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On Reddit I generally didn't read attached articles. I'd developed a pretty good intuition where the article title, website and top comments could tell me all I needed to know (And reading the source normally confirmed this)

On Lemmy the smaller numbers of comments mean we need to engage with the content being discussed more directly, which is quite a nice change of pace for us Reddit converts.

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[-] Riptide502@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

Another thing about the lower population is that you don’t have people trying to needlessly karma farm. All those addicts couldn’t leave behind their treasures trove of 1 million updoots, so they stayed on reddit.

Because of that, you have many more people here posting about stuff they’re passionate about. No rage-bait articles or massive amounts of doomerism posts. It’s refreshing to have more organic content being shared.

[-] asamson23@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I guess that the other thing that helps is that we don’t have Karma over here, so there’s nothing of value to gain.

[-] uhauljoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You're right, that's something I hadn't considered. The desire to keep gaining more karma definitely plays a factor in reddit content, people know what will get a reaction, or the type of stories youtube channels will pick up, or what will simply get an upvote and just set out to create as much of that content as possible. And then they post that one post to 38 barely relevant subs so I see it multiple times and it's just a cesspool honestly.

[-] thessnake03@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

All those addicts couldn’t leave behind their treasures trove of 1 million updoots, so they stayed on reddit.

It was a hard decision, but I nuked my comment history before I left. Figured you got to burn your ships to motive the men.

[-] mudmaniac@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I nuked my post history a few days ago. Apparently reddit is going so far as to undelete content from prominent contributors, so better to just check back in a few days.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZKkUg8jgM

Hasn't happened to me personally though.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

And if there is then people can easily jump to another instance.

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