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Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 2 years ago by AB7ORH7D to c/[email protected]
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As a long time Reddit user, there's something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things...

  1. People are more respectful of each other and interested in discussion and being social.
  2. Less trolls (users are probably older?)
  3. Due to it not being absolutely huge, I feel like people will actually see my posts and comments instead of being lost in a sea of content. I suppose once Lemmy grows this will change, however the cool thing about the fediverse are the new servers. So you can stick to the server when you want smaller community discussion and go to "all" when you want more populated threads.
  4. The clean UI feels refreshing and clean, almost like the early internet.

What have you noticed? Do you find it refreshing too?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I feel like people who moved to Lemmy from reddit are really incentivized to help it grow, so I am constantly seeing encouragements for people to interact / upvote / post content, which is great. I think that the community here is very motivated, and so even though there are less people, you get more engagement.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a huge part of it. People are in "this is my new home, I'm gonna wash the dishes just this once!". I imagine things will calm down later.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah, that's pretty much what happened with Mastodon, as far as I can tell. There are still folks there, but it is much quieter now vs when I first joined it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

i dont feel that its quiet, more that people have settled in, the users that stuck with masto use it religiously ~~just like how people used twitter~~

[โ€“] Pmmeyourtoaster 5 points 2 years ago

I've experienced this as well and have enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yep, I try to upvote everything and comment as much as I can. I'm still confused about how to post to specific instances on Jerboa though. Like I'm typing the name but it's not showing up in the dropdown

The most discouraging thing that happened was that when I wrote a long and thoughtdul comment and press send, Jerboa gives me the "java type blabla" error, and I lost everything I typed. Then I don't wanna type it again and I just give up on commenting

Hopefully these issues will be fixed soon! As I understand it it's not even an issue with Jerboa specifically.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've gotten to the habit of Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C my comments right before hitting Reply, just in case that happens. Luckily, it's been happening less and less, at least on desktop browser. Hopefully Jerboa gets to that point soon, too.