Jesus. I’ve left 1,124 comments already.
My wife’s right; I am that guy.
I’m on my phone less, commenting more, avoiding more ads, and much happier with the content/comments on Lemmy. Reddit chains sometimes felt a little brain-rotty.
I’m mad much more often and I don’t like it.
Its like going outside
I do miss reddit a reasonable amount, especially for niche subs. I do definitely appreciate Lemmy though, and often it feels like I’m actually having conversations instead of screaming into the void like on other platforms.
Subscribed to all three of those and I’m looking forward to finding some new fun communities to be a part of, thank you!
I still use Reddit for research purposes (programming and auto related things). But I also got rid of other means of social media like Twitter and Instagram. I still have a Facebook account, but it’s strictly for communications with family.
I only use Lemmy and Mastodon (for hockey news).
I miss the niche subs, but I comment more here on threads I normally wouldn’t bother with because I know I’d get buried. Interactions here are slower, better thought out and generally more positive. I have actually witnessed someone back down from a position when presented with evidence a couple times and that was a breath of fresh air.
Well, with the smaller communities, I’m trying to comment more. However, I still mostly lurk because I usually don’t have anything to add to a convo.
I want to post to some of the niche hobby communities but I’m not currently active in said hobby so I don’t have anything to contribute
I kinda feel like I have more of a persona here? Lemmy is a smaller community than Reddit and I recognize people more than I used to. Read: I ever look at usernames. I’ve bothered with an avatar, for instance.
Something I still miss is the “brain trust” that was Reddit. You could ask “experimental exo-ornithologists of Reddit” and get at least ten of them. Reddit had a culture of tracking down mysteries, I don’t think we have anything like The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet or Celebrity Number Six. I miss stuff like that.
Lemmy is a smaller community than Reddit and I recognize people more than I used to. Read: I ever look at usernames.
That’s a little terrifying for me as someone who likes using reddit-likes for the anonymity lol. Although on reddit I used to recognise some usernames in smaller subreddits where there were a few active posters.
Things like that come with a larger community. However, there are certainly message boards where exo-ornithologists gather where you could likely get a better answer than reddit, and if it’s not actually enough of an interest to look for, then does the answer to your question actually matter? Knowledge is great, knowledge is power, but fleeting questions on a subject you won’t think about for another decade is just mental masturbation.
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/discussion/
i like having some of them here to bridge the gap and let me know they even exist.
I have a lot less to say, and I’m more careful about what I do say.
I believe it’s mostly because of the smaller community. It’s easier to be an ass at a soccer game with 15,000 strangers than at your great-aunt’s birthday. (Even if your third cousin is a neo-nazi.)
i’m still a lurker, i post less, and im practically a ghost on here. i’m winning and loving it. reddit w/o the problems
I dunno - at first it was promising, but today I was actually thinking of leaving Lemmy and trying to find a larger site.
I’m not sure if the entire Internet has somehow become addicted to groupthink or if this is just a symptom of Lemmy’s smaller size and a selection bias, but it’s been getting worse and worse over the past nine months and it’s definitely turning me off to the community here.
What I loved about Reddit was that on any given story you saw a number of well informed opinions debating the nuances of those opinions. You’d learn so much more by engaging with the comments than just reading the article itself.
But here it seems more and more to be turning into a confirmation bias machine, where discourse and nuance takes a back seat to conformity to locally populist narratives. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been downvoted for linking to multiple recent research papers (from places like Harvard and MIT) because the implication of those papers was contrary to popularly held beliefs here.
While I’ve had a few good interactions, it’s become less and less of a signal to noise ratio on those interactions.
It’s possible this is a larger trend, but I haven’t noticed it to nearly the same degree on other less generalized forums I spend my time, so I suspect it’s just a Lemmy thing.
A shame, as I think the tech is outstanding. But as is often the case, good tech is only part of a product, and in the case of social media it’s the community too, and I’ve been growing increasingly disappointed in Lemmy’s community who likes to pat themselves on the back for a welcoming spirit with the apparent unmentioned footnote in small print that it’s a welcoming spirit that only extends to people regurgitating their own opinions back to them.
tell me about it.
my exchanges so far has led me to think the left leaning extremists are populating lemmy because they are still angry at spaz for his dumbfuckery.
else it’s beginning feel like reddit all over again.
Redditors aren’t used to communists not being actively suppressed while fascists get passively protected and it shows. All you’re saying here is that you prefer the one narrative reddit forced onto everyone with their moderating and astrotruf, and being exposed to different ideas makes you feel uncomfortable. You’re always welcome to go back to the race-baiting and fascist propaganda, sounds like you’d be happier there.
Lemmy is a collection of differing voices from all over the federation, so your “there’s no diversity of thought” sounds like when conservatives mald that their terrible ideas aren’t well received the moment they step out of their racist circlejerk. To the white, equality feels like oppression.
the problem with lemmy is your either a communist or fascist, with no in-between. it’s this rediculius polarisation that makes it not very fruitful to have actual conversations around here
It’s the main reason I gravitate so much towards lemmygrad. Their zero-tolerance stance on fash shit (plus being defederated from literally every problem instance by dint of being openly communist) allows you to have actual conversations with people without having to explain basic morality every three seconds. They’re pretty tolerant of differing ideas as long as you’re not parroting fascist talking points and even then they’ll usually put in a good faith attempt to explain why what you’re saying is fucked up and give you a chance to self-correct.
Sadly a lot of the federation is a lot less good about this, where anything even remotely political turns into a debate/slapfight where nobody feels good at the end of it and nothing really gets done. Some people are just useless trolls who shouldn’t be engaged; not to mention the groups actively trying to balkanize the federation.
Plus if you think this place is bad. Mastodon… I made a post about them earlier but if you respond to any post without heaping praise you just get instantly blocked. They’re a great platform but good god is the culture there just obscenely toxic to conversation.
It’s strange because that person’s from lemmy.world? That seems like a pretty liberal/reddity instance from what I’ve seen. I was gonna tell them to go to another instance if they don’t like .ml’s politics but then I saw theyre not even from .ml lol
Yeah that’s why I went as hard as I did. LW’s somewhat of a nazi bar so that paints a picture of the kind of person we’re dealing with here. I could just imagine their head popping like a gasket if they ever ran into a hexbear or lemmygrad user who could hard counter their shit.
EDIT: I looked into them and honestly not the worst i’ve seen. They’re very reddit-poisoned but I bet a year or two off and they’ll be fine.
Removed by mod
Well it’s been 10 months since I left redis and spun up my own instance. It’s been a fun little ride with a very fast surge at the start and a bit of a plato. Lemmy seems to be gaining traction again, which is good.
How has it changed me? - I guess I actuall spend more time here than I did on reddit - as I find the quality of comments far better and more enjoyable
As an admin / owner I have had to see and deal with some stuff that I wish I hadn’t had to see - there are some sick fucks out there
It got me in my way to learning about decentralization and now I’m all over the small web stuff.
I just wish there was a way to delete my reddit profile comments easily. I log in every three months or so by accident usually.
I miss the niche discussion because reddit is so damn big, but the drop in quality of posts when I lurk there is very noticeable. Enshittification ruined it.
