I hate to say this, but have you noticed how mentally lazy most people are? Using signal is easy. Bitwarden and randomized secure passwords is easy. I can’t get any of the normals in my life to make use of them. It’s too much mental labor to do something different. Something that isn’t forced on you by herd mentality and constant advertising spam.
I honestly think one of the reasons I love Lemmy is because the people that come here are the people mentally active enough to think outside of the cages mainstream social media builds for us.
Many of us were caught up in that trap as well:-(. There’s Mbin if you want the same interface, but slrpnk.net is a perfectly fine instance and if you are happy with it there’s no need at all to bother:-).
I honestly think one of the reasons I love Lemmy is because the people that come here are the people mentally active enough to think outside of the cages mainstream social media builds for us.
Let’s also be honest, people just don’t know about Lemmy at all. There are a few communities here where I am sure that the tech literacy is average, but they do fine just because someone posted a detailed guide on how to setup their account, install an app and they’re set.
Lemmy is a good enough Reddit replacement, but it just isn’t known enough.
Another thing that might make it hard for people to stay even if they show up? If you have a lemmy.world account and view all posts from federated instances, the amount of furry lewds, giant futa horsecock, and pedo anime girl posts is astronomical. I think my instance blocking list is like 60+ lines long. Maybe we should post a guide for “how to unclutter your feed of yiff and 10 year old anime girls in suggestive poses”
I was kind of being sarcastic, because most people aren’t going to dredge through the slime to make their feed habitable, they’re just going to go right back out the door.
This is absolutely true. Most people reporting on Reddit (that I’ve seen, iirc) say that they leave bc of “tankies”, but regardless of the reason, the system of having to choose between a completely empty Subscribed feed vs… that on someone’s All feed is not ideal in the slightest.
PieFed has made enormous strides to deal with that - including a sign up wizard that subscribes someone to communities only within those topic areas that they indicate interest in, and then at any time for daily use there are Categories of Communities. So in this one respect that issue is “solved” - unfortunately PieFed isn’t ready for the masses yet in other ways (lacks a Preview option for comments/posts, user tagging, Notifications often show things that are inaccessible so clicking them very frustratingly goes nowhere, etc.).
On Lemmy, there are various apps that can help stop the deluge of content - or even on the web, do those communities all come from a specific instance, which could be blocked? But I don’t use any of those apps, and would barely know where to start looking up their various features.
It is in general far too difficult for someone to get into Lemmy in the first place - Blaze is helping solve this problem - and then once here, to want to remain more than a few hours to a day. Our tools are just too far behind Reddit, for those of us who don’t enjoy using Arch btw (translation: have an early adopter mindset, be willing to put up with frustrations, and endlessly configure our experiences rather than simply click and see an r/popular feed that has stuff that people like and very little to nothing that they do not).
I wouldn’t have put it that way, but it’s true that everyone here had to choose the slightly more inconvenient option when deciding where to scroll memes, and for that I applaud you all.
It’s not even “more” inconvenient. I use the same client to access Lemmy that I did Reddit (sync on Android). All I did was download the Lemmy version and sign up.
I hate to say this, but have you noticed how mentally lazy most people are? Using signal is easy. Bitwarden and randomized secure passwords is easy. I can’t get any of the normals in my life to make use of them. It’s too much mental labor to do something different. Something that isn’t forced on you by herd mentality and constant advertising spam.
I honestly think one of the reasons I love Lemmy is because the people that come here are the people mentally active enough to think outside of the cages mainstream social media builds for us.
we’re all burnt out from life bending us over. I intended to sign up here for a couple months and onlu just got around to it.
I’m happy you got around to it! Welcome!
Welcome here!
thank you. I used kbin.social before it went down and only got around to getting back on the bandwagon.
Many of us were caught up in that trap as well:-(. There’s Mbin if you want the same interface, but slrpnk.net is a perfectly fine instance and if you are happy with it there’s no need at all to bother:-).
I get your last point but I wish there were more regular people to fill up all the non-tech coms…
Let’s also be honest, people just don’t know about Lemmy at all. There are a few communities here where I am sure that the tech literacy is average, but they do fine just because someone posted a detailed guide on how to setup their account, install an app and they’re set.
Lemmy is a good enough Reddit replacement, but it just isn’t known enough.
Another thing that might make it hard for people to stay even if they show up? If you have a lemmy.world account and view all posts from federated instances, the amount of furry lewds, giant futa horsecock, and pedo anime girl posts is astronomical. I think my instance blocking list is like 60+ lines long. Maybe we should post a guide for “how to unclutter your feed of yiff and 10 year old anime girls in suggestive poses”
Never seen those myself, but I disable NSFW.
Could be a good idea, probably something to post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
I was kind of being sarcastic, because most people aren’t going to dredge through the slime to make their feed habitable, they’re just going to go right back out the door.
This is absolutely true. Most people reporting on Reddit (that I’ve seen, iirc) say that they leave bc of “tankies”, but regardless of the reason, the system of having to choose between a completely empty Subscribed feed vs… that on someone’s All feed is not ideal in the slightest.
PieFed has made enormous strides to deal with that - including a sign up wizard that subscribes someone to communities only within those topic areas that they indicate interest in, and then at any time for daily use there are Categories of Communities. So in this one respect that issue is “solved” - unfortunately PieFed isn’t ready for the masses yet in other ways (lacks a Preview option for comments/posts, user tagging, Notifications often show things that are inaccessible so clicking them very frustratingly goes nowhere, etc.).
On Lemmy, there are various apps that can help stop the deluge of content - or even on the web, do those communities all come from a specific instance, which could be blocked? But I don’t use any of those apps, and would barely know where to start looking up their various features.
It is in general far too difficult for someone to get into Lemmy in the first place - Blaze is helping solve this problem - and then once here, to want to remain more than a few hours to a day. Our tools are just too far behind Reddit, for those of us who don’t enjoy using Arch btw (translation: have an early adopter mindset, be willing to put up with frustrations, and endlessly configure our experiences rather than simply click and see an r/popular feed that has stuff that people like and very little to nothing that they do not).
Instance admin can always hide community. See this post: https://programming.dev/post/24973600
At some point they probably have to establish a list of communities that should be hidden
On world, have NSFW enabled and Im not seeing this?
I seek out NSFW and don’t see it in any kind of browsing either except on lemmynsfw
I don’t know, maybe it’s been cracked down on, and I never noticed because I blocked so many instances and communities over the past year.
I wouldn’t have put it that way, but it’s true that everyone here had to choose the slightly more inconvenient option when deciding where to scroll memes, and for that I applaud you all.
It’s not even “more” inconvenient. I use the same client to access Lemmy that I did Reddit (sync on Android). All I did was download the Lemmy version and sign up.