After browsing Lemmy for a while, you get the sense that the average user here is the type that gets upset about a social media company making changes to an API. That is a very specific type of person and you can see it in the comments.

I’d guess people get turned off by that type of person and leave.

I come here once Reddit and hacker news content is old. This isn’t a place I’d recommend to anyone, unfortunately. There are extremely strong biases all over and deep echo chambers. Users here seem like the perpetually online type. Most perspectives I’ve seen have been heavily influenced by online discourse rather than reality.

I visit this site less and less due to the user base.

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 13 points 8 months ago

The perpetually online type is on Mastodon.
Here on Lemmy are the people who disconnected from social media, block or boycott 95% of today's internet and self-host matrix servers to discuss about self-hosting matrix servers.

[–] RampageDon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Complains about strong bias here like it isn't just as bad or worse on reddit.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Personally, I think it is worse here as there is almost zero opposing voice. On Reddit, there are people from most sides of most topics. Here, in most conversations, there is only one side represented.

Now, I tend to agree with the bias here, on some things, some times. But even when I agree, I want to see arguments from the opposition. Otherwise, I never learn.

[–] AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Even if you agree with something, you can play the 'devils advocate' and say what is wrong. You need to look at both sides.

I for example despise Apple. But i gotta admit their phones are pretty good if you just want a smartphone. Or if everything you have is apple, then the ecosystem is really nice.

Try to understand the other side, and be the opposing person. So these conversations can happen.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't give a crap about the API. Reddit's system of rando-bans are a fatal flaw to its usefullness.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I dont mean to be rude, but people that have been banned from Reddit coming here does not improve the community.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There are 2 kinds of people who get banned. People who actually deserve it and people who get rando-bans. A rando-ban is something you have no control over. It is caused by things like unwritten rules, nonsensical rules, or the unpaid intern mods having a bad day. Things that a warning could have easily taken care of. Lemmy cannot give you a rando-ban, but if you actually deserve a ban than multiple people can come together and do it.

My first rando-ban on reddit was posting too much content from the Washington Post. Even though I was only posting about 1 article per month I was "spamming". It is wonderful knowing that on lemmy/kbin I can finally start submitting content again without risking a rando-ban.