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[–] [email protected] 208 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, lemmy has become really good lately. It's generally better than Reddit these days. I tried it a year ago and it was still quiet here, now I see posts with 2000+ upvotes

[–] [email protected] 150 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As someone who used reddit for 14+ years, this place feels exactly like early Reddit, a place where you actually can converse with anyone and contribute instead of yelling into the void. Realistically we will always have both, but many more will join the verse everytime Reddit has an oopsie.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Narwhal, bacon, midnight, dick butt, le, doggo.

The real question, when we enter ^ this era of Lemmy, how many years of prison is appropriate for the above genre of jokes?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lmao beans fit that list, we can cringe about it all we want now but at the time we're building community.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Don't forget jeans. We're almost there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Truth. Still. Prison.

At least public flogging.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This. /s

But yea I agree it’s a pretty solid community aside from a few overly aggressive contrarians

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

We even have our own annoying group of brigade-ers.

I’ll see myself out.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Upvoted because "ddged". Wonderful. 😊

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

duckduckgo.com

Good alternative search engine, have to use a bit of traditional search engineering sometimes, but to me that's a good thing, feature not a bug.

It can't find everything, think of it as an extra tool in the toolbox. Having selection between search engines is a good thing. Don't want just one monolithic source of information.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Internet ecosystem is a great term, it was put well in an article someone shared on slrpnk: https://slrpnk.net/post/8711732

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the link. That's an interesting community!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

We're doing our best!

If you're in a niche community, don't be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I've seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm so glad to hear other people with the same opinion! Everywhere I go I see people complaining about the negativity and toxicity here and I'm like... Where? I've had nothing but positive interactions. I'm really happy reddit went through the API fiasco because I'm having a better time here than in late stage reddit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not any more toxic than Reddit honestly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's very easy to filter by blocking out certain instances

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As if Reddit was free of toxic interactions lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The existence of /r/Jailbait, /r/GreatApes, and /r/[N-slur] testify to this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

A lot of the times it's just people with bad opinions that are mad that they keep getting downvoted. I've seen so many zionist accounts comment under these "lemmy is bad" posts. Even in disagreements the comments are most of the time informative and constructive here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Individual instances and frontends might have something to do with it. People saying they see a ton of NSFW and have to block so many communities, but at sh.itjust.works on Voyager I haven’t seen any of that.

It’s simultaneously open yet curated at the same time and that’s pretty neat!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree, I only came here in July after they finally followed through with pulling the plug on 3rd party apps. This place has grown a lot in 1 year. Still needs more communities for the smaller hobbies, plus less memes and political content, and it would be perfect. 99% of everyone I talk with here is super nice and helpful as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

If we can't meme, I don't want to be part of the revolution.

~(that's a joke, based on something emma goldman kind of said)~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Gotta really hand it to the Lemmy devs, third party devs and server maintainers.