Idk how to explain it and I imagine it’s been said plenty of times by now but it’s just, way easier to engage with posts here, usually on Reddit I’d just ignore the whole commenting aspect and just scroll through media.
I like this change, it reminds me of older social media platforms I used to use that were fairly small, player.me for instance.
It’s not a shitpost, but I’ll allow it Here is my shitpost as tribute.
Lemmy has been giving me Old Internet Forum vibes so far and I love it. The shift towards centralized corporate homogeneity over the last 15ish years has been a horror show to watch and it feels like it’s starting to crumble a bit, which I’m eager to see happen.
Just gonna sit back and watch twitter take itself out
You get it! I miss forums so much, but Lemmy scratches the itch so far. The internet used to be about individuality and now it seems to just turn people into what it wants.
No karma helps!
Yep, no more karma farming bots reposting all the time.
Hopefully it stays that way
Having less users is a benefit for the most part (as long as there’s enough content to keep it alive)
I think there’s more attempt by “lurkers” to actually post here. And a lot of those lurkers are suddenly like, whoa, I can comment on something and my voice is actually heard? People are reading this even though I didn’t post to the thread in the first 20 seconds of it existing?
I’m in this comment and I like it :)
I honestly love Lemmy and the fediverse in general right now. Ever since I watched The Social Dillema or whatever on Netflix I hate doing anything on big tech social media. I feel like I’m being manipulated all the time and it makes me not wanna use the sites. But here, I just love reading everyone’s post knowing that these are things I subscribed to see and is not some part of an algorithm to keep my attention as long as possible so the site can make money off of me
It’s been a very enjoyable experience, I’ve been bouncing about twitter and tumblr to try and fill that social media gap for a while now and I’m hoping this is it.
I was trying to use mastodon.social for a while, but it wasn’t the same as reddit. I found kbin a few weeks ago, and it’s everything i want it to be :)
Mastodon is the very Twitter like one right, I could never quite get used to that feeling
Yeah that social dilemma was a big eye opener. I stopped using Facebook after watching it. I would have deleted my account but my wife insists on using messenger for some odd reason.
I convinced my girlfriend to get telegram, not my preference but much better than anything Facebook related
Doesn’t having the same community in several instances fragment the user base though? I know I can join a community in any instance, but on Reddit you have one “gaming” subreddit, here you have a gaming community in every instance
I thought that initially as well, but consider when I search for “gaming” across the different instances I’d likely choose the largest community. Should something go awry with the hosting of that community (say, defedration from the other instances or it goes down) another will step up. It’s really not so bad.
In my opinion and understanding, anyhow.
There will emerge clear winners, I believe people will hoping the most popular communities.
But then what’s the point of having all those other redundant communities?
WIth federation, there’s built in resiliency. If for whatever reason the instance hosting the largest memes community becomes unavailable (shuts down due to costs, defederated, etc.) we can just switch to a different memes community on another instance.
Plus this already was the case on reddit, you would often have the biggest mainstream sub for a hobby and then a dozen+ smaller, more specific ones. More choice is good imo, and because of how federation works it will never be hard to find the most popular version of a sub
but on Reddit you have one “gaming” subreddit
I mean, you have r/gaming, r/games, r/pcgaming, whatever r/true or r/actual or r/real clones of those may have popped up and died over the years… One will eventually be “the” place, or at least all the smaller ones will all specialize on the kinds of content they want to see and go from there.
On Reddit, I often felt I was whispering in a crowded room. What’s the point of no one is likely to see it, read it, or engage? I think that’s one reason I’m more willing to engage on Lemmy.
Absolutely true. Like 90% of the time I posted/commented something on reddit, I was just ignored. On Lemmy I get replys/votes every time
Im just replying so your statement stays true
Thank you! :)
I have made 3 comments on Lemmy these past few days. It isn’t much; I’m mostly a lurker. But I’d average like 3 comments a year on Reddit so I’m doing pretty good myself.
Was thinking the same thing. On reddit commenting seemed daunting or something, here it’s much easier to engage for some reason, long live lemmy!
9/10 times I’d go to comment something and realise it’d already been said or it was just hectic and I just wouldn’t and it got to the point I just never bothered anymore.
Yeah seemed like there was always someone waiting round the corner to nitpick or find fault with something you said, kinda created a cagey vibe around actually taking part in the community imo
Well, akshually…
<insert 5000 word comment correcting your grammar, quoting and refuting every line, and building 20 straw men to set on fire…>
dust hands
Mum! I won another debating competition online!
Damn that felt a little too real
Yeah déjà vu lol
Ditto
I have not been on reddit for the past 3 days. I try my best to not visit the site when it comes up in search results, I either use web archive or google cached results to find what I’m looking for.
Full time lemmy user!
Holy shit Player.me wasn’t just a fever dream
Every now and then I remember it and it’s just a wave of nostalgia, I had such a basic handle there. Thatrandom_guy_ I think lmao
Lemmy is in a sweet spot that old early 2k forums had. Active enough to engage with people but small enough where it’s not trashy and circle jerky.
People overestimate how many users you need to have a healthy community. As you say the forums of yore were quite small and worked perfectly fine.
I noted that on my social instance. 500 followers and 500 follows and I’ve got all the everything I need. Can’t even track my timeline it flies by so fast sometimes
I imagine Lemmy right now is very similar to how Reddit was back before it became “mainstream”. Small communities with meaningful engagement.
I think the big 3rd party app developers leaving Reddit and coming on here will be a huge boon. Most hardcore power users use the 3rd party apps once we have some great options it will be even better
