Look in your heart, you know it to be true (OC)

I did the same. Thank goodness for personal block lists.

Same here ... I just didn't like the atmosphere there any more and jumped on Lemmy

I realized that I jumped on Reddit years ago when it was smaller and less known and I grew with it over time ... I thought the same thing about Lemmy and now I feel good about growing on this new platform.

Same, its here were I get banned.

I kept using infinity until about a year ago when I got banned. 3rd party apps continued to work, just had to fiddle a bit with your own API.

It's a matter of numbers and community.

If you want to be a jerk, people will ignore you. If there are ten other people in the room, you can only be a jerk ten times before everyone in the room starts to ignore you.

That's the Fediverse, it's a small community and word gets around fast with people who see and notice a bad character and start blocking them, their posts, their comments and their activity.

That's the thing about numbers .... if you are a small group, word gets around quickly who the jerk is ... if you are a big community, there are more systems in place to deal with jerks

So the only way for jerks to survive ... is to build a community of jerks for themselves ... and surprisingly enough, those communities don't last very long.

Why are you scrolling the All feed outside of initial curation? Or following the depression meme communities?

Just like on Reddit there’s a bunch of negativity but I’m following a butt load of fun memes comms, and wholesome stuff. I only tiptoe to /All for the occasional new article then hide in my subscription list again.

I have way more memes in my feed on Lemmy than I did on Reddit, too.

Feel free to be a part of the change that you would like to see. There are tons of uplifting communities. Examples of news ones include: !upliftingnews@lemmy.world, !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social, !optimistsunite@reddthat.com, (though !positivity@lemmy.today seems dead now) and specifically for positive memes there is !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world, !wholesome@reddthat.com, !motivationalmemes@reddthat.com, !nicememes@sopuli.xyz, etc.

And this is just specifically for positivity - there is also even more tons of niche content that is fairly positive or at least a lot more rarely negative like !superbowl@lemmy.world, !dadforaminute@lemmy.world, !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone, !biscuits@feddit.uk, !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and on and on.

It also helps to block the entire instances of hexbear and lemmy.ml - to see why, just visit them and show Local content without being logged in. Their ideas of "positivity" include beheadings of anyone who has a bank account i.e. who remotely participates in society. Okay then, that's their choice I guess... but you don't have to participate in the 4chan-like experience.

Yeah, people can be fairly negative, but you can choose what you see. Tbf, it helps to use PieFed's far more robust set of tools than Lemmy e.g. a keyword blocker and a true instance block (rather than mere community mute) if you so choose.

Yep. There’s been lots of depression posts disguised as funny haha posts. Some of you guys need help and you emotional dump on the rest of us.

AI is taking all our jobs

Let me clarify a point there>>> It is corporations that are using "ai" to replace our jobs. We are not just a bunch of technophobic pessimists who have watched too many Terminator movies. What most of us can't stand are the misuse caused by shitty company who want to milk as much as possible before the bubble burst. Without mentioning the tsunami of "ai slop" who is becoming the internet.

Also, the furry animal fucking lovers and the barely disguised lolita porn, called "art" and "anime" respectively. Blocked that shit non-stop my first two weeks here, still pops up like whack-a-mole.

No way would I suggest anyone visit lemmy or admit I'm a user.

I don't think they're saying everyone here was banned from Reddit. They're saying everyone ever banned from Reddit is here...which, (gestures vaguely at my massive block list) isn't an inaccurate statement lol.

I simply prefer to be here. I like the idea of a Fediverse.

I still miss RiF. It was great

Ban

Yeah. I've been banned here more than there but that's thrice there in the last two years from accounts I sat on for a decade now.

Near an exponant of that here on almost a dozen Lemmy hosts. However, now, only once have I been blocked. Here I have managed to finally settle my path and it doesn't pick and berate with equally ridiculous petty inexplicable erasure of all relative history I might have even derived understanding from.

The difference being that I have no one demanding my Knee here l and I can find real people willing to talk about reality with practically and with real thought expansion.

Lemmy is just software that anyone can use. Each Lemmy instance with open sign ups has their own rules. But even so- there would be no way of knowing which Lemmy users are equivalent to any reddit user without the user itself making it known.