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I feel like the overall engagement has increased. I see a lot more niche communities (like people butchering their VWs in various ways 😂) and it’s nice! There’s generally conversation to be had and such, it feels like a healthy platform.

Lemmy slotted in the gap that Reddit left really easily for me, and I’m getting what I wanted from the platform.

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shikogo@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
One thing I love about lemmy is how easy it is to get a conversation going. On reddit it’s really easy to be buried in a thread, and if you get a response it’s often just a joke or a snarky remark. Here there’s so much genuine engagement. It reminds me of the transition from Twitter to Mastodon. I guess people who bother to make the move are more likely to be more engaged users, too.

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- yote_zip@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Lemmy’s comment sorting does also actively prevent getting buried, unlike reddit (?). Newer comments are biased towards the top, and even heavily-upvoted older comments will fall towards the bottom. The lack of “global karma” and our community’s propensity to heavily downvote anyone doing redditisms like pun threads are also doing a lot of work here.
  
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  - shikogo@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I didn’t even know about that, that’s really cool. I have noticed that if I come back to older posts there’s often a lot of new activity since I was there last.
    
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- dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah! It doesn’t matter how stupid whatever point I have is, there’s usually some sort of conversation born from it, and I really enjoy that!
  
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  - LazerFX@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    ignored ;)
    
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Kerandir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As a forever lurker, I agree with you, I’m unleashing up votes like never in my reddit life

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- ALostInquirer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Someone better versed in Lemmy may correct me, but isn’t comment activity more of a factor with some of the sorting algorithms (e.g. Hot/Active) here? In which case your upvotes may help but your comment may be even better!
  
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nic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
i need to see those VWs please

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- dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think it’s air_cooled_volkswagens@lemmy.world
  
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  - otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Links:
    
    !air_cooled_volkswagens@lemmy.world
    
    another
    
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    Pazuzu@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    TIL how to link to communities on other instances in a way that keeps you on your own instance. thanks for that!
    
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Where are these VW communities you speak of…? Asking as the owner of an old Mk IV Jetta lol

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- dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They’d turn your Jetta into a fridge, I’m sure.
  
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Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I had to block that sub, I can’t stand classic cars being cut up like that. Even the politics subs don’t inspire that much sadness in ny fellow man.

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- dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My roomie is German so I share stuff from that community with him from time to time. It might be against the Geneva convention, but I’ve not faced repercussions yet.
  
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