So, I got site-wide banned from reddit a while ago due to using the word “purge” on a post and since then I have been using Lemmy more and more. However, one thing that I have noticed is that Lemmy is less active than reddit.
For example, the most comments I have seen a post get is 200, where in reddit I’m confident it would get much more.
Anybody got that shocked pikachu lying around. I think OP needs some
Well…duh! Reddit had a massive head start plus they’ve sold their soul to the money guys to ensure that they remain a staple part of the normie diet.
Furthermore, Reddit is a home for propaganda that gets artificially inflated by bots and state actors, thus leading to insane upvote counts.
Here, we have a refined palate. We don’t have 1000 posts of slop, we have 100 posts of open source trans autism. Once you train your taste buds to be accustomed to nutritious content again, you won’t be able to stomach the slop anymore.
It’s an adjustment, but it’s worth it, and in the end, I feel like this place has been better for my mental health.
Welcome to Lemmy. We greet you with open arms.
We don’t have 1000 posts of slop, we have 100 posts of open source trans autism. Once you train your taste buds to be accustomed to nutritious content again, you won’t be able to stomach the slop anymore.
rotflmao
also: very true, i’m ashamed at the amount of slop i used to ingest.
Welcome. I too disagreed with the wrong people on Reddit and can no longer participate there.
Yeah presently Lemmy is not Reddit-scale. But, it also is not Reddit-moderated, or Reddit-algorithmed. I find I can sign into Lemmy, do a bit of scrolling and commentary to scratch my itch, and get on with my day. No dynamic selection designed to retain my engagement through emotional manipulation, a far lower population of malicious bots and actors, and generally more thoughtful discussion.
Quality beats quantity. Federated social breaks the toxic monoculture. Distributed media like this is able to support a broader diversity of people. In the end, this is the future.
This is a pretty comprehensive take on the difference in vibe
Lemmy is a lot less artificially self reinforcing
Reddit is boosted by thousands of bots, and has a significantly larger userbase.
And even though there is higher quantity of discussion, the quality might vary heavily.
Reddit has a dramatically larger userbase.
Also significantly more bots masquerading as people
Sure, their bots on their own likely dwarf us as well, but even taking then out reddit is dramatically bigger than us.
Lemmy MAUs is in the thousands.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances (35k active users)
The userbase is different, plus you’re on Lemmy.world, which is defederated from active communist instances like Hexbear.net.
I’m new to this whole “federation” thing. When I joined Lemmy I just followed a guide where it said it made no difference which instance I made my account in. Is that not true?
It’s only true in that you can interact with other federated instances on any federated account, but not all instances are federated with every instance. I can see Hexbear.net just fine from here, as can I see Lemmygrad.ml, but you will never see them from Lemmy.world accounts.
There’s also the fact that many instances vary in how they run things, what their local sort is like, etc.
Ngl, that sounds needlessly complicated. Anyway, thank you for your answer.
its not, really. and its something you get used to and come to appreciate.
the city analogy is a great one - every town has its own flavor. many towns build roads (federation) between them so all inhabitants can easily travel to each other… as a city.
some towns self-isolate or are isolated from other towns (defederated) for all sorts of reasons and, if you want to see what they have to offer, you can set up a house directly in that town or another town with a road to (federated with) that town. it really does allow some very cool places to thrive - like the internet was before it was purchased.
lemmy{dot}.world chooses to keep things pretty… bland? thats their right, but there is quite a bit of quality spiciness out there if you have a house in a well connected (widely federated) town or decide to set up a few additional houses in some of the more exotic towns.
does anyone have a federation graph up and running right now? should be easy-ish based on instance published federation lists.
No worries! It makes it more complicated to start, but it also has its strengths.
Yes, there are way fewer people here than in Reddit
