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[–] [email protected] 254 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Its so nice being on a platform where the first 1000 comments on every post aren't just low effort jokes.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I haven’t even considered this. Most users on Reddit are lurkers. It doesn’t take many of us to make new communities worth visiting

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Former lurker checking in, trying to take this new start on Lemmy as a way to participate more and hopefully contribute a bit, I wonder how many will do the same coming from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I am! Mostly lurked because by the time I got to threads they were already too popular and were flooded with hundreds of comments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Same here, I like the Fediverse, so I try to contribute to it. With reddit it was more of a convenience and mindless thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I definitely am. Not a huge talker but I'm really trying to do my part here. It also helps that this community just feels a lot more welcoming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Me too. And in nuking ten years of reddit history I realised I had stopped posting over the years as it got so big it just wasn't needed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm with you there, it's certainly worth it to try and post and comment more and ther is a much more relaxed positive vibe here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Absolutely. Currently a lot of places here feel how Reddit used to be when I joined up. I quite like it.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your low-effort comment wasn't even funny.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Coming to a comment thread to reply "this" feels so cheugy. When I think of the heydey of reddit, I think of 2011 in my dorm room doing the grow a college subreddit. And here we are twelve years later and the best experience you can get now is exactly that same experience.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok zoomer. It's just a phase.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A month or two ago I got a bunch of downvotes for explaining why I didn't like a game. The people responding said it was because my comment was "too long." It was like six sentences. Why are these people on Reddit instead of Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cheugy – A pejorative description of lifestyle trends associated with the early 2010s

[–] pythonoob 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How the fuck do you say it? Choo-gie?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think that's right.

[–] Raiden11X 7 points 2 years ago

It means something that used to be in style but now is considered corny or lame.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think we just witnessed the birth of its use! It vibes like something that's chuggy but has a kind of abstract phlegmy quality to it.

Who knows - I should be sleeping!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

it is not a brand new term

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's that kind of mucus you cough up, normally if you're a bit sick. Not quite snot, not quite spit. Somewhere between.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

the fuck is phlegmy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I too would like to know

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You forgot reposts for karma whoring.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I bet itll get worse with reddit becoming public and trying to juice money from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Good thing about Lemmy is the lack of karma, so we'll be doing just normal whoring I guess.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Yeah lve been a lurker for over 10 years over there and I was sick of all the karma whoring, the low quality posts and especially the pun threads that would bend my face with cringe. Hopefully we can get things right on the Lemmy-verse