That's cool, a new social media thing needs delusional people like you at first, otherwise it will never build up the critical mass of users it needs to actually get good. (:
There's a video that shows exactly this phenomenon in real time.
The most important people are the first followers. A website with a guy commenting alone is sad for the guy. A website with a couple people commenting is sad for whoever's not talking.
Thanks for sharing! Can’t remember seeing this before. Was a really nice watch!
Also I absolutely expected to see Rick Astley thanks to Reddit… 😂
I like the small feel Lemmy has right now, it feels more connected. I’m sure it’ll continue to grow and I’ll like that too, but I’m perfectly content with what we have now
For the smaller communities that came over, like my local city sub, I already like it more. I'm sure the toxicity will return, but for now it's very nice.
I think it’s nice to be able to have a small conversation without your comment being buried so deep no one will ever see it if you didn’t make it to the post in the first 5 minutes.
I agree. Eventually there will come the weird little internet dramas that are cringy but for now it's chill and nice.
And most importantly, I can read comments for news to get a read on other people's opinions, etc.
It's nice having a place where people can (fake) argue about beans and insignificant things, post fire memes, and do some classic old Internet banter.
It feels like I'm at an early 2000's Lan party, and the worst person you'd come across is helpful, but kind of a dick about it.
Hopefully it stays that way, the relative lack of structure is pretty magical since almost everyone seems to be genuine about using this place to be hilarious.
Every time there is a dig>reddit>lemmy progression, the beginning phase is generally the same (awesome) tone and atmosphere.
It's the same community people who made the original sites popular who ready to move after the old place gets overrun by special interest nonsense/monetization/engagement algorithms, and users who don't actually care about dialog /engagement in favor of blasting loaded opinions.
It's barely been a week and the spirit of message boards that everyone loved about reddit has already rooted in Lemmy. Real people trying to make each other laugh, or sharing something because it's neat and brings others joy - I'd happily pay for a subscription to keep this place in its current culture.
Reddit has been past it's prime for several years now for a lot of people who were missing exactly what is happening here.
@ChocoboRocket there's certainly advantages to free and federated ferated networks. its literally impossible for such actors to ruin the 'verse. There only choice is attempt to make it irrelevant, like Google did with XMPP. I guesd that's one reason went so many fedizens are weary of Facebook's THREADS coming here.
Tbh I'm pretty confident that I'm the only one in my hometown using lemmy so far
Just post some neat things about your hometown in your local sub and see if activities grow 😁
Only 20 posts? Huh?
I like this site. ‘S got good bones.
signed up to a big instance did you? in a federation you don't need to be at the "cool kids table"
any table will do
Are we instance-shaming already? good grief
OPs experience in usability is directly tied to thier choice of instance soooo....yes
this is not a "lemmy" issue
It’s where I made my account, and I’m too lazy to switch
Your comment only shows up on "chat" for some reason.
Huh.
🤡
You can take the Redditor out of Reddit, but not Reddit out of the Redditor.
its no shock people let these big providers take over, we will let a lot happen and give up much for a small amount of convenience.
lol it’s not that big of a deal, I just don’t like making a million accounts; especially when we’re trying to get a good estimate of Lemmy’s growth after Reddit shit the bed.
a million accounts, woah, I understand if you have to move your astoturfing sweatshop manually, maybe automate it?
/s
ngl bro, this is getting into Reddit territory now. Could we go back to not being anal about how people prefer to use the platform?
no one wins
That's fine by me, I'm not here to 'win'.
then why get self-conscious in the first place? why keep going?
You and people like you is what's wrong with the world.
so someone shits on lemmy (good natured, but wrong), i provide a little context, another person feels self conscious we have a little back and forth and im whats wrong with the world, really.
Wow.
Ever think that maybe walking around looking for reasons to be righteously angry over minor internet exchanges perhaps makes you as much of the same problem if this is where you put the bar.
its the posters on the internet not the people dragging folks down gravel roads or the people denying others fundamental freedoms.
its me, im whats wrong
get off the internet and join reality.
People like you are why I joined the SSBN force, so I can get a front row seat to watching the world burn when the order comes to launch.
Beasides that's pretty stupid.
First of all you have to search by new, or new comment...
Second, you can't be just in your instance, just switch from local to all and it won't be a page with the same poasts.
How dare you use logic?
Average reddit user: "This text is always the same, and i've read it 10 times already"
Us: It's a book, tried flipping the page? Also there's many other books.
That's cool, a new social media thing needs delusional people like you at first, otherwise it will never build up the critical mass of users it needs to actually get good. (:
Someone forgot to set their language in settings
What do you mean?
I think this guy is saying that you didn't correctly set your language settings in your profile which is why you're not seeing comments. If you just selected english you might miss out on a lot of comments with no language set. You should have both English and Undetermined, plus anything else you can read selected. Hold ctrl while clicking to multiselect.
