I’ve been here since the great Reddit Exodus and have seen some good and some bad.
What have you liked and disliked about being on Lemmy so far?
Do you see your usage going up or down?
I’ve been here since the great Reddit Exodus and have seen some good and some bad.
What have you liked and disliked about being on Lemmy so far?
Do you see your usage going up or down?
My biggest issue with Lemmy so far is that it feels like we’ve got an awful lot of lurkers, and whilst that’s fine I do struggle with the idea that the place lacks content, whilst also having a relatively quiet userbase.
It puts a lot of strain on a few people to bring the content. If those people don’t bring it, it can be pretty quiet, especially on the smaller communities.
I sort of agree, however I’d much prefer fewer, higher quality or actually helpful comments over Reddit’s abundance of absolutely useless comments from people looking to get some quick karma.
If you remove the empty comments from a given post on Reddit I guarantee it’d look a lot more desolate.
I mostly lurk, but if I don’t have something to say I just don’t say it, rather than throw in some random quote, reference or quip to try and get some votes.
I think that was the case on Reddit too. It was just less pronounced because of the sheer amount of people.
The conclusion is the same though, we need more people if we want the Reddit-like experience we are used to.
But as Reddit grew, a sort of eternal September happened where it lost the ‘magic’ and became ever more like regular crappy social media. I’m not sure how to solve this.
In my opinion, it starts with contributing to good communities!
I was never a fan of content for the sake of content or the various numbers games that get played. I wouldn’t have a clue about the actual statistics, but my perception is that postings and comments are generally higher quality than on Reddit.
For the most part I agree, but I also have a small counterpoint. That means those of us that actually produce content have a higher chance of it being seen as well.
Strong agree. Hopefully it will improve with the next wave of migration for Reddit, but indeed sometimes it is a bit overwhelming.