I appreciate that every post doesn' have 3000 comments. I can actually contribute to a discussion and get heard.
Also, on Reddit when you post a comment that gets even a little bit popular and visible, you always get some asshole who misrepresents your point and wants to pick a virtual fight.
I never know when to engage or ignore.
In any case, it's never satisfying. Ignore and you feel bad. Engage and you feel bad.
Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.
Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.
It's way fewer assholes, idiot
humour
If you can't tell, this is a joke
Idk, I always thought that about 1 asshole per human was a good ratio to have, it's a proven design
And not so long ago, you did get heard, but there was also a 50/50 chance of being called a capitalist pig and a baby killer regardless of what you contributed.
It seems that everyone has found their own corners on Lemmy now, so that is nice.
This post gets it. It can stink that not every post has a bunch of conversations around it, but oh well.
Where the conversations do happen, they happen organically, and are often quite high quality, comparatively.
We can be thankful that Lemmy is (as of yet) mostly unencumbered with the problem of bots pretending to be legitimate users to drive the conversation specific directions (forum sliding, for example), and due to that we have some quality discussions that are able to happen.
it's also small enough that you can start beef with specific people 😈
Well, beef is not allowed in my religion, so I'm now offended. Hope you feel good about yourself 😤
Pork is better
Beef? Pork? To Soylent Green factory with all of yous!
(But not really, the opposite actually, start multiplying already)
Literally, the people here are just chef's kiss I love you lemmings. Stay excellent and party on dudes. 👉😎👉
For me Lemmy has been about 50/50 great discussions/trolls looking to be confrontational about any little thing they can pick apart.
Aside from a few private subs, that's still a better ratio than Reddit by a long shot.
Main benefit is that I haven't touched Reddit since RIF went down. That's a win regardless of what happens to Lemmy.
In all fairness, I’m more of an asshole than a troll. When I’m rude, I’m not doing it for clicks : it’s the real me .
Also, remember that Lemmy is a small open source project with only two or three full time devs and the rest being from community contributions. Lemmy is also entirely supported by user donations and an NLnet grant. I feel like too many people are coming here and basically expecting corporate level customer service and user experience just without the corporate enshitification, which is not a fair expectation for such a small and grassroots platform.
Lemmy is also very young and very much still in beta, it only started federating like two years ago. Keep that in mind as well.
Damn right. Sure, content flows slower here but at least it's not 90% bots (though there are some of those as well).
Idk feels like 90% of comments are about linux Firefox and capitalism I get it you don’t have to keep shoving it down my throat
Mate, why you so uptight for? Honestly, try Firefox on Linux and it will fix all your money issues
I don't believe any of you are real
You've been in a coma for almost 20 years because of a car accident. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope we're getting through. Please wake up.
There's just meme, news discussions on here. I would like to discuss hobbies like video games, TV series but there are no communities about that
Back in the old BBS days, we didn’t slice ‘n dice human conversation into tens of thousands of rigidly-defined topic bins. We just... talked to each other. The categorization came later as the teeming masses got online, and large forums became unwieldy.
Lemmy is still small, and the slice ‘n dice approach doesn’t work. Just find a community that’s general enough, and post about the things you like.
Take advantage of enjoying these small communities. This site won't be small forever
Oh, I'm enjoying it.
I totally agree with the title's sentiment. I don't mind some free open source rough edges. Lemmy functions great. There's also a good deal of what looks like genuine interaction. However, I would like to point out that I think there's a LOT of corporate shills pushing agendas. Some notable ones might be pharmaceutical propaganda and corporate banking with cashless solutions.
I've even seen someone trying to shill the "Barbie" movie here, it's like, we get that it is a really good movie and the lead actress gave an Oscar worthy performance of a lifetime and is also like, really hot and really funny and all, but why would they want to shill this movie on this obscure technology forum, of all places?
I felt lemmy was successful the first time I was attacked by a hyperfixated debatelord just like on reddit. If cloning the reddit experience in the fediverse was the goal, for me mission accomplished 👍
Honestly if you've been on Reddit for a long time, you miss when it was smaller. It's so big now that every sub is massive (which has its positives and negatives). But gone are the days when an AMA of a garbage man would be the big post.
Real people.
Real discussions.
Papa Lemmy’s.
Lemmy is just starting out, there are bound to be rough spots, so far Lemmy has satisfied my desire for some discussions, a desire from after the Apikalypse.
I still read reddit, but all my accounts are deleted, and I refuse let them win me back.
Nah, screw that. I'm here for pointless petty arguments.
I don't agree with that. Why would you want an argument without a point? What would you argue about? Let's argue.
I hate to break it to you Wood, but everyone besides you are just a script
These daily posts about user count wrapped in stupid memes are making me want to leave lol.
I love the concept of fediverse and lemmy, but why bother posting this stuff?
I've been making a post daily in !nytconnections@lemmy.world and !crossword@lemmy.world for 4 months now. Whatever small community we have there, I'm grateful for it. We're also happy to accommodate many more people and grow.
If there isn't a community for something you care about, make one. People will come.
It’s great if you’re looking for an echo chamber, but if your opinion is slightly different, you’re ostracized.
I mean I guess that’s just the internet nowadays, but lemmy isn’t any different.
It's funny how many Zionists are in this comment chain just to whine about people calling out their terrible opinions
Better this than the millions of bots on reddit. Also no worries about commercialization on Lemmy, so long as we support the servers we're good forevermore.
Please check out this KSP community: Https://Lemmy.world/c/ksp
They've got some lovely members who wish to share and contribute, however I feel I've let the community down by not helping post as much as I should have recently. It's a shame to see such great people share, knowing it's such a small community seeing it right now.
They're real MVPs
Please give the community a hand and just share a random craft or screenshot you may still have; even a favourite video! No pressure, just help it with a bit of traction so it becomes more self sufficient.
Shout out to ilovecheese & obsidian & moeggz on there! :)
