A little maybe, but not much.

I’ve seen people say they left reddit to join Lemmy because of the toxic users. To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren’t much better. Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.

It is disappointing, but it’s the better option.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    it does because you can go to what you want and they can defederate from what they want. blue sky is defederated quite commonly and has made no inroads at all.

    • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      In theory. In practice I don’t think it works at all. Discoverability on this thing is pretty awful (bluesky has that issue too) and you would need that to be better and the actual experience of “moving around” to suck a lot less, for that to actually work.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        moving around is easy. I have done it twice. started on kbin, then an mbin instance, and now piefed. discourberability has been fine for me but right now it lacks the niche communities. Its enough to create them but to have folks actually going to them. I kinda get annoyed people make communities in the hopes of it becoming something. Most communities should not be created until several people start chatting with each other and plan out making one so it should have several mods to start and members who start populating wikis and the sidebar and such. minimum of 3 but half dozen would be better.

        • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          I argue that many communities fail because most community owners don’t know about federation (using tools like lemmy-federate) and don’t advertise it, and don’t maintain it.

          • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            all the same I think if someone cannot find a few like minded people to start a community they should not. Its like making a club alone that meets at the library. Might work and might not but if you have two friends who want to hang out and do the thing anyway then who cares because you will be there anyway.

        • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Moving around is not easy if you want to actually preserve any of your preferences. The blocklist alone tends to add up really quick. But I agree mostly on the communities: pure “if you build it, they will come” thinking, while it doesn’t really work that way.