On the future of Lemmy vs reddit

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• crunchycircuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly, I think that best thing to do is just pick one or two communities that you really care about and invest a bit of your time. Make a post or two, have some back-and-forth with a friendly person in the comments. You don’t have to be a moderator to help build a community. Even just taking 30 seconds to make one post would be good enough, and might encourage someone else to make a post.

  I was always more of a lurker on Reddit, but I don’t think that’s really gonna be enough if we want this place to at least get to critical mass.

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  • leapingleopard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And updoot! Quick n easy

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    • applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also, please don’t bring cringy Reddit lingo here.

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  • ghostface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well said, but I will say reddit felt more like being out in public. So you kept your distance and didn’t really interact, but here feels more like being at someone’s house that you know. At the moment. The federation aspect is a different wrinkle but ultimately will lead to a better experience overall. No ads is a huge bonus!

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    • crunchycircuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree - my level of engagement on Reddit dwindled with every unpopular decision Reddit forced on its users, and towards the end I had stopped engaging entirely, because it just felt like I would be interacting mainly with bots and hostile users. You’d constantly see bots steal others’ comments, people calling them out to no avail, and knowing that Reddit didn’t give a shit cuz it was engagement numbers to them either way really discouraged any chance of healthy discourse. Rage-baiting might be a good short-term solution for boosting engagement, but allowing or maintaining that level of hostility across the site just tires people out and drives them away.

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  • RespectMyAuthoriteh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I still have the community I moderate (!fitandnatural@lemmy.world) set to mod posts only, because I’m the only mod and don’t want to risk someone posting something bad while I’m not on Lemmy. We really need an approved user feature like Reddit so that vetted community members can also make posts in communities where “anyone can post” isn’t a good option.

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    • Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Couldn’t you toggle the mod posts only option on and off based on your availability? Maybe make a pinned post explaining it and write in the times it will be available inside that post?

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  • Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah. Ive picked /conservative. Ive been posting a mixture of fluff and actual posts. Early days, but it seems to be picking up speed. Just post, it works!

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    • applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve seen that it’s already gotten invaded, and most posts are mass downvoted.

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    • crunchycircuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Best of luck growing the community! I wish you all the success. :)

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    • new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s the value of posting “fluff”? If you’re just trying to get engagement for engagement sake, why?

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  • iquanyin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i joined and am using memmy, both this week. cant see how to post, only can see how to comment.

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    • nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you go to the community page, you’ll see a post button along with subscribe and about.

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• gxgx55@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My problem with Lemmy is the lack of activity in niche communities. You’re right that there needs to be a critical mass and arguably Lemmy has it, but only for the most mainstream, generic type of content. It doesn’t have the mass to sustain any sort of niche, outside of maybe tech related topics because of the way the userbase is slanted.

  I find myself going back there often because of that, but I hope that the userbase for generic content enough to sustain and grow, from where more active niche communities can spring up.

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  • kungfuratte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think things could get a lot more interesting if other software that is more like classic bulletin boards and forums would implement ActivityPub. I mean, such online forums are still able to thrive in their respective niches. If such forums would become compatible with Lemmy, Kbin or Friendica, it could bring a whole new dynamic to this part of the Fediverse. At the same time, it would help these niche forums get more attention (even though I’m not sure if all or even most of them are interested in that).

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    • whois@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When I first looked into Lemmy, which was probably well over a year ago at this point, I saw that they had an alternative front end called LemmyBB which resembles the older style phpBB boards of the late 90s and early 00s. It looks like the demo instance is offline now, and it wasn’t federating to begin with, but it certainly looks like an interesting use of the tech.

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  • pyromaniac_donkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I need to consooooom

    Give it a break lad.

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  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I run one of that niche communities and right now things are quiet, but I’ll keep at it and grow it over the next few years.

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  • Tudou@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Someone the other day referred to posting in niche communities as shouting into the void currently, which I thought was apt.

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• lily33@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To me, the smaller userbase is actually a real problem. I’m willing to stick it out and hope it grows. But for over half of the subreddits I subscribe to, the corresponding lemmy communities have 0 posts this last week.

  Yes, I don’t need 10k comments on my posts. But memes or mainstream news was never the big value of reddit for me - I can get these anywhere. Instead it is about the niche communities with a few thousand subscribers. And for now, I still have to use reddit for them.

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  • whatisallthis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah the very top post on hot right now has 9 comments lmao.

    There is no one here. I mean I love the platform and the apps. I don’t go to Reddit anymore on my phone. But there’s no one here.

    If I don’t go to Reddit at least once per day I’m going to miss news and events that are important to me.

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    • Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just FYI hot is probably the worst way to browse for news and events, I’ve found top of 6h is far better if you check often, Active if you check every 24 hrs ish.

