It feels much more human on Lemmy. Reddit was mostly bots and training models. Do we have any statistics for Lemmy on percentage of bot users posting to the platform, who pretend to be human?

Sometimes I miss chatting with the bots on Reddit. The platform always kept you emotional and scrolling. All the gore, violence and other sensationalistic content. All the arguments arguments arguments always against you. It was a plastic experience.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Reddit gets a lot more votes and comments.. but I think the number of people actually talking to each other is about the same. Most the comments are just noise.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My last year of Reddit (prior to the API purge) was very much filled with low effort comments. You get a lot of votes and comments but the votes don't matter and the comments are largely empty one-liners. I doubt it's gotten better since I left.

I'd say even the assholes on Lemmy put more effort into the comments than Redditors do. Except tankies who just love to flood the comments with their copy paste list of sources for "everything".

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago

You get a lot of votes and comments but the votes don’t matter and the comments are largely empty one-liners.

The votes matter even less here, so there's no reason to drop empty one liners you think might get karma.

[–] cows_are_underrated 3 points 5 days ago

I would deny that. From my experience you're having much more conversations on Lemmy. If I posted a meme on Reddit I regularly got like 200 Upvotes and 0 comments. On Lemmy I usually get around 100 Upvotes and around 15 comments or so. This is a comparison between the same community on Reddit/Lemmy.

[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think you are mostly right, but sometimes I am missing the high quality answers here. You know, the ones where someone really puts in thought or seems to be an expert. Or maybe I haven't found the right communities yet.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We have a toxicity problem here. Reddit's is far worse but it's also a far larger platform, which compensates somewhat. Enhancing the effectiveness of moderation tools may help.

SO MANY people comment here sth like "I'd post that but people are so mean". It's really hard to please everyone, especially those who love and those who despise toxicity in the same space, and all the more so with tools that barely function.

[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think that depends highly on the sub. I made mostly positive experiences, but the negative one was something else. There are definitely some crazy people here.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

For me, the highs are higher here. The lows are lower, but also they are "labelled" i.e. if you block the big 3 tankie instances then your experiences on the Fediverse are improved >99%. That in turn affects the average person's experience - depending on which of these have been defederated already or not yet, from a particular instance (e.g. Lemmy.World defederated from hexbear early on, but neither StarTrek.Website nor Discuss.Online that I have been on did so, until very recently).

On Reddit, my every experience was one of snarky comebacks as if attempting to talk with a(n emotional) toddler. I'm not kidding when I say that I simply gave up, and after reading this essay that put into words the thoughts I had already started thinking on my own, I made the decision to leave. Not to come to Lemmy mind you, but to leave Reddit, even if that meant not using any social media at all. I'm sure there are good, solid subs there. But browsing by r/popular and a few more niche subs like r/OnePlus and some gaming ones, I wasn't enjoying my time.

Here I at least enjoy !TenForward@lemmy.world :-). And there are a few people who are actually nice here, who I stick around in order to converse with occasionally. I never found that happening on Reddit (earlier Reddit was different, but towards the end it had managed to chase away so very many, and/or convert most people into mere lurkers - including many of us here who have gone from lurking on Reddit to posting or at least commenting here), but the fact that that happens sometimes here is a huge bonus, IMHO.

And again, the tankie instances can be filtered, making the overall average experience much more pleasant. It does generally take some effort to curate your experience though - e.g. I can only name 3 instances that are defederated from lemmy.ml. Anyway, importantly, when I say that the average experience is better here than Reddit, I mean having excluded that one. Otherwise... the comparison is not nearly so simple (but probably involves higher highs, higher lows, and an overall similar experience to Reddit, unless you include also hexbear or Lemmygrad and then it's MUCH worse here - e.g. they constantly make fun of Western nations, and who enjoys being made fun of?).

[–] Blaze 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

!bestoflemmy@lemmy.world tries to compile those

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Thank you for linking this. I’m always looking for something interesting on here to scroll through on my lunch break.