I realize it won’t be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it’s a perfect signal that I’ve done more than enough scrolling for the day

  • klemptor@startrek.website
    32·
    3 days ago

    I’ve found more belligerent comments have started to crop up, and sure enough, most of the time the account is about 2 weeks old. I really hope lemmy doesn’t change with this latest influx from reddit.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, there’s a lot more of that cropping up. Belligerence, backhanded insults. I can see it being legit on some of the comments but then there are other comments where there are people just going after people to feed their own agenda.

      I found it was happening worse over on Lemmy world, I’ve blocked a few of their major communities, and just started contributing on smaller communities on smaller nodes.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Fwy, some apps allow for automatically applied icons to indicate such. I forget exactly which ones, but I know PieFed’s web UI does it. It’s very helpful imho.

      PieFed also marks people who receive like 10x more downvotes than upvotes. That way you can still choose to read their content, but seeing that, decide how best to respond.

      • feannag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        I’ve just started using Summit and they show accounts less than 30 days old. Really slick ui too.

            • Russ@bitforged.spaceEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              And it also went open source recently too! I was happy to see that, as I know it was a blocker for a lot of people.

              It’s almost crazy just how active the dev is, I feel like I’m always seeing the “Summit was updated” screen - it is very clear just how much passion the dev has for Summit and for the Fediverse.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      I expect much bigger influxes. From at least a few dozen people with hundreds of accounts. Probably around the time of an election.

      • bampop@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        It does make me wonder what safeguards if any Lemmy has against such shittification. What system might work for that? Maybe if you had a way that users could flag other users as trolls or quality contributors, and those flags carry vastly more weight if the person flagging is themselves a quality contributor. That would perhaps create a stable community, not necessarily a good one but at least one which resists change, yet allows a way in for new people.