Lemmy feels less anonymous than Reddit, because there are less users and its easier to be remembered. Similar to a small town where everyone knows each other.

Reddit has a dedicated Tor site

I just wish the people in the subs I mod and post in would post some too. I feel like I am just posting for myself in those subs. Hell I am not a mod in c/trailrunning and it has like 170 members and no one post. I was the last person that posted. I know people are looking because someone is upvoting the things I post but no replies, no conversation. I don't know what to do to drive engagement.

I get around that problem by simply never looking at your usernames

At least we can all say that we are famous on the internet.

Even on big websites like Wikipedia there are only a few hundred major editors that write most of the content and they all know each other. On Youtube you tend to get to know everyone in your filter bubble as well.

Wait, reddit doesn't allow tor anymore? I remember posting a drug-related TIFU using tor and a throwaway acc, but that was years ago

Lemmy is also not overrun by AI bots and sock puppets.

I mean, sure, if we're pretending you can't abandon accounts at will and make new ones elsewhere in the lemmy...verse.

The whole idea of "who" is kinda pointless.

Maybe I am the real Vanilla Puddinfudge. Maybe I'm not. What would it mean either way?

Meh, wake me when it has an i2p presence

your privacy is worse on lemmy. anyone can access all your comment and post upvotes and downvotes. your pms are open for server admins to read. both examples need to be fixed imo

Username checks out

It's the same with every small forum tbh

I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.

I think should touch some grass because i may recognise more people here than in the village i am living in for like 2 jears

The place is a Village rather than a City.

Witness me!!!

For some of the really prolific posters, yes. But there are also lurkers like me.

I doubt anyone can recognize me when I comment or encounter a comment I made.

It's also not only about upvotes here.

At least people are keeping my mother's name out of their damn mouth.

It feels like Reddit felt twenty years ago

Oh, you sweet summer child.

What happened to FlyingSquid

Oh, you umami monsoon adolescent.

Its impossible to delete anything on the fediverse

Look at it this way, in a small town people are more likely to be kind and offer higher quality information when asked. The same things can be said about lemmy.

Oh, you sour winter adult

Oh, you bitter elder of autumn.

Oh, you pickled moon dumpling.

who the fuck are you

Oh, you salty spring chicken

Oh, you throwaway account nr 0430.

Oh, you lime and pepper avocado.

Oh, you farm fresh egg.

Oh, you savory smarch centenarian..

Also, blocking people you don't like is far more effective.

that's why i like it. on reddit, i'm just some other idiot smartass. on lemmy, i'm THAT idiot smartass. i've also done a great job convincing people i live in canada, while all the while i'm up here chilling in canada. fools, the lot of you.

Less anonymous, but more effectively pseudonymous =)

Voyager enhances his effect by counting your votes on individuals. You start seeing people with big numbers.

Oh, you maple syrup monsoon

It's OK

I see all of the same names in like every thread here haha. I remember y'all too. I know you are all freaks

Thats exactly why I am using lemmy exclusively for brand awareness

Can I be the guy that's known around town for pointing out that in the given context, it's actually "fewer users"

And yeah yeah, I know about evolution of language and common usage, and all that crap. But it really does just boil down to the fact that fewer sounds more elegant when the object is plural. ie: "There are usually fewer unexpected costs associated with new home ownership", vs "There is usually less unexpected cost associated with new home ownership" (Both are correct in their given context)

It's about how language rolls off the tongue. If we lose that we might as well grunt at each other draw pictographs with our own feces.

/end of rant.

Oh, you fewer less users

Also because it allows anyone to easily stalk all your comments for some reason. Creepy.

Ita kinda neat imo. It's like being in a small town and seeing a celebrity whenever satansmaggotycumfart joins the conversation.

I don't know a lot of people in my small town and I don't know you!

Some people actually use the tag feature so that they remember users when they see them again lol

You look at usernames? I've never done that here or on Reddit.

I call that a feature.

a bit more personal and warm, its nice.

Who are you and how did you get in my sandbox?

Who needs anonymity? I put my real name, address, social security number, and agenda in my profile. Ha ha. you see no agenda because im just a typical earth man with no agenda of course. lol.

Certain subreddits used to be like this.

But all my favorites have taken one of two paths:

• Get algorithmically deprioritized (due to a “bug” as an admin told a mod), and hemorrhage users. The collective ‘intelligence’ of the sub in particular drains; interesting intellectual discussions are gone. One such example: /r/localllama

• The sub gets huge. Bots repost memes and bait as attention farms. It doesn’t feel like a small town anymore. Deeper discussions drain away in favor of shallow repetition of the same things over and over again. One example of this for me is /r/thelastairbender.

Os it? I don't remeber a single user lol

Oh, you sfoogly cucklebog

Oh, you MSG’d bouillon hatchling

Jokes on you. Post less, remember less.

Spring

i have the theorie that there are even way fewer users here than people think, at least when it comes to posts not commens...there is a cluster of accounts that kinda feel like they are all run by the same person.

Feel free to guess what cluster i mean

Remember the user that couldn't 💩 for a week or something?

I have a feeling everyone knows who I am, and those who don't haven't blocked me yet.

it's fine. I'm not going to apologize for my opinions because that's somehow worse than defending unpopular opinions.

I'd rather be the person who owns their hill and dies for it than someone who runs from hill to hill because the group thinks it sucks.

I really don't like that

I want to be remembered as the succulent meal that sometimes makes good points and funny jokes 🍗🍚

My, oh societal anachronism.

And there is always the village idiot.

We are the "I know a spot" guys

who do you think you are I am

I get a weird thing where a VPN connection sometimes doesn't let me post or respond.

I remember you.