To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time 🙃)
It’s a great place to wildly spout crazy nonsense and general gibberish with an underlying theme of overthrowing the system.
I love it here but have one gripe… I can’t play videos in-app. (Maybe it’s just my app’s problem, but it’s a bummer for me.)
Lemmy is entertainment / social media for me, and I’d like to have something like Reddit’s TiktokCringe sub here. I don’t like Reddit and I don’t like Tiktok, but I do like funny videos that are presented to me because people think they are funny rather than because Youtube’s algo thinks it’ll boost an advertiser’s clout. Playing video without having to open another app would be nice.
Beyond that, I love it here. Conversations can actually happen here and I’ve even met people on Lemmy and continued to chat with them outside of the platform on other apps — I’ve never had that happen on any other social media. So cool.
Less content to go through, so you end up going through posts and comments a bit more thoroughly. This translates to higher engagement from users overall compared to Reddit.
The con of course is less content to go through.
So make some content. Almost all of these posts seem to be about not having content to consume, but someone has to make it too. Reddit used to have the same problem, the Internet was just smaller back then.
Personally, I find the people here very elitist and unwelcoming, and I have found myself spending less and less time here because of it.
Interesting, really? Maybe I just don’t engage with people that much, but it seems pretty chill or at least definitely no worse than Reddit in that regard
It definitely depends on the community. I’m mostly noticing it in the meme communities. A high percentage of jokes in the memes that I see are at the expense of a group that I am a part of, and I guess I just don’t really relate to the people here. So I just don’t come back very often.
That could explain the difference in experiences. I filter out those communities as best I can given the tools available.
If Reddit was a water park, Lemmy is the small adult jacuzzi room in the back.
Friendlier than reddit, but a lot more really stupid hot takes than reddit. Not as many shitheads; but the shit heads that are here are even shittier than anywhere else I’ve been on the Internet. Mostly the super paranoid security and super hardcore “free speech” folks that are like the main character of Conspiracy Theory. This platform seems to attract a lot of those.
Makes sense. There are two types of people here: those that left reddit by choice, and those that got ran off because they were assholes.
To be fair, I didn’t exactly come here by choice; I was ran off of reddit because Spez is an asshole and killed off the only good way to use the site on a mobile device. Though had I known about Lemmy before the appocalypse I would have come by choice. I didn’t know about it until all that kerfuffle and was already looking for alternatives.
Yeah, same here. But you could have chosen to use their shit mobile app, is what I mean.
