Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.
Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.
The complaints are all over the place so likely coming from people that either A.) haven’t actually used Lemmy. B.) Used it for .5 seconds got confused and gave up. C.) Are just afraid of change and just wanna stick their heads in the sand…
But most of them center around how difficult lemmy is to use and how “communities are way too overbearing with the rules.” , that it uses the new.reddit UI, and that it’s run by a bunch of “tankies”
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Yeah, some instances lean a bit harder into that than others so there’s nothing really stopping people from creating their own instance and blocking some of those they deemed “troublesome” but nothing I’ve seen has really scared me anymore than some of the batshit crazy stuff I was seeing regularly on Reddit and other parts of the web lol.
Actually just saw a post on mastodon that was telling people to avoid lemmy because of the tankie shit lol.🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, like, if I’m supposed to avoid this place because of tankies in places, why am I not supposed to avoid reddit because of fascists and racists and sexists and transphobes and. waves at reddit in general
It seems like the same thing as the people who poo-poo tumblr for being all dRaMa and furries or something, ignoring that it’s essentially a giant jumble of blogs you pick and choose from, and that tumblr posts are constantly reposted to reddit but not vice-versa.
Anyway. My personal experience (admittedly limited) with tankies has been that they’re wildly wrong about a lot of shit, often disturbingly so, but also they tend to think trans people are human, so they’re already a mile more preferable to be around than the right to me. Tankies, to me, seem more like they’ve fallen for disinformation and “socialist” dictatorship PR campaigns and less like they’re purely full of hate for everybody not exactly like them. But I’m basing this mostly on the tiny handful of people I know personally so I could be mistaken overall. In any case, so far Lemmy seems fine in this respect (I just got here tho lol).
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R/atheism used to be an r/all sub, and I guess some people remembered that forever.
R/atheism wasn’t even all bad, imo. It went over the top a lot, sometimes got ugly, but also it was cathartic and relieving for people who were trapped in super religious situations. I think it got as vehement as it did because it was often spurred on by an understandable need to vent when they couldn’t in their real lives. But also it did get ugly sometimes. Shouldn’t have been on r/all, like most things that end up on r/all, really.
If anything the tankie mud slinging has had the opposite effect on me. The Lemmy devs seem pretty damn gracious and accepting of people that probably have more moderate political beliefs than themselves.
What’s a tankie? My biggest concern is the fragmentation of communities due to multiple servers, so the numbers in any one server will always be smaller.
Basically another term for communists.
The fragmentation might be a hurdle but with how the fediverse works I see it more just being similar to email. You’ve got people using gmail, yahoo, aol etc each is its own separate server but they can all play nicely together and if one dies the others keep trucking.