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.
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
No karma helps!
Yep, no more karma farming bots reposting all the time.
Hopefully it stays that way
It’s not a shitpost, but I’ll allow it Here is my shitpost as tribute.
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 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
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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!
I was on Reddit from maybe about 2008 until 2015ish. By the end I found that you couldn’t really say anything on there that wasn’t exactly what the orthodoxy was, or you’d just be downvoted to oblivion.
I don’t think it was organic.
Oh 100%
It honestly feels like early Reddit and not like the echo chamber/shit show that Reddit is currently right now.
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.
Yes, sorting Top/Hour helped, but I can do the same here and it still feels fresher, maybe because it’s fewer people and so far seems to be all actual people, not bots.
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…>
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Mum! I won another debating competition online!
Damn that felt a little too real
Yeah déjà vu lol
I’ve also noticed that the website runs way smoother than reddit ever did for me which is a big plus
I’ve probably commented here today more than I did in a year on Reddit. Though I was mostly a lurker even when I started using it a decade ago.
Nice to not lurk every now and then
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.
Same for sure. Feels like anything I want to get involved in mean more here and won’t get lost in bots or karma farming or whatever else.
That’s awesome my friend, keep it up!
I was super sceptical about the whole fed thing, but now we have apps (Memmy!!) it’s exactly like Reddit more or less.
Yeah it’s really nice to know people will see and reply to your shit.
I’ve also noticed the filtering options seem better recently? Hot used to be shitty and active gave too much hours old stuff (but good to catch anything you missed)
Found this under hot, so I’m rewiring my consumption to sim my engagement to the newish posts here.
Shit rocks, fuxk that other place. Who needs em!
“Active” is still a bit weird with that. I wouldn’t really recommend it as a sorting algorithm unless you’ve been gone a week or something.
I am very curious as to the general algorithm behavior differences between hot and active. I wonder if anyone knows or if it’s hidden under the hood or something
I would love to know also, gonna stick with hot. I’ve seen a good chunk of random communities like Reddit. I mean….we have a flashlight community here. Awesome to see 🔦
It’s kinda weird to have a social media platform be actually social, yknow what I mean lmao
I think there was a rollback or smth that was causing older posts to crop up and it seems that’s been fixed
I know right, perish the thought 🤣
Yeah hot and active were bugged but an update came out recently that fixed them
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.
I think it has to do with the user base here. We are mostly sane people unlike Reddit.
Plus it’s a very small community compared to Reddit. 10000 users vs 10000000 is a big difference.
Totally agree. Discussions are more engaging here, and posts are more relevant to their communities. You’ll hear some people try to explain that this is just due to the smaller user base, and it’ll quickly become less friendly as it gains more people… but I don’t think so. For one, the lack of an overall “score” for each user (like Reddit’s karma) means there is no value in creating re-posting bots that try to capture the maximum number of upvotes by copying older successful material. Less bots posting old content means more real people posting current ideas.
That does make sense, I do miss discussion bots for like shows and such but I’ve seen people do it manually and it’s better than nothing
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!
