I kind of feel like Reddit is the biggest bar in the world and having a conversation there feels like it. If you aren’t loud and early, you can’t really participate in a meaningful way. The smaller crowd of Lemmy is a sweet spot for me. Enough people that it’s not dead, but small enough that I can still participate in conversations.

Me hanging out on !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

It feels much more human on Lemmy. Reddit was mostly bots and training models. Do we have any statistics for Lemmy on percentage of bot users posting to the platform, who pretend to be human?

Sometimes I miss chatting with the bots on Reddit. The platform always kept you emotional and scrolling. All the gore, violence and other sensationalistic content. All the arguments arguments arguments always against you. It was a plastic experience.

I never understood how people would complain that a site with thousands or tens of thousands of users is "too small". I feel like that is a real sweet spot, you can have actual conversations and interactions that matter a bit more. Meanwhile, the constant flood of posts, comments and spam on the top social media sites made me feel like nothing I write will even matter, since all the posts will be buried under the information flood in the matter of minutes.

Yep, better quality engagement all around. I still visit reddit for some niche communities that aren't represented here but I always come back and I'm spend an increasing amount of time here. People are smarter and nicer in these parts.

Lemmy is my doom scroll and I feel like its much healthier. Took my time to build a decent plock list and functionally I get 2 long lists of stuff per day. If you want more, get people talkin or get back to work. Reddit on the otherhand will go on forever. Plus the lack of global updoots score makes all the conversations have actual opinions instead of chasing imaginary internet points.

Lemmy is a great place to BS about whatever is going on with the world at any given moment. I think the “small” size of the user base increases the quality of the discussions. You have to jump through some hoops just to get here.

But that small overall population and the barriers to entry mean we don’t have a busy community for almost any hobby or topic you’d like to discuss. And that’s fine, there are still websites and forums and search engines.

I think the fediverse should replace the corporate internet long term, of course. For what it is right now though, and especially Lemmy in particular, I’m not complaining.

The fediverse doesn't need perpetual growth. That's VC investor bullshit. You don't need to be posting on a platform where the whole world is present. Again more corporate bullshit. As is the "digital town square" thing. It sounds profound but it's pompous.

What made the internet so good was variety. Which is what reddit seemed to offer in a time when the older paradigms namely message boards were becoming antiquated.

What we got with the oligopoly of social platforms is watered down to memes and politics. It's right wing cultural imperialism quite frankly. People have been battered into fear of being who they are online because in this age of centralized internet has made it a war to remove anything unacceptable (aka "woke"). There's no variety. There's nobody being themselves.

The fedeverse will have arrived if it manages to achieve distinct varieties. On a technical basis it's perfectly positioned to achieve this. Right now it's largely just reddit clones offering little more than an extension of the cultural/political wars embroiling the handful of centralized social media platforms.

I feel like I’m even starting to recognize user names throughout the platform

!casualconversation@lemm.ee for people looking for a chat

Reddit would be scared of Lemmy gaining more traction.

Fr. I'd say a comment I leave on reddit has like a 3% chance of meaningful response that might turn into even a brief meaningful interaction.

I think that conversion rate is vastly higher on Lemmy, much closer to like 30-40%.

That's a difference so profound so as to be nearly incomparable.

So do I wish Lemmy was a bit more active so the front page was always fresh? Sure. Is it a very small price that I am enormously willing to pay for the significantly better experience here? Yeah, abso-fucking-lutely.

anyone else remember 2010/2011 reddit? Just me? Feels like that tbh back when everyone was fleeing from slashdot and digg. 31yo millenial since I've already dated myself lol

Nuh uh. Oh shit...

Anyway, it must be your sunny disposition!:-)

this post is a combination of circlejerking and coping

I decided to stop starting fights here and exclusively drop my payloads of spite upon the denizens of Facebook groups and getting right in rightwinger's faces.

As such, I now don't have much of a use for Lemmy other than news and flicking the occasional Russian apologist off of the bottom of a string of comments like a dangling turd.

We are growing somewhat of our own, genuine piracy group here, though, which is rather impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if practical groups like /r/selfhosted moved over here just for ease of use.

it's as varied as it is big, though

because of that, naturally, people share the same communities

I see the same person everywhere, and I bet there are some that may even recognise me

Welcome Sunshine 😎

I mean, yeah but everything on here is mostly political chatter, the niche comms are not that busy.

Cheers.