I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.

Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?

Edit: I didn’t expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you… I can’t reply to everyone. I’m an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I’m really sad too, but I’m finding that lemmy has most of the content I’m looking for, just needs more comments.

The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.

  • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
    61·
    11 months ago

    I mean people commenting and getting up votes on comments way faster. You don’t get more than on reddit, but you get them faster.

    Basically almost all comments have at least one other person upvoting.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
      6·
      11 months ago

      Ah so your contributions have more chances to be acknowledged here because it doesn’t get lost in the crowd and people interact more on average.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      6·
      11 months ago

      Engagement is quite high, yes. On reddit especially on the larger subs you’re either one of the first to comment or you get buried, and that’s not just due to size but also reddit’s hot sorting not displaying fresh comments with 0 upvotes on the top, unlike lemmy. There’s always the option to reply to a random comment to get interaction by calling them wrong on the internet, but, well, then you’re in a +1 -1 battle. Honestly it’s a sad state of affairs.

      What reddit does better though is pushing articles from smaller communities to my frontpage, I think the issue is that lemmy doesn’t scale scores by community size.