I come on here every so often to see what’s going on, and every time I leave disappointed. This is my top 3 grievances at the moment:

  1. This place feels dead. It’s usually quite, but lately it really feels like a ghost town. Idk what the actual stats say, but I feel like the amount of comments, posts, and variety seem to have gone down quite a bit over the past few months.

  2. The amount of genuinely hateful content has gone up. I feel like Lemmy as a whole used to have better moderation even just last year compared to now. Every time I get on here, I’m seeing more and more gross content that’s either racist or bigoted or just downright gross. This content doesn’t get taken down even when reported. As horrid as Reddit’s moderation is, it’s still not this bad.

  3. Outside of the tech communities, there’s no information hygiene anywhere in sight. The news subs publish the most questionable of sources, sometimes outright misinformation… and nobody cares? People don’t criticize weak sources or call out false claims or even value accuracy. I’ve seen multiple instances of users saying something false and getting upvoted for it and a person correcting them getting downvoted for it. Like, what’s even happening?

I don’t know, I feel like when I joined a couple of years ago Lemmy was so much better. It felt more active, the community felt more down to earth, kind, and friendly, and the content was higher in quality. There was much optimism surrounding the Fediverse that’s not there anymore. Now it feels like a more left wing version of Voat than a genuine Reddit alternative. Am I the only one feeling this way or do other people feel the same?

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    112·
    6 days ago

    I don’t really see the widespread racism you claim exists here, with Lemmy being one of the least racist Western online spaces I’ve ever been in…

    And idk what you mean by dead. Compared to what? I feel like I see the same usernames pop up often, because we have a community of regulars. I don’t think I need it to be more “active”, and it certainly beats the more bot-infested “larger” online communities.

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      53·
      5 days ago

      Your last paragraph is probably what OP was writing about. You don’t have to be right-wing to dislike Hezbollah, Hamas, the Ayatollahs, Chavez and Maduro, and the Castros. But you’ll get shit on quite a lot here for that. “Centrists just enable fascism” is a common take.

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
        72·
        5 days ago

        I meant it. And I’m sure you have valid reasons to support/like your own corrupt and bloodthirsty leaders and policies before these folks, lol. If being a “centrist” means you support the status quo of Western dominance, you’re just a shy “right winger”, lol. Regardless of these somewhat nebulous labels, countless innocents have died and continue to die to feed the American empire and the Western war machine, you simply can’t be a good person and support the status quo.

      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
        52·
        5 days ago

        Yes actually you do kinda have to be right wing to oppose any political project that resists western aggression, because that is literally the only thing those groups have in common.