However, I oftentimes find myself doom scrolling through reddit, just because of some nonsense BS propaganda, ads, etc .., snuck inbetween of the community posts I'm actually interested in.

How can we convince the people over there to move away?

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 8 months ago

Something I've been thinking about is that changes only happen organically, so I think it's good to not be an insistent advocate for a platform X, Y or Z. Instead, I think that perhaps it's better, instead, to simply use the platform the person is more favorable towards whenever possible, and if people then share something worth sharing, it should slowly bring people over. And regarding the annoying part, at most, making a note about technicalities and the type of people in the site could be good if discussions the person is engaged in allows, and if the person didn't burn people's patience by being pedantic.

[–] PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm honestly not sure I want the majority of reddit users coming to lemmy. Especially as a woman. There's just so much more nastiness on reddit. I get that sometimes the content on Lemmy slows down or gets stale, but that seems like a reasonable price to pay to avoid people with chronic interpersonal problems and no healthy emotional outlet. I think every exchange I've had on Lemmy has at least been respectful and I can't recall ever feeling that way on reddit.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

That has not always been my experience, although I can see why you on Lemmy.World would say so (bc it defederates from lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, where most of the hostility across the Fediverse concentrates), but indeed the average interaction here is much more positive than on Reddit (even though the worst, e.g. if you ever comment in ChapoTrapHouse@hexbear.net, is significantly more negative than Reddit ever was allowed to become by the admins).

[–] pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There needs to be less one sided group think, but I’m not sure that’s even possible anymore at this point. Just look at the US and how they voted this year. None of those voters want to be on this super woke platform. The population on here are the minority and just need to get used to it.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What does 'woke' mean?

[–] pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Constant in your face awareness of social inequalities would be my charitable definition.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well if that's the definition that doesn't sound so bad. You're saying that you don't like being reminded of the truth too often.

The problem with 'woke' is that it is too vague to be meaningful.

[–] pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, I can’t stand everybody being offended about everything.

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[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Most of them are bots anyway and I really wouldn't want "everyone" to find out about and use lemmy because that would be the downfall of lemmy.

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