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
    1221·
    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
      33·
      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
        101·
        1 year ago

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

      • magnetosphere@kbin.social
        12·
        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
      111·
      1 year ago

      But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: [email protected] and [email protected], 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
        6·
        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 [email protected] 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

  • Square Singer@feddit.de
    833·
    1 year ago

    Tbh, I kinda miss these links. Lemmy has a big discoverability issue, and part of that is that it’s impossible to link to a post or comment in an instance-agnostic way.

    Links to communities would at least help to find new communities to join.

      • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        7·
        1 year ago

        I like to browse "everything " sorted to new. I find new communities that way. And there isn’t an underlying algorithm that curated your feed according to what your viewing history is.

        That’s why it’s different from r/all, there is less manipulation.

  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
    422·
    1 year ago

    Seems an unpopular opinion here, but I honestly miss this. The whole “using subreddits as hashtags” thing is how I found a number of interesting subs I would have never otherwise even thought to search for. Yeah, some were very big and well known ones like /holup that got repetitive, but others were some niche thing that fit that specific post in a way that I at least found somewhat funny.

    • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 year ago

      It was good when it linked to actually interesting new communities, it was bad when it linked to meta-communities just collecting reddit posts - rimjobsteve, foundthemobileuser, holup half the time, cursedcomments, redditmoment, etc.

      • Dandroid@dandroid.app
        6·
        1 year ago

        I just didn’t like when people would use them to make fun of each other. Like commenting “r/wooosh” for someone just asking for clarification on something. Using it to say “this comment or post would be appropriate for this subreddit” is fine imo. I just don’t like when people try to put others down to make themselves feel better than other people.

        • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I could tolerate almost every redditism if it weren’t for the belittling, argumentative, and self-righteous tones that permeated every front page discussion

  • Prox@lemmy.world
    39·
    1 year ago

    While I, too, appreciate this, I honestly have no idea how to link to another Lemmy instance (or whatever we call them).

  • Waldhuette@lemmy.world
    38·
    1 year ago

    To be fair the majority of posts I see have barely any comments at all. Not sure if that is so much better.

      • sheogorath@lemmy.world
        61·
        1 year ago

        Be patient my friend, the engagements will come. Although the instances having issues doesn’t really make people want to browse lemmy. I practically never browsed past the first page of the feed before Sync for Lemmy got released.

        • nLuLukna @sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 year ago

          It is so much better now then it was a month ago so imo we are now a floating boat rather than a sinking one that we are using buckets to keep floating

  • crashoverride@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 year ago

    It’s nice to be able to post wherever I want without having my accounts being happening to be x days old or x amount of karma.

    • C4Phoenix@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      Im wondering how long that will last. Surely, at some point, there will be anti spam measures to help combat that.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
        72·
        1 year ago

        When Eternal September begins and all the frat boys no longer getting free booze at Reddit stagger down cyber lane looking for another party to crash and see the light is still on at Lemmy’s.

    • magnetosphere@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      Strange, isn’t it? Takes some time to get used to.

      Then, once you start to get used to it, you realize how screwed up reddit must have been for civility to seem strange.

      • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        I’m just so excited to have conversations again which aren’t full of negativity. I didn’t really see how toxic Reddit was until RIF closed down.

        My first social media was Livejournal (I bet you’re too young to know what that is), which was a private blogging platform, and it was full of really beautiful intimate friendships I maintain to this day 24 years later. I hope for similar vibes for Lemmy.

  • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
    13·
    1 year ago

    yeah a lot of the meaningless chatter just isnt established here.

    i kinda think that not having a summarized carma score prevents a lot of it.

    but i also feel, that this kind of suff is slowly creeping in with the migration of more users.

    • scbasteve7@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Its called genralization. Whenever a media reaches a larger audience, that media stops filling its niche and starts trying to appeal to the larger audience. Its a bit more complicated when it comes to a social media, but look at some of the larger subreddits. When they were small and starting off, they were fun and exciting. But after growing a larger audience, they became more genralized. A bit boring.

      Users are the same way. After a platform gains enough users, those users start to act in a way that is similar to picking the low hanging fruit. Whatever is the easiest way to garner attention, they do it.

      If lemmy grows to reddits size, it’ll probably be the same. However, hopefully different instances and nonsummarized karma will mitigate that.

  • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    I hope it doesn’t peter out like Goat did. I deleted all my 100k plus reddit accounts yesterday. I have so much muscle memory from going to reddit daily that I have to force myself not to go.

  • Gamey@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    As an alternative we have the same memes you know for years in everyones feed here but I actually kind of love that because it’s only the best of them!

  • donut4ever@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Oh you mean those hundreds of nested one word comments that add nothing to the subject? Fuck those. So thankful for “tap comment to collapse” in reddit clients.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      We still have inline images in comments though which are arguably just as bad, if not worse.

      I’ve already seen numerous cases of people using the place like discord and dropping gifs in reply to a comment, and getting upvoted because “lol moving pictures”.

      They contribute nothing, they’re distracting, take up a lot of space in the comment chain if you like compact mode, often spammed by users that have nothing intelligent to add but feel the need for attention anyway.

      I’m patiently waiting for the setting to disable it.

    • Elderos@lemmings.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it killed my will to participate in the comments. So much of it was those dumb jokes and chains. Originally has left the train a long time ago. I ended up sort of loathing the “humor” on that place.

      To me, this felt similar to “clapter comedy”, wherein there is no laughter, just applauses. Nothing funny is being actually said, there is no setup, no punchline. It is just people sorta agreeing that something should be funny because they agree with it, and if you’re the first yo say it, then all your unfunny friends will give you the thumbs up.

      For the record, I am a complete lunatic in real-life who joke about everything and I find almost everything hillarious. It is pretty damn sad that I get no enjoyment from theses.

    • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      You’re lucky if you get a full word. The worst were the one letter chains that culminated in F U C K M E or something.