I never posted on Reddit, I only commented, because every time I posted anything, someone would come be an asshole about it. Here tho, I’ve been posting a lot more than I ever did and I don’t get abused for it, unless that was my intent.
reddit also had a problem with shitty moderation. i didn’t post a lot, but there was a good chance of a post just being removed for no reason. i remember i posted about water levels in gaming, in a popular gaming subreddit, and why it was disliked/why individuals liked them and it got taken down, from a gaming subreddit, because talking about a game mechanic was apparently off topic, in a gaming subreddit. about the only place that was actually good was the animal subreddits.
I just check every few hours instead of doomscrolling. It’d be nice to have more content and more active niche communities, but somehow I think this is better for me lmao. Anyways it feels cozier but not on the decline imo
Totally agree, it’s not about the quantity of conversations here. It’s the quality. Here I can engage in an Isreal/Palestine conversation with only a moderate level of outrage in the thread, I wouldn’t even dare read such a thread on Reddit. I don’t want to read all that hate and lust for violence.
I’m actually, honestly enjoying this more. Yes, pretty much every niche community I joined has died now, and that’s unfortunate, but it’s quite certainly alive anyway.
Reminds me a bit of earlier Digg, and the culture here varies a lot but I see a wide range of political opinion and cultural frames of reference compared to what Reddit was, which was a near monoculture.
I prefer this not being guided by a single company.
People make it look like it’s over for Lemmy, but this is only the beginning. Don’t worry, Reddit will fuck things up again. The Fediverse will win in the long run. Maybe Lemmy doesn’t have the momentum yet that we want it to have. At the same it’s grown so much. I mean, not that long ago there were almost only communists on this thing…
As soon as reddit links fall out of Google, I won’t even have to think about seeing it anymore. I also have it DNSBlocked because that’s the only way I am going to stay off of it. X too.
well said. it’s not about quantity, it’s about quality. and spez enshittified Reddit because of greed, we shouldn’t be greedy ourselves, or Lemmy will get enshittified too. i would like to slowly make it cozy and happy here, we shouldn’t be competing against Reddit, because Lemmy is something different.
any nice user is welcome, please don’t make them feel guilty for being on Reddit too. we will slowly make a nice transition so people have the option to being their stuff here if they want, which is what we need. no rupturism, please. i think we should be welcoming, not warmongering. this was made for users, not against spez. it’s totally different.
spez can go and screw himself, i prefer to appreciate those who do good than to mourn about those who do wrong. don’t waste energies on destructivity, spend them on constructivity.
don’t compare to Reddit, compare to Lemmy on July, to Lemmy now, to what Lemmy could be if we work together. don’t get anxious about growing. focus on ‘growing nice’ instead of ‘growing more’.
we will make it. for sure. and it will be great.
have a nice day.
edit: i realize the ‘not against spez’ could have been worded better. what i try to say is that i prefer to focus my energies on nice people than bad people. i suffered already a lot bc of bad people and i prefer to spend my life supporting nice folks. sorry for the confusion.
What’s shocking is that it could have been a force for good and community building. Instead he insulated the bullies and allowed people to abuse the system for personal profit. All of this because of an unending sense of entitlement.
yea, spez is a piece of garbage, and he did all this for money. and it’s sad to see Reddit worsen so much, as it was sad to see Twitter become the same. still, spez enshittified what nice users made nice before. if we support that kind of users, i’m sure we can even surpass the awesomeness Reddit once had. because awesomeness is not Reddit’s, it’s the internet’s. no matter where it is, if we support, it will bloom.
Agreed. I’ll be staying with Lemmy. I don’t care about daily active user numbers, I care about how Spez is treating Reddit and having good post content. Redditors themselves (as a whole) are not a problem, and I have a plethora of good posts to go through when I get on every few days.
that’s so nice, pal! and yes, it’s totally understandable to feel saddened and angry at spez for doing that (i feel the very same), but we can compile that content here, and welcome their original posters to Lemmy when they feel ready. what it’s worrying is the hateful comments about redditors, calling them names. i think some people is becoming radicalised, and they feel ‘superior’ in some way to other users. i don’t think that ‘cyber snobism’ will help Lemmy in any way, but that’s just my opinion. thanks ^^
All I know as I get to know lemmy using sync I’m a little frustrated because my feed is limited and doesn’t let me infinitely scroll and it only updates like once a day which is frustrating because I would scroll forever if I could. But it doesn’t let me. It dead ends Then there are simply no posts. I have to come back the next day. perhaps this is built-in on purpose to make sure we don’t spend & lose our lives here.
Oh, that’s what it is. I’ve taken the approach that on lemmy it’s better to browse all and block almost everything than it is to see nothing on subscribed. That said, I wish it was easier to block instances and people. It takes, like, 4 clicks and is a pain.
Takes a while but pays off eventually. So many German instances. So much kinky anime*. Who knew there were that many sports teams?
It does let interesting ones filter through from time to time. I subscribe to those and figure in a thousand years I’ll have a feed like I used to on reddit.
*I don’t mind some kink, but man, that’s some bent shit.
Something I used to do on Reddit was find a new community, and binge the top posts from the last year. I’ve started being able to do that on Lemmy, which is a huge win in my books
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