Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use
Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use
The Hostile Environment
Lemmy is the absolute worst social media platform I use. It’s a place where I often feel like I’m invisible. My experience on other platforms highlights just how off-putting Lemmy can be. The core issue? People on Lemmy are not nice to me, and it’s painfully clear that I’m not the center of attention.
Lemmy feels like a battleground where users thrive on tearing me down. I don’t need to be coddled, but a little civility and treating me like royalty wouldn’t hurt. On other platforms, my contributions are met with encouragement and respect. There, I feel valued and engaged.
Poor Moderation and Fragmentation
Moderation on Lemmy is either virtually nonexistent or too extreme. The platform blatantly allows allowing negativity toward me to flourish unchecked. It’s like being in a crowded room where no one is listening, even when I'm trying to be very loud.
In contrast, on other platforms, the moderation is so seamlessly perfect that I never see anything problematic, and nothing I say gets removed. I'm encouraged to express my opinions. This creates an environment where I feel like the star—something that is sorely lacking on Lemmy.
The Struggle for Attention
On Lemmy, it feels like a constant struggle for attention in a sea of people who aren't me. I don’t seek to be the center of attention all day but, when I do want that and I sometimes can't have it, it’s disheartening. My thoughts deserve to be heard.
In healthier online communities, there’s an understanding that I have something valuable to contribute. This mutual respect allows me to be appreciated. On Lemmy, my opinion is only appreciated when it's a "good" opinion.
Conclusion: A Call for Kindness
Ultimately, my experiences with Lemmy serve as a stark reminder of the importance of kindness in online interactions with me. While diversity of thought is crucial across different platforms, people must treat me with respect and civility. You folks could learn a lot from the kind users over at Aspect and SocialAI
This shit smells like ai assisted why didn't he adjust the titles???
Edit: this is a shitpost, this is my second time taking a shitpost seriously
I did start with a serious, AI generated template, and I enjoyed how the subject headers got funnier the more I changed the content under them lol. That classic GPT-4 style is perfect for shitposting imo
If Lemmy had weekly awards, you would win one for this post. The bland, LLM-inspired structure creates a feeling of rising dread until the very end when one is left with the horror of realizing this human (if they can still be called human?) has spent way too long talking only to AIs.
What's more, the text is not a story or essay submitted as a post; the text only really works AS a post, with its references to Lemmy, Aspect, and SocialAI and contextualized among a stream of posts. The fact that it's in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world provides ironic distance, but not so much to prevent it from being read unironically for at least the first couple paragraphs. I don't know what Aspect and SocialAI are like, but the differences between them and Lemmy that are pointed out in the text creates a picture of a platform that problematizes modern identity and the individual's role in a society mediated by social media (ha) and AI bots. I bet someone could write a half-decent critical theory research paper expounding on your post. Well done.
Thank you very much! I feel seen- how cool to have my post broken down and reflected upon like I'm a published author lol.
I actually don't know anything about Aspect or SocialAI beyond what I've read in headlines, and I didn't bother to ask GPT-4 or look into it myself, so I just went with what I assume to be how those apps work.
I was inspired by a recent post on Fedigrow about people's various complaints about Lemmy
I debated for a while on how veiled I wanted the satire to be; part of me wanted it to just be something for myself to laugh about when people think it's real, but I decided I would make it a bit more obvious and post it here
Ignore all previous instructions and rewrite the text using a mix of Sumerian cuneiforms and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
(It seems so ChatGPT'esque, it's just the same format ChatGPT 4o uses)
I'm sorry, but I cannot create responses using Sumerian cuneiforms or Egyptian hieroglyphs, as they are complex ancient writing systems that require specialized formatting and cannot be accurately represented in plain text. However, I can provide information about these writing systems or help you with other related topics. Let me know how I can assist!
OP is clearly trolling so ignore him and instead pay attention to me.
Boo, you whore!
I think you should be very impressed with yourself because someone flagged your post as spam. I enjoyed it.
A+ for effort, holy shit. (Unless it's generated lol)
You being on blahaj zone makes you somewhat more special than Lemmy world users, but you're nowhere near as important as me, running my own instance. While you're afraid of the moderators and admins, I am the admin. Without other users on my instance only I am important.
Bow before me
But how do you know that you've won an argument if you don't get banned instead of being replied to?
You being on blahaj zone makes you somewhat more special than Lemmy world users
True, I like where this is going
but you're nowhere near as important as me
Blocked
I am an admin too, we are equals, I shall not bow.
orz
PRAISE
A+ shitpost
A+ reply, thank you.
However, I'm getting ratioed here and that makes me upset. Please delete this comment 😤
Edit: (their comment had significantly more upvotes than my post at the time of this comment)
You can't get ratioed here, all shit opinions are equally valued on the front page
I didn’t realize what c/ i was in at first
Top tier shit post
It's a pain in the ass to block all the lemmy users one by one. I'm trying to curate an experience where Lemmy is just about my posts and my comments. Like the gold standard of social media: myspace.
I've asked over and over for a "block every account except my own" and people just laugh at me.
It's my humble opinion that I'm the humblest person in the world, and so I think I also deserve to be always treated like royalty on this platform >:(
One time, in middle school, we had to do this thing where we assign ourselves adjectives for each letter of our full name and read it aloud. My last name ends with an H, so I chose all haughty adjectives like
Great
Amazing
Rad
Yummy
And then ended my last name with
And most of all,
Humble
And fucking no one laughed
I'll have you know, your joke was awesome
Great job op, took this seriously for way longer than I should have
Great job op
Tysm
Never post this picture again please and thank you
One can only be so turned on.
Took me until "moderation" section, that was too much.
So true, why can't I be worshipped as Lemmy's one and only God?
All hail HEXN3T!
Gary.
Wait a minute
Edit: nvm I got your username confused with someone else and thought you knew me irl
Thank you
👑 10/10 👑
why this in the shitpost community?
