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[–] [email protected] 290 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Reddit died June 2023

I don't know why people are still playing with the corpse

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I agree and haven't returned but lemmy hasn't hit critical mass yet.... Like I don't recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 days ago (5 children)

How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago

This is often overlooked. The conversations are great on the niche or smaller communities available on reddit and the experience is great. But for the most part, frontpage and every other sub has been taken over by repost bots or repeated jokes or politics.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is worse, I was convinced I was having discussions with AI multiple times. It seemed to me that they were using some subs for AI to post content and then interact with human and AI. It is another laboratory to train their AI.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I used to help out in r/Botdefense

The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to us (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greedy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good comments drowning in spam.

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

Won’t the same happen to Lemmy when it gains enough traction?

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

I think the lack of profile-wide "karma" is one benefit, so there's not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There are apps which display the user karma though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

But that just means that viewing it is opt-in rather than default. Since most people probably won't bother to install those apps, the farmed karma won't be worth squat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.

Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.

I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.

Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I've never considered that a limitation.

You only need one other person in addition to yourself, for a good discussion.

If anything, here I'm finding I actually get replies, because my comment didn't drown among a hundred others.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

You only need one other person in addition to yourself for a good discussion

I never really thought of it like this despite it being obvious. Very well said

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Might be your settings. When I flip the front page to "Active" most of the posts have hundreds of comments (though I prefer setting it to "Top Six Hours").

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

I like "Hot" and "Top Six Hours" myself. "Scaled" and "New" aren't bad if you're looking for more content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I also sort by top six hours but subs related to my profession or religious traditions both get too much outside noise from folks who view posts by 'all' and feel welcome to flood subs with comments contrary to the intent of the sub. Active moderation could help but there's just not good moderation under most subs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Literally the next post under this one, sorting by 1d top posts, has 147 comments

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You obviously weren't here for the guy who didn't want to poop for days. There were a LOT of replies on that one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I wish i could, but this was 2 years ago, and once the post blew up huge, OP deleted it. Some Lemmy historian may have a copy, but alas, i do not.

Basically, OP posted a question where they said they didn't want to poop during the upcoming weekend, and then asked how they could keep from pooping for three days. This was shortly after the Reddit API exodus.

The comments were very helpful, reasoned, and...Nah, im just kidding, they pretty much went the way you would expect, with lots of wild speculation about why OP didn't want to poop for three days, and lots of "helpful" suggestions about how to not poop for three days.

Strangely though, i think the post did a lot of good, as it showed a lot of ex-redditors that Lemmy could work as a reddit replacement, and be just as goofy as the original.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Here’s an archive link 7 days later, with 800+ replies

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Like 6 good ones and a bunch of the same tired comments about poop knives, broken arms, same, this.

Here, at least most of the answers are real human beings trying to contribute to a conversation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Reminds me of the scene in 300 when he asks how many warriors they brought. We brought real comments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

This post has 278 comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I mean, does it really matter? Are you going to read 100 responses on a single post? I feel from Reddit that the larger communities get the shittier they get. More people = smaller intersection of common ground, which leads to dull content and repeating platitudes.

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

Tbh I've decided I can live with less and less of this. I'll never go back to the giant ad covered spaces. But if this doesn't pickup or even dies, meh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Legitimately who cares though? You‘re not in it for the money with Reddit either.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Same, once they violated certain principles, it was clear the site was dead. We need to do our best to build lemmy into something. It'll take years.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some people are just into that kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Because they have a monopoly on old and especially niche knowledge/communities (also new niche knowledge/communities). As much as I hate it, that's why I personally still have to use reddit sometimes.

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

I feel like as an A’s fan. The same thing happened to Reddit. Owners turned it into a shit hole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

As a fellow A’s fan I completely agree this analogy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IMO, as much as I dislike Reddit, moderation is terrible here and there's some niche subs that cannot exist here because of the lack of moderation.