I had joined Reddit twice in my lifetime but was not actively using it, and maybe that’s the reason I’m not very familiar with this forum culture.
I would say that Lemmy is by far the most responsive SNS in terms of the community engagement that I’ve ever used.
Yeah I’ve noticed that almost every post and comment seems to get at least some engagement here, whereas on reddit it’s very common to make a post/comment that no one ends up seeing.
It feels like we meet and greet in the real world here.
I feel like Lemmy is substantially less combative. Reddit has become so very hostile over the years and every thread felt like someone was about to start a fight. Not that there isn’t any here, but there feels like a normal amount, rather than an over-representation of people spoiling for a fight.
I’ve said this exact thing a dozen times on here. Any time I’d get a reply notification on reddit, I’d go into it prepared for another senseless confrontation. I would fight with so many people on that platform, and I swear it made me an angrier person. Here, I still go into it half expecting the hostility, but replies are always in good spirit and pretty level-headed. I don’t fight with people on Lemmy.
Agree to disagree is the right value to embrace in this kind of situation I supposed.
Its a great community, reddit kinda feels like a giant automated cashflow farm, here it feels more like a village square! (For now)
So do you think with the mass adoption in the future will ruined Lemmy just like Reddit?
I think people are more encouraged to participated on lemmy than they are on reddit. I used to be able to make posts on a reddit community of 10s of thousands and never get a response. It almost never takes more than a few minutes here. Moreover, Reddit is spilling over with bots and has been for years and the responses you’d get to a post or comment are often obiously reflective of this.
Can’t agree more.
There’s no better way to stifle a discussion than to see there’s 10k+ replies already. Pissing in an ocean of piss.
I sort by new and most posts are not trash as they were on reddit. Things don’t need 50k up votes to be valuable. Lemmy as a platform was the perfect blend of old school forms and reddit. Im just sad it took so long that people forgot how the internet is supposed to work.
It’s like they get email is [email protected] but for anything else they say that’s too hard. Hell even when I give my email they just assume Gmail. I swear Web 2.0 was a cancer.
Exactly mate. Social media era was to toxic.
We all feel a responsibility to be active here ngl. So many of us have made new communities we wanted and just keep posting there to grow communities.
My total activity on only this one Lemmy account is more than all my social media ever combined. And thats just one of my 7 Lemmy accounts.
Insane effort. 🫡
I feel like it has something to do with the fact that there’s less content, so when you post something, it’s actually going to be seen by people.
I didn’t post or comment anything the last couple years on Reddit, largely because it increasingly felt like shouting into the void.
Yeah Lemmy is a smaller more intimate community. In fact I’m sure we’ve interacted before. Thats just the nature of the platform (and a positive).
Also why I don’t really agree with people who think the number 1 goal of Lemmy is to grow.
That’s what got me hooked into lemmy for good after being seriously sceptical for the first few tries.
Little to no comments on most posts was worrysome compared to the absolute flood of content on Reddit. But when I comment here, I get replies. And these replies feel like they matter.
Yeah, I also can feel the sense of belonging here.
It feels like a fresh start. Gotta be excited about that, right?
Absolutely, mate.
Nice.
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