I personelly think lemmy users doesn’t just have that reddit feel where if you referenced something most people will get it or when you say something everyone will say the same thing and fill the thread .and people on lemmy seems to think they are absolutely right.
(EDIT :I am not saying i miss these thing or like them even though i kinda do i am just saying things like that were a part of reddit culture like how 4chan have their on culture. Like lemmy is supposed to be a reddit alternative but now there are no niche subs and everyone is too into politics it just doesn’t feel like a reddit alternative .) .
I have been on lemmy for more than 2 months and i mostly lurked or had temp accounts with different usernames (there were only one or two which i have now closed) but this place seems more serious than lighthearted fun but i will still stay here becuase f**k corpos . So these are my views and opinion what do you guys think ?
EDIT: I must include one thing which is on reddit i have never had a real account i just made one or two the entire time i used it which were throwaways that i used to view a post from “subs that are not reviewed” and may not be safe (unless in their app of course -logic.exe missing) or comment . Here i have aldready decided to create a permanent account and start contributing to the communities and i have only been here for 2 months. And i guess i just used reddit to access information and just didn’t felt the need to have an acc or contrubute .END RANT.
EDIT : DO READ THE EDITS.
EDIT : I AM NOT IMPLYING OR EVEN WANT ANYONE TO GO BACK I REALLY DO WANT LEMMY TO BE BETTER . I AM NIT SHOUTING I AM JUST AFRAID SOME PEOPLE ARE GETTING THE WRONG IDEA . AND FOR WHAT ITS WORTH IN MY OPINION REDDIT IS SHIT COMPARED TO LEMMY. SO PLEASE NO ONE GO BACK AND IF YOU HAVE ANY REDDIT FRIENDS INVITE THEM HERE.
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Lemmy not catching on and Reddit dying aren’t mutually exclusive, unfortunately. I personally know quite many users who left Reddit, but never made the jump over to Lemmy, because they mostly stayed on Reddit due to particular communities. With those communities getting decimated during the APIcalypse and its fallout, they had little incentive to join Lemmy.
Ultimately my personal opinion is that Lemmy is going to persist, even if it doesn’t cross certain thresholds, it is still a part of the larger Fediverse and due to its interoperability, Lemmy can benefit from the success of the Fediverse, even when not being all that successful by itself.
Ultimately my personal opinion is that Lemmy is going to persist, even if it doesn’t cross certain thresholds, it is still a part of the larger Fediverse and due to its interoperability, Lemmy can benefit from the success of the Fediverse, even when not being all that successful by itself.
Exactly
It seemed to me like Reddit basically drove off half their content creators AND Lemmy didnt really steal too much of Reddit’s userbase (around 1%)
I stopped posting there when it was clear they were hell bent on enshitifying the site. It was kind of dead here for a while after that and still isnt where reddit was/is contentwise but its getting there slowly. It is certainly to a point where I dont feel like going back to reddit for anything.
It seemed to me like Reddit basically drove off half their content creators AND Lemmy didnt really steal too much of Reddit’s userbase (around 1%)
Yeah, this has been my experience as well. Reddit likes to say “all the shitty people left and went to Lemmy”, and they seem half right - a bunch of people did leave. But most of the content of reddit is extremely stale now. And most of the shitty people that left reddit didn’t go to Lemmy, they just fucking left.
Sure, some Lemmy instances have attracted garbage, but most of the threads here are like 1% of the amount of posts but 80% of the content I care about so it just feels more efficient. Less garbage to trudge through, especially in the comments.
Reddit: 80% absolutely vacuous memes or self references. Gimme gimme dopamine I want more pls. 20% political news
Lemmy: Same but more like 50/50. Small percentage of very satisfying human or creative content like Reddit of old. Also every person is convinced they’re right about everything and you’re a moron for thinking different.
