Lemmy's community or communities rather, don't yet feel like anything is as bad as what you'd expect from Reddit. You may know what I'm talking about but as a reminder, I'm talking about posts that don't quite seem as open minded. I call them small-talk, no-where kind of posts. The kind of posts that equals to a 4 line conversation with anyone in person, on the phone or even online. Never makes it past 'how are you' stages.

The nature of the beast though has yet to take effect because it's not strictly a Reddit thing, it's more of an internet thing, overall. I presume once Lemmy does reach triple digits in the thousands, we could expect to see some behavior that we don't like seeing. However...

Lemmy has a registration that can't be as abused as Reddit's is. I call Reddit's registration system, a machine gun for alts. Because of how stupid easy it is, to make an account. If you wanted to, you can stockpile a 100 Reddit accounts on just one e-mail while ignoring verification. And there isn't anything on Reddit that stops you from this either, just fill a few throwaway forms and boom, you're back on. Go to AskReddit, make a few empty comments, gain some karma or just bide your time a little until you resume your trolling antics again.

Easy to navigate, a nice little list of communities to hop to.

An engaging community, nothing feels too bait-y, things feel fairly contained. I don't feel as much as I did with reddit where anything I said that wasn't looking to instigate an argument, will be antagonized in any way. Reddit has a very spiteful hivemind as I'm sure we've all felt it by the DdoS attacks which is something Reddit users have been known to do in the past.

We need more places like Lemmy.

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[–] Plaid_Kaleidoscope 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's be real though, the same thing happens all the time when a site is young. People like Us who are willing to move over to a new platform and give it a solid effort aren't the ones who ruined the last few sites like digg and reddit.

Once the masses get here things are going to change, and I'm not looking Forward to it. Things here are nice, if a little quiet. Good conversation, but not enough yet.

[–] Candelestine 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's true that the demographic tendencies of early adopters are definitely a factor. The Fediverse has a baked-in solution though: Go to a smaller Instance and block the big ones.

Everyone who says the Fediverse will eventually get just as bad as anywhere else is forgetting this one key technical difference. This is not the same as a major tech company holding, fundamentally.

[–] Plaid_Kaleidoscope 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll admit, I'm new to the concept of federation. Ive read a bit, but it's hard to imagine how that all works once the scale goes crazy. It'll be interesting, and I hope it grows to the point where I see exactly what you mean.

[–] Candelestine 3 points 1 year ago

I wrote a breakdown in regular language for it, helps grasp the scope and degree of freedom:

https://lemmy.world/post/583669