Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.
Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.
It’s still very small, but I’ve had more interesting conversations here in a day and a half than I have on Reddit for months.
@MerrickGreen
That fediverse effect.
It helps when everyone isn’t just hate reading comments, and want to engage in discussion rather than hoping on the toxic hate trains. I really like that one of the moderation goals here is to have a healthy discussion space. I feel like most subreddits have lost that over the years. I don’t even want to comment most of the time on Reddit, especially to correct someone saying blatantly false shit, just because I know it will be a hail of downvotes and Ill thought out responses.
It really feels like people here are actually engaging in more natural conversation, as opposed to reddit where it’s often a) venting, b) preaching to the choir to nobody’s benefit and creating an echo chamber, c) arguing really vehemently about whether person A should like X video game/book/whatever or not, d) pointing at xyz things you hate and talking about how you hate it with other people who hate it, and such. Commenting on reddit often felt like screaming into a void, and the void ignores you. Or it stares back and now you have 332 downvotes and a reddit cares message for liking an unpopular book or saying black lives matter or whatever.
I don’t quite trust Lemmy yet. I’m afraid it might just be the shiny new thing effect. But I’m hopeful.
I don’t think we have bots here either.
I think 50% of reddit comments are bots lol. It feels like a time loop sometimes seeing the same posts, memes, jokes, etc all the time. It doesn’t feel very authentic