Not really a shitpost but I’m really enjoying lemmy
Idk how to explain it and I imagine it’s been said plenty of times by now but it’s just, way easier to engage with posts here, usually on Reddit I’d just ignore the whole commenting aspect and just scroll through media.
I like this change, it reminds me of older social media platforms I used to use that were fairly small, player.me for instance.
I honestly love Lemmy and the fediverse in general right now. Ever since I watched The Social Dillema or whatever on Netflix I hate doing anything on big tech social media. I feel like I'm being manipulated all the time and it makes me not wanna use the sites. But here, I just love reading everyone's post knowing that these are things I subscribed to see and is not some part of an algorithm to keep my attention as long as possible so the site can make money off of me
It’s been a very enjoyable experience, I’ve been bouncing about twitter and tumblr to try and fill that social media gap for a while now and I’m hoping this is it.
I was trying to use mastodon.social for a while, but it wasn't the same as reddit. I found kbin a few weeks ago, and it's everything i want it to be :)
Yeah that social dilemma was a big eye opener. I stopped using Facebook after watching it. I would have deleted my account but my wife insists on using messenger for some odd reason.
Doesn’t having the same community in several instances fragment the user base though? I know I can join a community in any instance, but on Reddit you have one “gaming” subreddit, here you have a gaming community in every instance
I thought that initially as well, but consider when I search for "gaming" across the different instances I'd likely choose the largest community. Should something go awry with the hosting of that community (say, defedration from the other instances or it goes down) another will step up. It's really not so bad.
I mean, you have r/gaming, r/games, r/pcgaming, whatever r/true or r/actual or r/real clones of those may have popped up and died over the years... One will eventually be "the" place, or at least all the smaller ones will all specialize on the kinds of content they want to see and go from there.
Lemmy has been giving me Old Internet Forum vibes so far and I love it. The shift towards centralized corporate homogeneity over the last 15ish years has been a horror show to watch and it feels like it's starting to crumble a bit, which I'm eager to see happen.
You get it! I miss forums so much, but Lemmy scratches the itch so far. The internet used to be about individuality and now it seems to just turn people into what it wants.
I was super sceptical about the whole fed thing, but now we have apps (Memmy!!) it’s exactly like Reddit more or less.
Yeah it’s really nice to know people will see and reply to your shit.
I’ve also noticed the filtering options seem better recently? Hot used to be shitty and active gave too much hours old stuff (but good to catch anything you missed)
Found this under hot, so I’m rewiring my consumption to sim my engagement to the newish posts here.
"Active" is still a bit weird with that. I wouldn't really recommend it as a sorting algorithm unless you've been gone a week or something.
I am very curious as to the general algorithm behavior differences between hot and active. I wonder if anyone knows or if it's hidden under the hood or something
I would love to know also, gonna stick with hot. I’ve seen a good chunk of random communities like Reddit. I mean….we have a flashlight community here. Awesome to see 🔦
9/10 times I’d go to comment something and realise it’d already been said or it was just hectic and I just wouldn’t and it got to the point I just never bothered anymore.
Yes, sorting Top/Hour helped, but I can do the same here and it still feels fresher, maybe because it's fewer people and so far seems to be all actual people, not bots.
Yeah seemed like there was always someone waiting round the corner to nitpick or find fault with something you said, kinda created a cagey vibe around actually taking part in the community imo
I was on Reddit from maybe about 2008 until 2015ish. By the end I found that you couldn't really say anything on there that wasn't exactly what the orthodoxy was, or you'd just be downvoted to oblivion.
On Reddit, I often felt I was whispering in a crowded room. What’s the point of no one is likely to see it, read it, or engage? I think that’s one reason I’m more willing to engage on Lemmy.
I have made 3 comments on Lemmy these past few days. It isn't much; I'm mostly a lurker. But I'd average like 3 comments a year on Reddit so I'm doing pretty good myself.
I think there's more attempt by "lurkers" to actually post here. And a lot of those lurkers are suddenly like, whoa, I can comment on something and my voice is actually heard? People are reading this even though I didn't post to the thread in the first 20 seconds of it existing?
I think the big 3rd party app developers leaving Reddit and coming on here will be a huge boon. Most hardcore power users use the 3rd party apps once we have some great options it will be even better
I noted that on my social instance. 500 followers and 500 follows and I've got all the everything I need. Can't even track my timeline it flies by so fast sometimes
I have not been on reddit for the past 3 days. I try my best to not visit the site when it comes up in search results, I either use web archive or google cached results to find what I’m looking for.
Lemmy right now feels much more like traditional forums which is a good thing I think. Only time will tell if it actually stays like that or not long term.
This has been my general sense of it as well, and likely the reason why Tildes is also popular for those looking for a Reddit-alternative. They're quieter platforms allowing for a more engaging conversation between people of similar interests. I'm excited to see how this all shapes out.
Exactly. This site feels like reddit when I joined it in 2013/4. I suppose I got accustomed to modern reddit, and that isn't all sunshine and rainbows!
Totally agree. Discussions are more engaging here, and posts are more relevant to their communities. You'll hear some people try to explain that this is just due to the smaller user base, and it'll quickly become less friendly as it gains more people... but I don't think so. For one, the lack of an overall "score" for each user (like Reddit's karma) means there is no value in creating re-posting bots that try to capture the maximum number of upvotes by copying older successful material. Less bots posting old content means more real people posting current ideas.
Honestly, lemmy... just works. Which is the best we could hope for. The rest is user content. As long as there are good instances that have solid uptime and the lemmy devs keep optimizing the UI, it'll thrive.