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    • gullible@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s mostly on the sorting algorithms being slightly fucky wucky. Lemmy has enough activity to satisfy me, but lacks niche communities.

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve noticed that “Hot” turns the front page over pretty quickly, which means you see more in your feed, but posts are bumped down before the comments start piling up.

      Whenever I’ve posted anything that has made it to the top of Hot, the majority of the comments come in after it has dropped down (which happens after like, 1hr).

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    • kat@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you sort by “active” there should be posts with more comments. The “hot” sorting is not really representative for how active users on lemmy are, since it favours younger posts over older posts with lots of comments. You can read the details of the reasoning here .

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    • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Reddit has a lot of international subreddits which don’t really exist here on Lemmy (they have like 10 users and they almost never post).

      Reddit has huge alive communities. I’m having a ball here on Lemmy, but I too must check Reddit once a day to know if important stuff happened.

      Sure, someone could say I should work on jumpstarting these Lemmy communities, but I’ve only able to to what I can so far (that is, replying to posts and joining the conversation)

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  • flipthetube@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m in the same boat, but rather than just going back to Reddit for those communities, I’ve opted to lose those communities and conversations entirely.

    And I resent Reddit for that in a major way. Fuck them.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, you need people to post and comment to develop a community. I’ve got one community where I post five times a week, but I’ve only had two posts from other people and only one person commented on a post.

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    • crunchycircuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I checked it out, and tbh I think that the post requirements are pretty restrictive, especially considering that Lemmy is relatively new and doesn’t yet have a critical mass of users.

      Assuming that the axiom that states that only about 10-20% of users actually post is true, you’re already facing an uphill battle in terms of growing your subscriber base. On top of that, the community theme (art with no context) sounds like an interesting endeavor, but it’s also pretty niche. It’s gonna be hard to find the community organically. Or for your community to find you, organically.

      Also, by requiring that the post be a non-flash photograph of the work of art as displayed, you’ve placed additional barriers in front of those 10-20% of content contributors. I mean, how often does the average person go to the museum? Also, does the poster have to have taken the image themselves, or is finding and posting an image you found online (that is a non-flash photo of an artwork as-is and adheres to the community rules and post guidelines) acceptable? The last sentence that reads, “Mods reserve the right to ask where you’ve taken the photo of the art.” seems to imply that the image in the post needs to have been taken by the person posting it.

      I enjoy the premise/theme of the community, but I feel that you’re either going to have to lower the barrier to participate/contribute, or you’re going to just have to accept that it’s gonna take a fair amount of time before your community grows into a self-sustaining body. It’s like you’re taking care of a newborn pet, and, at least in the beginning, you’re gonna have to feed your community/pet with fresh posts pretty often. You’re also probably going to have to advertise your community when it’s relevant.

      Remember that at the start, even Reddit went out of their way to populate their front page with posts from various dummy accounts to create the illusion of activity. Anyway, best of luck with your community, I sincerely hope you’re able to retain and grow the community you’re looking for.

      For those that want to check it out: lemmy.world/c/no_context_art@thelemmy.club (I forget how to link the community…)

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  • Rolando_Cueva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about now?

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    • lily33@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Still visiting several subreddits that don’t have corresponding active lemmy communities. Once of them actually has an “official” lemmy community (run by the same mods) but none of the people moved over, so it’s empty,

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  • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And for now, I still have to use reddit for them

    But you were banned from them right?

    Right? That’s why we’re all here?

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    • lily33@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Firefox + ublock (it has filters that block the “install app” on mobile, but need to be enabled from the settings) is useable.

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• teuniac_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.

  And it doesn’t seem entirely impossible that our Elon Musk fanboy Steve will screw up again.

  I won’t be surprised to read in the future:

  • Reddit Introduces Its Own Version of X’s (Formerly Known as Twitter’s) Blue Checkmark
  • Backlash After Reddit Strikes Exclusive Deal to Provide Trainingsdata to OpenAI
  • Reddit Introduces Paid Membership Options for Communities
  • Something Money Grabbing Reddit Related

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  • Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That will be when they remove old.reddit

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  • MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reddit charges a subscription for people to mod a subreddit.

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  • Robaque@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve been wondering if the API change was actually a move to prevent anyone but themselves from using Reddit’s data to train AI.

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    • ArrrborDAY@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Likely so, though scraping will still yield the data. Maybe they will make scraping harder too.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s what I assumed from the beginning: think of the goldfish for generative ai and they are using Reddit data. Actually, it even seems fair to share in the potential (but what about the users who created it all?).

      However if that was their intent, they sure screwed it up

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    • demlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, they specifically have said they don’t want AI companies to get their user data for free. What’s interesting is that we as a culture have internalized and accepted the idea that our user-made content is something only tech companies have the right to profit from and fight over.

