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[-] teegus@sh.itjust.works 106 points 10 months ago

I appreciate that every post doesn' have 3000 comments. I can actually contribute to a discussion and get heard.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 months ago

Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.

It's way fewer assholes, idiot

humourIf you can't tell, this is a joke

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

Idk, I always thought that about 1 asshole per human was a good ratio to have, it's a proven design

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[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] FoxFairline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 10 months ago
[-] WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

You're right, live and learn I guess

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] match@pawb.social 37 points 10 months ago

it's also small enough that you can start beef with specific people 😈

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Well, beef is not allowed in my religion, so I'm now offended. Hope you feel good about yourself 😤

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago
[-] match@pawb.social 17 points 10 months ago
[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

You’ve met your match, match

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[-] Yamainwitch@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Literally, the people here are just chef's kiss I love you lemmings. Stay excellent and party on dudes. 👉😎👉

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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 .

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[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Damn right. Sure, content flows slower here but at least it's not 90% bots (though there are some of those as well).

[-] Zatore@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

I don't believe any of you are real

[-] DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

As Lemmy's only real celebrity, I take offense to that.

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[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I'm trying to post more comments and engage with Lemmy.

[-] brutalbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Side bar, they made a game called starship troopers: extermination, and it’s great!

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[-] acutfjg@feddit.nl 25 points 10 months ago

Take advantage of enjoying these small communities. This site won't be small forever

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Oh, I'm enjoying it.

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[-] Surreal@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 13 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] BlackPit@feddit.ch 23 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

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?

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[-] qazwsxedcrfvtgb1111@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago

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

[-] IbnLemmy@feddit.uk 24 points 10 months ago

Mate, why you so uptight for? Honestly, try Firefox on Linux and it will fix all your money issues

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[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 20 points 10 months ago

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 👍

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 16 points 10 months ago

Real people.

Real discussions.

Papa Lemmy’s.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

I love it here, lemmings are such a good niche of humanity!

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[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

I’m just here for the pretty 3rd party apps

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago

Nah, screw that. I'm here for pointless petty arguments.

[-] SourceSeeker@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

I don't agree with that. Why would you want an argument without a point? What would you argue about? Let's argue.

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[-] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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?

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

I hate to break it to you Wood, but everyone besides you are just a script

[-] JTheDoc@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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! :)

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