I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.
I hope it doesn’t peter out like Goat did. I deleted all my 100k plus reddit accounts yesterday. I have so much muscle memory from going to reddit daily that I have to force myself not to go.
The first week is the hardest. It gets better the longer you are able to be intentional about your choices.
welcome to the club, and its great to have you.
Seems an unpopular opinion here, but I honestly miss this. The whole “using subreddits as hashtags” thing is how I found a number of interesting subs I would have never otherwise even thought to search for. Yeah, some were very big and well known ones like /holup that got repetitive, but others were some niche thing that fit that specific post in a way that I at least found somewhat funny.
It was good when it linked to actually interesting new communities, it was bad when it linked to meta-communities just collecting reddit posts - rimjobsteve, foundthemobileuser, holup half the time, cursedcomments, redditmoment, etc.
My hatred for these knows no bounds.
I actually liked those as well. I usually skip usernames so when someone linked rimjob steve I at least checked the username.
Same. It’s not intrinsically bad, it was abused, but often useful
I just didn’t like when people would use them to make fun of each other. Like commenting “r/wooosh” for someone just asking for clarification on something. Using it to say “this comment or post would be appropriate for this subreddit” is fine imo. I just don’t like when people try to put others down to make themselves feel better than other people.
I could tolerate almost every redditism if it weren’t for the belittling, argumentative, and self-righteous tones that permeated every front page discussion
Thanks for the compliment kind stranger!
Grr
I wish I could giv u gold!!!
Lemmy Silver is the best I can do.
Your absolutly right, but still I miss the holups.
There are three holup communities that comes up when I type
!holup[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]Tip: you can link communities just like Reddit but typing
!and the community name until a drop down shows up
There really isn’t a critical mass of users here to do that in order to be worthwhile.
Give it a moment
It reminds me of the time I first started taking antidepressants and they started kicking in. “Holy shit, is this how everyone else feels all the time? This is amazing!” Mine is cripplingly bad and I’ve had it my entire life. Being a suicidal 7 year old is apparently not normal.
I hope there is more of that actually. I just haven’t found any reasons to use any
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You’re lucky if you get a full word. The worst were the one letter chains that culminated in F U C K M E or something.
Yeah, it killed my will to participate in the comments. So much of it was those dumb jokes and chains. Originally has left the train a long time ago. I ended up sort of loathing the “humor” on that place.
To me, this felt similar to “clapter comedy”, wherein there is no laughter, just applauses. Nothing funny is being actually said, there is no setup, no punchline. It is just people sorta agreeing that something should be funny because they agree with it, and if you’re the first yo say it, then all your unfunny friends will give you the thumbs up.
For the record, I am a complete lunatic in real-life who joke about everything and I find almost everything hillarious. It is pretty damn sad that I get no enjoyment from theses.
We still have inline images in comments though which are arguably just as bad, if not worse. I can’t be the only one that noticed how rapidly /r/unexpected comment sections went to absolute shit when gif comments became a thing in the Reddit mobile app.
I’ve already seen numerous cases of people using the place like discord and dropping gifs in reply to a comment, and getting upvoted because “lol moving pictures”.
They contribute nothing, they’re distracting, take up a lot of space in the comment chain if you like compact mode, often spammed by users that have nothing intelligent to add but feel the need for attention anyway.
I’m patiently waiting for the setting to disable it.
Thanks for the gold kind stranger!?
Take my angry upvote?
no
It’s really nice here. I find everyone is pleasant to one another.
Strange, isn’t it? Takes some time to get used to.
Then, once you start to get used to it, you realize how screwed up reddit must have been for civility to seem strange.
I’m just so excited to have conversations again which aren’t full of negativity. I didn’t really see how toxic Reddit was until RIF closed down.
My first social media was Livejournal (I bet you’re too young to know what that is), which was a private blogging platform, and it was full of really beautiful intimate friendships I maintain to this day 24 years later. I hope for similar vibes for Lemmy.
As an alternative we have the same memes you know for years in everyones feed here but I actually kind of love that because it’s only the best of them!
To be fair the majority of posts I see have barely any comments at all. Not sure if that is so much better.
when it has comments, it rarely have replies
edit: i guess the /s was needed
Here’s one
Be patient my friend, the engagements will come. Although the instances having issues doesn’t really make people want to browse lemmy. I practically never browsed past the first page of the feed before Sync for Lemmy got released.
It is so much better now then it was a month ago so imo we are now a floating boat rather than a sinking one that we are using buckets to keep floating
Were you not here for the bit about the beans?
That was a shitpost frenzy, I didn’t see much of that in comment sections!
I thought it was pretty stupid; I wonder if people are going to look back on it in a “narwhal bacon” type’a way.
Right now the first three or four pages in my feed are almost nothing but pictures of cats in boxes. Which is fine, but it’s hardly brilliant discourse.
Change your sort options. Your lemmy experience will change drastically depending on whether you’re sorting by hot, active, top, etc.
I love cats but I had to filter those subs. I don’t want my feed to be 1/2 generic pictures of animals I can’t pet.
