The idiots have not yet going the platform, so I can enjoy more interesting discussions.
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Federation. I will never use centralised social media again…
Engagement.
Users tend to like or dislike your comments and posts more, and post comments and reply back more often.
Compared to the millions of users on Reddit, I get more interaction on lemmy.
It’s the small world effect. Federation works better for our tribal human brains. We aren’t designed to be in a room with a million people all talking at once.
At first, the redundancy of having multiple communities on different instances covering the same topics bugged me, but it’s actually a good thing because it means you’re grouped into smaller groups of humans and your voice will get heard. Rather than a few comments dominating the conversation, there are simply more conversations.
At first, the redundancy of having multiple communities on different instances covering the same topics bugged me, but it’s actually a good thing because it means you’re grouped into smaller groups of humans and your voice will get heard. Rather than a few comments dominating the conversation, there are simply more conversations.
I like that take.
Except when i am subscribed to multiple similar communities so i can hear those voices. Then something happens, and i see multiple reposts of the same thing by multiple users over multiple communities.
I dont know what the middleground is.
But maybe reframing towards the “smaller voices get heard” and learning to accept “the occasional shouts as an unfortunate downside to an overall better scenario” will help me.
Absolutely, I get replies on almost all of my comments and usually multiple. The engagement is really great.
I’ve just had a ton of really friendly and amusing interactions with people here, that’s my favorite thing. Not sure what feature Lemmy has that makes that happen though.
Not sure what feature Lemmy has that makes that happen though.
It’s open and small. It takes a certain type of person for that to be appealing so despite our differences there is some quality we share.
It’s non-profit.
People are fairly responsive on posts and comments.
They’ll also upvote anything. Even a can of beans.
Its federation. Even to that point, than I can reply to you when not using Lemmy at all. I am writing this from /kbin.
I don’t feel lost in a crowd of shitposters. I post something on c/poetry, ten people upvote and I’m like hey ten people read this, that’s cool. It feels real where Reddit does not often.
Afaik upvote count on Reddit isn’t even real anymore. It is still somehow rooted on the real count but their algorithm tempers with the count in undisclosed ways.
That’s right, the votes are fuzzed. I left Reddit after I made a post about a Nazi, and Reddit banned me for harassing Nazis. Reddit is evidently ok with Nazis.
Capitalist platforms are okay with anything until it’s no longer good for business. Fascism, and by extension, Nazism, is generally good for business.
I am sometimes one of the ten. Thanks for sharing content.
I’m glad you like! I’ve discovered that if I check out several poetry ebooks on my phone at a time I’ll always stumble across something amazing. Someone asked me last week who my favourite poets are, and it’s really a five way tie.
Exactly this. Everyone has enough space to have their voice heard here. There aren’t too many threads I read where i get bored before I read everyone’s comments.
I post every day since I know people will see it and it won’t immediately get buried. I get to know the names of people that regularly comment on my posts. Just seems more personal.
Exactly. I feel like the smaller crowd and lack of stupid running joke comments makes it very positive.
Feels like the earlier days of interesting reddit.
I have no doubts bots/hostile actors will find some way to fuck things up. Hopefully the devs can finish up tools to keep those problem actors at bay.
I feel instance admins/owners are in tune with the community to deal with the bad actors.
Instead of reddits “line goes up” mentality
Nicer, kinder and less judgemental people.
I’ve had some controversial opinions here but the conversation is always civilized. It’s like people are aware that not everyone is from one culture and are willing to give people the benefit of thr doubt and not judge the language of the text. Noone is judging tone.
But even more importantly I love seeing the same people around on different communities. Kolanak, cheese greater, call me lenni, picard maneuver, blaze are all names off the top of my mind that I see everywhere. It’s like a small community.
I have to say that is mostly the case. Yes, there will always be that one individual that gets offended at your different opinion, but that’s just the way of the world.
I was scrolling down to see if anyone said this, since it’s been the case for me so far. I have to say lately I’ve seen a raise in unfriendliness (not referring towards me, but in general), but I suppose it’s inevitable.
I’m still really happy with how people interact with me and with each other, and I haven’t felt that on Reddit for a while (am referring to both pre APIcalypse and after, though I now visit Reddit rarely)
Ive seen a little too but reddit and all other social media is just soooo much worse that a few situations weren’t enough to sway my opinion on the matter.
Reddit was honestly not the worst interaction wise for me pre APIcalypse, font have any account on there anymore. Also was never an active user on reddit tbf.
I don’t need a crappy first party app to use it on my phone.
I feel like there is more variety in the content here than there was on reddit. There’s less content, but it’s a lot more interesting than the stuff on reddit’s front page.
It’s also easier to find helpful people here than it was on reddit. Reddit was super arrogant and hostile compared to Lemmy.
oh man you don’t even notice the moderators here. it’s so nice, they don’t feel the need to butt into every fucking conversation
I do wish it was possible to comment in communities you moderate without having it marked as a moderator comment. Rarely do I want to make an “official” statement but if I’m a mod Lemmy defaults to making any mundane comment appear that way.
I think that is WIP to “wear a moderator hat”.
Luckily, multiple accounts are widely supported.
Most admins will have multiple accounts, an official-hat account and a casual account.After some federation drama, i believe marking posts as “official” or not is in the works (as opposed to mod/admin always being official). I dont know if the “official” hat also aliases the user (so there can be a “moderator” account that any mod can assume)
It’s everything I would read on reddit without the bullshit.
“this!”
please do not bring over reddit memes. Eventually someone will not understand the irony and keep doing it for real. thanks
That people can make Android apps for it without caring about absurd API prices.
