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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

At this point this seems intentional. This has definitely pushed me away from Reddit and I’m already seeing a lot more meaningful conversations on Lemmy. All I ever saw on Reddit anyways is people just trying to one up each other on the comment threads for upvotes. Took a lot of scrolling to even get to people actually talking about the topic.

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

Agree it's intentional. Normies don't care about any of this and will just follow the memes. Most of us here are the users that had ad blockers and probably didn't care about giving gold.

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

Giving and receiving gold was surprisingly, one of my least favourite things. Someone gave me gold once and i felt beholden to say thank you? I didnt ask for it, i didnt comment in hopes of getting given “gold”. I never gave anyone else gold. Why would i give a shit about getting it myself? Its a fucking forum.

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

Reactions are common in lots of forums though, gold is just a special reaction.
A special upvote if you will, its not really that deep.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Waste of money.

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

Reddit OTOH was a good place to discover other things organically (not the enshittification attempt "other people liked that sub" interjections). But the only thing I miss is a way to group my subscriptions.

Currently Lemmy is getting up to speed, and the discussion quality has already started to drop; we'll see whether communities can police themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, just the random "That makes me think of r/whatever" comments showed me a lot of subreddits I would have otherwise completely missed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

toodazed> people just trying to one up each other on the comment threads for upvotes.

Here, have an upvote on me =D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ramen, exactly 💯 this. Every time I wanted to see what commentary was on the post I would almost have to scroll to the bottom to get any talk about the actual post.