Mastodon: Everyone’s a game developer or an artist, very high quality content but makes you feel useless in your life
Twitter: WTF why does Tucker Carlson live here now when did this happen
Bluesky: Lol
Meta: GREETINGS FEDIVERSE HUMANS. MAY I EXAMINE YOUR DATA FOR PURELY ETHICAL REASONS PLEASE
What’s blue sky ?
Invite only (up until a few days ago) Twitter 2.0
I was super excited for Bluesky back in the day, and in the interim before I got my invite approved I had moved on to Mastodon and friends, and now I’d be very surprised if it goes anywhere. I made no attempt to make use of the invite code I eventually got.
I kind of did this with Tildes.
Yeah, it has all the same problems that (pre-Musk) Twitter did. Centralization was never the problem, turns out. IMO it’s just the basic central premise that everyone is talking to everyone, all the time. When your brain does that, it’s called a seizure.
Plus tons and tons of furries, which like… you do you, but it becomes a huge ongoing effort just to keep furry porn out of a lot of the feeds, if that’s not your bag.
Yeah. Most of the success of a social network has nothing to do with “X software is better than Y software.” Reddit’s software wasn’t really that good, ActivityPub is kind of a janky protocol; it’s fine. The main success hinges on who’s on the network and the quality of the interactions to be had there.
Most of the success of a social network has nothing to do with “X software is better than Y software.”
Literally this. Most social networks are just less-featured versions of Facebook.
Twitter was originally Facebook with no media posts and character limits. And kind of cool that you could SMS it, but hands down just worse software that ended up taking off.
Instagram was originally Facebook but images only. Then they added video. It’s just less software, but also took off.
Snapchat was Facebook but you could only send pics/video and only directly to friends. And they just removed persistence so all your shit gets deleted. Literally just missing timelines and comments. Blatantly worse software. Popular as fuck, especially with zoomers.
Social media has never been about better software. Arguably Google+ had the best software in many ways (probably the most feature rich, but UI was objectively a problem), it’s fucking dead. Social media seems to do better when it has worse software.
Social media seems to do better when it has worse software.
Or maybe, just as with creative endeavors in general, limitations do more to focus and define a social network than to bind it.
Exactly
Lemmy won but Reddit didn’t lose.
Lemmy culture was great during the initial exodus, but now sometimes I don’t feel like I belong here. On Reddit, you could often find your subculture. I want the fediverse to succeed tho.
Yeah exactly my thoughts
Ads. I loathe them. I will not engage with your community that forces adds.
Sure, I miss Reddit, and Youtube, and Netflix, etc., but I’m happier having stood for my principles.
Me too
that reddit feel where if you referenced something most people will get it or when you say something everyone will say the same thing and fill the thread
I think that’s what people want to get away from for the most part.
I like the more serious discussions, and when there is humour it tends to feel more genuine than just a rehashed joke. Reddit definitely has more content though, and more discussion on specific communities (formula 1 being one example, here there’ll be 1-5 comments on a thread that on reddit will hit 200+).
Right now I use both, I think they both have their place, but I do prefer lemmy.
The top 3-5 comments on Reddit are always low effort jokes or puns.
I still try to be silly occasionally on lemmy even though my sarcasm is rarely noticed. I don’t care I still prefer it here.
I used to play a game where I guessed the top comment on a post. I was right more than I’d like!
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. I can’t go on r/all anymore without blocking 99% of subreddits. It’s all garbage. Meme after stale fucking meme and copies of memes and memes on top of memes inside of memes and ughhh. A waste of electricity and everyone’s time and the only reason anyone participates is because it give the illusion of social interaction without actually providing it. There are some decent niche subreddits that still have living communities, but a significant fraction of “interactions” on reddit generally are bots circlejerking bots to get their karma threshholds so they can spam with Spez’s approval. The general user isn’t allowed to use an app so they can force you onto the main app, but botspammers can abuse the API all day long because it give the impression of a userbase that doesn’t actually exist ahead of their IPO. I would guesstimate the number of active bots on reddit right now is higher than the number of active humans.
Fuck reddit.
