The America-centric monoculture.
That might become an unfortunate but inevitable result of any English-language site that’s large enough, since by the numbers Americans make up a plurality (and possibly a majority) of the English-speaking world. It might be that the only counter to that is moderation and local site culture.
english is not american, it’s the language of the world
Please read what @OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml is actually stating.
I mean, it’s an American based company and website. It’s going to be
I can understand why it would annoy people, but it always felt like it was targeted towards Americans in the first place. Especially with Reddit being an American based company.
Holy heck, didnt realize this comment was 2 years old. Sorry for the necro!
This is what annoys me most about Lemmy. It’s way too eager to pull up old posts. I also came in here forgetting to check the timestamp.
Thats interesting. I didnt realize it does that. Gonna have to be careful
Hey, this thread is about what annoys you the most about reddit, not lemmy!
spoiler
But seriously, perhaps it’s because there’s not that much content here yet so it’s pulling whatever it can.
How it’s living rent free in the head of many lemmy users who keep making posts aboit it
Check the post date.
How the userbase is constantly bombarding the site with alternate versions of the same meme. Everything just feels so try-hard.
This is exactly what Lemmy has felt like the past week or so.
it is So Fucking Slow. i can’t use it for more than 10 minutes without it slowing down to the point of unusability
- Closed source (honestly, I’d rather not know what the redesign of Reddit is made of…)
- It’s annoying, slow and tedious
- Works better in Chrome™ (I can’t even scroll down the website properly with Firefox)
- Harmful business model (Reddit Premium, Reddit Coins, pay-to-win-karma…)
- It’s a JavaScript powered website (not recommended for low-end machines)
- Communities are full of racists, homophobes, sexists, xenophobes…
- The use of sensationalist headlines is promoted to gain karma
- Is the ideal site for alt-right and conspiracy theories apologists
- Leftist/Communist/ML/MLM userbase is discriminated and censored everyday
- Reddit moderators are terrible (most of them)
- Dark patterns everywhere
- They block Tor users
- (I can think of many more but need I go on?)
O see nothing wrong with censoring and making fun of MLM content. (Multi Level Marketing)
Yeah, maybe OP has something to do with them? They teach to stay away from MLM everywhere, it’s not just reddit. And that’s positive, because it’s a scam
MLM in this case refers to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, not Multi-Level Marketing.
lol MLM in this context means Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
But I also see nothing wrong with making fun of these MLMs.
this is one of the best misinterpretations of an acronym I have ever seen
u/spez
This comment aged like fine wine
For me it’s how explicitly for-profit it has become. This manifests in a lot of things like:
- rampant advertisements
- dark patterns to get the users hooked
- you literally cannot use the mobile site because it nudges you to install the app at all times
- new UI is garbage
- misinformation is freely allowed to fester to not drive down revenue
It has pretty much become like Facebook and it really sucks.
