people posting here are going out of their way to post – and it feels like every thought has more weight or sanctity or meaning when it’s being posted here, at the dawn of a new era and the fall of an old.
i’m spending more time actually reading and engaging with every comment, parsing the details and thinking about it, conceptually. versus just looking at garbage all day, garbage with a little bit of fentanyl in to keep you hooked
This is exactly how reddit felt in 2008 when I joined. The more things change, the more they stay the same. You can’t get in the same river twice. This too shall pass. Etc etc
It feels very refreshing to be here at Lemmy. It definitely feels like Reddit before the Digg war.
I feel more engaged and that I can share genuinely.
I’m glad you’re feeling the same vibe here.
This new start feels like… really fresh, I like it. Willing to see it’s development.
It has less bots, that’s for sure.
Agreed, it all feels a lot more human and natural. Though I will be glad when this Reddit thing calms down, at the minute we sound a bit like bitter angry ex-partners what with so many posts about it. It’s to be expected I know, but once the community has let go of the past we can build a better future, I’m optimistic about that bit!
We may look back in the not-too-distant future and be pretty happy that the angry, bitter, Reddit “thing” happened. An open-sourced, federated model is just healthier than what most of us were satisfied with, before. It took all this to make this mass migration possible.
“this”
but really, I wonder how much of what we’re feeling is the absence of repost bots, and serial karma farmers.
Actually, how does karma or reputation work on lemmy or kbin?
there’s no account karma, only up votes or down votes on specific posts/comments. Maybe that’ll reduce karma farmers but then again karma is useless on reddit and yet they still farm.
It’s also the sheer volume of comments on Reddit. There are far fewer people commenting here, so each individual comment stands out more.
I remember the old days of reddit and slashdot et al. A typical post would have a few dozen or maybe one or two hundred replies. A huge post would have like five or eight hundred replies. A thousand was insane.
These days, 10,000+ is not uncommon. The biggest threads have had tens of thousands of replies. It’s insane, the inflation.
Actually being able to see my content on the page instead of being drowned in a sea of reposts, it feels better and makes me more motives to post instead of just lurking.
That was also why reddit became flooded with low effort pun chains. Why spend time writing a thoughtful reply for it to be buried, when u can make 5 puns and have 1 of them go to the top?
