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For mods: I hope it's okay, if not feel free to remove it, but as a lot of people were commenting on the other thread while the reason of the change had been given in the top comment, I thought it was worth it to make a dedicated post.
this place still feels much emptier than reddit :(
That's a good thing. Less argumentative assholes and memelords rehashing the same tired old crap.
*Fewer argumentative assholes.
:)
I just got fairly downvoted and made fun of on a post of mine asking about jobs where they dont have a dress code- and someone called me a fucking anime girl or some shit. I guess it was from the Text emojis I was using- but like damn that was my second post here on this site😒
Paraphrased, "I don't wanna bed rot at home for my job." "Yikes, what a main character."
Lmao hope they were making a poor joke
There always has to be at least one asshole, but that is everywhere you go on the internet. Just downvote, block if you want and move on.
Sorry to hear 😔
Yeah some people here can be dicks. I’ve needed to block a couple people, and join an instance with disabled downvotes, and now it’s a lot better.
IDK about that. Honestly it seems like a lot of the assholes just went here.
Good news is that here they stand a much better chance of being moderated by competent admins, whereas Reddit admins moderate to save face of their website, not because they actually care about the rules or people getting hurt. Most of the assholes I knew of at the beginning of joining Lemmy aren't here anymore, they were banned, either on their home servers or by a good amount of the others.
Hard to compare though, one is in the hundredth million of active user, one barely scratch 50k, kinda different league.
Half of that 100 millions are bots tho
Even if that was true they still have 100x the people.
Yes yes, just to say that I believe Lemmy has (proportionally) less bots
We understood what you said.
That's a good thing for me. There's an actual end to the scrolling and since there are less people, the engagement rate is way way better than reddit. While there is still some drama cough ^vegan ^cats cough, it's still a better place in my experience. Although I miss the niche communities, but even the niche communities on reddit has pretty much imploded because of the monetization making the mods implementing some strange policies that neuters what made the subreddit great like trustull or formuladank.
Use the All function and when something bubbles up to you that you like, subscribe to it.
Took me a few weeks before I could stop browsing all. Using Voyager helped.
It looks live you've been here for two months, how is it so far? You mention Lemmy being emptier, which topics interest you? Maybe we can suggest you a few communities.
tbh- I had made my account 2 months ago, but ONLY STARTED USING IT just a week ago cus I was locked out for whatever reason. I had forgotten about it then but now im desperate for a reddit replacement because reddit wont answer back my 20 appeals :' )
Im interested in shitposting, Costume construction/cosplay, I also ask a lotta questions n stuff, Home DIY improvement is a new one... That should be most of it.
Here's my tip - subscribe to a bunch of things of interest, and set your subscribed feed to top for the day. You'll likely see a bunch of interesting posts.
Then browse all, top for 6 hours, and you'll see some wide variety (except for days following a debate like today, that'd going to skew political heavily for obvious reasons).
You'll find new and interesting communities to subscribe to, and make your subscribed feed all the better.
Personally I have different accounts for different interests, and for a few of them I rarely leave the subscribed/top for the day. They are more focused, and without a good multi-community feature that's universal, its the next best thing.
Hope you enjoy it here!
Then I guess you already know
For general discussion we also have !casualconversation@lemm.ee
There are a few threads with other active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, feel free to have a look there too, maybe something will catch your interest!
I've been here never. 😄 (or for centuries, depending on your client 🤣)
Reddit has millions of active users.
Does anyone know what the requirement is to be considered an active user? Does this count lurkers who don't post or does simply viewing content include them? Sorry if this is answered somewhere else, I'm just curious and lazy
Voted, commented or posted
In the last month
Thanks Blaze
You're welcome!
Also want to thank Blaze, love the amount of posting and commenting you do!
Thank you !
So lemmy.world is still excluded from the list but the active users from it are counted in?
lemmy.world is so big that it breaks federation to geographically distant lemmy instances. Driving more users to it wouldn't help anyone and defeats the purpose of decentralisation.
How does geographic location impact federation?
So, in its current form, lemmy sends federation packets in serial form. It can send them to multiple instances in parallel, but the feed between any two given instances is serial.
And serial means that the second packet doesn't get sent until the first packet has been processed. Add in geographic latency, which is relevant at multiple steps of resolving any given AP packet, which adds to the per packet processing time, and now, lemmy.world is producing packets faster than it's possible for a geographically remote instance to process them, no matter what hardware they're running on.
The problem would be resolved with parallel sending, but that's not currently a thing that lemmy allows for, and apparently, is not trivial to implement either.
I still feel bad for aussie.zone and their 1-week delay with LW
Yes, essentially.
