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[–] jeffw 125 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Nicer in many ways but also less active. I find myself posting a shit ton more just to make the activity I want to see. I made probably less than 50 posts on Reddit in my 11ish years before I left. Now I make that many every 48 hours

[–] dugmeup 76 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We appreciate your contributions :)

[–] jeffw 31 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Same.

I'm not a huge fan of lemmy, but I do like it better than what Reddit has become. If I had to pick today's lemmy or Reddit from 5-ish years ago, I'd go with Reddit every time. But that's not the options in front of me, so I stick with lemmy.

I also post a lot, probably too much, because I want to see more content, especially higher effort content. I posted pretty rarely on Reddit, so this is certainly more exhausting to use. However, there's enough people to make it worthwhile, so I'm still giving it the old college try.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yea, I just wish more niche communities would come to Lemmy, but most of the interesting ones are actively not tech savvy en mass, and so are lucky to figure out reddit I guess. Or Discord maybe, which sucks as a reddit replacement.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, Discord is the worst for something where history is useful. It's pretty decent for chat though, but that's about it. But even then, I'd rather use Matrix.

[–] Jordan117 8 points 7 months ago

Lemmy might be less active but doesn't make you feel like every contribution is rewarding someone who actively insulted and disrespected you and ruined something you used to enjoy. Big plus.

[–] cobysev 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I actually prefer Lemmy because it's less active. I browse Lemmy's version of r/All and I have more than enough content to keep me entertained for hours. Plus, when I find a popular thread, I can actually contribute to it and my comments aren't buried under 10K other comments within a few hours. I feel like I can actually communicate with the community here, instead of shouting into the void like on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yup. On reddit, if you stumbled on a 13 hours old thread, commenting was just sending a bottle in the void.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think I had someone ask why I was necroing something because I had responded to something that had been posted earlier that or the night before. Maybe it was older than 24 hours, but regardless it was a weird experience.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I know your username. Because you’re the person posting all that stuff I read. So, thanks ;)

[–] jeffw 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Seriously, you are lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

you da real mvp

[–] ripcord 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you for being you :)