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[–] [email protected] 274 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Its so nice being on a platform where the first 1000 comments on every post aren't just low effort jokes.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven’t even considered this. Most users on Reddit are lurkers. It doesn’t take many of us to make new communities worth visiting

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Former lurker checking in, trying to take this new start on Lemmy as a way to participate more and hopefully contribute a bit, I wonder how many will do the same coming from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am! Mostly lurked because by the time I got to threads they were already too popular and were flooded with hundreds of comments.

[–] EddieTee77 1 points 1 year ago

This is what I love about Lemmy so far. I don't open a thread and see the amount of comments that make me not want to add another comment. If I see thousands of comments, I'll assume my joke or point has already been made and just lurk.

Here, I feel like I can contribute and make these comments

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

Same here, I like the Fediverse, so I try to contribute to it. With reddit it was more of a convenience and mindless thing

[–] Botree 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I definitely am. Not a huge talker but I'm really trying to do my part here. It also helps that this community just feels a lot more welcoming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Me too. And in nuking ten years of reddit history I realised I had stopped posting over the years as it got so big it just wasn't needed

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

I'm with you there, it's certainly worth it to try and post and comment more and ther is a much more relaxed positive vibe here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Currently a lot of places here feel how Reddit used to be when I joined up. I quite like it.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your low-effort comment wasn't even funny.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Coming to a comment thread to reply "this" feels so cheugy. When I think of the heydey of reddit, I think of 2011 in my dorm room doing the grow a college subreddit. And here we are twelve years later and the best experience you can get now is exactly that same experience.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A month or two ago I got a bunch of downvotes for explaining why I didn't like a game. The people responding said it was because my comment was "too long." It was like six sentences. Why are these people on Reddit instead of Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cheugy – A pejorative description of lifestyle trends associated with the early 2010s

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

How the fuck do you say it? Choo-gie?

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

I think that's right.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It means something that used to be in style but now is considered corny or lame.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think we just witnessed the birth of its use! It vibes like something that's chuggy but has a kind of abstract phlegmy quality to it.

Who knows - I should be sleeping!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

it is not a brand new term

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

the fuck is phlegmy?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's that kind of mucus you cough up, normally if you're a bit sick. Not quite snot, not quite spit. Somewhere between.

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

I too would like to know

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok zoomer. It's just a phase.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You forgot reposts for karma whoring.

[–] Klear 12 points 1 year ago

Good thing about Lemmy is the lack of karma, so we'll be doing just normal whoring I guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I bet itll get worse with reddit becoming public and trying to juice money from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Yeah lve been a lurker for over 10 years over there and I was sick of all the karma whoring, the low quality posts and especially the pun threads that would bend my face with cringe. Hopefully we can get things right on the Lemmy-verse