Newbie here after RIF went to Valhalla, I really hope this place grows and develops and people stay. I am enjoying it so far it reminds me of ol' forum days and Reddit of old, maybe I'm just being nostalgic but I just want this to work well and hope it's not just a short lived influx!
It's nice people, the culture of Lemmy, and the amount of users
On reddit, if you wanted to chime in on a thread that was popular enough to reach your feed, it was probably too late to make a comment that would stand out, since the people who comment on it early would get the upvotes, reach the top, and drown out your input.
Here at least, the comment sections, number of users, and the way "Hot" is sorted allows people to feel like their input matters, rather than just trying to make short quips to farm the most karma. The lack of a karma system or comment/post awards also helps this, as people aren't as incentivized to just farm upvotes.
And of course, the bulk of Lemmy's platform as of right now is built on people who left Reddit because they cared about their communities, and had strong opinions on how an online forum ought to be fairly run, leaving the more apathetic users behind. Naturally, this means most of Lemmy's users care about their community, and share that common bond.
Haven't really seen nearly as much toxic content on Lemmy as of yet. Might actually start interacting instead of rolling my eyes at every other comment lmao
The admins/mods/community have been pretty united in rejecting toxicity. Any maga/racist posters are usually downvoted to hell such that the only positively ranked posts in their communities are antithetical to maga/trump/racism.
I understand where you are coming from! Plus it is interesting to be here a bit early before the whole platform gets really popular.
Wassup lemmy gang
Good vibes here indeed!
I sort of had an intuition that the people I want to talk to, the people I enjoyed talking to over there, would also be the ones who made the choice to come here.
Le kiddos are still over at Reddit
Is that how we're gonna do this? Roll back all our jokes to 2015 reddit memes? Are we gonna start posting rage comics and complain about 9gag again? I'm not complaining, just trying to understand what's coming up.
Ya got some good discussions, ya got some pictures of naked ladies... What else do you need?
It's good because it's lessening the "hardship" of leaving reddit. Imagine leaving reddit and there's literally no alternatives out there that match that format. Imagine if it was just Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, and whatever else, but nothing else that matched that sort of long stream of post headlines that Reddit has done so well. The others kind of do a similarish thing (post streams), BUT me personally I like this condensed headline format, I don't want to see a ginormous posts that takes up half the page and I have to waste valuable microseconds scrolling past it to get to the next giant post.
I'm an info addict and I want to see twenty posts on a page, briefly scan through them and keep scrolling down, just droves and droves of headlines that I can react to and completely skip past reading the article and go straight into commenting on it like I'm an expert on this thing I didn't even know about 5 minutes ago.
Being nice is contagious.
Really hoping this will take off!
Been trying to convince family and friends to switch; it isn't necessarily the easiest switch, especially for non-technical people, but I hope it's worth it for them.
I think it’s early tech adopters are just excited about something nice and will play nice to try to hero it grow. I remember the early internet being a really nice place.
It’ll get ruined soon enough.
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