I comment now.
when you are in a smaller community, read: when you are around a manageable amount of people and even recognize some of them, you are more likely to interact. and your comment wont be buried, and its less likely some random asshole really hates what you said and makes sure you wont bother anymore. oh and less bots and chills whats not to love.
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I haven’t gone back to Reddit since the rapture. The only time I use it is for Google results.
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I use Lemmy A LOT less than Reddit. This is a good thing imo.
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Since it’s a smaller community I find that my posts and comments get a lot more traction.
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I miss the smaller niche subs. Yes I know that I should contribute and make it a thing on Lemmy. No I won’t because I’m mostly a lurker and would rather just close the app than do any work.
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I like how the platform is full of socialist/communist but it can become a bit of an echo chamber.
Overall I am happy with the change. Fuck Spez.
Are you me? Every point you made mirrors my own Lemmy experience.
The only thing i would add is that i really miss the quality of some of the content, which i would just attribute to the difference between userbase size and by sheer numbers meaning more high quality content to rise up to the top. I would say on reddit that i would almost never get through the days ‘top content’ for me before i started losing interest in posts, whereas here i can run out within 15-30 mins and then im among duplicate posts, yesterday’s posts or just things that dont interest me much. But i also put this down to the wider range of subreddits providing more variation and extra content, so perhaps i just have to spend more time finding more lemmy communities to draw from on other instances.
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I want to like this place.
People seem too aggressive here though.
And apparently everyone’s hobby is using Linux and neurodiverging.
it was nice while it lasted, which was until loud conservatives and ““libertarians”” started flooding in a few months later
i was even fine with the tankies, but the alt-right kit 'n caboodle is just too much
Sometimes it does seem like everyone’s on a soapbox or cynical crusade about some shit or another and you’re a bad person if you don’t know or care.
Lots of places on Reddit and Twitter also feel that way. I think it’s just an inherent part of mass online interaction.
Reddit has been crazy aggressive lately, especially on front page posts. I got tempted to look at it, and now I’m not even tempted anymore.
I dunno - at first it was promising, but today I was actually thinking of leaving Lemmy and trying to find a larger site.
I’m not sure if the entire Internet has somehow become addicted to groupthink or if this is just a symptom of Lemmy’s smaller size and a selection bias, but it’s been getting worse and worse over the past nine months and it’s definitely turning me off to the community here.
What I loved about Reddit was that on any given story you saw a number of well informed opinions debating the nuances of those opinions. You’d learn so much more by engaging with the comments than just reading the article itself.
But here it seems more and more to be turning into a confirmation bias machine, where discourse and nuance takes a back seat to conformity to locally populist narratives. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been downvoted for linking to multiple recent research papers (from places like Harvard and MIT) because the implication of those papers was contrary to popularly held beliefs here.
While I’ve had a few good interactions, it’s become less and less of a signal to noise ratio on those interactions.
It’s possible this is a larger trend, but I haven’t noticed it to nearly the same degree on other less generalized forums I spend my time, so I suspect it’s just a Lemmy thing.
A shame, as I think the tech is outstanding. But as is often the case, good tech is only part of a product, and in the case of social media it’s the community too, and I’ve been growing increasingly disappointed in Lemmy’s community who likes to pat themselves on the back for a welcoming spirit with the apparent unmentioned footnote in small print that it’s a welcoming spirit that only extends to people regurgitating their own opinions back to them.
Redditors aren’t used to communists not being actively suppressed while fascists get passively protected and it shows. All you’re saying here is that you prefer the one narrative reddit forced onto everyone with their moderating and astrotruf, and being exposed to different ideas makes you feel uncomfortable. You’re always welcome to go back to the race-baiting and fascist propaganda, sounds like you’d be happier there.
Lemmy is a collection of differing voices from all over the federation, so your “there’s no diversity of thought” sounds like when conservatives mald that their terrible ideas aren’t well received the moment they step out of their racist circlejerk. To the white, equality feels like oppression.
It’s strange because that person’s from lemmy.world? That seems like a pretty liberal/reddity instance from what I’ve seen. I was gonna tell them to go to another instance if they don’t like .ml’s politics but then I saw theyre not even from .ml lol
Yeah that’s why I went as hard as I did. LW’s somewhat of a nazi bar so that paints a picture of the kind of person we’re dealing with here. I could just imagine their head popping like a gasket if they ever ran into a hexbear or lemmygrad user who could hard counter their shit.
EDIT: I looked into them and honestly not the worst i’ve seen. They’re very reddit-poisoned but I bet a year or two off and they’ll be fine.
Removed by mod
tell me about it.
my exchanges so far has led me to think the left leaning extremists are populating lemmy because they are still angry at spaz for his dumbfuckery.
else it’s beginning feel like reddit all over again.
Lemmy is home.
I kinda feel like I have more of a persona here? Lemmy is a smaller community than Reddit and I recognize people more than I used to. Read: I ever look at usernames. I’ve bothered with an avatar, for instance.
Something I still miss is the “brain trust” that was Reddit. You could ask “experimental exo-ornithologists of Reddit” and get at least ten of them. Reddit had a culture of tracking down mysteries, I don’t think we have anything like The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet or Celebrity Number Six. I miss stuff like that.
Lemmy is a smaller community than Reddit and I recognize people more than I used to. Read: I ever look at usernames.
That’s a little terrifying for me as someone who likes using reddit-likes for the anonymity lol. Although on reddit I used to recognise some usernames in smaller subreddits where there were a few active posters.
