• DarraignTheSane
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      For me I think it has to do with the fact that by the time I got to a thread on reddit, everything that could possibly be said about the topic usually had been said already. How many times would you visit a thread only to find that exactly what you were going to say is already the top comment?

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        or the top 30 comments were stupid circle jerk jokes

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          Yeah, although I regret not being more active in calling out people parroting reddit’s culture. With a lot of people joining at once, it’s easy for the local cultures to be overwhelmed and become much like the place they left.

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        The smaller community is really a blessing, rather than a curse. I’ve seen this come up on reddit again and again: the best subs are the small ones that cater to niche interests. Lemmy is essentially composed entirely of those small subreddits right now.

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          Well yes but for these niche interest subs to work the platform as a whole needs enough users, because only a small % will visit these subs.

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      i do hope we can grow further while still remaining an open and friendly community encouraging everyone to comment their thoughts!

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      Same, I’ve been more active here than the past 6 years that I’ve had a reddit account. Posting anything always felt like you were screaming into the void, so I never bothered.

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        Reddit was also actively discouraging discussions since people would downvote anything they didn’t agree with right away. Became a total echo chamber…

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          believe me when lemmy popular we also have problem like reddit had