Just the engagement in general. On reddit, if you try to join a discussion after a post is more than an hour old, you might as well not comment at all because no one will see it anyway. On lemmy, you can have a great exchange and more meaningful discussion even if a post is more than a day old.
Yes! I hated that on reddit. I would sometimes have a cool thing to add, but because the thread was 8 hours old and had a thousand comments already, virtually no one would see it. There were some exceptions: on TV episode discussions sometimes they'd use new/contest mode default sorting for the thread and you didn't feel like you were shouting into a void.
The hack on reddit used to be to hijack a top comment. Post something vaguely related to that comment, then add whatever you wanna add. It's silly that this was required at all.
Also I get more up votes and less down votes over hear. Less people trying to game the system, since there is no real reason to.
You wrote this 13 hours ago, and I'm just seeing it now and commenting here to agree with you. I love lemmy.
Everyone is so nice and civil on lemmy and mastodon. In contrast to some truly toxic behavior on reddit and twitter.
I'm sure it's around, but in my small sample space, it has a smaller blast radius.
I honestly think that has to do with the fact that everyone on the fediverse has the ability to immediately block bad actors and never see them again. If there's enough brigading happening, that server can be defederated. Those same toxic people exist here, they're just shunted to their own inaccessible islands.
Every once in awhile, someone on here actually has the strength to own up and admit when they were wrong, and have had their mind changed.
Always impressive when I see it. It's just not as easy as it looks.
Think early adopter communities might be more prone to that? Seems like it could make sense.
Learning about federated platforms work. A lot of people came from Reddit and it's all new to us.
It's very exciting to see how it all works and federate with one another.
Also, it allowed me to explore other federated platforms such as Mastodon and Pixelfed.
@Fake4000 yeah, I'm having tons of positive experiences, but I will never forget the magical moment I got my first replies on kbin from people on lemmy and mastodon!
Just a moment ago someone called a comment of mine sensible. 😃
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Other than the better discussion and nicer people that other commenters already mentioned, I've also seen a lot less of the same boring memey replies that permeate every post on Reddit now.
Yeah, I'm sadly guilty of bringing some of that meme-reply bullshit here, and I've decided I'm going to stop. I wish there was like a patch or a pill I could take, like they have for smoking. Maybe just downvotes to meme-replies would suffice for me.
Those replies have their place when used infrequently, the repetition is when it gets annoying. Also, with subreddits hitting millions of users, it just becomes a feedback loop when those replies keep getting thousands of upvotes, and other people start parroting it.
Don't beat yourself up though, a lot of times you just grow out of it.
If we could convince devs/ make a fork that would enable to add a "haha funny" reaction instead of general upvote it could split comments into meme comments and helpful comments
The people are like actually modern in their heads. No, Trump is not nice. No, this is not a place for racist sexist climate-fucking cowards. Sorry for the language, but I am pretty happy Lemmy is kind of a bubble
Found some niche communities with people who do really enjoy sharing some knowledge, artisans and artist. They have a communal spirit that makes my heart go warm.
I feel freaking satisfaction when things start working ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
no spez
All your comments belong to meeeee mwahahahahhaha!!
People on various Lemmy DIY communities helping me figure out how to do things.
Which ones?
!diy@slrpnk.net in particular comes to mind, but also programming stuff like my community !haxe@programming.dev, and various niche fermentation/tatting/etc ones
!selfhosted@lemmy.world
!homeimprovement@lemmy.world
Not a specific experience but I am more confident about contributing to discussions.
The best experiences I've had over here were those where I really connected with others. Being seen as not just another comment but as a real person is always a great experience.
Other positive experiences are when an entire community is completely invested in an idea. For example, a few weeks back we had this post over at the !imageai@sh.itjust.works community where everyone was encouraged to generate an image based on their username. I loved the energy that it created, everyone was going all in! Some were asking for help and there was always someone around to help out. It had such a positive vibe, I really really loved it.
Yes! Those AI image threads have been so much fun
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