When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.
I have not been on reddit since the protest, but I didnt post or comment a lot anyway so probably not much of an impact
I want to comment more but I often don’t have much to say. I’ve made it a goal to comment more though, because I want to see this platform succeed.
I love the enthusiasm in this thread but if we the mass migration of reddit users that I am hoping for, the toxicity and annoying reddit behaviors are probably coming along with them. I am hopeful that this place will at least stay much more open and free.
I used to use Reddit through throwaway accounts. Was never a regular user, and moved away from it over a year ago now. Just stopped posting to socials a lot.
Mental health has gotten better, and I’ve been more active here than I ever was on Reddit because I just enjoy the vibes the place gives me overall.
Don’t be delusional, our opinions still does not matter.
I feel more obligated to contribute here because I want Lemmy as a whole to be more active. More content = more users.
Same, but I’ll admit I’m trying to enjoy my last remaining days on Reddit to the fullest.
Yes! English is not my first language, so commenting on Reddit made me nervous. I find Lemmy to be more forgiving (if that makes sense?) as well.
I have not touched reddit since this debacle… I added a bunch of subreddits to my RSS reader, but I’m honestly not looking at it.
Unfortunately searching for information often brings me to a reddit post, but I’m trying to avoid it and so far found the information elsewhere.
Deleted My reddit account , tried all of the fediverse before but always went back to propriety for same reason as anyone else. Everyone is there. With the Reddit exodus I feel this will get the push it needs
Yes. It’s far less hostile here and I don’t fear getting downvoted to hell for asking a question.
Yeah and lemmy still shows upvotes even if you get downvoted. Also it doesn’t automatically hide your comment if you get negative votes which I find annoying on Reddit
Yes, absolutely. I’m still not sure if it’s because the whole community is smaller here, the people are better, no Karma competition, or a combination of all the above
no Karma competition
EDIT: THANKS FOR THE DOWNVOTES YOU IDIOTS.
EDIT 2: LMAO LIKE I CARE ABOUT DOWNVOTES, KEEP THEM COMING
EDIT 3: YOUR DOWNVOTES FUEL ME
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EDIT 99: comment removed by user
It’s always funny, because they will be at -1 and cry like they don’t care, but then delete the comment because they want it to stop lmao.
Every comment I would make on Reddit seemed to get challenged by someone looking to start a long-winded argument as they were, in fact, the main character of the universe.
I like it here because so far, people are nice. It’s like the first day of high school and everyone just wants to be friends and meet people.
I like you!
Yay!
And I like you too.
No karma competition here. It has a bigger effect on behaviour than you’d think.
It’s like a little trophy or a symbol of validity to some people. You’d see big edits addressing downvoted as if people got personally hit in the head with them.
I don’t blame people though because viscerally, these things are little tokens of “approval” by others at large.
Votes have a bandwagon effect, both up and down votes. Sometimes it just felt like arguing with an army of mute downvoting zombies; no reply, just downvotes. I completely understand some communities on Lemmy disabling downvotes, even if that means there is no mora a “controversial” vote.
My only fear is that as Lemmy gets bigger, the same botting, brigading and mindless bandwagoning, will also come here.
I like I can say the words Tiannamen and Square and not feel like bots are out to get me 🙂
The misinfo on Reddit is wild. Just shows people don’t understand federation and how the views of one instances’ moderators doesn’t impact what people can say or do on other instances.
I feel like your characterization of Reddit users as long-winded and contrarian is inaccurate and frankly offensive. Let me write you several paragraphs about why you’re wrong, sprinkled with thinly veiled personal insults and outright harsh commentary about you as a person.
Sorry, just trying to make it feel like our old home :)
Lmao this was good. You forgot to comb through my post history to see if you can make your comment even more hard-hitting by referencing a personal problem I have that was highlighted in a post or comment from 6 months ago 🤪
They’re here. I got banned from no stupid questions for asking in the comments why an incredibly small group of people gets to define how I use language.
What’s the context? Sounds vague.
