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sabriy01 ,

Federation is the best thing i have ever seen.

Zippythezigzag ,

Group hug?

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..WHY IS THERE NO EMOJI FOR HUGS!?

Pandananana ,

🤗
I think this is the closest one!

Secret300 ,

For me it's the freedom. No big corp is over my shoulder, No one person is in control. Even if the admin's for lemmy.world go crazy or something I can just make another account on another instance. I'm actually planning on running my own instance but I'm broke so it'll probably for just my friends and I, running on some office PC I find for cheap on Ebay

czardestructo ,
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All I can picture for lemmy users right now is an excited dog at a dog park that is just loving life and wants to say high to every other dog and is wagging his tail so hard that his whole ass is wagging.

AtHeartEngineer ,
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Lol ngl, it's a little like that. I haven't been excited about a new social thing on the internet in a long while.

magnetosphere ,
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My guess is that people realize that you won’t be persecuted for being civil, and we want to maintain a positive vibe. Lots of us reddit refugees didn’t realize just how toxic reddit had gotten, and Lemmy is a breath of fresh air.

themadcodger ,
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I've only been on the fediverse just under a year, but generally speaking that's the vibe here in general. Twitter migrants said the same thing after they showed up to Mastodon/Calckey.

muaveri ,

wait till the bots show around... lol

xyzinferno ,
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It's nice people, the culture of Lemmy, and the amount of users

On reddit, if you wanted to chime in on a thread that was popular enough to reach your feed, it was probably too late to make a comment that would stand out, since the people who comment on it early would get the upvotes, reach the top, and drown out your input.

Here at least, the comment sections, number of users, and the way "Hot" is sorted allows people to feel like their input matters, rather than just trying to make short quips to farm the most karma. The lack of a karma system or comment/post awards also helps this, as people aren't as incentivized to just farm upvotes.

And of course, the bulk of Lemmy's platform as of right now is built on people who left Reddit because they cared about their communities, and had strong opinions on how an online forum ought to be fairly run, leaving the more apathetic users behind. Naturally, this means most of Lemmy's users care about their community, and share that common bond.

Trusty_McLegit ,

Absolutely, I’d go to comment on a post, notice there’s 5000 comments, and find someone else posted exactly what I was going to comment. I just gave up. I’ll have to remind myself to actually participate here.

MrModule ,

Le kiddos are still over at Reddit

ConTheLibrarian ,

I suspect (/hope lol) a lot of them will just use the reddit official app.

miraclerandy ,

Is that how we're gonna do this? Roll back all our jokes to 2015 reddit memes? Are we gonna start posting rage comics and complain about 9gag again? I'm not complaining, just trying to understand what's coming up.

PenguinJuice ,

Gotta roll it with it ma dude. The internet is constantly changing

Mannimarco ,

I am so ready for the return of rage comics, it was a glorious era

hexadence ,
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Why do all good things come to a NAND?

corytheboyd ,
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It’s good because too many people hasn’t ruined it

zalack ,
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I'm curious if the decentralized nature of Lemmy will mean it never gets to be "too big" since users will be more spread out. I know we can all see each other's posts... but still

paddirn ,

It's good because it's lessening the "hardship" of leaving reddit. Imagine leaving reddit and there's literally no alternatives out there that match that format. Imagine if it was just Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, and whatever else, but nothing else that matched that sort of long stream of post headlines that Reddit has done so well. The others kind of do a similarish thing (post streams), BUT me personally I like this condensed headline format, I don't want to see a ginormous posts that takes up half the page and I have to waste valuable microseconds scrolling past it to get to the next giant post.

I'm an info addict and I want to see twenty posts on a page, briefly scan through them and keep scrolling down, just droves and droves of headlines that I can react to and completely skip past reading the article and go straight into commenting on it like I'm an expert on this thing I didn't even know about 5 minutes ago.

tmsqhazdzp ,

I tried to feed my info need without Reddit; rss feed readers, tech blogs with comments.

It felt empty as I realised the discourse was tipping the balance on what I was seeking out.

Multiple Lemmy instances with the iOS Memmy app feels like I’ve benefited from getting off Reddit.

sriracha_no_big_deal ,

I’m an info addict and I want to see twenty posts on a page, briefly scan through them and keep scrolling down, just droves and droves of headlines that I can react to and completely skip past reading the article and go straight into commenting on it like I’m an expert on this thing I didn’t even know about 5 minutes ago.

lol are you me?

FuccDiss ,

I agree. Haven’t seen any trolls at all.

lemonflavoured ,
@lemonflavoured@kbin.social avatar

I've had people mass downvote all my comments. IDGAF about that though

alekradic ,

Let me guess - you commented on something posted on lemmygrad? :P

Shadywack ,
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I remember when people made the effort to be nice on Reddit as well. Opinions were valued and courtesy was extended with a benefit of the doubt, before it turned into a "not up for discussion" shithole. It was like watching someone get wealthy with their fuck you money, and then the community went to shit as mods got tired of trolls, opinions were no longer valued, and the echo chamber effect became amplified.

Tired8281 ,

I sort of had an intuition that the people I want to talk to, the people I enjoyed talking to over there, would also be the ones who made the choice to come here.

Corey1031d ,

It really is nice here. I love the break from the constant shitposting that is on reddit.

sigh ,
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I guess you could say the particular reason Lemmy is so good right now is the friends we made along the way

patchw3rk ,
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This thread has the right vibe, I appreciate everyone here. I hope you are all moderators that can maintain your communities as we see in here.

Please come with me at !BestOf too. I want all of you there! We need some wholesome contributors, even if it's just a downvote.

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