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What do you not like about the fediverse or piefed? I came from reddit to me this is breath of fresh air. (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Don_Dickle@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally there's only 2 big problems for me:

The lack of users and activity. Not so bad in tech-oriented areas but many niche places or places for "normal" people are barren.
The homogeneity of the people here. People are generally speaking medium to heavily left-leaning, tech-oriented males of western Europe/US. I identify with that group too, but I wish there was more diversity and less "echo-chamber"-ish content. There is a lot of content that humiliates, jokes about or bashes the worst side of the right wing or laments non-techy people and that kind of thing. It gets a little tiring and I'm afraid it only serves to push that other demographic further away from the fediverse, while we should encourage everyone to use decentralized social media. I don't think it's great if the fediverse just becomes "social media but only for left-leaning tech people".

Still better than Reddit or Facebook 🤷

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've found any discourse here is almost immediately met with deletions and bans. It's just Reddit with harder-left slants, and even more trigger happy mods. The difference for me being that I get controls to block all of the communities that I don't want to listen to. Unlike Reddit where you don't really have the filtering options - Lemmy gives you the ability to block instances, communities, and users without some really artificially low cap like Reddit has.

I think the only thing that irks me, is that there's a new lemmynsfw community every 30 seconds with someone posting some crazy outrageous kink and the web interface doesn't let you block the community directly from the post on /all

There's no distinction in NSFW topics either - whereas there should be NSFW (Porn) and NSFW (Gore), etc.