I agree. The best option now is to look for specific sources of trustworthy reviews.
Regarding rtings, the two monitors I purchased myself had completely different results from the monitor RTINGS showed. What does that say? RTINGS is totally unreliable? I got ridiculously unlucky? https://hardforum.com/threads/why-are-ips-monitors-popular-the-ips-glow-ruins-a-third-of-the-screen-along-with-any-color-advantage-it-may-have.2032852/post-1045814690
I agree about reddit, but unfortunately, I don’t think lemmy is free from astroturfing. Myself and others have noticed that there are many users on lemmy who seem to be purposefully antagonistic towards other lemmy users. The possible reason may be to drive people away from lemmy and hinder its growth.
I’ve experienced pro-reddit astroturfing on lemmy. I posted this criticism of reddit on the [email protected] comm, and it was heavily astroturfed and then deleted by the mod for a bogus reason.
A year later, someone used that post to attack me while insinuating purely from the title that I was at fault because the reddit admins would never do something like that (despite all the public information to the contrary).
I’d like to read this because I think one of the biggest problems with reddit is that it’s now basically a free-for-all for disinformation. So I’d like to see their arguments and evidence that decentralized alternatives are superior in this regard. Unfortunately, the article is paywalled.
Wouldn’t you have to convert all the links into separate pages too? IE:
That seems like it would need some kind of script.
That person is also archiving full pages. If we use our .csv export it will just be our comments with no context, unfortunately. Better than nothing though.
The ideal scenario would be to download your data, then upload it to your own static website before deleting it.
Here’s an example of it: https://www.rareddit.com/
But you’d need a static site generator built to do that, and I haven’t been able to get a response from the person who made that website. I’ve tried posting about it elsewhere, and didn’t get any solutions.
It should be simple enough for someone to make a template or instructions or an SSG for people to use. Unfortunately, no one has.
Useful info from an admin about why one of the threads went missing: https://lemmy.world/comment/11288468
There seems to be room for improvement in how Lemmy handles this.
Yep, that was one of them. Do you think that’s a good mechanism to automatically delete all user’s content when they get banned? Those example titles you shared don’t seem like obvious trolling nor obviously worthy of an account ban, and the collateral damage of deleting valid & popular threads seems bad.
How are you supposed to link to a source when it’s completely deleted?
You can see it in my profile though:
@MaximilianKohler to Ask Lemmy Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch? • 5 days ago
This is the link and it looks like it’s been restored https://lemmy.world/post/17593614
I looked in the mod log https://lemmy.world/modlog/3106 and it says:
4 hours ago mod Restored Post Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch? reason: restoring post as it was deleted as a result of the user getting instance banned from lemmy.ml
There is no log of why/when it was removed.
I looked up another one from https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions titled “Where’s all the intelligent discussion at?”, which was removed for rule 7. I don’t agree with the removal reason, but none of this is relevant to the point of the OP. You guys are sidetracking.
That’s a lot of effort you’re putting into something that can easily disappear at any point.
That is the point of this thread. You’ve chosen to deceptively magnify one part of it to twist things for your own purpose, which also seems to be a primary purpose of a lot of people on Lemmy – antagonizing other Lemmy users.
Why would you want a lemmy.ml link though?
That’s where the thread is. It was created on lemmy.ml and crossposted to lemmy.world. When crossposting from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world it says “crossposted from lemmy.world”, which is wrong and confusing, and defeats the purpose of crossposting (informing people about similar communities or other instances).
“My posts keep getting deleted!”
— user looks into public info to find out why your posts might be being deleted —
Nice try, but that’s deceptive. This thread was not about my personal posts. I even gave an example of a recent thread (that I did not make) with hundreds of comments. You’re further proving my point.
It sounds like you’re saying it’s impossible, but I’m doubtful of that. Currently there is no fediverse link for the thread, so I think one could be added that links to the lemmy.ml post. I crossposted from lemmy.ml and the crosspost should say so.
If the devs conclude it’s not possible or wanted, that’s fine. But this is my feedback.
It’s exceedingly bizarre how many people on Lemmy rush to defend Reddit and attack other Lemmy users for anything possible.
This thread had absolutely nothing to do with that, yet you somehow dug through months of mod logs to find the one thread that would allow to you attack me.
“You have a history of being inflammatory towards Reddit on Lemmy! This is not acceptable behavior on Lemmy!”
I posted this thread to [email protected], so I think there should be a fediverse link to the thread on [email protected].
I’ve never seen “nazi shit” on Lemmy. The threads that have been deleted have all seemed on-topic with normal discussions taking place. The last one was a “what made you leave reddit?” thread with hundreds of comments.
The “fediverse link” on a post
I’m only seeing those links on comments, not the thread. Has it always been like that?
“The instance of the person who posted it” seems to be reasonable for comments, but not the thread.
That’s how it’s always worked??? The fediverse button goes to the canonical source
Maybe it didn’t exist on posts but only comments? I see it on your comment but not the OP/thread.
Not open-source, but I was using Metacritic as an alternative to Steam. Unfortunately, they’ve severely degraded their UI in recent years so I started using GOG.
I’ve gotten used to it and I like that many instances default to a dark mode. I used to use the old.instance UI, but I think I ran into problems with it and ended up just using the standard Lemmy UI.
Regarding lemmy being complicated, I’ve mostly learned how it works and I definitely think it’s the #1 reddit-alternative at the moment, and the most promising option for the future as well. Along with independent forums of course.
I also set up a Mastodon account, but unfortunately most people are still using Twitter. I also petitioned the Xenforo developers to join the fediverse, and I like that other forum software like Discourse, etc., are joining the fediverse. I definitely think federation is the future.
I’ve been thinking about updating that blog post but I’m not sure where to add the updates.