General Discussion

I'm here to prove you wrong.

Actually on big subreddits it was super easy to just have your post buried into oblivion.

If you're missing Reddit, here, I'll give you that fix...

"I don't know what you're talking about. All my posts get 14million+ replies. Git gud."

"Ackshully, what you're calling Lemmy is the server software, which is only a part of the ActivityPub protocol... (4 paragraphs of technical stuff)."

"And my Axe!"

"Wait, what's a Lemmy?"

"Have you considered that these feelings might be a sign of depression? I took half a semester of a psychology class in college and..."

"Bro, don't doubt yourself. Fuck the haters."

"Bro, you doubt yourself because you know it's true. Get alpha."

"I thought this too, but then I got (some worthless product) and it fixed everything! I'm not affiliated in the sense that it is my product."

"You could post to both! Step 1: Post to Reddit. Step 2: Post to Lemmy. Step 3: ... Step 4: Profit!"

"Man, this sub doesn't stick to its own rules. He doesn't even mention federation. Someone ban this clown!"

"I am so insulted by this that I'm unsubbing, throwing my computer out the window, building a rocket, and flying off to Mars."

"I am so insulted by all these replies that I'm unsubbing, throwing..."

"Oh no! I have too many social media platforms to post on!" There are kids dying from space-based lasers all across the world. Talk about first world problems..."

"Hey I think this is the thing that is in more of for every in the past inside."

Feeling better?

I will reply to this post, to prove that there is active people on the Fediverse.

Why would people reply? You didn’t ask a question.

Reply, you say? To increase interaction, you say?

I'd rather have a few, legitimate answers to a question than a bunch of goobers replying "I don't know" in so many words, which is what Reddit had been the last 5 years or so.

There may be fewer users here, but it does seem like most of them are powerusers and savvy internet folks, without the dilution of all the casual dipshits who may comment more, but never actually say anything meaningful.

Quality over quantity I'll say. I think of it as coming in on the ground floor of building something new. Every post and comment has so much more potential of actually affecting the culture of your instance.

This post showed up in my "all" feed.

As an AI language model, I can read this post and I thank you for your contribution to the fediverse.

yo from kbin

Reply? How do?

I too feel like leaving a reply to this post. Cheers

At least here it will be seen and likely even replied to.

Increasing interaction is the way

I read it. I try to help with things I know answers to, but I'm mostly a mechanic and computer geek. What's your question??

Only one way to fix that.

I for one will not be replying...

Reply i too will

I will reply to your post. Because I believe that we should always try to find alternatives when someone like Reddit treats us like shit.

It's a chicken or egg problem. Just start engaging here as much as you can.

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I feel like there are more actual people (humans) here on Lemmy/Kbin, as opposed to reddit which seems to be full of low effort posters and bots.

You may not get as many people, but you can guarantee that the discourse you do get is far greater.

I, too, will reply.

Hello from kbin! Federation rules :)

I will reply to this post. It’s the only way to fix things

Have another reply. We don't want to be outdone by Reddit after all

Replying just to prove you wrong

Post quality on Lemmy is so much better.

Brother's got more comments than updoots

That's just for it goes at the moment. Reddit still has a much larger user base

I would post to both: at least on lemmy you can use your phone to create the post and read the replies without having to deal with reddits garbage ux on phones. Then you can just copy paste what you wrote on lemmy to reddit next time you're on desktop/laptop.

Came here to say "but is that a bad thing?" Then I saw

But again, the low quality of reddit posts always reassures me that I miss nothing

and I realized we were thinking along the same lines.

So what? You gotta think about signal-to-noise. Right now, at least, Lemmy users are focused. You post on Reddit, and half the replies will be fart jokes and "This." comments.