I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.

  • GameOfHotPotato@programming.dev
    1642·
    1 year ago

    It’s because the majority isn’t here yet. You would have the same quality in smaller subreddits, as long as they are somewhat moderated.

    Just wait a few months and you’ll see the idiots returning with their cheap comments.

    • CallateCoyote@lemmy.world
      40·
      1 year ago

      Only been here a day but the main thing I’ve noticed so far is that the user base reminds me of the old days of Digg and Reddit. Nobody downvoting comments for no good reason, nobody being needlessly hostile or starting shit. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

      • Zalack@startrek.website
        15·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know, there’s still a lot of needless hostility; it’s just around different topics.

        Lemmy skews even more heavily left than Reddit and it’s still too small to attract organized political trolls, but topics like FOSS vs Paid open source vs closed source gets heated fast. Look at the Sync for Lemmy threads; it’s a mess in there.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        121·
        1 year ago

        I upvote basically everything that isn’t “this”, a Reddit-ism, or just mean/racist/etc.

      • magnetosphere@kbin.social
        15·
        1 year ago

        It’s nice to be here during what will eventually become “the good old days”, rather than finding out about it after it starts to suck.

        • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          At least lemmy has lots of mirrored communities so if one starts to suck you can go to a smaller one with the same topic

    • Mereo@lemmy.ca
      161·
      1 year ago

      But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: politics@lemmy.world and politics@lemmy.ml, each with its own moderation style that has to respect the rules of its instance.

      I think that’s a lot healthier than having one giant Politics subreddit where it’s hard to get involved because of the size and the immaturity of the people.

      • Lith@lemmy.sdf.org
        8·
        1 year ago

        Did you even use Reddit? It has more political communities than you could count. Just because there’s only one r/politics doesn’t mean that’s the only community you can choose from. Reddit has a lot of problems, but this is not one of them.

        • coehl@programming.dev
          7·
          1 year ago

          Still kinda is. Take r/Seattle as an example. A massive segment of that community could not stand the main mod, so they had to make r/SeaWa, which when compared to just hosting a new Seattle community on a different instance, it eliminates that issue where the more popular iteration appears less… official?

          What’s less good is when you like two communities by the same name on different instances, so you have to keep checking which one you’re on, lol.

          • Lith@lemmy.sdf.org
            2·
            1 year ago

            This is still an issue with Lemmy though. Ultimately, one instance’s community is going to be “the” community for a given topic, most likely because it’s on a popular instance, and at a certain point it’s going to devolve the same way default subs did. People who wouldn’t join r/SeaWa probably aren’t going to join seattle@unpopular.domain with 50 active users, either. Personally, I’m more inclined to choose r/SeaWa over r/Seattle because it sounds less official.

            This seems more like an aesthetic issue than a real problem, and don’t get me wrong, I’m all for getting the community name you want on a different instance, but I don’t think that’s grounds for “Lemmy will never become a circlejerk”.

            • coehl@programming.dev
              1·
              1 year ago

              I may have lost the thread if my response seemed to suggest that Lemmy will never become a circlejerk.

              I’m seeing a whole lot of that already.

    • yokonzo@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      It’s already starting, I got downvoted to hell the other day for calling it out when it happened