I comment now.
I comment more again. Used to a lot on reddit 5-7 years ago, less and less the recent years. Now back on Lemmy.
when you are in a smaller community, read: when you are around a manageable amount of people and even recognize some of them, you are more likely to interact. and your comment wont be buried, and its less likely some random asshole really hates what you said and makes sure you wont bother anymore. oh and less bots and chills whats not to love.
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
Before the APIcalypse, I was already playing with the thought of quitting Reddit. Spez just sped up that process.
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
This.
But not much has changed, functionally, for me: I still get downvoted when I point out where people can improve their English and surpass my nephew when he was in the third grade. And I still get to debate technical things based on what I know, so that’s really no change. Different pile, is all.
Not here to fight you, but this line of thinking might be why people downvote you for being a language/grammar nazi.
Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.
i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring
I’m a full-time Linux user now.
It’s been 9 months, they’re definitely wearing rainbow thigh highs and are probably looking at starting hrt soon
Do you have any recommendations for rainbow thigh highs? Hard to fit a cyclist without the flex tear. Need a pair to neofetch libreboot/gentoo on my X200t with support. No need for the ineffable cloy sophistry. I don’t start my computer with my genitals, and the direction of the wind on the wind sock is irrelevant. I will however stand with confidence and freedom over insecurity and bigotry.
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I haven’t gone back to Reddit since the rapture. The only time I use it is for Google results.
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I use Lemmy A LOT less than Reddit. This is a good thing imo.
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Since it’s a smaller community I find that my posts and comments get a lot more traction.
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I miss the smaller niche subs. Yes I know that I should contribute and make it a thing on Lemmy. No I won’t because I’m mostly a lurker and would rather just close the app than do any work.
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I like how the platform is full of socialist/communist but it can become a bit of an echo chamber.
Overall I am happy with the change. Fuck Spez.
Are you me? Every point you made mirrors my own Lemmy experience.
The only thing i would add is that i really miss the quality of some of the content, which i would just attribute to the difference between userbase size and by sheer numbers meaning more high quality content to rise up to the top. I would say on reddit that i would almost never get through the days ‘top content’ for me before i started losing interest in posts, whereas here i can run out within 15-30 mins and then im among duplicate posts, yesterday’s posts or just things that dont interest me much. But i also put this down to the wider range of subreddits providing more variation and extra content, so perhaps i just have to spend more time finding more lemmy communities to draw from on other instances.
I’ve noticed two things.
- I am a lot more active. On Reddit I was mostly just a lurker. On Lemmy I want to comment and post.
- Following on from 1. It feels more like a community here, on Reddit after a post had a certain number of comments/upvotes, I knew that mine would never be seen. I don’t have that feeling on Lemmy.
I feel the same, but one big thing I miss from reddit are the more niche hobby communities. Back when I spent time on reddit I’d interact more with those kinds of communities because they were smaller and I actually had some good information to give to other people with the same interest. In lemmy getting those kinds of communities is practically impossible, there is not enough people here to make more niche stuff more than a few individuals, and thats not enough to keep a community alive.
