prefer when the poster writes their own synopsis of what the article is about and why it's important. Links from Reddit tend to just repost the click bait garbage from over there.

Same redditors with toxic echochamber you are trying to avoid you find them here too. They think their political identity is all that matters.

It's annoying how most Lemmy users strut around like they have flavorful, pristine cocks and/or meaty, robust vulvas. Stop being so constructive and fight me.

That they haven't convinced the rest of the useful Reddit users to move across (and create/populate the equivalent /c/ I (used to) frequent for help and advice)! 😜

posts decent content

Also in the post: “this was my top post from Reddit. Posting it here for the karma”

Just post it or post some new content.

Nobody is nearly as casual.

Same as reddit, really: sealioning bigots.

This place is full of straight up brainwashed communists. I guess the whole free and decentralized thing kind of lends itself towards that crowd, but these people are fucking insane.

Missing communities is my biggest complaint. There was r/teenagersbuthot which was actually an awesome welcoming community.

The Tankies, The Misogynists, The Nazis. Techbro/Gamer moments.

Cryprocultists are still around.

There aren't enough of them. I like having long comment threads to read with a feisty dialogue. It's not as fun when every post has 12 replies.

Wow..this post got more air time than news items that matter 😂

Generalizing based on others' preferred link aggregator.

I'm trying to fill that niche

I just got here so I'm not sure yet

Neckbeard basement dwellers imposing their shitty system on everybody in their sight

For me it's the ability to directly upload videos and play them in app. Let me know if I'm just missing something but that is the thing really holding me back from wanting to post my bouldering(rock climbing) clips.

Their obsession with tankies. I get they were probably over represented but I'm telling you, they ain't it.

Honestly my problem is not with limit users, as all in all they are far superior to Reddit users, but with the lack of specific content. I mean you have communities for gaming, but you don't have communities for specific games. I miss being able to have in-depth conversations about sonic, Five Nights at freddy's, and Mortal Kombat

I don't know if it's the users themselves or just the fact it's a smaller community as a whole, but I see way, way more drama posts about random things going on in niche parts of Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And unlike those on Reddit, most of these posts on Lemmy amount to nothing but the OP overreacting or reaching for the sake of being a victim. I can only think of one bit of drama that was legit, and that was the Ten Forward/Risa thing.

And it's not more or less annoying than Reddit, it's basically the same thing as the nazis but with a different flavor: the tankies. It's just... Weird. I'd never encountered that shit before.

About the users? Nothing.

How commenting flows and moves is a bit more of a pain to navigate, though.

Theres a lot more gatekeeping here than Id like and the amount Id like is zero.

I haven't been annoyed very much so far

They're either far-right/"both sides," or tankies defending China when no one even mentioned it.

what is the most annoying thing you have seen about Lemmy users?

That far too many can't stop talking about reddit...

The bot spam is quite a bit worse, even when turning bots off

There's very little difference.

The number of reddit users.

The word "tankie". Thanks to Sync for Lemmy, I'm going to set a keyword filter for it right now.

Nothing. I also think so far people here are smarter, repost less and are less toxic. But this will unavoidably change once Lemmy got bigger. We're just barely past "knowing users by name" stage. Too many people to bother but not enough to get lost in the noise yet. Quite comfortable.

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Needs way more Marxists.

Political extremists are about same as Reddit. If you're Left enough for them. They will miss you up.

All (but one) of the we need to defederate from [name of instance here] posts. I seen don't have proof (links or screenshots) to prove they're not lying. Nothing but trust me, bro.

All lgbtq all cat lovers

The sheer number of FOSSholes.

Edit: seems like I struck nerve. To be clear, I'm not talking about the FOSS enthusiasts or enjoyers, they are A-OK. I'm talking about the FOSS fanatics who derive joy from trashing everyone else's choice of software and look for every opportunity to push their doctrine. They are the FOSSholes.