Comment on It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore

Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MentalEdge@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like for real!! I was a semi-lurker on reddit. Posted a couple times a year…

  I just passed 500 posts on Lemmy.

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  • Weslee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve found lemmy to be alot less hostile, don’t care about downvotes, but attacking people because of opinions doesn’t sound like a fun time to me

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    • tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The absence of a running karma total is a surprisingly powerful difference. I do still look back at old posts, and it’s nice when there’s votes, but without the little number next to a name or when I mouse-over a profile, there’s no motivation to be the first in a thread to repost a cliche joke or to ragebait for fake internet points.

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      • RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think the “not having to be first” is what is so powerful.

        I know that if I comment on a post from a few days ago on a populated community, I’ll likely at least get a reply from OP, if not a bunch of other people finding my comment and replying as well.

        It’s like Lemmy is the nice, small-town version of Reddit (which is probably more similar to Gary Indiana).

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      • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I hated most of those cliche jokes. Here I am looking for real conversation only to be met with thousands of not witty low effort jokes.

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    • DarthBueller@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Opinions are fine. Being disingenuous/an asshole at the same time as having an opinion definitely provokes smackdowns, even on lemmy.

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    • simin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same goes for 9gag but that site is different

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  • lom@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh, when I clicked on your profile it says 0 posts…

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Read the bio. That’s not my main. This is.

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• MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Part of the reason is Lemmy’s default sorting algorithm for comments, “Hot”, addresses reddit’s biggest flaw, which is that earlier comments snowballs with upvotes, so it buries late-comers to conversations, leading to the rat-race of everyone trying to get their funny one-liners in as early as possible for maximum karma (which also isn’t a thing here.)

  The “Active” default sort for posts also means that comments are a lot more concentrated to what people are actually talking about and posts tend to be stickier. (also, botting upvote is a lot harder on Lemmy, since it’s easy to bot upvotes, it’s a lot harder to fake real conversations in comments. )

  In fact, it is pointless to comment at all past like 4 hours on any post on reddit since it will just sit unread for hours, but here you can comment 1 day after a post and still have people talking to you.

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• Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  for me, I was motivated to make this my first post because I want to help solve the death of content issue we still have. it's gotten quite a lot of attention. I think that anywhere bigger, anything of relevance would have already been posted by the time I see it

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  • Peacemeal12@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, for me, it's the fact I do not feel my data and privacy are being siphoned, sold, and fingerprinted on this platform. Another factor is that I feel the people and interactions are pure and authentic, rather than astroturfed and ambiguous. That may change as the fedicerse grows, but for now it is bringing me back of the older days of the internet.

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    • jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For what it’s worth, that was a big reason why I moved as well, everyone here actually cares. ❤️

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You bring up one advantage I see from Lemmy. Even though I’ve seen this article posted before (I think by L4Sbot in !technology@lemmy.world), the nature of de-centralized content means that cross-posting onto various servers is actually encouraged to get input from a variety of users from different communities (for example, people who have disabled viewing bot-account posts).

    On Reddit, people would be quick to say “boooooo repoooost”, but I’ve not seen that too much of that, just a few complaints of “there’s too much orange guy and muskrat in my feed”.

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• MoreThanCorrect@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same here. For me it’s because it feels smaller more often instead expecting to be buried.

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  • Sunforged@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just want the communities I post in to grow. Just trying to do my part to keep people engaged and encourage others to do the same.

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• Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Absolutely, I post much more here because I know actual people will actually read it and may actually respond like they would to an actual human. It’s like the old days of the internet.

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I comment about as much as I did on reddit, but I feel like I see less negative replies. It doesn’t seem to matter what I’d post on there, somebody somewhere would have something shitty to say. It’s not my fault society can’t accept my seal clubbing hobby.

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  • RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you want to go clubbing with 90s phenom and signer of the hit song “Kiss from a Rose”, then you go for it! You are accepted here ❤️

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• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hey me too! Just the Lemmy side (was never into twitters whole thing) but I actually post stuff here, even if it’s just cross posting.

  I always used an alt to post on Reddit and did so very infrequently. I think I posted maybe 3 things on the 4 years on Reddit?

  I comment a lot more, and have posted a ton more (even without removing the posts! And yea, 5 is a ton more since it’s in the last 2 months rather than 4years!)

  I don’t even clear my comment history as a compulsive thing (I changed me behavior somewhat, to allow for this) because I don’t want to remove activity from the platform. I know it needs me to contribute so I do!

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Found the bot /s

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• c0c0c0@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do, too, but it’s out of duty and I’ll stop when other people pick up the slack.

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