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• legion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lemmy has enough user activity to fulfill my time-wasting needs.

  There doesn’t need to be one website that EVERYONE is at. The Web didn’t used to be so damn consolidated.

  I don’t give one shit about “Lemmy vs. Reddit”. I care about Lemmy having active communities to engage in, regardless of what is happening on some other website.

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  • insertfloppydiskhere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes this is my thinking as well. Before reddit I was more than happy participating in forums on subjects I enjoyed. I had want I wanted. I almost have that here as well. That’s success in my eyes.

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• MdRuckus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I follow damn near every community on lemmy that I followed on reddit. I follow 97 communities on lemmy with all communities active and none with 0 posts. I left reddit immediately and haven’t looked back. All the news, whether political or tech related, I get from lemmy. I think people just haven’t found the right communities. You have to put in some time to find them since you may have 5 or 6 with the same name. But, once you do, you should be good to go.

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  • o_oli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Comparing the two communities for me, reddit nearly always has way more quality content and news for me though for the time being. Often even with big news it’s just not here on Lemmy at all. Many posts also have 0 comments and toy just wouldn’t see that on Reddit. Once Sync can create posts I will probably start x-posting more from reddit to lemmy for communities I am most interested in.

    For now I think I will start browsing Lemmy and then visit Reddit for anything I missed. Keeping my posting and commenting over here mostly because I’d like to see this place grow.

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    • SwallowsDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, I wish there was more reposting from Reddit, because that’s what a lot of communities need tbh

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  • Elivey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well it sounds like you weren’t into subreddits like sewing, knitting, or plant goths… Little less userbase there…

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  • captain_crazy@citizensgaming.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The key there is that it takes some effort to go find all the stuff. People are generally lazy so it’s hard to get them to do it.

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• MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “You could have half the comments on that post, and frankly the quality might go up, not down.”

  This is probably my favorite part of Lemmy. The comment section feels more meaningful, and not a landfill of garbage posts. Additionally, if I make a comment, there is a higher chance that it will be read and responded to, so it feels like I am actually engaging with a community, and not just chucking my thoughts into space and hoping they land on a planet.

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  • MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People actually talk here instead of racing to make an one-liner based on an in-joke to maximize karma usually. It’s nice.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Absolutely. It’s nice a solid portion of the silly Redditness is relegated to Lemmy Shitpost and Meme communities.

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  • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and not just chucking my thoughts into space and hoping they land on a planet.

    That’s Twitter/X

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  • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the biggest value Reddit had to humanity was its original content. The kind of stuff that has people putting “reddit” in their Google searches for myriad topics.

    As such, I’m not hung up on the numbers. If one really looked at it, that content generation is such a small fraction of what activity goes on over there. I’ll take quality over quantity here.

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• Erismi14@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit has always had changes that made people want to leave. Removing CSS was the first that comes to mind. Now that lemmy exists it could be seen as a new platform to jump to every time reddit does something dumb or anti user. I have high hopes for lemmy

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  • fresh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For me, getting rid of the old reddit design as default was pretty egregious. Usability tanked if I wasn’t logged in.

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    • Repossess6855@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      By design sadly, to collect that juicy, juicy user data.

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When i.reddit.com was gone, that did it for me.

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• HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  4. No surveillance capitalism. unlike reddit, lemmy isn’t trying to monetize/track you.

  5. Freedom/openness. Already, someone can use a third party app to use lemmy. Moving forward, I think, people will come up with new ways to utilize lemmy/activity pub.

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  • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reminds me of Google when it took over from Yahoo-Altavista. And then the money came and they’re Dr. Evil cookie cutter Corpo scum

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    • cpo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Difference is: when that happens, it will be forked and will live on!

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• Sygheil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit has now checkmark/verified or whatsoever they call like any other centralized social media. Extreme cringe

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  • bappity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    twitter has transformed my view of people with verification checks to “most likely to be an idiot”

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    • rhaegar_shaka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It could also be that they are forced to be an idiot, like for content creators (MKBHD, Tekking101)

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    • Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, it went from “person of influence” to “dumbass pays for attention” rather quickly.

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    • K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s why musk now allows people to hide their check

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol I didn’t know, I haven’t been there in months now. That’s awful… But good for us. :)

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• Navarian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly, I don’t know if it’s the fewer users, the lack of trolls, the newer apps I’ve been forced to use or the topics that I’ve been getting into since joining Lemmy. But I have been considerably more active here both commenting and posting, than I ever was on Reddit.

  It may have started as a way to do my part for the growth of Lemmy, but it’s not been about that for me for some time now.

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Others have touched on it, but for me it’s like the difference between speaking up in a conversation between people I don’t know at a house party, and speaking up in a giant auditorium when the person on stage is asking for inputs. The smaller scale makes it a bit more comfortable and I feel more like what I have to say isn’t already being said by a hundred other people.

