As a long time Reddit user, there’s something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things…

  1. People are more respectful of each other and interested in discussion and being social.
  2. Less trolls (users are probably older?)
  3. Due to it not being absolutely huge, I feel like people will actually see my posts and comments instead of being lost in a sea of content. I suppose once Lemmy grows this will change, however the cool thing about the fediverse are the new servers. So you can stick to the server when you want smaller community discussion and go to “all” when you want more populated threads.
  4. The clean UI feels refreshing and clean, almost like the early internet.

What have you noticed? Do you find it refreshing too?

  • Grosshirn@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I have been a user on Mastodon for quite some time but wasn’t that active and felt it lacked some content for me. Now that I joined lemmy I learned that mastodon is federated and I learned about kbin! That’s what makes it refreshing for me. A lot of new stuff and small communities emerging :)

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      1 year ago

      The thing that I think makes lemmy more valuable than mastodon is the focus on content versus personality. With Twitter, you followed people because you were interested in what they had to say and share. With Reddit, you followed communities. So even if a lot of the people don’t move over, once enough of the community does, it’ll feel the same (or better). I was never super active in my various subreddits (although I did comment, I just never posted), but I’m making an effort to comment and vote a lot on here just to help build that sense of community

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        1 year ago

        Yeah that perfectly summarizes my feelings aswell. The topic oriented communities are what I preferr!

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        1 year ago

        Not disputing what you’re saying, but one feature that was a game changer for me on Mastodon was figuring out that I can follow hashtags in addition to people.

        But I do agree with everything you said!

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          1 year ago

          Oh yeah, that is nice, but I guess at the end of the day it’s still just that idea of “I’m a person saying a thing” (and using a hashtag) versus “here’s this article I found”

      • yads@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Really good summary. I think this is exactly why I never really took to Twitter and I never really realized why, but it’s exactly that. I’m more interested in topics than specific people.