I browse Lemmy occasionally and it’s nice having real engagement on my comments and posts. But, many of my favorite hobbies have zero traction here. The board game communities are basically Ghost towns, and god forbid if I mention on here that I own an AVP and enjoy it. Much less expecting a whole community about it. So mainly Lemmy is just memes and bullshit scrolling. That and the absurd confirmation bias here, as well as the outright violence towards other political parties is nuts. I regularly see highly upvoted comments about “let’s just kill them, etc”. It’s fucking insane. Every time I mention this there’s a string of comments saying “they deserve to die” etc
The only sub I would regularly discuss politics in was a sub that had a “Be civil” rule.
You could argue and say shit about politicians, but name-calling directed at another user would get the comment deleted.
Of course, even that wouldn’t be enough for some people even here…I remember someone who was creating multiple posts about how bad Lemmy is because someone said they were “butthurt” about downvotes, lol
It’s great!
The single biggest problem i see is the lack of network effect.
We need more people to use Lemmy and create and participate in communities. I know part of that is actually using and participating ourselves. so I will try to be better about seeking out active communities already here and patronizing them regularly :)
Come on,
I’ve seen and discovered (I’m French) the Baltimore accident on Lemmy.Its efficient 😂😂
I’d scroll for hours on reddit. And while I’d love to see more content here, I’m glad that I don’t spend so much time on mobile as I used to. And when there is more content, I hope I’m already trained to stop if I’d start to be exessive.
Also, got educated on FOSS and privacy, ditched most of google products. Wins all around
I have mixed feelings. On one hand, Lemmy seems to be finding its groove, and I genuinely feel like I’m part of a growing community. But there’s definitely something missing, and it’s difficult to put into words.
On Reddit, I tended to frequent specific subs, and rarely doomscrolled the front page. But that’s all I find myself doing on Lemmy. Most of my feed is either politics or memes, and nuanced discussion seems rare. New communities apparently have a hard time getting off the ground, and I think it’s mostly because decentralization makes discovery a hastle.
Reddit’s whole purpose is to aggregate content from other websites, whilst providing a central access point. This is antithetical to the very concept of the Fediverse, which is all about decentralization. I find myself wishing for an easy way to aggregate Fediverse content, so that I could access Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin, etc. all in one place, regardless of whether they’re federated. Really, all the drama surrounding instances federating/defederating is obnoxious as an end user.
The apps are certainly better, though, and in general I’m enjoying myself.
Lemmy lacks niche interest communities, beyond stuff like Linux.
Really, all the drama surrounding instances federating/defederating is obnoxious as an end user.
A-fuckin-men
Really, all the drama surrounding instances federating/defederating is obnoxious as an end user.
On the other hand, subreddit dramas where a good portion of the userbase got alienated usually ended up with the users getting beaten into submission, and either shutting up or getting banned. It’s a bit annoying, but it’s still better than the other alternative we know.
i feel a little more comfortable commenting here.
being a smaller community, i feel like i’m actually contributing when i post something, instead of just adding to a sea of noise
it also helps that i’ve come up with this new “persona”. i’m able to be more of the real me than i can with my main account.
it’s like half way between anonimity and publicity. this account has very little connection to my meatspace existance, so i feel safe to say anything. but at the same time i’m not gonna act like some 4chan user. halfway_neko’s a good girl lol
I use it less, which is better for my mental health. I still find there are similarly depressing posts and attitudes here. People are nicer, but the breadth of topics is far more limited. I won’t go back to reddit, but lemmy definitely doesn’t hold a candle to the number of communities they have. I’ve been using Tumblr as well and quite enjoying that.
I had been looking for an out from Reddit for years. I like commenting and responding to comments, or simply enjoying thoughtful comments. I’m there for the commenters rather than the posts, the social part of sharing news. especially the commenters providing context or a new way to think about things.
Trying to enjoy Reddit the way I like became a game whack-a-mole of removing communities that were too large and filled with copy paste jokes.
I dunno if I’m a weird kind of redditor but i know am a stubborn one, and as reddit changed i bounced harder and harder off of it.
Coincidentally i was a month into a sanity sabbatical from Reddit when my friends told me about the api fiasco. Somehow i stumbled in here, and while i thought it world be a tough transition and that i would struggle to ban reddit it wasnt.
Long story short, I wouldn’t say i changed at all. Reddit changed, and i found a home better than it ever was.
Made me have a healthier relationship with social media, my smartphone usage, and overall thinking. I almost exclusively used RiF and curated it enough that I could readily get lost in it for hours in threads and/or following drama.
I knew what I liked about reddit was the mods, the 3rd party apps, and the communities, and the company behind the website was the least appealing ineffectual part of the experience. They were slow in every sense of the word and consistently made out-of-touch decisions.
Lemmy was a great transition point for me. At first I was trying to treat it as a clone. Instead, I found a place (and the fediverse in general) where there wasn’t a mass amount of resources spent to keeping me engaged - it’s just content of the day, no strings attached.
I found a space that was indifferent to the amount of time I spent on it, passionate communities that were more responsive and literate, and just felt more respected as a person.
I’ve written this before but I am comfortable here, it reminds me of the text chat groups in Usenet, the first ‘social medium’ I was part of. Not mainstream but enough people.
I keep a Lemmy-World cocktails community and in this nine months have had to moderate exactly one post and read exactly one report. Users grow in number, slowly, every day. It is So Nice here. Could there be more engagement? Sure. But high quality overall, a lot of what is missing is the crap.
