The lemmings are a squeaky bunch.

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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    23 hours 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.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Agreed. On Reddit, if you weren’t there in the first hour of a rising post, your comment won’t be seen by many.

      I love that Lemmy posts have a longer “shelf life,” so to speak. I can see something posted days ago and still find fresh comments, which in turn encourages me to add something if it feels relevant. If I had scrolled a two day old post on Reddit, any comment I add would be rarely seen, or at most responded to with “Why are you commenting on a dead post?”

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      22 hours ago

      Also, on Reddit I felt dread seeing that there was something in my inbox. On Lemmy, I’m excited to see what someone wrote. Just a very different experience overall.

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 hours ago

      Agreed, and it’s kinda neat to start recognizing people’s names across different communities. Really feels like old-school internet forums in that way.

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        20 hours ago

        Humans work better on the tribe model. Having diverse communities and even fractured topics covered by multiple communities on different instances promotes this model.

        It feels like a properly social media that isn’t trying to exploit me, and I think that’s something special.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s small enough to recognize names. Big enough where running into a furry with an unreasonably flashy emojis in their name, or someone from some place you never herd had the knowledge of its presence forcefully injected into your brain through an unspecified method of perception is common place.

      Edit: Typo.

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      21 hours ago

      You can always be heard on Reddit. Reply to the top level comment with a sex related joke or the popular meme trend and upvotes will roll I’m fast. You could also make a post that allows others to be judgemental, like relationship advice or am I the asshole; and again you’ll get lots of attention. Or pretend to be a girl and comment of weed and sexuality. There are lots of ways to get attention.

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        18 hours ago

        All of those ways get you attention, yes, but they’re all vapid dopamine hits. Which is probably a positive for the right person I suppose.

        If you want meaningful engagement you will never find it in the larger subs, only in the super niche interest subs. We don’t really have many niche anything here on Lemmy save for a few vocal minority communities but the great thing is the engagement with the larger community is a real draw for a lot of us.