When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.
I feel like the nays will be underrepresented bc of selection bias so I’ll be one.
So far I have not had the same engagement. But I am convinced that is bc I have yet to get used to the jerboa UI/UX. I am more active once I feel at home, was the same for reddit, is the same for lemmy.
Its great that you feel more impactful on lemmy! I think on reddit you either feel the way you have or are constantly being called a slur (say “tankie”) and removed/banned left and right.
So far lemmy seems way more authentic to me. Less capital interest, PR companies, bots, astroturf, think tank/gov-adjacent hacks. I like that.
Alos writing this made me realize my mode of commenting is still very much a reddit one
Every comment I would make on Reddit seemed to get challenged by someone looking to start a long-winded argument as they were, in fact, the main character of the universe.
I like it here because so far, people are nice. It’s like the first day of high school and everyone just wants to be friends and meet people.
No karma competition here. It has a bigger effect on behaviour than you’d think.
Never thought of that factor. You are absolutely correct.
It’s like a little trophy or a symbol of validity to some people. You’d see big edits addressing downvoted as if people got personally hit in the head with them.
I don’t blame people though because viscerally, these things are little tokens of “approval” by others at large.
Reddit gamified participation, and the result was an addiction to trying to say things that people would click the updoot for. Here, the comment / post score is used purely to determine the relevance and value of the individual comments and posts. I think the result is clear: people feel less compelled to post the meme, the shitpost, the expected something and are more likely to express a thought they have, or think is valuable to the conversation.
The result is less stuff, but the stuff is more nuanced, interesting, and engaging (even if the engagement metrics are lower). It’s also a less stressful environment to interact with, and is just kinda all around better since no one is trying to profit
God, I love this place. Instead of having to navigate through a mob of idiots to express an opinion or have a discussion, it’s simply informed, quality discussion from top to bottom. What a good feeling, almost gives me hope for humanity
Cherish it now haha. If this place ever gets a lot more popular, you’ll start seeing all sorts of dumb takes and behaviours again 🤪
That’s why I’m feeling a lot better about the steady rate of growth here. At first I just wanted to get everyone over from reddit ASAP, now I’m like okay, I could get used to the small town vibes with a bunch of cool people.
It’s going to be an amazing journey as this place continues to grow. Just remember to laugh at the inevitable drama and cry at the bad memes. Never the other way around 🙃
Small town vibes is exactly how I’d put it haha. I tend to recognize a few posters here and there. Just like at my town’s post office 😂
Votes have a bandwagon effect, both up and down votes. Sometimes it just felt like arguing with an army of mute downvoting zombies; no reply, just downvotes. I completely understand some communities on Lemmy disabling downvotes, even if that means there is no mora a “controversial” vote.
My only fear is that as Lemmy gets bigger, the same botting, brigading and mindless bandwagoning, will also come here.
As the antagonist of this thread, I would have to disagree with this statement. I was, initially, very dismayed to see that no one had taken issue with this comment. Alas, here I am, to set things right. Being that most online communities seem to revolve around my person, I thought that I’d share these thoughts that so many of you had been patiently awaiting.
No but fr, huge fan of these communities. The voices that search out an argument don’t seem to gain quite as much traction on fedi (yet, at least). Probably due to them having a larger overall audience on reddit to feel validated by. Hopefully it stays that way!
had me in the first half
As the antagonist of this thread, I would have to disagree with this statement. I was, initially, very dismayed to see that no one had taken issue with this comment. Alas, here I am, to set things right. Being that most online communities seem to revolve around my person, I thought that I’d share these thoughts that so many of you had been patiently awaiting.
This killed me 🤣
Another big difference is the lack of vote fuzzing. It’s more obvious when people are abusing the upvote/downvote function, and it feels more meaningful when you know each vote directly represents a real person.
On kbin you can even see publicly which user made each vote, but idk if that functionality is planned or possible on Lemmy. It’s quite useful for combating brigading.
I like I can say the words Tiannamen and Square and not feel like bots are out to get me 🙂
The misinfo on Reddit is wild. Just shows people don’t understand federation and how the views of one instances’ moderators doesn’t impact what people can say or do on other instances.
I feel like your characterization of Reddit users as long-winded and contrarian is inaccurate and frankly offensive. Let me write you several paragraphs about why you’re wrong, sprinkled with thinly veiled personal insults and outright harsh commentary about you as a person.
Sorry, just trying to make it feel like our old home :)
Lmao this was good. You forgot to comb through my post history to see if you can make your comment even more hard-hitting by referencing a personal problem I have that was highlighted in a post or comment from 6 months ago 🤪
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What’s the context? Sounds vague.
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Ya you absolutely deserved to catch flack for that.
You are saying that gender is the same as sex and they’re categorically different things. It’s very easy to learn the difference so if you insist on arguing against facts, you’re damn right people are going to butt against you.
You’re arguing against treating people with kindness by pointing to the fact that they’re a minority. Lmao that’s the definition of a bigot.
