Fighting against anti-lemmy misinformation on reddit
Fighting against anti-lemmy misinformation on reddit
I think there's a team of people intentionally spreading lemmy misinformation. I think reddit is trying to get people not to switch from this...
Please check my post, I think everything I said is very valid, but I want this community to see it too, and help steer the discussion, I think reddit is doing this intentionally.
I don't want to visit that place anymore - could you please copy and paste the post here?
The point of this post is actually to get people to participate over there to stop the spread of misinformation, i'd appreciate it if you went over there with an adblocker, but if you insist:
I think there's a team of people intentionally spreading lemmy misinformation. I think reddit is trying to get people not to switch from this platform
People are saying the same things everywhere, but on any analysis, they don't actually make sense, let me give an example:
Lemmy is absolutely too convoluted for normal people. "There are multiple servers, many of which overlap with each other content-wise? Which one am I supposed to use? This isn't as simple as reddit," says the photographer who posted to /r/earthporn, says the politics junkie who posted in /r/worldnews, says the creative writer who posted to /r/nosleep.
There is no way to prevent this from happening again. It will happen again, no matter what. If Lemmy gets big, it will only do so if a couple servers rise above all others so the normies can understand that those are the servers to join... and those servers eventually will take advantage of their users just as reddit has done."
There's no aspect of truth to this comment, as an example, let's try actually doing what they're saying is too hard:
click "communities"
search "news"
oh, there's the one at the top with the most subscribers
Done
So, did they just make up that it was too convoluted for normal people? Yes. Is there some truth to the notion that there are multiple communities for the same thing... Also yes, but there are on reddit too, it's no different than r/art and r/art1 r/art2 and the billion other subreddits in a similar position. People just search and then use the largest one... so is it an actual problem, or is it just grasping at straws? You be the judge of that.
Are there things that make lemmy difficult? Yes, but they're rapidly being solved and extremely minimal, other than that issue tracker, the other thing that might stop you is that some lemmy instances require a message and approve signup, this is because they widely aren't monetized and are run by volunteers with no intention of ever monetizing. Neither of these things are real blockers to normal human adoption, and neither of them are long-term fundamental issues.
If you think federation is too complex for normal users, I ask you, why does email face no such difficulty? Why is nobody complaining about how difficult email is because of federation?
The other issue is genuinely a problem, the lemmy developers are tankies... however, lemmy is released under an open source license, none of their ideology is being injected into the code, and this is akin to worrying about the ideology of the developers of email. Use an instance not created by them, and you're safe from this entirely, I recommend https://beehaw.org/
Don't let the misinformation factory stress you, I don't have proof that reddit is doing this on purpose, but this seems to be a common set of lies... and if you don't like lemmy anyway, there's also kbin, which federates with lemmy but is made by completely separate developers.
Federation is NECESSARY for a non-corpo/government propaganda AND control ridden future. If reddit were federated, nobody would give a fuck about this api thing, because we'd just go to another instance, and all of our content would still be available on that other instance. That's why reddit fears federation, none of the issues with lemmy are fundamental, let's build a better future, one where we don't have to hope a benevolent centralized monopoly/dictatorship on a community will work for us!
And lemmy is the only way to save these precious reddit apps: https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy
It's the same rhetoric as the apple guy used to show sideloading in such light as it would rob your grandma by its own.
Gosh, I felt like I was going to make this post, albeit not from a username titled "communist" 😅 .
Now, I always implore anyone who'll lend an ear - please, hold your horses on labeling devs as "tankies". Let's not instantly stamp them good or bad. Rather, let's mull over the behavior of a community that decides its course of action based on whether it's supposedly tainted by a particular ideology. Try to think of the bigger picture of how people act as a whole based on information and what those actions benefit.
Let's level with each other here. The GPL? It's got more than a dash of Marx, if you ask my humble self (and heck, I think that's a good thing). But has that deterred folks from assembling magnificent creations under the banner of a collective project? So, where do we end up if we tread down this logical path? Do we forsake Open Source software, just because its bedrock principles share a striking resemblance with Socialism/Communism? Is this selective ideological litmus test the norm now? And what fuels this selective disposition?
Now, just imagine, if I were a bigwig at a deep-pocketed corporation, wouldn't it be a walk in the park to sow the conspiracy that ALL Lemmy devs are rabid tankies (ALL of them, seriously? If I pitch in, does that make me a hardened communist?). Couple this with the palpable fear that Reddit might just bulldoze their way to victory, and voila, you've got a fearful, active amygdala ready to perceive an "enemy" - no matter how illogical. Outrage, my dear friends, is among the most contagious of emotions. Curiously enough, this entire conspiracy/misinformation hinges on just that - unbridled outrage.
It's almost as if there's no call for outrage, provided one possesses even a smidgen of understanding about open source development, its inherent messiness, and the swirling ideologies around it. Now, those are the nuggets worth pondering. But, who am I to say, right?
To challenge some of your replies, if those are welcome.
People do actually complain about email, quite often. Spam filters and deliverability are real challenges sometimes. Email also has a lot of gotchas that you can run into - like what happens when you lose control of a domain name? What happens if your email provider shuts down? Who actually owns the email - you or the provider? A lot of email protocol has inherent security and privacy issues too. I don't know if I'd use email as the leading example. Phone networks or text messages might be a little more straightforward.
I also don't think it's entirely true that federation is strictly necessary. Wikimedia seems to run a lot of centralized services with large scale and large community with no federation. Tildes is a valid alternative to both Lemmy instances and Reddit with no federation. If Tildes for example went in a bad direction or became corrupted - it is open source. You could just start a new Tildes using the same source code. It isn't federated, but does it have to be?
Great write-up and I think you hit the nail on the head, but I kind of wish you posted it with a different username.
I do hate that ancoms are associated with ML's, totally unfair, but you're right that does look bad.
I would agree. I've seen some sketchy comments about lemmy on reddit. I've set them straight when I see them. But, I am not using reddit anymore, so that's that. Spend the focus here, growing the community instead
Yes, but, the problem is, I think we NEED to convince the sync and apollo devs to join lemmy if we want really good phone clients asap, and if they see this BS, they might think they shouldn't.
Infinity, btw, is the app we need here ;-)
I highly doubt Reddit is doing it intentionally. You're talking to people who have chosen not to switch platforms, and so they're giving you their rationalisations for it. The conspiracy theories aren't necessary to explain the behaviour, people will find all sorts of excuses for resistance to change.
There are other clients for the fediverse.just choose another one if youre worried.