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I'm definitely seeing the benefits of belonging to a smaller Lemmy instance today. (self.meta)
submitted 1 year ago by michaelcharles to c/meta
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I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

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[–] josejfernandez 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never really understood what's appealing about participating in a community with gazillions of users where any attempt to have a conversation is buried under thousands of replies. Not even talking about the amount of trolling or aggressive commenters.

I think smaller places suit me better, and I am grateful that smaller instances like this one have emerged as a result of the latest happenings with Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find I like having both.

Smaller communities / more quiet threads where I really participate and get in a conversation with people. Other times I just like having a lot of different threads with a lot of different information etc.

[–] cliffhanger407 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed! For me right now what reddit has but Lemmy hasn't replaced is the local/certain kinds of obscure that was on Reddit.

As a practical example, there isn't a great soccer forum, much less my hometown team. There's gaming but my nerdy deep lore destiny 2 sub hasn't made it over here yet.

So far I've been getting by on news feeds and mastodon repost bots but I'm definitely missing some of the content from the old site. A natural response is to stand up my own, but being realistic most people just don't have time to run a community, create content for it, and enjoy it. Reddit had a model that allowed occasional interaction with regular consumption due to its huge scale. So far that's still not here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Glad I'm not the only one that feels that way.

One interesting thing I read somewhere on here was a recommendation to use Lemmy first, and then if you feel like your missing something, go to Reddit.

I think I'll be doing that for the meantime.

[–] etler 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an appeal to having limitless content, but it does become addictive. Having a slower pace is a good thing.

I left Reddit shortly after the spez's AMA before I found Lemmy and for a week I did feel a little out of touch since I didn't like the feeds on other social networks or sites. Lemmy gives me that feeling of being up to date with the internet without being endless which I think is much healthier.

[–] intelati 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There’s an appeal to having limitless content, but it does become addictive. Having a slower pace is a good thing.

You know that's a great point I hadn't considered..