Maybe because we all want this to work out and be a thing.
Lemmy is growing very, very quickly but I still feel like there’s more interaction between actual humans here and not some stupid karma farming bots. I came over here before the Reddit civil war started and there’s been more and more content every day without it feeling contrived. I’m quite fond of Lemmy at this point.
Content felt like it exploded just over the past couple of days. The coverage of world news events has been excellent. Memes have homes. It has been nice.
The breath of fresh air has generally been maturity in a lot of posts. Reddit felt like junior high deduction skills most of the time. I don’t expect it to last, but it makes me engage more.
It really has. The first week or so was a bit discouraging but Lemmy has exploded recently. I’m extremely pleased that I can get my world news and my poop jokes in one place again. I scrubbed my Reddit comments and deleted my account much like Cortés burned his ships.
Yes, I never felt like commenting when there were hundreds of previous comments. Here, with just a few comments, it feel like it an actual contribution, not a drop in the ocean. I also spend more time reading each comment.
And even if a post has many comments on here you still get interaction because they sort by “Hot” by default (at least on kbin)
I think this is a big part of it. On the other site you’d really have to be early on a popular post, otherwise there’d already be thousands of comments and it didn’t feel worth the effort.
Yep same here. I’d usually browse ‘all’ on reddit and everything that could be said had already been said in the comments. So it kind of felt what’s the point.
It’s made me realise that I don’t want Lemmy tobl become a reddit clone for this reason. If it gets too big it’ll be the same issue.
Lemmy feels like real people. Reddit was just overrun by bots and astroturfing. The more time I spend here the more I realize that.
- The top 3 most upvoted comments aren’t unfunny puns.
- This feels mor elike a ‘community’ because there’s fewer people. I don’t feel like I’m screaming at a tornado.
- More niche content. It’s more fractured and I liked that about the early internet and early-reddit.
- My Reddit account got banned for a fucking ridiculous reason and every new account I make they re-ban. Fuck Reddit and it’s over-sanitised, Disney-bullshit.
- I can speak British English without my comment getting deleted. E.g. “Can I bum a fag mate”?
Regarding 2, it is sort of ridiculous how many comments some posts get on reddit. And you’re really unlikely to get any interaction leaving a comment on a post that already has say, 12,000 comments, while meanwhile due to the way the site works, more and more people see the posts that are already at the top.
It’s easy to sort by new and camp new posts
You underestimate the power of defaults. I can guarantee you a large percentage of people might even know it’s possible but don’t want to bother tinkering with settings or just forget about that on the few minutes they just scroll and read/comment.
Having to collapse so many low effort joke comments to find real discussion on reddit, if at all, was very annoying.
I didn’t realize that was something I have not had to do here yet, quite nice.
Right, then sometimes a reply to the top comment would be “this” then for some reason everyone keeps just replying “this”
That
I am averaging an unhealthy amount of comments per day, and I’m enjoying every moment.
I feel like I’m keeping a journal, only the book talks back to me in a thought provoking manner. You guys have been really great for me.
It’s a lot easier to find conversations here. Vibes like reddit of 5-10 years ago. When communities get too big, the most popular gets pretty boring for people with niche tastes.
Yeah. Popular reddit posts from 4h or older…you’re just shouting into the wind.
You still would get good conversations on smaller communities, but the popular subs it was mostly reading other people’s witticisms that people would put on the post while it was in “new”. Mostly those seemed to be karma whoring people who would try to get comment karma from saying something edgy or funny at the beginning of a post and then “benefit” when the post gets to r/all.
All communities get this way when they grow enough in size. There are only so many unique opinions to express on a subject, and a finite amount of interest someone will have to keep reading a thread. It essentially becomes a race to see who can express the idea first, and we have an easier time winning a race with fewer competitors.
I definitely feel more inclined to comment. Especially since so many posts have so little comments. It feels like my comments are more worthwhile to write to add to the discussion.
Yeah same here, I’ll revert to lurking when every post start to reach 500+ comments with more then half of the comments trying to pun.
Omg, yes that was so annoying!
I need to become more active and lurk less.
I’m trying to be more active here largely because more people want want to join a site that seems like it’s mostly dead with only a handful of posting/commenting.
I’m not really much of a content creator, and I’m hoping we quickly get enough active users that I can fall back to mostly lurking and chiming in when I have something to add.
Mostly this. I definitely check it less than I did reddit, but when I do I try to engage more. That’s probably partly because there’s less comments. On reddit I read a lot of aith and bestofredditorupdates and relationship_advice. So there were lots of comments to read by the time I got there. This is more like reading r/new and having to create engagement rather than responding to one of the thousands of comments
Absolutely.
Actually, I’m probably writing about the same number of replies. It’s just that here I’m much more likely to actually post them.
On Reddit, I tended to write out replies, then visualize what was going to happen if I posted it - if I got any response at all, it was likely to just be a troll or a shill or a bot regurgitating some bit of emotive rhetoric or a tired meme. Then I’d just delete it instead of posting it.
Here, the only likely negative outcome is nothing at all. If somebody does respond, it’s actually likely that it’ll not only be a real person, but that they’ll actually post real thoughts rather than just rhetoric and memes.
I had forgotten what that feels like.
Very much yes. Now I can make relevant and helpful comments without 50 other people saying the same thing before I even saw the post. I feel like my contribution here matters.
Yeah, I often would type something, realize there was no point because it had been said already, and then delete it. Here I will actually post a link without it having been shared hours before! It’s neat.
I still find myself deleting and saying forget it. Time to commit to hit send more
I genuinely had more meaningful interactions on lemmy so far than in my 2 years of using reddit.
The first time in years it feels actually fun to engage with people, rather than just doomscroll endless void of content
There’s more engagement here, you can comment late and have people talking with you.
I think this is what it is for me. I usually just scrolled hot in r/all but by the time I saw posts the conversation had already ended
Yes…please please please Apollo for this place. Clunky interface is my biggest impediment to using more.
I heard a quote once that said “The cost of living in a good community is community service.” I’ve been using that as my drive to interact with posts more here.
That’s a great way of looking at things, and something to reflect on. It drove me to say that, lol.
