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

Nice meme but please:

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 😈

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

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.

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.

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

I don't believe any of you are real

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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! :)