“Reddit was clearly a huge pile of ass. However, Lemmy is showing signs of the onset of a similar pattern of degradation – most notably, trolls and shouty bad-faith argumentative users make it an unpleasant experience whenever any political topic is discussed. What proportion of them are deliberate trolls or paid shills, and what proportion actual homegrown obnoxious leftists, is unknowable and probably not super relevant. What is relevant is that the problem of creating meaningful discussion and an honest forum for good communication is by no means solved, simply because we’ve set up a nice network outside of the administrative control of bad-faith actors. We still have a lot of work to do to make it actually a nice place to exist.”
“Also side note Lemmy has some UI and UX issues but honestly who gives a fuck, Reddit also had a miserable UI for all of its lifetime and that didn’t make much of a difference, because the quality of the discussion is what makes a social network good or bad.”
(Edit: Also, I upvoted this purely for that fact of stating an actually unpopular opinion)
Let me translate
“Reddit was clearly a huge pile of ass. However, Lemmy is showing signs of the onset of a similar pattern of degradation – most notably, trolls and shouty bad-faith argumentative users make it an unpleasant experience whenever any political topic is discussed. What proportion of them are deliberate trolls or paid shills, and what proportion actual homegrown obnoxious leftists, is unknowable and probably not super relevant. What is relevant is that the problem of creating meaningful discussion and an honest forum for good communication is by no means solved, simply because we’ve set up a nice network outside of the administrative control of bad-faith actors. We still have a lot of work to do to make it actually a nice place to exist.”
“Also side note Lemmy has some UI and UX issues but honestly who gives a fuck, Reddit also had a miserable UI for all of its lifetime and that didn’t make much of a difference, because the quality of the discussion is what makes a social network good or bad.”
(Edit: Also, I upvoted this purely for that fact of stating an actually unpopular opinion)