We are Lemmy, we were on Reddit.
Took me a second to understand, but yeah that’s a great way to put it
A distinct lack of Monetization/ads
Feels smaller and more cozy to me.
Thats the biggest issue I DON’T like about Lemmy. I want everyone in the world on the fediverse.
You can actually participate in discussions. On the popular Reddit subs, you click a thread and there are 9000+ replies already. No matter how insightful your post, no one’s gone see it.
Also less circlejerking and “that’s what she said”/“I also choose this guy’s dead wife”.
This
This (Making a point of something I hated on Reddit)
You gotta know how to optimize visability. I’d regularly have comments that had thousands of upvotes.
Timing is everything. I once had “most upvoted post of the day” and like 20K karma from a stupid joke that was a reply to the first top-level comment on a default sub. The only reason that happened was because it got into “rising” exactly as the US users started waking up and opening the site.
I could’ve posted the exact same comment on any other post in that thread or even the same one but at a different time, and no one would’ve seen it.
That’s very true. Timing IS everything. Its probably the most important part of getting high voted comments.
I was using my phone to access Reddit through an app called RIF. It stopped working.
I can access Lemmy on my phone through an app called Boost. When I revisit a thread, it displays the new comments in a different color. Very very very convenient for active threads.
Am the same, Boost fan. I still lurk too much, but really enjoy the conversations.
Okay, back to lurking for me, run out of things to say.
Lemmy allows 3rd party apps and is not run by a company that would disallow them
honestly, I always feel so much more part of the conversation here. on Reddit, unless you time it just right and browse young posts, chances are your comment will never be seen. on here you’ll be one of 50 top level comments at most. and that’s only the biggest threads. it would be nice to see more activity on more threads, but often when i comment on something with no comments it’s enough to start the conversation.
almost none of my comments here get ignored, and the conversations that come out of them feel better. unless it’s about Linux. you people are insane and unapproachable when it comes to operating systems. not because you’re wrong, you’re just… a lot.
One thing I love here is how I can disagree with someone and still have a civil discussion. It feels weirldy amazing to reach a consensus instead of just getting stuck in a cycle of unrelated personal insults. Sure, shitheads like that do still exist here, but I don’t remember ever having a civil disagreement/argument on Reddit.
I also feel that I’ve embraced the practice of blocking & moving on a lot more after I moved here, and tried my best to be more constructive.
Not owned by corpos
I recognise usernames, so it feels like conversations between people are happening rather than just throwing stuff out there for it to be ignored.
Commenting on a post doesn’t feel like yelling into a void, comments are more than a number here. Also people are always trying to be helpful, which is so nice compared to reddit.
Nicer, more intelligent community.
Also I can comment on a thread even an entire day late and it’ll still get seen and upvoted.
i dont really care about intelligence,as that is a very vague thing to care about, even definition may vary, but the second point is important to me
Lack of spez
Along with everyone else’s great points, I’m so glad I don’t have to suffer through another “thanks for the gold, kind stranger!” Or yet another painful comment chain of “puns” that are more like weak rhyming/word association, often reusing the same tired phrases. That entire place is so boring and uncreative.
Long live Lemmy!
I disagree, gently, i like chains, they are fun, and sometimes creative, even the ones i know (like rick roll), maybe this gives a kick to my slightly troll-y side, sense it is harmless and fun (at least for me, fun is subjective). I even liked the thanks for gold, it is not like the gold means anything, it just makes the community feel more live
That’s perfectly valid. With the gold thing, I was referring to the fact that people say it verbatim as I typed, (seemingly) every time. IMO it feels less genuine when someone doesn’t thank another using their own words.
By the way, your respectful disagreement is another reason why I like Lemmy. Courtesy seems to be more common over here :D
Shitters often self segregate. The Donald or FatPeopleHate would get run out of existing instances, start their own, then go to defed hell. Contrast with reddit where they were allowed to fester in the name of “valuable conversation”
