Federating has just shown me that the vast lot of Chapos just want Reddit.
Whether it’s to be able to complain about reddit, or because they want that community back, they just want Reddit. By all means, go be on Reddit if that’s what the people want, I’m nobody to tell another human what to do with themselves. But to be frank, I liked this swimming pool without all the turds floating in it that I have to navigate around.
Reddit feels like a downgrade compared to hexbear, this place beats the old sub by a mile imo
It is a downgrade. That’s exactly my point. People are trying very very hard to make this little corner of the internet into something it isn’t, and should never be. The concept of federation is awesome. In practice, it’s a fucking fiasco.
I understand it’ll likely always be Reddit adjacent. Despite everyone’s staunch assurance that they hate Reddit, and it’s just for dunks, you can only hang out in the barbershop for so long before you end up getting a haircut. At what point does hate browsing or browsing for dunks just become browsing reddit?
Yeah, I liked hexbear more before the libs. The dunking is getting old
The problem isn't the methods, intent or the execution of federating, it's the quality of the people we're engaging with
The fundamental problem is that the vast majority of people on Lemmy are Ledditors with all the Reddit bullshit that comes with it. They're literally just people addicted to the point of using third-party apps, malding that spez took away their third-party apps, and pathetic enough to continue using a shitty Reddit clone to get their updoots fix instead of going to Instagram or something like a normal person.
I was never in favor of federating and I like it even less now that it's led to marginalized members of this community receiving bigoted harassment through DMs.
Ultimately I'll go along with what the majority of the community here decides, but at the very least we apparently need to do something about DM harassment, either by developing the means to restrict messages to other hexbear users, or at the very least the means to turn it off completely.
I have personally never used DMs and the only DMs I recall ever getting were from the old transphobe spam attacks around the start of the site. If I'm not alone in never using DMs, simply letting users turn off DMs could really help.
I use DM's often for mutual aid stuff but yeah letting users turn them off would be a good start.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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