Yeah, lemmy has become really good lately. It’s generally better than Reddit these days. I tried it a year ago and it was still quiet here, now I see posts with 2000+ upvotes
As someone who used reddit for 14+ years, this place feels exactly like early Reddit, a place where you actually can converse with anyone and contribute instead of yelling into the void. Realistically we will always have both, but many more will join the verse everytime Reddit has an oopsie.
The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.
Good alternative search engine, have to use a bit of traditional search engineering sometimes, but to me that’s a good thing, feature not a bug.
It can’t find everything, think of it as an extra tool in the toolbox. Having selection between search engines is a good thing. Don’t want just one monolithic source of information.
It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.
If you’re in a niche community, don’t be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I’ve seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.
I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.
I’m so glad to hear other people with the same opinion! Everywhere I go I see people complaining about the negativity and toxicity here and I’m like… Where? I’ve had nothing but positive interactions. I’m really happy reddit went through the API fiasco because I’m having a better time here than in late stage reddit.
A lot of the times it’s just people with bad opinions that are mad that they keep getting downvoted. I’ve seen so many zionist accounts comment under these “lemmy is bad” posts. Even in disagreements the comments are most of the time informative and constructive here.
Individual instances and frontends might have something to do with it. People saying they see a ton of NSFW and have to block so many communities, but at sh.itjust.works on Voyager I haven’t seen any of that.
It’s simultaneously open yet curated at the same time and that’s pretty neat!
I agree, I only came here in July after they finally followed through with pulling the plug on 3rd party apps. This place has grown a lot in 1 year. Still needs more communities for the smaller hobbies, plus less memes and political content, and it would be perfect. 99% of everyone I talk with here is super nice and helpful as well.
Yeah, lemmy has become really good lately. It’s generally better than Reddit these days. I tried it a year ago and it was still quiet here, now I see posts with 2000+ upvotes
The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.
As someone who used reddit for 14+ years, this place feels exactly like early Reddit, a place where you actually can converse with anyone and contribute instead of yelling into the void. Realistically we will always have both, but many more will join the verse everytime Reddit has an oopsie.
Narwhal, bacon, midnight, dick butt, le, doggo.
The real question, when we enter ^ this era of Lemmy, how many years of prison is appropriate for the above genre of jokes?
Lmao beans fit that list, we can cringe about it all we want now but at the time we’re building community.
Don’t forget jeans. We’re almost there.
Truth. Still. Prison.
At least public flogging.
▲▲ ▲This. /s
But yea I agree it’s a pretty solid community aside from a few overly aggressive contrarians
We even have our own annoying group of brigade-ers.
I’ll see myself out.
The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.
Upvoted because “ddged”. Wonderful. 😊
What dat?
DuckDuckGo
duckduckgo.com
Good alternative search engine, have to use a bit of traditional search engineering sometimes, but to me that’s a good thing, feature not a bug.
It can’t find everything, think of it as an extra tool in the toolbox. Having selection between search engines is a good thing. Don’t want just one monolithic source of information.
It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.
Internet ecosystem is a great term, it was put well in an article someone shared on slrpnk: https://slrpnk.net/post/8711732
Thanks for the link. That’s an interesting community!
We’re doing our best!
If you’re in a niche community, don’t be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I’ve seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.
I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.
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I’m so glad to hear other people with the same opinion! Everywhere I go I see people complaining about the negativity and toxicity here and I’m like… Where? I’ve had nothing but positive interactions. I’m really happy reddit went through the API fiasco because I’m having a better time here than in late stage reddit.
It’s not any more toxic than Reddit honestly.
It’s very easy to filter by blocking out certain instances
A lot of the times it’s just people with bad opinions that are mad that they keep getting downvoted. I’ve seen so many zionist accounts comment under these “lemmy is bad” posts. Even in disagreements the comments are most of the time informative and constructive here.
As if Reddit was free of toxic interactions lol
The existence of /r/Jailbait, /r/GreatApes, and /r/[N-slur] testify to this.
Individual instances and frontends might have something to do with it. People saying they see a ton of NSFW and have to block so many communities, but at sh.itjust.works on Voyager I haven’t seen any of that.
It’s simultaneously open yet curated at the same time and that’s pretty neat!
I agree, I only came here in July after they finally followed through with pulling the plug on 3rd party apps. This place has grown a lot in 1 year. Still needs more communities for the smaller hobbies, plus less memes and political content, and it would be perfect. 99% of everyone I talk with here is super nice and helpful as well.
If we can’t meme, I don’t want to be part of the revolution.
~(that’s a joke, based on something emma goldman kind of said)~
Gotta really hand it to the Lemmy devs, third party devs and server maintainers.