To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time 🙃)
Same. A bit more mature user base (but not too mature. Poop!, teehee…). Plus I like that it’s generally smaller, and therefore avoids a lot of the negative effects of huge communities.
Less content to go through, so you end up going through posts and comments a bit more thoroughly. This translates to higher engagement from users overall compared to Reddit.
The con of course is less content to go through.
Agree. For about half of what I’m interested in, there’s some activity on Lemmy and the conversations aren’t just “no u.”
I wish I didn’t have to, but I still lurk on Reddit for some very specific hobby and occupation hubs. I think there’s a lot more “blue collar” activity over there than there is over here.
A lot more entertainment, too.
I’m still astonished there isn’t an active movies or television presence over here. Feels like the topics over here are primarily news, technology, politics, but pop culture, movies, music, television, even gaming have somewhat low activity. Really bizarre those haven’t gotten firm footing.
I’m wondering how much of that is the sorting algorithm. Waiting patiently for lemmy.world to implement 19.0 so we can get the scaled sort working properly, but that seems to have been…stalled or something.
!anime@ani.social and !chat@literature.cafe has good enough engagement that every week there is something to talk about
I think matured reddit is literally correct. People here at least seem older.
However people here definitely are also of a certain group. Which is not too surprising - it’s a certain demographic taken from Reddit, not a random subsample. This is not really a good thing.
People here also seem more extreme in their political opinions (as in, not very “usual” or “casual” political views). This makes discussions a bit one-sided and polarized… But then again political discussions on reddit have always been so nice and proper and productive in comparison right /s
However I also see a lot of reasonable people and a lot of hope. I see more politeness (mostly outside of any political stuff).
I also like that people have choices - choice of instance and choice of client for example.
There’s some good and bad but for me it’s basically reddit with a bit less activity and slightly different experience but not significantly so. I’m confident that more people will come over time and that will solve most issues. And the benefits will still be there by then.
I like how on Lemmy we can actually talk about things such as Climate Change. If the question is 1 + 1 = ? then we can discuss whatever the actual solution might be - whether it be 3, -1, 1.9, 2.1, whatever - as opposed to “it’s not even happening and you are stupid for thinking that it is”.
That’s not even Right vs. Left, it should just be Polite, and it is Engaging and Fun or at least more so than getting yelled at by bots and toddlers on Reddit.
Comfortable, but a little meh.
There’s a handful of users I see posting and commenting. I read the Everything feed, but most of the posts are US politics, technology (with a FOSS/greybeard bent), or centre-left political takes.
There was a burst of activity during the Reddit exodus, but everything seems to be slowing down. I feel like I see fewer Canadian posts than the summer/early fall.
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the handful of conservatives who are trying to build a community here. We aren’t very forgiving to folks outside our Overton window, but it’s nice to see other perspectives.
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the Star Trek communities. I don’t know if they’re posting OC, but it’s new to me.
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PugJesus, the Picard Maneuver, and girlfreddy for their posts. Lemmy would be a quiet place without their content.
I read the Everything feed, but most of the posts are US politics, technology (with a FOSS/greybeard bent), or centre-left political takes.
I actually just ended up blocking all the US-centered comms and most of the meme comms and I now see mostly news that is not just about the US and also some discussions and stuff from other comms. But it’s just my preference.
I wish that a lot of communities would consolidate. It seems like there was such a rush, and all these people trying to stake out their homesteading claim, that the community with a capital C wasn’t able to develop. With reddit, subs would get big and shitty, then you’d see something like,“Hey, join us over at <fill in>. It’s like this sub, but with(out) <fill in>”. And that spinoff had enough momentum from the start to keep going.
I’m not a sports guy, but it’s like there are 30 NBA teams (I don’t know the number, don’t care, and irrelevant to what I’m attempting to stay). The first community should have been NBA@… until there are enough people visiting so that the fans of TEAMA can go create their own TEAMA@…. As things stand, instead of starting with 30 basketball fans having a common community to bullshit, we ended up with 30 communities with 1 person in each and often zero traffic.
The one thing I’d object to with the sports example is that I don’t wanna see game day threads for teams I don’t care about, but I’m totally open to general discussion of the league, including about teams I don’t follow. If literally JUST the GDT were split off to the individual team communities I’d be cool with it.
But I totally agree with the over-fracturing of interests. Every now and then I’ll see someone make a “spinoff” of a mostly dead community, just to post 2 or 3 things and stop. It’d be better if they just posted that in the existing community even though it only aligned 90% as well as they’d hoped.
With reddit, subs would get big and shitty, then you’d see something like,"Hey, join us over at . It’s like this sub, but with(out) ". And that spinoff had enough momentum from the start to keep going.
Except that’s not what happened. What you’re describing was very rare. The vast majority of the time, terrible subs with terrible mods or user bases stayed entrenched, alternatives never took off. The main sub would always get recommended, it was the one Google would show, it was the one that hit the front page, the small subs just never got that exposure and most dwindled.
It was a big issue people didn’t talk about much, and I like that Lemmy isn’t worrying about consolidating.