Honestly, I do wish more people used Lemmy, especially for more posts and engagement for certain communities. But also, I like the smaller user base on Lemmy. I only lurked on my old reddit account because it was too populated to have real discussion. Here I feel more comfortable commenting or posting because it feels like there’s a chance my comment will be seen. Also, I just don’t care all that much about being on social media anymore. Feels better to have more healthy activities.
If Lemmy ever picks up, great I guess. If not, oh well. As long as I don’t have to use that godforsaken reddit app, I’m fine.
Reddit feels very hollow to me, and it’s something I’ve noticed more having avoided it for several months. On the Steam Deck subreddit for example, nearly all the posts are ‘hey I just got my Deck!’ and it’s just people fishing for upvotes. Endless pointless posts and rarely any meaningful discussions. I don’t think Reddit is dying and I hope it doesn’t, because every now and then it’s super useful when you find some old post from 2011 where the poster had the exact same niche IT issue as you with a helpful solution. The culture in general over there sucks though.
I’ve found a good mix of serious and lighthearted content on Lemmy.
Yeah and not it’s not just with the Steam Deck either, it’s basically every hobby subreddit. 3D printing is a ton of “I just got my Ender 3 can’t wait to do my first print!”, Xbox is “Just got my Series X can’t wait to play!”, self hosting is “I just bought this Optiplex off eBay what should I host on it?!”, etc, etc, etc.
I stopped following a bunch of subreddits way before the API changes due to basically half my feed being crap like that.
On the Steam Deck subreddit for example, nearly all the posts are ‘hey I just got my Deck!’ and it’s just people fishing for upvotes.
Yeah i too hated that.
and reddit’s worst part are here so reddit is now better.
Reddit’s worst part is Spez. I hope Spez isn’t here.
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What about those particular instances is so bad?
If you’re not familiar, r/ChapoTraphouse was the left wing version of r/The_Donald, complete with trolling and brigading. And like r/T_D, it got banned, then remade, then banned again, etc. Until most of their users switched to lemmygrad and hexbear, particularly the more toxic users.
I assume those are the instances from which I occasionally catch stray misc political statements that seem to be goading me into a fight.
They get bored quickly if you talk to them like people, they target people with tempers. Works well.
Who knows though.
Yeah, they absolutely goad you into a fight then report you for the exact same shit they do/say but you’ll get banned- they won’t.
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All I care about is not being forced advertisements
I’m here, but would still be on reddit if their app didn’t suck compared to what I was used to before the API purge. I still prefer reddit’s content, but hate how I have to view it now so I’m here with y’all trying to blend in.
Lemmy was half edgy “fuck reddit am i rite?” spam around the initial exedus. It took a while for people to move on to something else and when they did, it was fine. But back then it was really cringy.
Me too but also in here for my personnel moral,ethics.
That’s why I came here initially, but I miss some reddit communities enough I’d go back if their app wasn’t trash. Here I get too many star trek and DnD memes, constant reminders I’m not as good of a person as I thought, and Linux posts.
constant reminders I’m not as good of a person as I thought
I found that to be a pretty significant component of the Reddit experience. Especially as someone who spent too much time on the advice/judgment subs.
I heard a lot more about privilege and identity politics there than here. Which is fucking refreshing because whatever the intentions of those lines of argument, I don’t think they were helping anything and IMO are directly contributing to the MAGA rebellion against liberals (though they aren’t the only thing, but I believe they push people who might otherwise support equality into getting defensive and thinking they need to oppose it out of self-preservation).
Don’t care, reddit deaddit.
Gotta hop off the eshittification train somewhere.
Yeah
I’m really not sure where this argument could come from that somehow all the bad drained out of reddit?
Every time I visit that site, I’m met with 200 reposts.
Yes, we get it, you’re not happy with your earning power as a young person. Yes it is indeed very sad that somebody you once saw in a TV show died. You don’t like the politics of your region, I understand.
I literally do not even understand why people go there anymore, there is nothing novel or meaningful to be gained from visiting that site.