If I remember correctly I was arguing that “gender assigned at birth” already had a word for it and it was sex. Somebody asked about intersex people. I said I didn’t see the point in altering my language for such a vanishingly small group. Then a week later the powermod decided to look through my comments and came to the conclusion that I was breaking “rule 7” which is some vague shit about being nice or something. That was one of the things that made me abandon lemmy.world. Old reddit mindset. I left reddit 8 years ago because of that crap and never went back.
I say powermod because they have a over a dozen subs started basically all mirroring reddit ones.
Ya you absolutely deserved to catch flack for that.
You are saying that gender is the same as sex and they’re categorically different things. It’s very easy to learn the difference so if you insist on arguing against facts, you’re damn right people are going to butt against you.
You’re arguing against treating people with kindness by pointing to the fact that they’re a minority. Lmao that’s the definition of a bigot.
If I’m having a conversation with an intersex person that actually cares, which with their prevalence I doubt it will ever happen, I will respect them. Why should I have to change the language I use outside of such a rare situation? We have terms like Biological Sex which mean something, and then we have bullshit like “gender assigned at birth” which on purpose mean nothing. Stop trying to make language intentionally tiring.
I completely agree with you. Now defend your point, which I’ve definitely attacked by replying. 🤺
That literally couldn’t be further from the truth /s
As the antagonist of this thread, I would have to disagree with this statement. I was, initially, very dismayed to see that no one had taken issue with this comment. Alas, here I am, to set things right. Being that most online communities seem to revolve around my person, I thought that I’d share these thoughts that so many of you had been patiently awaiting.
No but fr, huge fan of these communities. The voices that search out an argument don’t seem to gain quite as much traction on fedi (yet, at least). Probably due to them having a larger overall audience on reddit to feel validated by. Hopefully it stays that way!
had me in the first half
As the antagonist of this thread, I would have to disagree with this statement. I was, initially, very dismayed to see that no one had taken issue with this comment. Alas, here I am, to set things right. Being that most online communities seem to revolve around my person, I thought that I’d share these thoughts that so many of you had been patiently awaiting.
This killed me 🤣
Another big difference is the lack of vote fuzzing. It’s more obvious when people are abusing the upvote/downvote function, and it feels more meaningful when you know each vote directly represents a real person.
On kbin you can even see publicly which user made each vote, but idk if that functionality is planned or possible on Lemmy. It’s quite useful for combating brigading.
Reddit comment: “Well actually…” straightens fedora
Yes. I’m looking forward to more original content rather that all of the reposts from reddit. I’m not sure when that tipping point will be, but I hope it doesn’t have to do anything with poo.
I’m a lot more active then I was on Reddit.
I was very active in the subs of the games I play (I’m even r/CSRRacing2 mod) when I started there, but I’m getting tired of the hate, stupidity,…
Me, by far.
In Reddit: dropped mod position years ago. Used uBlock Origin to remove the voting buttons, as they’re pointless. The only threads that I’ve created were in r/RedditAlternatives, near the end. Create account, comment as I feel in the mood to comment, shred its content, repeat every ~3 months. Extremely rude tone towards anyone showing the smallest sign of shallow thinking, wishful thinking, or similar character flaws. Scaling up arguments for the sake of why not.
Here: moderating three comms. Actively voting. Creating threads fairly often, specially in the comms that I mod. Trying to keep a polite tone and contribute as long as I can. I’ve only got a single potential fight (against an extremely trashy user - assumptive, with poor reading, but still screeching like he was in Reddit), and even then I simply told myself “meh, why bother”.
Yea. Literally every reddit comment I posted resulted in someone replying to me in a toxic way.
I’ve only blocked one person on lemmy and that’s because they were replying to me in a toxic manner. That’s the first reply I’ve had that’s toxic, and I nipped it in the bud. I don’t care to have fighting matches back and forth.
Have you noticed if you go to Reddit and click on any thread, usually within the first comment thread, someone will be hating on another person? Fuck that.
I’d honestly suggest everyone block anyone who is being toxic. Not to mention, others don’t want to see your drama while looking through comments.
I also hate how every post you make you would instantly have an automod comment saying the rules.
That could still come to Lemmy, if posts start being seen by hundreds of thousands of people, particularly if they come from instances which don’t share the same netiquette as the one the post is made on. Of course there’s defederation to fight that, but I feel like it can only go so far.
