It’s like driving to a city just to get out of your car and shout why you hate that city, then leave. It’s just like… why not go somewhere else then and move on with your life?

I do, but what I don’t understand is subscribing to a community on an instance you hate. Or did you not realize that this is a Lemmy world community?

Imagine going out of your instance to a community on one you hate just to post hate about it. What happened to blocking and moving on

What is the point of ever asking a question on the Internet if it should always just be met with “do your own research”? For the record, I did Google around and I couldn’t find that Wikipedia article, and when I did see it in another comment, I didn’t still understand the concept. This comes across as incredibly gatekeeper-y. Don’t understand why I’m not “allowed” into the conversation because I’m being barred from context because I don’t understand an initialism and my research failed.

Wtf does EEE mean, why must people assume everyone knows every acronym

Can you elaborate on how it’s a virus? I hear this a lot but haven’t heard any substantial truth aside from referring to a privacy policy that is identical to 90% of every other website anyone else uses.

I completely understand your perspective and align with it, but people need to start thinking about these discussions when they push for more mass adoption and expanding the user base. Lemmy is niche; if people want to have individuals join who aren’t very tech savvy, they need to consider why people are asking questions such as OP’s. The “if you don’t like it then leave” mentality cannot coincide with “we need more users and engagement”. The platform doesn’t necessarily need to change, but it needs to learn to be inclusive of those who are used to centralized platforms like Reddit and make accommodations or compromises. Otherwise Lemmy will not grow. If not growing is the consensus, that’s fine, but Lemmy needs to make it’s mind up first of what it wants to be.

No fun allowed

Just don’t come back crying “how could anyone let this happen?!” and begging for help when the hens come home to roost.

Can you elaborate on what doomsday scenario you’re referring to? I don’t hear many arguments outside of “Google bad, they’re gonna do a bad thing” without any evidence or description of what the big bad event is gonna be. And before you say “they sell your data,” I know. So does literally everyone else. And I have no intention of living off the technological grid to mitigate that.

It didn’t work for Reddit, it won’t work for Lemmy. All it does is incentivize bots to spam AI-generated comments and posts before they launch their campaign of whatever malicious links they intend to spam. It delays the goal at the expense of an influx of a bunch more garbage posts. Might as well ban them right when they post the malicious links or whatever.

Average fediverse user seeing a platform undergo changes they dislike:

If a site is decently coded

This is the crux of the issue. The average internet user, the kind of user going to a random website to generate a password, would not be able to find this out. For all we know, even without the username, a randomly generated password could be saved to a wordlist after it’s generated. That would be pretty smart, since now you have a list of known used passwords that someone went through the effort to generate to secure something more valuable. (Which would refute your points A and B)

And your point C, not always. By your same logic, you’d be comfortable using “password” as long as you have 2FA? There is always a possibility of 2FA being bypassed through some other vulnerability depending on its implementation. This is why it’s TWO (or multi) factor authentication. In case one factor is compromised, you have another layer of defense. If you use a compromised password (by either using “password” or a sketchy password generator), then you’ve effectively reverted yourself back to one factor authentication. Or zero, if you didn’t have MFA.

Don’t listen to anyone suggesting otherwise. Don’t use random websites. Either stick to a password manager to generate them for you, or take it completely offline with a dice roll-based generation.

It’s essentially a brand new platform. A tiny dip a month after the initial boom is far from “losing users” and is not indicative of trends. I don’t understand why everyone is so obsessed with growing Lemmy as fast as possible.

Judging by others’ comments and upvotes on my comments, I don’t think I’m alone here in my reasoning, but if there are others that don’t care about the cross-contamination, then I guess we will agree to disagree. I just know that I personally am blocking communities that cross-contaminate, and I am personally looking for strictly Lemmy user to Lemmy user discussions.

I disagree here. The original poster and conversation was started on another platform without any regard or consideration for a platform like Lemmy. They posted it on Reddit, for Reddit, and for Reddit’s culture. Not us. Any replies made on Lemmy would not go to the OP on Reddit. Thus, as far as I care, it’s a post made by a bot. Any emotion or care towards the intended destination community has been detached the moment it was taken by a bot and put somewhere else.

If someone asks a question on /r/python, and it gets posted here on Lemmy, why would I bother replying? It’s not directed towards us, and the OP wouldn’t ever see it, so it’s just spam at that point.

That’s fair. Yeah it’s definitely meant for even less than small talk; “minimally as possible” is the general sentiment behind phatic expressions in the first place.

Don’t ask a question you don’t want the answer to

These are called Phatic Expressions, and every culture has some version of them. Unfortunately, they aren’t really going anywhere, so it’s good to familiarize yourself with which questions in different cultures don’t require a response matching the question. A good example, as Tom mentions, is the famous “y’alright?” in the UK. They aren’t asking for a run down of your day, it’s just a societal greeting without any expectations.

I’d do this as a punishment for asking a question you clearly didn’t want the answer to in the first place.

They aren’t asking these questions to be unnecessarily nosy, so I’d advise against the passive aggression because people who greet others this way are well-meaning. I highly recommend that video to put these into perspective from the greeter.

I would put money on the fact that the mods of that python community would not want that bot to be run. As others have mentioned, we want to have our lemmy community garner a community and culture organically, completely detached from any sort of roots in a different social media site. I obviously cannot stop you from running this bot in your own community, but I, personally, am blocking any sort of reddit bots or other connector bots.

I really don’t believe rapid growth/engagement injection is a priority for Lemmy. I’d rather focus on cultivating small communities that can engage in thoughtful and meaningful debates on posts that wanted to be shared by posters, and not generated by bots.

Questionable legality aside, who wants this? I thought we created these federated platforms to get away from all that garbage. The last thing I want is more bots spamming content here (not to mention a lot of the content on the sites it’d be pulling from are spam/bot content in the first place).

The fact that Reddit uses a stock image of confetti with the watermarks still on it is pretty shameful honestly. I wonder if that could be reported to the copyright holder.