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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
7 Lemmy accounts is a LOT! is that for separate instances, or what gives?
Yeah 7 different instances. I make communities on relevant instances and not just dump everything on lemmy.world.
Honestly I’ve focused most of my efforts in !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz and !shortstories@literature.cafe
One where I’ve posted nudes. (Didn’t think I could ever do that until I did.) REALLY dedicated to Lemmy yknow.
Edit: 8 accounts, 8 total communities on 4 of them. One community I’ve given up on :(
Whoa, I’d be careful sharing that you did that, it’s still the internet. But maybe I’m being overly careful.
I want to say that I appreciate the effort.
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.
It will never not be funny to me how .world, the largest instance, preemptively defederated with Hexbear the most content rich and antithesis of reddit instance on here despite everyone supposedly fleeing reddit because of how the corporate overlords had “ruined it” (it was always shit) and ours being one of the few instances dedicated to dunking on capitalism and understanding its malevolent machinations.
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.
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.
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.
Great, I guess, but this is in no way a question.
