Absolutely. The 'hive mind' here is so narrow minded and shallow that it's super easy to predict 3/4 of the comments on any given article. Probably because the all the comments are from the same 5 people.
I think about people on reddit complaining about reposts as I scroll past 50 posts of the same article posted to different instances by the same person.
N.R.O.R.A.I.R.T.N.? I think you missed the joke.
Tele-Reliance Artificial Intelligence Network
What do you do with all the time you save by writing 'u' instead of 'you'? You must live a life of leisure and be early for every event!
I'm that level of user that will block the ever loving shit out of everything but not do much to make it better. The problem is that once you've blocked everything you have pretty much zero interest in there isn't much left on lemmy. Still better than reddit though.
Yes, but I'm talking about mass adoption. Very few users care, they want to scroll through and see stuff they like. They don't want to curate and host and delve into the intricacies. Until such time as someone makes lemmy palatable, the masses won't eat it.
Sailing. Boating. Sewing. Those are they tops ones I miss from reddit that had active users. Instead we have 7000 communities for linux and pervy anime.
Lemmy won't catch on until there are groups of communities you can ban at once. Sports, Linux, German, pervy anime... It's a very rare user who will put up with the absolute dreck of the initial feed and manually block communities until they have a feed that's marginally personalized.
Then there's the fact that any communities that are specific to peoples interests are completely empty.
I was about to comment- Harry Potter and the Deus Ex Machina thanks for beating me to it.
I might add Harry Potter and the Order of the Pipe Layers
NUH-UH is lemmys catch phrase.
I don't mean to be memey, but personally I find the "hive mind" here to be way more homogeneous than on reddit. Unless you count different engineering fields as different viewpoints. There are way fewer creatives and trades here. And the engineery types like to pile on to any point of view that doesn't match their world view.
Sorry for your loss.