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[–] [email protected] 319 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I just have to laugh.

Fuck reddit! I'm here now!

[–] Polydextrous 152 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Right? The first few days I was worried it just wouldn’t be the same, but the slower upload of content here has made me browse when I want to without over browsing endlessly. The less active comment sections means I can interact with more people without being buried…it’s just better. And I’m excited to see it grow

[–] PunchingBag 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Quality has been dramatically better here than Reddit has been for many years. Finding people actually discussing the post in the comments is rare on Reddit, you have to sift through endless lines of off topic puns and memes being promoted by bots for karma farming. The goal of comments on Reddit is to be funny, not interesting or useful. The fediverse is more like Reddit eight or nine years ago, when they were figuring out their control algorithms, building their own bot network to game their own site (remember the subreddit where the reddit-built bots used to exclusively talk with each other for practice? I wonder what those bots are doing today...), and learning how to control the flow of information on their page while also finally making some things more stable.

I'm really curious if any parts of the fediverse can avoid the same pitfalls that Reddit eagerly jumped into. It's probably doubtful since once the advertisers get here, greed will win. It always does. But maybe.

[–] Tinawebmom 2 points 1 year ago

This has been my biggest complaint. Wanna read the discussion? Be prepared to dig for it. It's awful.

The largest thing I've noticed right now is there's almost no new content. Like at all. There was some repeating but not like right now.

I'm a mod and almost none of the small subs I mod for are transitioning off of reddit as yet.

I do need to learn to mod here....

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