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Don't kill me 😆

Only been here a day but the main thing I’ve noticed so far is that the user base reminds me of the old days of Digg and Reddit. Nobody downvoting comments for no good reason, nobody being needlessly hostile or starting shit. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

It's because the majority isn't here yet.

The Eternal September waits for every platform

But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: [email protected] and [email protected], each with its own moderation style that has to respect the rules of its instance.

I think that's a lot healthier than having one giant Politics subreddit where it's hard to get involved because of the size and the immaturity of the people.

It’s already starting, I got downvoted to hell the other day for calling it out when it happened

links exist. I just don't know how to use them lol

Yeah, there's the "everything" feed, but it's just not the same as /r/all.

Right now the first three or four pages in my feed are almost nothing but pictures of cats in boxes. Which is fine, but it’s hardly brilliant discourse.

That was a shitpost frenzy, I didn’t see much of that in comment sections!

I thought it was pretty stupid; I wonder if people are going to look back on it in a “narwhal bacon” type’a way.

It was good when it linked to actually interesting new communities, it was bad when it linked to meta-communities just collecting reddit posts - rimjobsteve, foundthemobileuser, holup half the time, cursedcomments, redditmoment, etc.

Same. It's not intrinsically bad, it was abused, but often useful

when it has comments, it rarely have replies

edit: i guess the /s was needed

I think its supposed to be: !community@instance

Just like how we used to do it in the old days, just copy and paste the actual URL

Im wondering how long that will last. Surely, at some point, there will be anti spam measures to help combat that.

Take my angry upvote?

no

Strange, isn’t it? Takes some time to get used to.

Then, once you start to get used to it, you realize how screwed up reddit must have been for civility to seem strange.

The first week is the hardest. It gets better the longer you are able to be intentional about your choices.

welcome to the club, and its great to have you.

I wish I could giv u gold!!!!!

Grr

Its called genralization. Whenever a media reaches a larger audience, that media stops filling its niche and starts trying to appeal to the larger audience. Its a bit more complicated when it comes to a social media, but look at some of the larger subreddits. When they were small and starting off, they were fun and exciting. But after growing a larger audience, they became more genralized. A bit boring.

Users are the same way. After a platform gains enough users, those users start to act in a way that is similar to picking the low hanging fruit. Whatever is the easiest way to garner attention, they do it.

If lemmy grows to reddits size, it'll probably be the same. However, hopefully different instances and nonsummarized karma will mitigate that.

We still have inline images in comments though which are arguably just as bad, if not worse. I can't be the only one that noticed how rapidly /r/unexpected comment sections went to absolute shit when gif comments became a thing in the Reddit mobile app.

I've already seen numerous cases of people using the place like discord and dropping gifs in reply to a comment, and getting upvoted because "lol moving pictures".

They contribute nothing, they're distracting, take up a lot of space in the comment chain if you like compact mode, often spammed by users that have nothing intelligent to add but feel the need for attention anyway.

I'm patiently waiting for the setting to disable it.

You're lucky if you get a full word. The worst were the one letter chains that culminated in F U C K M E or something.

Yeah, it killed my will to participate in the comments. So much of it was those dumb jokes and chains. Originally has left the train a long time ago. I ended up sort of loathing the "humor" on that place.

To me, this felt similar to "clapter comedy", wherein there is no laughter, just applauses. Nothing funny is being actually said, there is no setup, no punchline. It is just people sorta agreeing that something should be funny because they agree with it, and if you're the first yo say it, then all your unfunny friends will give you the thumbs up.

For the record, I am a complete lunatic in real-life who joke about everything and I find almost everything hillarious. It is pretty damn sad that I get no enjoyment from theses.

There are three holup communities that comes up when I type !holup

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Tip: you can link communities just like Reddit but typing ! and the community name until a drop down shows up

I have a question:

Well, on Reddit, with subreddits, you can go inside with your shoes on, right? Then, what if you stepped on dog poop out on the street, and you went to a subreddit without realizing it... If the Redditor father and mother and eldest son and eldest daughter all stepped on poop and went to a subreddit without realizing it...