I honestly love Lemmy and the fediverse in general right now. Ever since I watched The Social Dillema or whatever on Netflix I hate doing anything on big tech social media. I feel like I'm being manipulated all the time and it makes me not wanna use the sites. But here, I just love reading everyone's post knowing that these are things I subscribed to see and is not some part of an algorithm to keep my attention as long as possible so the site can make money off of me
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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It’s been a very enjoyable experience, I’ve been bouncing about twitter and tumblr to try and fill that social media gap for a while now and I’m hoping this is it.
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Yeah that social dilemma was a big eye opener. I stopped using Facebook after watching it. I would have deleted my account but my wife insists on using messenger for some odd reason.
I convinced my girlfriend to get telegram, not my preference but much better than anything Facebook related
Commenting here to remind myself to watch the social dilemma as my app doesn’t have a save feature.
Doesn’t having the same community in several instances fragment the user base though? I know I can join a community in any instance, but on Reddit you have one “gaming” subreddit, here you have a gaming community in every instance
There will emerge clear winners, I believe people will hoping the most popular communities.
But then what’s the point of having all those other redundant communities?
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I thought that initially as well, but consider when I search for "gaming" across the different instances I'd likely choose the largest community. Should something go awry with the hosting of that community (say, defedration from the other instances or it goes down) another will step up. It's really not so bad.
In my opinion and understanding, anyhow.
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Lemmy has been giving me Old Internet Forum vibes so far and I love it. The shift towards centralized corporate homogeneity over the last 15ish years has been a horror show to watch and it feels like it's starting to crumble a bit, which I'm eager to see happen.
Just gonna sit back and watch twitter take itself out
You get it! I miss forums so much, but Lemmy scratches the itch so far. The internet used to be about individuality and now it seems to just turn people into what it wants.
It's not a shitpost, but I'll allow it Here is my shitpost as tribute.
Was thinking the same thing. On reddit commenting seemed daunting or something, here it's much easier to engage for some reason, long live lemmy!
9/10 times I’d go to comment something and realise it’d already been said or it was just hectic and I just wouldn’t and it got to the point I just never bothered anymore.
Yes, sorting Top/Hour helped, but I can do the same here and it still feels fresher, maybe because it's fewer people and so far seems to be all actual people, not bots.
Yeah seemed like there was always someone waiting round the corner to nitpick or find fault with something you said, kinda created a cagey vibe around actually taking part in the community imo
Well, akshually...
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I was on Reddit from maybe about 2008 until 2015ish. By the end I found that you couldn't really say anything on there that wasn't exactly what the orthodoxy was, or you'd just be downvoted to oblivion.
I don't think it was organic.
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I was super sceptical about the whole fed thing, but now we have apps (Memmy!!) it’s exactly like Reddit more or less.
Yeah it’s really nice to know people will see and reply to your shit.
I’ve also noticed the filtering options seem better recently? Hot used to be shitty and active gave too much hours old stuff (but good to catch anything you missed)
Found this under hot, so I’m rewiring my consumption to sim my engagement to the newish posts here.
Shit rocks, fuxk that other place. Who needs em!
It’s kinda weird to have a social media platform be actually social, yknow what I mean lmao
I think there was a rollback or smth that was causing older posts to crop up and it seems that’s been fixed
I know right, perish the thought 🤣
Yeah hot and active were bugged but an update came out recently that fixed them
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On Reddit, I often felt I was whispering in a crowded room. What’s the point of no one is likely to see it, read it, or engage? I think that’s one reason I’m more willing to engage on Lemmy.
Absolutely true. Like 90% of the time I posted/commented something on reddit, I was just ignored. On Lemmy I get replys/votes every time
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I have made 3 comments on Lemmy these past few days. It isn't much; I'm mostly a lurker. But I'd average like 3 comments a year on Reddit so I'm doing pretty good myself.
Same for sure. Feels like anything I want to get involved in mean more here and won't get lost in bots or karma farming or whatever else.
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I think there's more attempt by "lurkers" to actually post here. And a lot of those lurkers are suddenly like, whoa, I can comment on something and my voice is actually heard? People are reading this even though I didn't post to the thread in the first 20 seconds of it existing?
I'm in this comment and I like it :)
No karma helps!
Welcome!
Having less users is a benefit for the most part (as long as there's enough content to keep it alive)
Lemmy right now feels much more like traditional forums which is a good thing I think. Only time will tell if it actually stays like that or not long term.
This has been my general sense of it as well, and likely the reason why Tildes is also popular for those looking for a Reddit-alternative. They're quieter platforms allowing for a more engaging conversation between people of similar interests. I'm excited to see how this all shapes out.
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Lemmy is in a sweet spot that old early 2k forums had. Active enough to engage with people but small enough where it's not trashy and circle jerky.
People overestimate how many users you need to have a healthy community. As you say the forums of yore were quite small and worked perfectly fine.
I noted that on my social instance. 500 followers and 500 follows and I've got all the everything I need. Can't even track my timeline it flies by so fast sometimes
I think the big 3rd party app developers leaving Reddit and coming on here will be a huge boon. Most hardcore power users use the 3rd party apps once we have some great options it will be even better
I have not been on reddit for the past 3 days. I try my best to not visit the site when it comes up in search results, I either use web archive or google cached results to find what I’m looking for.
Full time lemmy user!
I imagine Lemmy right now is very similar to how Reddit was back before it became “mainstream”. Small communities with meaningful engagement.
I agree. Seems more civilized and welcoming. At least that’s what I feel at the moment.
Totally agree. Discussions are more engaging here, and posts are more relevant to their communities. You'll hear some people try to explain that this is just due to the smaller user base, and it'll quickly become less friendly as it gains more people... but I don't think so. For one, the lack of an overall "score" for each user (like Reddit's karma) means there is no value in creating re-posting bots that try to capture the maximum number of upvotes by copying older successful material. Less bots posting old content means more real people posting current ideas.
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I think it has to do with the user base here. We are mostly sane people unlike Reddit.
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It's amazing.
Honestly, lemmy... just works. Which is the best we could hope for. The rest is user content. As long as there are good instances that have solid uptime and the lemmy devs keep optimizing the UI, it'll thrive.
I am new to the platform as well and have found all server instances to be equally welcoming!
I've also noticed that the website runs way smoother than reddit ever did for me which is a big plus
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