I had joined Reddit twice in my lifetime but was not actively using it, and maybe that’s the reason I’m not very familiar with this forum culture.

I would say that Lemmy is by far the most responsive SNS in terms of the community engagement that I’ve ever used.

  • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Yeah I’ve noticed that almost every post and comment seems to get at least some engagement here, whereas on reddit it’s very common to make a post/comment that no one ends up seeing.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I think people are more encouraged to participated on lemmy than they are on reddit. I used to be able to make posts on a reddit community of 10s of thousands and never get a response. It almost never takes more than a few minutes here. Moreover, Reddit is spilling over with bots and has been for years and the responses you’d get to a post or comment are often obiously reflective of this.

  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 days ago

    We all feel a responsibility to be active here ngl. So many of us have made new communities we wanted and just keep posting there to grow communities.

    My total activity on only this one Lemmy account is more than all my social media ever combined. And thats just one of my 7 Lemmy accounts.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      I feel like it has something to do with the fact that there’s less content, so when you post something, it’s actually going to be seen by people.

      I didn’t post or comment anything the last couple years on Reddit, largely because it increasingly felt like shouting into the void.

      • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        23 days ago

        Yeah Lemmy is a smaller more intimate community. In fact I’m sure we’ve interacted before. Thats just the nature of the platform (and a positive).

        Also why I don’t really agree with people who think the number 1 goal of Lemmy is to grow.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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          22 days ago

          The only reason I want Lemmy to grow is because I miss having niche video game communities with more than a dozen members :c

          Discord is increasingly filling that role now, but there are a large number of reasons why I’m not really a fan of that as a replacement.

          Mostly I just want to talk about the new Factorio expansion with everyone…

        • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          22 days ago

          Even if Lemmy outgrew reddit, that small-scale vibe could still be maintained very easily by any specific community with the federation tools.

  • Octospider@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Since you’re not familiar with this forum culture, asklemmy is used to ask questions. You did not ask a question.

    • Fuad@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I think it’s just alright for me to express my thoughts in this community even though this is and Q&A community. You can still give a respond to my thoughts anyway.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I sort by new and most posts are not trash as they were on reddit. Things don’t need 50k up votes to be valuable. Lemmy as a platform was the perfect blend of old school forms and reddit. Im just sad it took so long that people forgot how the internet is supposed to work.

    It’s like they get email is User@domain.tld but for anything else they say that’s too hard. Hell even when I give my email they just assume Gmail. I swear Web 2.0 was a cancer.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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      22 days ago

      Those of us who were on the net in the 90s, we had to make accounts for every forum / community site we wanted to use, it wasn’t a big deal. Nowadays if you go over to reddit, they’re convinced any site you have to create an account for is doomed to fail. Even one like this one, which similar to email, connects you with a wider network outside of the one you signed up on.

      • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Exactly I would say the only thing that I find could improve the fediverse would be the adoption of open ID that way we could login to any instance of lemmy or mastodon using our home insurance. But I could be missing an obvious flaw with that.

  • fool@programming.dev
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    22 days ago

    This isn’t a qu-- actually you heard that already (˃ . ˂˶)

    I can definitely attest to the culture, which is fresh air compared to a lot of networks (e.g. that Draw a Duck post is probably far beyond a lot of platforms’ capabilities/proclivities)

    I think some of it boils down to:

    • The Lemmy Algorithm. This is a big flaw with Reddit – people have the attention span for the first ten comments, and then subcomment upvotes halve (with decent std. dev – we aren’t Zipf’s Law devotees there) until invisibility. I don’t think my Reddit comments are even seen, let alone replied to. But here, new comments have a chance.
    • The sense of “mineness”. As another here said, there’s responsibility to raise your communities right, and another to interact (hence, variably lower hostility). I don’t post much but I respond a lot to the people who comment in them, because I feel that I have to contribute to keep this sanctum humanly alive.
    • At risk of sounding self-absorbed/elitist, the entry level. People are here because they were dissatisfied with the state of other sites, then made a jump; this is a sieve that to an extent increases the standard of sorting by new. (This has limitations of course, and it isn’t necessarily advocating for Lemmy to never be mainstream.)

    Just my conjectures ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • ddplf@szmer.info
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    23 days ago

    That’s what got me hooked into lemmy for good after being seriously sceptical for the first few tries.

    Little to no comments on most posts was worrysome compared to the absolute flood of content on Reddit. But when I comment here, I get replies. And these replies feel like they matter.

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I like Lemmy, but it can be a very one-sided experience. If youre not in to tech or left wing politics you’ll probably find little to engage with.

    Edit: I guess the memes are pretty good too

  • Mechaguana@programming.devEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Its a great community, reddit kinda feels like a giant automated cashflow farm, here it feels more like a village square! (For now)

    • Fuad@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      22 days ago

      So do you think with the mass adoption in the future will ruined Lemmy just like Reddit?

      • Mechaguana@programming.devEnglish
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        22 days ago

        I believe that any location that has eyeballs for advertisers or propagandists will always eventually be ruined for greed or power. The question is how long it will take. Even with careful moderation, slip up happens, corruption is slowly allowed, and special interests will seek to sway popular opinion in one way or the other.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        22 days ago

        You can switch to a new instance and still stay on lemmy. You can even join certain instances that defederate with other instances they (rightfully or otherwise) deem problematic.

        Good luck in your search for your digital commune that best reflects your values. Maybe you’re already there and you don’t know it yet. Peace either way, welcome aboard.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I personally would prefer to not to post/moderate on reddit so the assholesin charge can make money off of what I do.

      Lemmy is amazing. we can always switch to a new instanc and still use Lemmy if the one we are on turns into what we left behind. Also more moderator transparency. At the bottom of every page is a link to the mod log. You can even filter by user. Feel free to type my name. I’m sure I’ve gotten something by now.

    • Fuad@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Does I do wrong thing? So where can I post my personal thoughts?

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Each Lemmy community has its own rules, just as each subreddit does. They’re generally posted in the community’s sidebar. Your post breaks rules #1 & #3 of !asklemmy@lemmy.ml. Don’t flog yourself over it though. For some reason c/asklemmy’s rules get abused the most, because a lot of people treat it as a catch-all community.

        One good place for this post would have been !lemmy@lemmy.ml: “Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.”. But again, don’t sweat it.

        It’s worth noting also that each Lemmy instance has its own instance-wide rules, which are usually posted on their home page sidebar. Which means every post is subject to two sets of rules: the instance’s and the community’s. That may seem onerous at first, but after a while you get the hang of it and internalize the rules of the places you frequent.

  • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    Albeit Lemmy can too be a bit of an echo chamber at times, I find, in general, that the platform as a whole is way more open minded, and by extention, its users too, than or over Reddit.

    Which their bias on most subs and janny overreach became, specially in the last few years suffocatingly annoying. Coming here was refreshing in comparison.