Most comments mention this, I feel less amount of information (even on ‘nerd’ topics) and more repetition of same idea/meme. I still use reddit (without account) to find useful info.
Back in reddit days I used it more than I use lemmy nowadays. In many communities, doom scrolling will soon lead you to posts months old here, which is I guess a good thing in some way?
Also this place isn’t as congested as reddit so virtually no annoyance like bots and shilling and scams going on.
I never really commented on reddit.
Here on Lemmy though, I feel like I should.
Also, it feels like that on Reddit, people were commenting and posting mostly to get karma
Late reply, but that’s an excellent point. A chronic part of the hassle of reading comments on Reddit is having to skim legions of dude-bro jokes to get to the actual relevant replies.
I feel like the lack of karma adds in to the civility, but I can’t say that for certain. On Reddit, seeing someone’s karma count seems to sway people’s opinions before even reading what that person says. But here, those votes don’t carry over. In other words, each comment offers a “clean slate.”
There are a few usernames I see and interact with here often. Sometimes I agree with a comment, sometimes I disagree with a comment, but without a total karma count tied to every user, each comment is free to stand on its own regardless of who said it. One bad take doesn’t spoil a person’s reputation. Vice versa, having one fantastic take doesn’t automatically elevate a user who might post something toxic in the future.
seeing someone’s karma count seems to sway people’s opinions before even reading what that person says
Wait, people actually look that up on individual profiles? I only check that when someone has an extremely shit troll-level comment or is ‘karma whoring’ particularly egregiously.
feel like the lack of karma adds in to the civility,
I largely agree, but my stance is that it removes the point of ‘karma whoring’, since that really only exists on Reddit to later sell the account or inflate someone’s ego
It’s been over a year, we still doing this shit? Fuck off bot.
definately not a bot but this shit made me giggle
The views expressed are more to the left and much more anti big-tech, which makes sense. Discussions are a bit more civil on average and there seems to be much less blatant karma-farming. At least that’s the case on my instance, which blocks some of the more… controversial ones. Speaking of which though, the differences between various instances do shape discussions on Lemmy quite a bit, which Reddit of course doesn’t have. You can often have a pretty good guess on a user’s attitudes, political views and demeanor just by looking at their instance.
Not like you can even farm “karma” here in the first place. Lemmy doesn’t have karma I’m pretty sure.
Don’t worry. Someone corrected me in the same fashion. I just don’t look or care and everything is fine.
its really only useful for spotting trolls/spam accounts quickly.
Ooo ooo do me next! I have zero idea how I’m doing, but I haven’t been banned anywhere. I think lol
To be fair you were correct, Lemmy doesn’t. That’s an mbin screenshot above and I’m not sure how they work out the numbers there.
Edit: it’s all nebulous anyway, it can only count things since the creation of their instance.
I was wondering. But does total up votes actually count for anything algorithmicalky like how it is on reddit? I don’t think so on Lemmy right?
Depends on the instance
There’s not as many comments. That’s pretty much the only difference between Lemmy and Reddit
Sure but how many of those comments aren’t just a pile of shit that no one reads cause they didn’t get in fast enough?
We filtered out the shit and kept the hatred and toxicity! Yay!
It’s like Reddit from 18 years ago, if everyone then had kept expecting it to work like Reddit from 18 months ago.
Early Reddit had no subreddits, and then it just had a handful of major ones—it wasn’t until it got a much larger user base that all the thousands of niche subreddits became viable. (There were still plenty of conversations about niche topics—they just didn’t have dedicated forums with the associated infrastructure.) But ex-redditors on lemmy expect those fine-grained niche communities to work right from the start, before there are enough users to keep them all active.
Much more politics, much more to the left, most people seem to actively look for reasons to get offended.
I’m offended by that.
Jk. I agree. People here seem to want to misread in the weirdest ways just so they can sound off.
I can’t say I agree with the last point. Making a comment on Reddit is a dice-roll of which logical fallacy someone will attack you with. You could say “I like waffles!” and you’d instantly get a reply saying “Oh, so you think pancakes are shit then???”
It makes it genuinely difficult to have a even a mild conversation there.
