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[–] [email protected] 297 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (33 children)

Honestly, the insistence that Lemmy has better discussions than Reddit. Mostly even popular posts have too few comments to constitute any in depth discussion. I won’t be going back to Reddit but I miss the vibrancy.

[–] zkfcfbzr 107 points 1 year ago (14 children)

This but about how almost everything about Lemmy is spun as either good, or better than reddit's equivalent.

Like the other day I saw a post about how Lemmy's active users were on the decline, trying to claim that was somehow good for Lemmy. Or back when Lemmy had its /r/place copy, there were plenty of people saying it was better than reddit's. Basically anything about Lemmy that's somewhat lacking has people desperately trying to defend it as actually superior.

It borders on delusional at times. Yes Lemmy is good, but reddit is still better in dozens of ways, almost all of them related to user count. And this is coming from one of the people who deleted their reddit account and replaced it with Lemmy cold turkey - I haven't been back there (except for porn) in almost 8 weeks.

[–] MisterHavoc 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, I miss reddit for porn. Porn lemmy is lackluster

[–] zkfcfbzr 15 points 1 year ago

And not niche enough. The stuff I like on reddit has 28 posts from the last 24 hours. The equivalent on lemmynsfw hasn't had a single post since mid-July and I'm pretty sure the restrictive rules on pornlemmy would just ban it if posted there.

[–] fkn 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You do know you need an account on the NSFW instances to see the stuff on them right?

[–] MisterHavoc 5 points 1 year ago

Yes. I have one exclusively for it.

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

I see them just fine without one, but I did allow nsfw on my account when I created it

[–] fkn 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is more. Go check the stickied post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The stickied post on nsfw lemmy or ask lemmy or something else? And there’s more porn? Because honestly, that’s like telling me there’s more furry, Star Trek, and Linux content there- it’s already all over my front page and I don’t need any more.

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