Over the last week or so I have noticed that I have a lot more fun engaging in discussions on here as opposed to reddit.
On reddit i always felt like i was shouting into the void and there was nobody listening, which resulted in me becoming a lurker for the last 12 years.
Maybe it’s the small size of this community, the lack of karma farmers, that I’ve finally lost my mind or a little bit of all of the above, but this place just feels like something special. I’m really looking forward to building the fediverse with all of you!
Same, when I posted on reddit I felt rejected, even if what I said was something unimportant, there was always someone who made you feel like you were wrong for just participating, this is much better.
Yeah Reddit had this fascination with being “right” all the timing and “owning” stupid people…
*time
Sorry, I had to do it :)
Sadly I’ve observed throughout the late 2010s how Reddit society gradually became about parroting the right opinion and walking on eggshells all the time.
I was never a lurker on reddit. I liked commenting, but the community feeling is much more substantial on kbin (and fediverse in general).
I find the engagement here more real than I ever did on reddit for twelve years.
First thing I noticed when moving to kbin is that I see what I want to see, and have only talked to people who felt like humans so far.
This is what’s so hard to convey about the Fediverse lol. Mastodon is obviously not everybody’s cup of tea, but when I made my account it was kinda shocking to me how I communicated with actual people. No ads in the feed. Took time to find good content but it was there.
Still haven’t found much good content on Mastodon, but I’m really liking the platform and app
Exactly. On Reddit, most of the time there was not point commenting, because of the sheer size of the audience. Here, I can actually contribute!
Absolutely, but I think we will have to be vigilant to keep that culture here as the place continues to grow.
I hope we can do that while keeping gatekeeping to a minimum.
100% agreed!
Same here! I upvote/boost a lot more than I did on Reddit, and my threshold for commenting is much lower than it used to be. Part of it is that I want this place to succeed, so I want to help it be more active. I absolutely agree that this community is smaller, friendlier, and less cynical than what we had on Reddit. That’s the other part, it’s really lowered my threshold of engagement.
Couldn’t agree more. Exactly the same for me.
I’ve started more posts and added more comments through kbin in a week than I did in 12 years on reddit. The community is so much smaller and comments are actually read instead of lost in the sea of shitposting.
Oh yeah - that reminds me of another thing I don’t miss about reddit: getting to a thread a few hours late and knowing your comment is unlikely to ever be seen under the pile that beat you to it
Spot on, it’s not a race to be the first to comment, which can also degrade the quality of posting with 90% repetitive “clever” comments copied from the last time, and quality posts being buried, which then disincentivizes people with something useful to say, perpetuating that cycle. Combine that with quick karma and you fuel a system racing to the bottom.
You can also sort your feed to show new comments by default in your settings, it’s been really good in the smaller communities/instances/magazines.
Yeah. Honestly, with that problem I think a random sort would have helped significantly, and the nice thing about Lemmy is that since it is open-source, if I have the time I can contribute that to the codebase.
Yeah. I always enjoyed those threads with random (contest mode) or new sort. Like even the huge SuccessionTV discussion threads I got people seeing my comments because of the sorting, despite there being thousands of comments in the thread
The small size and lack of content really makes me want to push things for the communities I loved to lurk on Reddit.
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I also am feeling this. It feels super refreshing to be here for the same reasons. I felt like when I commented on stuff I’d get ignored too.
I actually had a civil and decently productive conversation with a maga person.
Same here. What’s this, I can binge post AND feel good about it? Hehehe
Yep, for sure!!
very true
on reddit i only read
I made my own magazine here for whatever reason its quite fun
Alot of work is needed on the website but it’ll get there
It’s kind of like someone took Reddit and reinjected a little blogging and a little old internet back into it. Feels refreshing.
What community did you make? Your profile says you don’t mod any.
Same here … but commenting, sharing and posting Lemmy for the past few days and I just got into kbin … I’m still learning and I find it is really engaging my brain to try to figure out what is happening … on reddit I was a mindless zombie just rehashing content I had shared a hundreds times before
welcome to kbin!
Likewise, I really love the more tight knit community on the fediverse, feels much more fitting for contributing
I’ve always felt kind of anxious about commenting or posting so in over 10 years on Reddit I only posted and commented a handful of times. I only joined kbin yesterday and I feel such an urge to properly engage with the community that it has made me push past my anxiety. I absolutely love it!
I feel the same and am wondering what I can post. I’ve been lurking for so long the thought of submitting anything isn’t even in my mind. Good to switch gears and shake things up, start seeing the world a little different like what can I share, not just what can I consume.
Exact same here. I’ve always had a hard time posting on the Internet at all until finding the fediverse.
this is such a wholesome post, i love it. im enjoying my time here too, really glad to see the same for others!
I feel the same. I never tried to mod a sub on reddit but felt compelled to do so here (so I’d have a home for my otherwise newly orphaned posts).
