The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.
That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There’s very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.
The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here
It’s been increasingly noticeable for me. That and the Linux die-hards (can see why the “how to tell someone’s a Linux fan” meme exist now)
I’m in the same boat with communities as well. Very little for stuff like Destiny or Game Dev, and even when those communities exist they’re typically a lot lower in quality.
Only reason I haven’t gone back to reddit as my main site is because the mobile app is actually as bad as people say. But I’ve been visiting reddit communities via web browser a lot more frequently over the past fortnight.
Lemmy.world is defederated from hexvear if you’re looking to be totally free of them. Obviously you would have to join lemmyworld and some people don’t want to do that for various reasons, which is totally fine, but you’ll get a ton of content without the spam.
It’s VERY noticeable when I’m on an alt account (either to view c/piracy or because the DDOS attacks have .world down) and a hexbear user is in the comments. Defederation was 100% the right decision and I’m eager to block the instance on all my alts when it becomes possible to.
The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.
That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There’s very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.
It’s been increasingly noticeable for me. That and the Linux die-hards (can see why the “how to tell someone’s a Linux fan” meme exist now)
I’m in the same boat with communities as well. Very little for stuff like Destiny or Game Dev, and even when those communities exist they’re typically a lot lower in quality.
Only reason I haven’t gone back to reddit as my main site is because the mobile app is actually as bad as people say. But I’ve been visiting reddit communities via web browser a lot more frequently over the past fortnight.
Lemmy.world is defederated from hexvear if you’re looking to be totally free of them. Obviously you would have to join lemmyworld and some people don’t want to do that for various reasons, which is totally fine, but you’ll get a ton of content without the spam.
It’s VERY noticeable when I’m on an alt account (either to view c/piracy or because the DDOS attacks have .world down) and a hexbear user is in the comments. Defederation was 100% the right decision and I’m eager to block the instance on all my alts when it becomes possible to.