After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/
I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.
Be patient my friend, the engagements will come. Although the instances having issues doesn’t really make people want to browse lemmy. I practically never browsed past the first page of the feed before Sync for Lemmy got released.
It is so much better now then it was a month ago so imo we are now a floating boat rather than a sinking one that we are using buckets to keep floating
As an alternative we have the same memes you know for years in everyones feed here but I actually kind of love that because it’s only the best of them!
I hope it doesn’t peter out like Goat did. I deleted all my 100k plus reddit accounts yesterday. I have so much muscle memory from going to reddit daily that I have to force myself not to go.
It reminds me of the time I first started taking antidepressants and they started kicking in. “Holy shit, is this how everyone else feels all the time? This is amazing!” Mine is cripplingly bad and I’ve had it my entire life. Being a suicidal 7 year old is apparently not normal.
When Eternal September begins and all the frat boys no longer getting free booze at Reddit stagger down cyber lane looking for another party to crash and see the light is still on at Lemmy’s.
You can use this: lemmyverse.net/communitiesto find communities, when you go to a community it will have a link in the sidebar like: !community you may have to paste that link into your instance search bar for it to show up. (I think this is only if nobody from your instance has searched for it yet.) Its kinda a pain, but I think this will be a lot easier later down the road.
Tbh, I kinda miss these links. Lemmy has a big discoverability issue, and part of that is that it’s impossible to link to a post or comment in an instance-agnostic way.
Links to communities would at least help to find new communities to join.
I like to browse "everything " sorted to new. I find new communities that way. And there isn’t an underlying algorithm that curated your feed according to what your viewing history is.
That’s why it’s different from r/all, there is less manipulation.
I don't think there are technically dupes. You could have multiple communities across different instances all called "gaming". But that wouldn't mean they all share the same rules and posting formats, etc.
They'd basically be like different subreddits. So you could potentially create a multireddit, but not truly merging "duplicate" communities.
Yeah, but it would be nice if there was a way to consolidate when a single person posts the same article in every iteration of gaming across the platform.
Ohhh, yeah, that is a sort of unique issue. Even then each one would have different vote and boost counts as well as unique comments sections. I think with a clever enough UI you could still work it out, though.
Yeah multicommunities please! Also when you sub to a community a smol popup appears that asks if you’d like to sub to these other communities with the same name. Of course disable in settings.
I’m just so excited to have conversations again which aren’t full of negativity. I didn’t really see how toxic Reddit was until RIF closed down.
My first social media was Livejournal (I bet you’re too young to know what that is), which was a private blogging platform, and it was full of really beautiful intimate friendships I maintain to this day 24 years later. I hope for similar vibes for Lemmy.
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