But you no longer trust those 100 comments on reddit are coming from humans. So the magic is dead. Gone. Are you calling out a problem you see here or feeling nostalgia for something you no longer have? One perspective is that the little bit you get here isn’t a failure to recapture the magic, but the most of it you will get ever again. The internet will only continue to be less free from here on out. The pre-unleaded generation in power is going to spitefully force us to empathize with their eternal postwar fever dream. Try not to yearn for the 1950s early 2000s the rest of your life.

I can agree with the community sentiment. Feels like we skimmed off the top layer of nerds from Reddit and they’re all ornery while trying to adapt to their new environment. I say that as one of them, lol.

I get that this is a relatively new frontier, but jeezaloo there are a lot of negative nellies around. “It’s the internet, block/ignore them” yadda yadda, sure, but it just feels like a more sizable amount of people who would close stackoverflow threads as “duplicate” and link to a thread that doesn’t answer the original poster’s question, ya feel me? Like, those kinds of Redditors.

I get that “remember the human” is an old, cringey netiquette, but I wish more folks on here would take that to heart. Hard to sell Lemmy as a viable alternative when folks treat people like they’re beneath them.

I’m ok with it. If I need information on my new favorite game, I’ll check Reddit because someone is talking about it, but for my day to day scrolling, I like it here. If there’s no new stories since the last time I looked, that’s my sign to go find something better to do. I recognize the names of people that I speak with almost daily, and I imagine they recognize mine too.

I don’t remember what it was, but I remember disagreeing with Kolanaki about something trivial. We each made our points, and moved on. I honestly considered what they had to say because I’ve had discussions with them before. I know that we do agree on most things, and that they are a reasonable person. And I’d like to think they at least considered my perspective for the same reasons.

I’m all for more growth, more content, more interaction, but not necessarily “compete with Reddit” big.

Yeah, Lemmy is pretty small. Even I miss the massive subreddits or moreso the small niche ones.

I will point out that Reddit is roughly 20 years old and that audience took time to grow. I don’t really want Lemmy to grow that much because it does bring the riffraff that plaged reddit, but it is pretty lonely out here in the corner of the internet. I do find myself refreshing apps hoping for new content quite often.

People need to be the change they want to see. I came here because I wanted to run some communities, but ultimately it was impossible on Reddit. All the names are taken, all the aging mod teams set in stone. You essentially have no meaningful opportunity to build anything new on there. In contrast, and especially with federation, the Fediverse is a completely different system. A fresh start - still after 2 years. And it has way better internal advertisement of communities than Reddit does.

And to be clear, on Reddit you can easily just shout into the wilderness at no-one. Big audience means you can get drowned out.

why are the down votes?

Ok, bye

Complaining about heavy-handed mods? Someone find the deleted post where they said something batshit insane and/or racist!