It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.

  • SpaceBar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reddit is too popular and has too much group think, too many of the same types of comments that will get a lot karma, and too many comments that will just be ignored.

    NEW is a garbage dump or a pile of duplicates. So why comment on a new post? It will never go anywhere. HOT is already full of comments, so your comment will just be lost.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. I felt like I lurked reddit a lot because I felt like my thought was already found wherever I went unless I was the first one to comment. It’s nice to see a comment section that is growing but not thousands of other thoughts already in it within an hour or so.

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      1 year ago

      Do upvotes and downvotes work the same way here? If so, I fear that communities may become echo chambers too, in time.

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        1 year ago

        In a post and comment, yes. However your up vote vs down vote counts are not stored on your profile. It reduces the game-ification of the interactions.

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          It also depends where you’re reading from. Mastodon doesn’t sort at all, Kbin sorts differently from Lemmy, and one Lemmy instance might differ from the next. Even vote counts might differ between servers.

          In the end, the user experience here will be much more individual than on Reddit. What is the top post for you might not be the top post for me. :)

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        1 year ago

        I’m already noticing tons of comments getting down voted for seemingly just because people disagree so human nature makes a proper discussion difficult

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      I just hope the alt right doesn’t latch on - but w/ this being the Fediverse we can at least use reason & spin them off in their own little corner… for better or worse. (Better for us & worse for them)

      I don’t know what else is the answer though - they either drag us down w/ them or we rise above it & leave them to wallow in their messed up world views.

      If this turns into an Odysee then this will be a very sad place built w/ good intentions.

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      Agreed. On reddit each community has one way it thinks and screw you if you don’t have the same opinion on something. People here are more civil and willing to have a discussion over disagreements.