On Reddit I generally didn’t read attached articles. I’d developed a pretty good intuition where the article title, website and top comments could tell me all I needed to know (And reading the source normally confirmed this)
On Lemmy the smaller numbers of comments mean we need to engage with the content being discussed more directly, which is quite a nice change of pace for us Reddit converts.
Another nice thing I noticed is that the lower influx of post allows more engagement because you don’t “arrive late” to comment on a post. Back there if you responded to a post that was 4+ hours ago nobody would respond and the post was already dead.
That’s true. I’ve got a feeling that the rhythm has changed. I’m not sure if it’s because there aren’t as many posts per minute or because by the time I read I post it doesn’t already have like 10000 comments. Suddenly I dare to engage in the conversation because people are still taking part on it, my comment is not going to get lost. I like this a lot.
For sure. I was largely a lurker on Reddit not because I didn’t like engaging with the content and community, but because it was practically impossible for me to engage in anything. Either the post I commented on didn’t get popular enough to last long enough for engagement, of by the time I saw something that was popular enough, everyone had already moved on hours ago. It feels much different here where there’s fewer posts, and that means that people will spend longer on each post and speak their own mind as well, rather than looking at the top three comments, and moving into the next post.
The trick for older, active posts is to start commenting under the top comments instead of making a top level comment yourself. That way, you’re seen by most people who don’t sort comments by new.
Another thing about the lower population is that you don’t have people trying to needlessly karma farm. All those addicts couldn’t leave behind their treasures trove of 1 million updoots, so they stayed on reddit.
Because of that, you have many more people here posting about stuff they’re passionate about. No rage-bait articles or massive amounts of doomerism posts. It’s refreshing to have more organic content being shared.
You’re right, that’s something I hadn’t considered. The desire to keep gaining more karma definitely plays a factor in reddit content, people know what will get a reaction, or the type of stories youtube channels will pick up, or what will simply get an upvote and just set out to create as much of that content as possible. And then they post that one post to 38 barely relevant subs so I see it multiple times and it’s just a cesspool honestly.
All those addicts couldn’t leave behind their treasures trove of 1 million updoots, so they stayed on reddit.
It was a hard decision, but I nuked my comment history before I left. Figured you got to burn your ships to motive the men.
I nuked my post history a few days ago. Apparently reddit is going so far as to undelete content from prominent contributors, so better to just check back in a few days.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZKkUg8jgM
Hasn’t happened to me personally though.
I think a large part of it is that the folks who are really conscious of social media’s toxic sides, the enshittification/‘ennui engine’ phenomenon, privacy, etc are more likely to come over here first. Makes it especially great at least for now.
This is what it was like on Reddit, when it began. It’s also missing bot comments, so it feels more personal.
I agree… the vast amount of replies was at times distracting, and the comment section took on a life of it’s own that often had nothing to do with the link. I find myself reading more articles here, like it’s actually a link aggregator.
