To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time 🙃)
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.
So make some content. Almost all of these posts seem to be about not having content to consume, but someone has to make it too. Reddit used to have the same problem, the Internet was just smaller back then.
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.
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.
It’s mostly Linux and Politics, and most of my niche hobbies (and even most of the non-niche ones) are barely represented here, if at all.
It’s really disappointing. I have always been one to consume content, not create it, and it feels like if you’re not creating content there’s very little of interest. I want to like the app, but I find myself spending more time browsing Reddit in a web browser on my phone rather than using Lemmy.
I love it here but have one gripe… I can’t play videos in-app. (Maybe it’s just my app’s problem, but it’s a bummer for me.)
Lemmy is entertainment / social media for me, and I’d like to have something like Reddit’s TiktokCringe sub here. I don’t like Reddit and I don’t like Tiktok, but I do like funny videos that are presented to me because people think they are funny rather than because Youtube’s algo thinks it’ll boost an advertiser’s clout. Playing video without having to open another app would be nice.
Beyond that, I love it here. Conversations can actually happen here and I’ve even met people on Lemmy and continued to chat with them outside of the platform on other apps — I’ve never had that happen on any other social media. So cool.
Reddit but with less content (which is fine), I browse by top past 6 or 12 hours, and just check in once or twice a day.
Also I don’t know about more mature… There’s a lot more people here arguing and gatekeeping and generally being weird about Linux for some reason.
I mean, I like Linux, I use it a lot, but these people make it their identity, like it’s an obsession, and they violently hate people who dare to use Windows.
…I get the impression these are actual grown adult men and women, acting like big babies :-P
There’s a lot of people here engaging with Linux discussion in a normal healthy manner too of course, just the weird ones are the loudest, you know? It’s off putting.
It’s less engaging, same stories hanging around active for days with minimal engagement.
It’s just quieter here
For the first few months on the platform, I noticed these trends that I would end up agreeing with later on:
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Liking, or straight up adoring Linux
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Disliking, or straight up despising cars
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Everyone is left-wing and liberal
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Israel stinks
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Rainbows galore
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Big companies are cringe
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Independent media is based
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Products made by big companies are known to be spyware
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The Chromium “open-source” browser, as well as the engine that it uses, is basically the reason why Firefox is dying out
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Right-wing politicians are bad
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Piracy is basically fighting for freedom of information on the internet, especially when big companies tend to be so overprotective of their intellectual property in situations where they don’t really need to
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Free, open source software is basically the future
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The European Union is basically where everyone on Lemmy lives in real life, and if not, it’s where everyone wants to live (which is my case given that I’m from Morocco)
Other very notable points that I have when comparing Reddit with Lemmy are the following:
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The community is very passionate yet very small, it kinda feels like Animal Crossing
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Goddammit, having multiple instances federating with each other is such an amazing thing that literally nobody can wholly own the thing and make crappy decisions that end up ruining the whole thing at once (cough cough Twitter)
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API is free, API is free, API is free
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Being such an obscure platform, it has helped me tremendously with cutting down on social media usage due to how insanely addicting it can be at times, sometimes in the worst possible scenarios, like when you have an exam tomorrow
I’m pretty grateful that I made the decision to ditch Reddit for good. I really like this place, and I mean a lot. I wouldn’t be called “Resol van Lemmy” if it weren’t for Spez being such an ass.
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It sucks up too much of my time. So it’s working. 👍
As an open platform that’s similar to reddit, I’m in favor of it.
The reality though is not that great. And a lot of it comes down to at least some of the people who are here.
There doesn’t really seem to be enough content to allow for browsing a curated list of communities yet, so I mainly browse by all. And what I have seen are a handful of seemingly extreme viewpoints with little to no room for nuance and discussion and an attitude from those people that they are absolutely correct in their beliefs and ideas. I’m talking tankies, hatred for Israel, hatred for cars, hatred for landlords/renting, and evangelism for Linux.
I know that having extreme attitudes is certainly not unique to lemmy as it exists all over the Internet and elsewhere. But it does seem to be fairly concentrated here. And again, without enough engagement in the smaller or more niche communities there isn’t really enough content on its own.
