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We all feel a responsibility to be active here ngl. So many of us have made new communities we wanted and just keep posting there to grow communities.
My total activity on only this one Lemmy account is more than all my social media ever combined. And thats just one of my 7 Lemmy accounts.
I feel like it has something to do with the fact that there's less content, so when you post something, it's actually going to be seen by people.
I didn't post or comment anything the last couple years on Reddit, largely because it increasingly felt like shouting into the void.
Yeah Lemmy is a smaller more intimate community. In fact I'm sure we've interacted before. Thats just the nature of the platform (and a positive).
Also why I don't really agree with people who think the number 1 goal of Lemmy is to grow.
Even if Lemmy outgrew reddit, that small-scale vibe could still be maintained very easily by any specific community with the federation tools.
The only reason I want Lemmy to grow is because I miss having niche video game communities with more than a dozen members :c
Discord is increasingly filling that role now, but there are a large number of reasons why I'm not really a fan of that as a replacement.
Mostly I just want to talk about the new Factorio expansion with everyone...
Insane effort. π«‘
I want to say that I appreciate the effort.
I think people are more encouraged to participated on lemmy than they are on reddit. I used to be able to make posts on a reddit community of 10s of thousands and never get a response. It almost never takes more than a few minutes here. Moreover, Reddit is spilling over with bots and has been for years and the responses you'd get to a post or comment are often obiously reflective of this.
There's no better way to stifle a discussion than to see there's 10k+ replies already. Pissing in an ocean of piss.
Canβt agree more.
It takes a little more effort to make an account and even know that lemmy exists. That probably dissuaded a lot of casual creepers.
That's what got me hooked into lemmy for good after being seriously sceptical for the first few tries.
Little to no comments on most posts was worrysome compared to the absolute flood of content on Reddit. But when I comment here, I get replies. And these replies feel like they matter.
Yeah, I also can feel the sense of belonging here.
I sort by new and most posts are not trash as they were on reddit. Things don't need 50k up votes to be valuable. Lemmy as a platform was the perfect blend of old school forms and reddit. Im just sad it took so long that people forgot how the internet is supposed to work.
It's like they get email is [email protected] but for anything else they say that's too hard. Hell even when I give my email they just assume Gmail. I swear Web 2.0 was a cancer.
Exactly mate. Social media era was to toxic.
Those of us who were on the net in the 90s, we had to make accounts for every forum / community site we wanted to use, it wasn't a big deal. Nowadays if you go over to reddit, they're convinced any site you have to create an account for is doomed to fail. Even one like this one, which similar to email, connects you with a wider network outside of the one you signed up on.
Exactly I would say the only thing that I find could improve the fediverse would be the adoption of open ID that way we could login to any instance of lemmy or mastodon using our home insurance. But I could be missing an obvious flaw with that.
Its a great community, reddit kinda feels like a giant automated cashflow farm, here it feels more like a village square! (For now)
I personally would prefer to not to post/moderate on reddit so the assholesin charge can make money off of what I do.
Lemmy is amazing. we can always switch to a new instanc and still use Lemmy if the one we are on turns into what we left behind. Also more moderator transparency. At the bottom of every page is a link to the mod log. You can even filter by user. Feel free to type my name. I'm sure I've gotten something by now.
So do you think with the mass adoption in the future will ruined Lemmy just like Reddit?
You can switch to a new instance and still stay on lemmy. You can even join certain instances that defederate with other instances they (rightfully or otherwise) deem problematic.
Good luck in your search for your digital commune that best reflects your values. Maybe you're already there and you don't know it yet. Peace either way, welcome aboard.
I believe that any location that has eyeballs for advertisers or propagandists will always eventually be ruined for greed or power. The question is how long it will take. Even with careful moderation, slip up happens, corruption is slowly allowed, and special interests will seek to sway popular opinion in one way or the other.
What a great take from you! Btw I also have a friend that his name quite similar to your name, Mechaquan. He is ICP advocate.
I like Lemmy, but it can be a very one-sided experience. If youre not in to tech or left wing politics you'll probably find little to engage with.
Edit: I guess the memes are pretty good too
Need a mass adoption for that.
The politics are left of center on social issues, but I wouldn't say it's as bad as Reddit. I see a lot of anti-trump stuff, but that has nothing to do with his politics.
I feel like Lemmy is substantially less combative. Reddit has become so very hostile over the years and every thread felt like someone was about to start a fight. Not that there isn't any here, but there feels like a normal amount, rather than an over-representation of people spoiling for a fight.
I've said this exact thing a dozen times on here. Any time I'd get a reply notification on reddit, I'd go into it prepared for another senseless confrontation. I would fight with so many people on that platform, and I swear it made me an angrier person. Here, I still go into it half expecting the hostility, but replies are always in good spirit and pretty level-headed. I don't fight with people on Lemmy.
Lemmy is substantially less combative.
That may depend on the community.
I have the opposite experience. I mostly post in niche communities on Reddit, and I find I'm ignored or get positive replies. On Lemmy I get responses, but odds are even that the response is snarky or bitchy.
I hope that will improve as the user base grows and we get more niche communities here.
Agree to disagree is the right value to embrace in this kind of situation I supposed.
It feels like a fresh start. Gotta be excited about that, right?
Absolutely, mate.
This is not even a question. Please read each communityβ guidelines before posting.
Nice.
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Since you're not familiar with this forum culture, asklemmy is used to ask questions. You did not ask a question.
This isn't a qu-- actually you heard that already (Λ . ΛΛΆ)
I can definitely attest to the culture, which is fresh air compared to a lot of networks (e.g. that Draw a Duck post is probably far beyond a lot of platforms' capabilities/proclivities)
I think some of it boils down to:
Just my conjectures Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
What a great take from you, Mr. Fool. Youβre definitely not fool. π€£
Haha, thanks!
Btw I think a post like this would be better suited for [email protected] (not saying to repost there now) or a similar discussion sub ദΰ΅ΰ΄¦ΰ΄Ώ(Λ΅ β’Μ α΄ - Λ΅ ) β§
Yeah I've noticed that almost every post and comment seems to get at least some engagement here, whereas on reddit it's very common to make a post/comment that no one ends up seeing.
It feels like we meet and greet in the real world here.
Albeit Lemmy can too be a bit of an echo chamber at times, I find, in general, that the platform as a whole is way more open minded, and by extention, its users too, than or over Reddit.
Which their bias on most subs and janny overreach became, specially in the last few years suffocatingly annoying. Coming here was refreshing in comparison.
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Don't forget to try sorting by comments instead of posts! I often forgot that button exists.
Good advice. ππΌ