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    • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Totally agree although sometimes Reddit was a lot more like speaking up in a bar full of angry drunks right after a group of neonazis burst in and started slap fighting everyone.

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    • Navarian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, this is a great analogy, definitely agree here.

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  • bighatchester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I tend the comment more on posts with less comments. So if a post has thousands of comments already I’m not to going to leave a comment and will probably just read the top couple comments

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• hamid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To me there is no vs. My web browser has tabs and I can have multiple ones open at a time. It is cool to have more things, I don’t need to commit to anything like an app or website.

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• z00s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The future of Lemmy has nothing to do with R whatsoever.

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• NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lemmy is awesome… when it’s up. Which feels like never? Server uptime of 85% is brutal.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hope Lemmy never gets to be the size of Reddit. We’ll have some level of Eternal September eventually, but please not at that level. I really hope not. It’s overwhelming unless you’re in one of the niche subreddits.

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• CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  2. Lemmy is now a real alternative. When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn’t fully set up to take advantage of the exodus, so a lot of users came over to the fediverse and gave up right away. There were no phone apps, the user interface was rudimentary, and communities weren’t yet alive. Next time reddit screws up in a high profile way, and they will screw up, the fediverse will be ready.

  I definitely think having mobile apps is an essential step. I was looking at alternative platforms such as Raddle.me but using a mobile browser was an extra hurdle (similar to using the official Reddit app) that kept me from regularly checking in.

  3. Lemmy has way more potential than reddit. Reddit’s leadership has always been incompetent and slow at fixing problems. The fediverse has been very responsive to user feedback in comparison.

  I could see this causing issues later. We’ve already seen issues a rise with some instances using the .ml and not being updated immediately.

  Defederation is another beast all together. Most of an instance might be fine but a few problematic communities could create problems leading to arguments and, as much as I hate the term, drama.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One problem I see:

  You can google site:reddit.com whatever But if you google site:lemmy.world whatever then you’re losing a significant amount of results. To get good results, you need to know which Lemmy instances is likely to have your answer, and with communities duplicated over different servers, that can be tough.

  In the end I find I prefer this federation model, although I’m not sure although I’m a bit concerned about funding it if it scales up to the size of Reddit (same with Mastodon vs twitter).

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There were no phone apps

  Jerboa be like: image

  (I realize I’m posting this with a very real risk of somebody replying “yes,” but Jerboa was, in fact, usable on June 12.)

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• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think one of the issues at Reddit was that if you said thank to someone or thought they had a good idea, it was bad reddiquette. Here that culture isn’t as prevalent and I it adds to the pleasantness. Maybe encourage meaningful thank yous or I agrees and people say why instead of “K” or “same,” but don’t shit on people that do that in the future.

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• ghostface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Infiltration… As I’ve moved over from reddit the community feels much more open to discussion rather than comment section filled internal jokes.

  We just need Lemmy users who are daywalkers to post links into reddit. Or recreate certain communities here, but bringing over the good and not the toxic. Ama, but maybe amapolitics bringing more hyper local awareness to the masses?

  Quality over quantity any day

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• Potatofish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As far as I can tell, the future of Lemmy is propped upon a foundation of porn. It’s a start, but it has to pivot and copy/paste all the smaller interest groups from Reddit.

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fantastically written. I agree.

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• not_awake@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The fact most surprises me is that lemmy became a real alternative to Reddit in a bit more than a month. Idk guys, I just love internet

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• joseph@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Was there ever really a gap? I got fed up with reddit and came right here and am very satisfied. I don’t seem to be having a problem at all.

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• Milk_SDF_Possum@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On Lemmy you’re automatically an extremist if you’re not socialist.

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• stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a fairly early Reddit user I’ve seen a lot of change as the website got bigger. I would agree that growth is not necessarily good, there is a minimum size of community to keep content fresh and a maximum size before it loses the personal connection. Right now a lot of the larger Lemmy communities are getting active enough, but Lemmy is lacking the users to support the niche communities. Maybe it is best if Reddit keeps those and the two websites end up with a happy balance for all the types of communities.

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• walnutwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When reddit imploded Lemmy wasn’t fully set up to take advantage of the exodus

  I think it was good enough but now is better maybe

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• CarpeBumBum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit is of interest from a witnessing history standpoint, for ex-redditors who wound up here. How reddit swirls down the drain will be accentuated by lemmy being a known superior alternative.

  Reddit tries to exert control with a stick, while lemmy is the carrot.

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• Historical_General@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  lemmydotworld is down again, if anyone is missing harrypotter@lemmy.world they can go to the other harry potter community on lemm.ee !harrypotter@lemm.ee that I’m currently trying to build up .

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