• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    Just one. JUST. ONE.

    Communities almost wholly moderated by an automod bot, that is extremely strict about nonsense, and where 99% of posts are strictly forbidden.

    “ALL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE IN THE MEGATHREAD!!!1111111111one” and then you peep the megathread, it’s months-full of unanswered questions because no actual community member READS the fucking megathread, and then the excuse is “BECAUZ WE WANT QUALITY CONTENT!!!” and you check the sub itself and the “quality content” is one post every 3 months by the powermod that has the power to override the bot.

    This was the most annoying thing about Reddit and made getting conversations going nearly impossible. PLEASE do not bring that over.

    • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I found one subreddit that had no active mods, and a bot that admittedly did a pretty good job, but the subreddit was totally dead as a result.

  • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Putting the word “porn” in community titles for anything involving photography or gfx. It’s immature and unnecessarily crude. I think it’s too late though.

    • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I’ve seen this said before, actually. I agree, and I think some people will give me funny looks when they see me at cableporn (really neat cables) or something like that.

  • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Mod impunity, brigading, bots, reposts, repost bots, banning of 3rd-party apps, abuse of suicide prevention system by bad actors. Aside from the forum-specific culture, the site’s frequent failure to upload/post comments, which sometimes resulted in 100% loss of more detailed responses, was incredibly disappointing (I’m still Ctr-C’ing all comments everywhere as a force of habit to guarantee it won’t happen 5+ times/day).

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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      1 month ago

      The hive mind might already be here, depending on who you ask. I was already left/progressive, though, so it just feels like hanging out with like-minded people.

      Jerks I can do without, but they’re unavoidable. Simply not engaging with them seems to work best.

      • Parsizzle@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I feel like to a point it might be, but to a point in today’s age and internet - everything is an echo chamber so it’s turned into a “pick ypur poison” kind of thing.

        That being said, open discourse and actual conversation seems more prevalent and easier to come by here then on reddit which is very nice.

        • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 month ago

          I think the different instances help with that, as it encourages at least some interaction outside of your direct bubble…

          That said when Hexbear re-enable federation I very much doubt “open discourse” or “actual conversation” will be the results

          • Parsizzle@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Oh I hadn’t heard about that. Could you elaborate at all or point me in the direction of some more info?

              • Golden Cow@lemm.ee
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                1 month ago

                You are a shameful liar.

                Doxxing is explicitly against their code of conduct: “Do not publish, comment, message, or post personally identifiable information about other users. We also strongly discourage posting any personally identifiable information about yourself.” They are the only instance that doesn’t log IP addresses in their database and scrubs meta-data from any image uploaded there.

                Where are their communities dedicated to brigading? There is no actual proof of them doing anything like that, more so it is the most active instance (4.9 million comments) so anyone posting blatant lies like you will be confronted.

                Hexbears troll and give personal attacks against either those that start it with them or people who are racist, homophobic, transphobic, or ableist.

                • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  1 month ago

                  And the US doesn’t torture prisoners. And Russia didn’t invade Ukraine. And nothing happened in China on 4th June 1989…

                  The rules are completely unenforced, and also generally don’t apply for actions against people on other instances. Take a look at slop as the biggest example where they link to other instances and swathes of Hexbear users go brigade that post without even taking the time to factcheck, and look around at their other communities and you’ll find plenty of similar ones.

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Dubious and disagree downvotes. But that’s always been here already. That became pretty clear to me pretty fast.

      • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Content curation.

        I upvote or leave neutral opinions and arguments I disagree with if they’re well argued or otherwise contribute to discussion and strengthen respectful discourse.

        I don’t know how you feel when your posts get sum-negative scores, but it makes me feel rejected and makes me not want to participate. I receive it as a social indicator. I see it as something that leads us towards echo chambers.

        • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          Yeah, I try to do this as well. I may not agree, but if they’re making an attempt at good faith argument and are holding a position that is not objectively wrong I’ll upvote or at least not downvote. I’ll always upvote someone who appears to accept that they might not have the higher ground. People still voteshame when someone tries to admit reconsidering a position, it sucks because that’a a disincentive to learning. It’s far too easy to emotionally knee-jerk downvote someone just because you don’t like what they said.

          Of course, this is pretty subjective…someone can be right and a complete ass and get a downvote or you might disagree for reasons other than the presented info, but so far Lemmy users seem far more inclined to moderate downvotes or at least tolerate some opinions and dish back with rebuttals rather than just mashing downvotes.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        don’t know why I was downvoted

        I’m convinced there are people out there that just downvote everything. They get some kind of chemical release in their brains when they hit the downvote button. You could say “being happy feels good” and someone out there will downvote it.

          • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 month ago

            I think it’s fat fingering then others dont think for themselves and just go with whatever it already is.
            Feels awful when you had a creative comment but just didn’t spell it out well enough and it gets like 3 downvotes 🥲

            like noo I didn’t mean it in a bad way, I just like falling asleep to technical videos and that’s a compliment coming from me 😭😭

  • parmesan@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Every single comment thread on anything that reaches r/all quickly devolving into the most unfunny and unoriginal jokes and/or references. Regardless of how grim/serious the original post was.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Charging developers for API access after they go out of their way to make products that greatly improve the experience.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Novelty/troll accounts. I’ve seen a lot of them pop up on Reddit over the years. The most infamous one I remember was one called Gradual_****** (yes, the n-word) that would type out ordinary replies that would gradually switch to ebonics.