It’s true for more popular sub forums but it sucks for hobbies and more niche topics.

I'm also enjoying participating in forums I would never touch in any other medium. I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.

Guess that's enough internet for me today

The opportunities for discussions and such is fun, but I miss the memes from Reddit. Lemmy is almost painfully unfunny.

I never though of it like this. But I like thinking of it this way. I am excited to watch lemmy grow though. I have faith that it will go and become a lot more popular. At that time, it will be nice to have more niche communities that are active.

I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.

Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.

Using a combination of top day, mark read on scroll, and hide read, I regularly reach the end of the internet, and am glad.

Yeah, I just sort by new. I see everything posted in my subscriptions, and can just be done for a while. It's great. And early comments get more upvotes, heh.

I mute a ton of communities, and I really like quickly getting to the "end" of All. Then I've blocked some other dopamine sites, so I get bored and go play outside 🤣

You can also really feel that the algorithm doesn't just blindly promote click/rage bait the way that reddit's does.

It still gets promoted some times, but the front page isn't constantly filled with it like Reddit's is,.

Just be aware that there are many haters here too. A few days ago I posted a positive message about the EU and.... oh my God... what a wave of negativity and hate I get. It was just like we - in the EU - are now living under the authoritarian regime of the EU. My reaction was.... I'm out of here, so I'm not in that community anymore. I hoped that Lemmy was a more "positive" community, but that seems to be a naive world view. There will always be haters and they are everywhere.

I love this too. I get bored after a while on Lemmy which..is a really good thing. Get some news and memes, and get off.

Yes but no but.

On a busy day when I only have a limited time to browse and I don't want to get trapped in the infinite "just one more page bro" cycle? Yeah Lemmy is good for that. But if I need something to pass the time for more than an hour or so (transit layover, extremely delayed appointment, sick day at home, etc) Lemmy has neither the constant influx of new content nor the archive of old content to allow for hours of distracting rabbit holes to explore.

Comment quality is also very well balanced...

That's the beauty of having a platform where your engagement does not matter because there are no advertisers to woo.

On the one hand, this could dishearten moderators and admins if there are fewer engagements and traffic in the community.

I like that on Lemmy you can comment on a 20+ hour old thread from the “front page” and still have a good chance at responses or interaction from other users.

Any subreddit that regularly hits the front page of Reddit requires that users comment in the first hour or two of the post being made, or latch onto some chain from the top existing comments, or else your comment is basically just thrown into the void. It’s even worse now that Reddit has started showing day or week old posts on the front page, like why bother commenting on those posts when absolutely no one will see it…

I'm just happy that I dont have to scroll through dozens of puns before I get to the first coherent post.

Yup, and then if you do endlessly scroll all you get to see either very wild takes, porn, and/or extremely niche start up communities, depending on your level of federation.