Once I came here, It took me a few months to “detoxify” after using reddit for years. Reddit was bad, but got that way slowly enough that I didn’t realize it until I came to Lemmy. It was like the internet version of PTSD. I’m not as hyper-defensive as I used to be.
Yeah, reddit definitely wouldn’t allow me to sprinkle politics everywhere I go like lemmy does. I think that’s partially a result of low engagement and trying to build viewer base, though. Once the satellite communities can kind of survive on their own they will start purging that shit.
I have adhd so I just post trying to get engagement. I like to have 100 different distractions that I can engage with if I get bored.
I’m lurking more, interacting less. But, seems to be a lot less recycled snark and bot activity here. But after reading some other comments, maybe my experience here is still a bit limited.
I’ll take a qed here…dogpiling on lemmy is an addiction, and there’s a fair degree of ‘stalking’.
Both are tiring.If a post or comment gets to ‘-1’, there is virtually no recovery. Stalking simplifies this endeavour.
Disclaimer: I always viewed limited subreddits that fed my interests, and my Home feed. I never looked at All, because it never seemed to have things I’m interested in. That probably influences how I perceived Reddit.
Reddit:
- Way more niche topics. It was quite possible to find people who shared the same narrow interests as you. On Lemmy, having conversations about these things is hard.
- Towards the end, there was a much greater tendency for top comments to be a joke/quip/insider joke as opposed to actual thoughtful discussion.
- It felt like there was a much greater tolerance of nuance and complexity, though this was also showing cracks towards the end.
Lemmy:
- Politics definitely swing a bit more towards the left. In some cases this means “people just talk about corporations doing bad stuff more”, and in some cases it can mean some pretty out-there positions, like people fanboying for China or terrorists.
- It’s much, much harder for me to find activity on topics I’m interested in. If you’re outside of Lemmy’s handful of interests, not just finding but even building topical discussion feels like a struggle.
- Not everyone, but I do feel like I come across more people here who feel… allergic to nuance. Frankly, I think this might be less of a Reddit-vs-Lemmy thing and more of how just social media in general is shifting these days.
The allergy to nuance thing, I get a lot of people who take me HYPER literally. Casual conversations become formal peer reviewed debates because at least ten Lemmyers were potty trained at gunpoint.
It’s much, much harder for me to find activity on topics I’m interested in. If you’re outside of Lemmy’s handful of interests, not just finding but even building topical discussion feels like a struggle.
You can have a look at !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Lemmy is far more left than reddit which is impressive because I already felt reddit had a hefty left wing bias. I didn’t know how much more left you could get until I got here lol.
The userbase is a much less varied. Being more skewed towards the extremely progressive and tech savvy “nerd” types. Which makes sense.
The quality of conversations here seems better. More actual responses and less “meme dunking” karma type comments.
less “meme dunking” karma type comments.
this. I miss that from reddit days
Once in awhile it can be funny but when it’s every single comment it’s less funny.
You might need to be more specific, since there is a new wave of former redditors joining.
As a former redditor, who joined ~2 years ago, it was very friendly and wholesome when I joined, but has been getting more toxic in recent times.
Things are smaller and more intimate (in that I can recognize more usernames).
I’ve blocked more users here than on Reddit though. Mostly just users that are annoying/spamming/give me really weird vibes. Actually, I don’t think I blocked any users when I was on Reddit.
You can tell that Lemmy houses Reddit refugees…and some of them are refugees because they were completely banned on Reddit, and likely deserving, lol
I block people because I have a lower tolerance for trolls/assholes. Maybe they could blend in with the crowd on reddit, but here, I’m just not gonna put up with their shit.
I never used reddit as much as I do the Threadyverse, but I get the feeling that here the mods are much quicker to dele my comments. But this might really be related with how little I used reddit.
When it comes to content, it seems more positive.
Far more positive and civil; people actually engage in their replies instead of the stream of recycled quips. Bad faith discussions usually get called out as such; less astroturfing.
Small-ish forums probably help with that too since users run in the same circles and there’s less overall “noise.” It’s also much more imperative to comment on posts since there may not be much engagement otherwise.