So instead of actively browsing communities I want which would likely end up with very little content, I have started blocking instances and communities instead so I can still get a mix, but filter out things that I don’t like. And that doesn’t make for a great experience.
I have also seen some really stupid/ridiculous admin/mod drama that people also seemed to think wouldnt carry over from reddit, but of course it has.
All that to say, I still enjoy it enough to continue to browse. But I don’t really participate often. And it has to a degree eliminated at least some of the bullshit from reddit.
Apparently i should install Linux.
This gave me a good chuckle. Every community promoting Linux.
It’s a little bothersome when you have no interest in Linux and are completely fine with Windows.
Nah, it’s also fine if you use something like FreeBSD or TempleOS.
I like it. Just wish niche communities were more active.
It’s all right. But it’s a ghost town compared to reddit.
I don’t want what comes with loads of people. It’s nice
Loads of people are bad for stuff that’s very popular. But they also allow niche communities to build up. The later is what I miss about the Fediverse.
Yeah I thought about that, and I think I just still prefer there being less people overall, even if we lose nice communities. There’s probably a way to have the best of both worlds though
I don’t see how. Stuff which interests a very small percentage of people obviously results in a lot less people interested in it on a much smaller platform. You would need to specifically target and convince people of such niche interests to come on over. That doesn’t seem likely.
I still prefer it sorry I guess for doing so? What do you want me to say?
Why do you think I want you to not say this? That’s of course absolutely fine if you prefer a smaller community with all it’s pros and cons.
I just don’t know any way how your last sentence could come true with what we know about social media.
I was enjoying it, but two things are getting tiring: the lack of social sciences and humanities, and especially the misogynistic ‘tone’ of some users.
As a sociology major who is also a fan of the humanities, I totally agree with you. While I’ve always been much more of a lurker than a regular poster–even while I was on Reddit–it still seems like there isn’t a lot of content here that I feel I can really contribute to or engage with. The most prevalent posts all seem to be tech related or are just doom and gloom stories. It makes this place feel cold and bleak.
And yeah, the casual and even blatant misogyny from some of the users is appalling (I still remember that post about the career fair for women months back that got overrun with angry men).
I really wish there was a bigger psych community here.
It really feels like Reddit circa-2023, particularly the bad ways. Lemmy.world is the worst for that.
It’s a great place to wildly spout crazy nonsense and general gibberish with an underlying theme of overthrowing the system.
I’m only here because of an unjust reddit ban, and I’m very sad to say that I still would prefer reddit to this. The shear scale of reddit means there was always something interesting me through the far more varied and active communities available there. Lemmy is great and all, but I feel way less engaged with anything going on
I was active, and even a recognized name on some subs where I was particularly active, but here, those same communities are either woefully underpopulated and inactive, or just straight up don’t exist. When I need to ask questions or get a wide variety of opinions, or even share a story, I knew reddit had enough activity for me to get at least some traffic. Here, I haven’t even made a post
Sorry, Lemmy, but we’re only together because reddit left. You’re my rebound
You should make a post, even if you don’t think it’s an amazing post. If you want to see more activity than get involved.
I imagine reddit was this small and niche at one point in time and it only grew because people posted whatever they liked instead of waiting for someone else to do it.
same, but got a new account on reddit that didn’t get banned (after first rediculous ban I couldn’t make new accounts without being autobanned) again so I spend more time there now. we shat on reddit a lot at the start but at least we can have actual discussions there that aren’t just calling each other fascists and tankies
How long did you wait until getting a new account? After my ban, I was getting my new accounts autobanned within minutes
I had the same problem and gave up. Then a few months later I built a new PC, and thought I’d give it a go. worked fine and has ever since. I guess they fingerprint your browser maybe, you might be able to try uninstalling and re-installing browser? All just to participate in some hobby subs!
yeah reddit is just simply too big to failed and with how confusing using lemmy for non tech savy, it makes people feel reluctant to switch
Also here cause of an unjust ban (and because of the 3rd party app fiasco). I reported too many blatant advertisements as spam and got kicked out due to “report abuse”. But anyway, this is why I split my time between Lemmy and Imgur now. Imgur is no better than reddit (at least when it comes to 3rd party apps), but at least it helps fill a void.
Same here.