This is the way. A major selling point of lemmy, well to me, is that it is a lot less toxic than Reddit. Best to advertise that fact than emulate the toxicity of Reddit and turn off those on the fence of migrating.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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Lemmy is not reddit. You can get lemmy instances as toxic as you want, it wont fuck up the rest of the community half as much.
Other than that, it is also not promoting that behaviour in the first place. Reddit inadvertently went that way because they were aiming on the monetisation front.
Moderators there are also incentivised to be greedy fucks. Hungarian community on /r/hungary never got on the next level because the mods do not want to fucking give up control to specialized subreddits. It is a valuable turf that has access to hundreds of thousands of citizens in a single place.
On lemmy you dont want to use a crappy client that does not give you a proper set of options among all instances. On lemmy the "meta" is all in on bots and tools. There is no plausible deniability.
What? They are doing /r/place now? Is that some last ditch effort to make peace with the userbase or even to lure back those who left, lol?
Anyway, I admit I had a quick glance at the canvas, saw the huge text /U/SPEZ IST EIN HURENSOHN, chuckled and left.
Otherwise it may cause Lemmy to look bad for potential new immigrants
How would pixels on Place make the Fediverse look like anything?
I would agree that the guillotine picture was way too far but what's so bad about the voicing of discontentment (aka: fuck spez)?
Genuinely asking, not a rhetorical question.
You know the meme: "I feel sorry for you"; "I don't think about you at all."?
First off, Fuck Spez. I fully support anyone who wants to pop in there and make sure that "Fuck Spez" isn't getting removed, but if it looks like Lemmy is just a refugee camp for angry ex Redditors to complain about Spez (who should be fucked), that's not inviting to others who aren't as riled up as the rest of us. It needs to look like a separate, fully functioning community.
Keep the shadow ops in the shadows.
Potential former redditor here: You are correct in assuming Lemmy is a "Refugee Camp" of sorts- it's become abundantly clear with the reprehensible actions of Reddit the company that users are no longer of importance to them. I don't care about API access, I've never used a 3rd party client, but pricing the existing options out of existence with little warning is appalling. That's just the tip of the iceberg, the actions taken against subreddit moderators is horrendous, and underlines their attitude toward the user base. Comply, or be cancelled. All of this to make reddit "profitable". Get yo Ferengi lookin' ass out of here, u/Spez! As for me, I believe I can help grow my personal interest here, mostly by cross posting at first. Perhaps once there is enough people here, I can let Reddit go and wither in cyberspace... sounds like a plan, right?
If we are advertising Lemmy or the Fediverse, we want to do it in a way that shows we are (on the whole) less toxic than the Reddit spaces we left behind. Some Reddit users may see the "fuck Spez" as a glowing endorsement of Lemmy but others who are looking for a place to discuss things in a more civilized way may not. Those who are likely to both seek out and remain on Lemmy.world once they find us are also likely to fall in the second group, so it's best to be careful.
I don't know, saying fuck spez doesn’t seem toxic, it just seems like we are affected by those decision. I don’t think most of us hate spez personally, but we do hate his decisions.