The lemmings are a squeaky bunch.

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I kind of feel like Reddit is the biggest bar in the world and having a conversation there feels like it. If you aren’t loud and early, you can’t really participate in a meaningful way. The smaller crowd of Lemmy is a sweet spot for me. Enough people that it’s not dead, but small enough that I can still participate in conversations.

  • Squorlple@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Me hanging out on !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Edit: never mind, the instance banned me for not believing in their dogma that dragons exist. Please report all of my posts and comments on that instance since I can no longer delete them

    Enjoy your death trap, ladies!

    • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      True, but reddit is better for niche interests. For example, we don’t seem to have any serious philosophy or history communities here. (I am happy to be wrong here, someone please let me know.) On the other hand, r/askphilosophy and r/askhistorians regularly get interesting questions answered by actual professionals.

  • Mucki@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        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”.