Over the last week or so I have noticed that I have a lot more fun engaging in discussions on here as opposed to reddit.
On reddit i always felt like i was shouting into the void and there was nobody listening, which resulted in me becoming a lurker for the last 12 years.
Maybe it’s the small size of this community, the lack of karma farmers, that I’ve finally lost my mind or a little bit of all of the above, but this place just feels like something special. I’m really looking forward to building the fediverse with all of you!
very true
on reddit i only read
I made my own magazine here for whatever reason its quite fun
Alot of work is needed on the website but it’ll get there
It’s kind of like someone took Reddit and reinjected a little blogging and a little old internet back into it. Feels refreshing.
What community did you make? Your profile says you don’t mod any.
Absolutely agree. Some things need work (really feel like boost and favorite should be switched because imo the button that drops rep and visibility should be next to the button that raises them - it’s just mildly confusing from a design standpoint) but so far I think I’m enjoying the interaction more.
Same here! I upvote/boost a lot more than I did on Reddit, and my threshold for commenting is much lower than it used to be. Part of it is that I want this place to succeed, so I want to help it be more active. I absolutely agree that this community is smaller, friendlier, and less cynical than what we had on Reddit. That’s the other part, it’s really lowered my threshold of engagement.
Couldn’t agree more. Exactly the same for me.
Same here. What’s this, I can binge post AND feel good about it? Hehehe
Yep, for sure!!
I feel the same. I never tried to mod a sub on reddit but felt compelled to do so here (so I’d have a home for my otherwise newly orphaned posts).
The small size and lack of content really makes me want to push things for the communities I loved to lurk on Reddit.
Same, when I posted on reddit I felt rejected, even if what I said was something unimportant, there was always someone who made you feel like you were wrong for just participating, this is much better.
Yeah Reddit had this fascination with being “right” all the timing and “owning” stupid people…
*time
Sorry, I had to do it :)
Sadly I’ve observed throughout the late 2010s how Reddit society gradually became about parroting the right opinion and walking on eggshells all the time.
same, i’m trying to encourage myself to contribute more by making an account that has a name unique to anything else i’m on so i can have the anonymity
I also am feeling this. It feels super refreshing to be here for the same reasons. I felt like when I commented on stuff I’d get ignored too.
I actually had a civil and decently productive conversation with a maga person.
I think it’s the same for me but to be honest I mostly participated in smaller communities on reddit and here on the fediverse the communities are even smaller. If fediverse grows to the same size as reddit one day, believe me it’s going to feel like shouting into the void again. Subreddits go to shit if they get too large (and moderators aren’t strict enough), and social networks in general just get too big for meaningful discussions or interactions with people eventually. We’re just not built to handle that many different people and opinions per day and actually still see them as people to be empathized with.
this is such a wholesome post, i love it. im enjoying my time here too, really glad to see the same for others!
Reddit is full of bots, dude. It wouldn’t surprise me if 40% of the posts were automated.
Every major forum/social media site has had this adoption curve. The early adopters are dedicated and can actually see their contributions make a difference. As the site attracts more and more casual users the quality of interactions descends to the lowest common denominator and loudest voices.
For that reason, I think there will always be demand for a “new thing” because those early adopter contributors are so good at making it happen.
I think I would like the FEDIVERSE even when its the “old thing” just because as far as I can tell, the product itself seems like a terrible place for investments and profits. Then again, I could be WAY off here.
Also, at the moment, there’s an almost complete lack of marketing/advertising, which is REALLY nice.
I was never a lurker on reddit. I liked commenting, but the community feeling is much more substantial on kbin (and fediverse in general).
I find the engagement here more real than I ever did on reddit for twelve years.
First thing I noticed when moving to kbin is that I see what I want to see, and have only talked to people who felt like humans so far.
This is what’s so hard to convey about the Fediverse lol. Mastodon is obviously not everybody’s cup of tea, but when I made my account it was kinda shocking to me how I communicated with actual people. No ads in the feed. Took time to find good content but it was there.
Still haven’t found much good content on Mastodon, but I’m really liking the platform and app
Absolutely, but I think we will have to be vigilant to keep that culture here as the place continues to grow.
I hope we can do that while keeping gatekeeping to a minimum.
100% agreed!
Exactly. On Reddit, most of the time there was not point commenting, because of the sheer size of the audience. Here, I can actually contribute!
Same here … but commenting, sharing and posting Lemmy for the past few days and I just got into kbin … I’m still learning and I find it is really engaging my brain to try to figure out what is happening … on reddit I was a mindless zombie just rehashing content I had shared a hundreds times before
welcome to kbin!