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I completely agree with you. Now defend your point, which I’ve definitely attacked by replying. 🤺
You had me in the first half sentence.
Reddit comment: “Well actually…” straightens fedora
I like you!
And I like you too.
Yay!
That literally couldn’t be further from the truth /s
I‘m way more active here. I want that place to survive and become the new home for former redditors.
Same here, forced me out of my lurker shell. 😅
Alright! How was your day? What did you do?
My day was good. And I posted on Lemmy a few times! Like this one!
Weird. I immediately deleted my comment after posting it. Two hours later, you still could answer it (and probably still can see it).
As an actual answer: I’m happy you had a good day!
Yes. It’s far less hostile here and I don’t fear getting downvoted to hell for asking a question.
Yeah and lemmy still shows upvotes even if you get downvoted. Also it doesn’t automatically hide your comment if you get negative votes which I find annoying on Reddit
Excellent point and I totally agree.
Or, to translate your comment to Redditese: “This.” ;)
Mostly lurked on Reddit, trying to comment here and there on lemmy.
After the reddit apolcalypse and blackouts. I became less active over there. I still check some subreddits from time to time. But, my activity is low. I only have time to be active in one social network at a time. I chose lemmy.
Yes. I’m looking forward to more original content rather that all of the reposts from reddit. I’m not sure when that tipping point will be, but I hope it doesn’t have to do anything with poo.
When I joined Lemmy I decided I wanted to engange with the community here on Lemmy, since I on Reddit I just lurked, so I’m much more active here.
My level of activity on Reddit has been wanting. I was / am still fairly active in some niche subs, but I used to be pretty active in AskReddit, askmen, and several other spaces.
I’ve made a concerted effort to be more active here, and it feels nice! Feels a lot more human
Lemmy still feels really easygoing, kind of feels like Reddit in 2011.
I am definitely feeling more motivated to participate here. It feels like a very welcoming environment so far.
Most of my Reddit commenting was done on threads for people looking for advice in one of my hobbies. I generally had a good experience giving feedback here since most people in the subreddit were level headed. Sometimes you got the occasional asshole parroting the usual online “best way to do something” that goes against some people’s actual real life experience that is being shared.
I didn’t really make any meaningful (non joke) comments outside of this subreddit since I didn’t feel like getting some dick in my notifications trying to start a fight over whatever I posted. Sometimes I didn’t mind battling the dicks in the hobby subreddit since people lurking can actually learn or get a different perspective from “No, you shouldn’t take what’s in a listicle as fact. Here is my experience with this.”
Yes because we need to drive the content machine here otherwise this place looks stale
Depends, I was mainly active on small subreddits that were focused on things I was interested in. Here those small subs don’t exist yet (or are very inactive), but the lower overall user count means I’m interacting with a lot more communities than I would on reddit.
Yea. Literally every reddit comment I posted resulted in someone replying to me in a toxic way.
I’ve only blocked one person on lemmy and that’s because they were replying to me in a toxic manner. That’s the first reply I’ve had that’s toxic, and I nipped it in the bud. I don’t care to have fighting matches back and forth.
Have you noticed if you go to Reddit and click on any thread, usually within the first comment thread, someone will be hating on another person? Fuck that.
I’d honestly suggest everyone block anyone who is being toxic. Not to mention, others don’t want to see your drama while looking through comments.
Furthermore, it’s great that you can block someone without reporting them here. You can just kinda look at a comment history and be like “None of this is rule breaking, but you’re just a jerkass, and I do not care to associate with you.” Further, you can block communities without that being a damnation of that community. Don’t know German? Just block the German communities and they won’t show in your feed. It’s not because they’re bad subs, and you want them to go away. You just don’t care about them
There’s a setting that let’s you see English only without having to block i think. I know if you post in English and select “post language” as English only those who set English see and German set language will not. :)
I’ve set that, but a bunch of them have their language set as
undefined. That’s fine. I don’t mind it. It’s just nice to be able to easily and quickly filter out my feed to the set of posts that I can literally make sense of and that my brain doesn’t register as impossible to read mystery languageOhh i see
Hm, I’m using Jerboa and just realized there seems not to be a way to choose any language, anywhere. Does this comment appear as English, or undefined?
I also can speak several languages, and read a few some more, wonder how would that need to be set. There was also supposed to be an option to automatically translate stuff, I think?
I don’t see any language tag on this comment, so i assume undefined, but idk how to easily tell
I also hate how every post you make you would instantly have an automod comment saying the rules.
That could still come to Lemmy, if posts start being seen by hundreds of thousands of people, particularly if they come from instances which don’t share the same netiquette as the one the post is made on. Of course there’s defederation to fight that, but I feel like it can only go so far.
Yes. I gradually disengaged over the years. I will become less active once the pump is primed. Perhaps turn to more technical aspects, as maintaining my own instance. Or be more offline in general.
