Loads of people are bad for stuff that's very popular. But they also allow niche communities to build up. The later is what I miss about the Fediverse.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I thought about that, and I think I just still prefer there being less people overall, even if we lose nice communities. There's probably a way to have the best of both worlds though

[–] Syndic@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't see how. Stuff which interests a very small percentage of people obviously results in a lot less people interested in it on a much smaller platform. You would need to specifically target and convince people of such niche interests to come on over. That doesn't seem likely.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I still prefer it sorry I guess for doing so? What do you want me to say?

[–] Syndic@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Why do you think I want you to not say this? That's of course absolutely fine if you prefer a smaller community with all it's pros and cons.

I just don't know any way how your last sentence could come true with what we know about social media.

[–] caesaravgvstvs@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm really hoping that the smaller communities dedicated to a topic start getting more traction, although I'm not doing much myself to make them grow

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The thing I love about Lemmy is how easy it is to start communities. All you need are people interested in whatever is there.

Watch I'll start one today (well I'll just seed the idea, the community does the hard work ;) )

https://lemmy.world/post/12196744

[–] caesaravgvstvs@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's just I'm more of a lurker and also haven't found anything to post about in the woodworking community.

But also I should make a drag race community

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

The best thing is that there are much less repost bots (both for posts and comments)

[–] Speiser0@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

It sucks up too much of my time. So it's working. 👍

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

What stood out the most to me was when everybody left Reddit and came to Lemmy that everyone helped each other to get settled into Lemmy and the Fediverse - at least where I settled. Knowledge was passed down. More tech savy users answered the questions of new users patiently. Everybody was (and still is) polite in general and it is a pleasure to participate in such an enviroment.

I experienced (and I still do) much more "adult" behaviour within Lemmy, compared to Reddit. I barely have to downvote comments due to bad/ malicious behavior. I think I have had to downvote 3 times within the last 8 months - and one downvote was dedicated to a bot which summarized some news content wrong. Here you can have nice discussions and most comments actually contribute. Less "This"-comments.

I like that Lemmy in general is more left leaning, and also more tech savy. Also, I experienced less gatekeeping than on Reddit - at least, within my home instance. Your experience, however, may differ.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My overall analysis is positive. Not a full perfect score, but better than Reddit. (Note: ++/+/=/-/-- indicated in comparison with Reddit, not in absolute terms.)

[++] Migrating to avoid bad admins works great in practice. And it imposes a limit on how shitty any admin team can be, as nobody wants to see mass exodus from their instances.
[=] Your typical Lemmy moderator is as clueless as the Reddit one on things like transparency and nurturing a good relationship with the other users.
[--] Mod tools? Which mod tools?
[-] Overall less content, even if you're in an instance that doesn't defed other instances willy-nilly. It's still enough to keep you entertained across the day, as casually glancing across threads.
[++] The userbase used to be better, but it's still leagues above the one in Reddit. Your typical Lemmy user seems way more eager to understand what others say, abler to follow a simple reasoning without "I dun unrurrstand" tier idiocy, and less eager to boss you around with uncalled advice.
[=] Same fucking love for genetic fallacies here as in Reddit.
[-] Witch hunting is actually worse here than it is in Reddit.
[-] As well as intrusive political discussion in non-political posts and communities.

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

I generally agree, but there is absolutely no way that witch hunting is worse here than on reddit. There was a shitton of doxxing and people being very aggressive over minor things, like YouTube drama. Also the Boston Bombing incident? It's not even close.