• Carnelian@lemmy.world
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      It’s been awesome watching things grow, and seeing the community develop its own personality, beans and all

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        Yeah for a while Lemmy kinda felt like we-have-Reddit-at-home but nowadays I’m reminded of how it felt in Reddit’s early days (ie: less exhausting), but older and wiser.

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          “Reddit at home” – felt like that until I started using a client.

          It’s pretty dang good here. If I forget that, all I have to do is go back to Reddit for five minutes and I’m reminded of how shit that site is.

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            Yeah, my participation was pretty sporadic until I found Voyager. It’s so much like Apollo was, I no longer pine for reddit at all. The only thing missing is robust mod tools, but I’m sure they’ll come along.

            Lemmy feels like vintage reddit now.

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            It’s my hope that decentralization and federation can help preserve much of the small-sub vibes while scaling up.

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                Yeah exactly I honestly I think that’s the single biggest factor in what makes the fediverse superior

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                  You can make a social network profitable or you can make it healthy for its users, but I am entirely unconvinced you can do both.

                  Maintaining social networks and moderating them should be a legitimate job where people are meaningfully rewarded for their effort, but that is different.

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          Not getting downvoted for unknown reasons feels good here at Lemmy.

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            The circlejerkiness of downvoting has increased since I was first on here, when people were more likely to respond with conversation than just a downvote of disdain (or my fave, people who downvote each reply in a conversation as they reply back). But there’s less random downvotes of disapproval than reddit. Esp. on kbin which doesn’t federate downvotes from other instances, ha.

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            If you still care about downvotes at all, you’re not internetting right. Complaining about downvotes gets an automatic downvote from me, dawg.

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      The only thing that sucks that some of the smaller subs don’t really have them active user base over here, so I’m still forced to use Reddit for those

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        I often find that if I’m having an issue or want general answers about something, I still stick “reddit” at the end of the search, but I never just open it to browse niche subs even though I am missing the equivalent here.

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      I’m so glad the Trek communities moved here from reddit. Whenever I go back there it just feels empty somehow, in spite of the still much larger userbase.

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    So all people I reply to and see here are like one big village, minus alts and nsfw accounts. It’s not bad. For once, I started to recognize persons behind a half of quality risa posts, like I did with niche reddit subs before. That’s what I want from a community, too see it tight-knit and filled with dedicated posters. It feels healthy and encourages to participate.

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      36k is referring to daily active users, not total accounts, so the whole network is more comperable to a single medium-large subreddit.

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        I’m happy with that, honestly.

        I have quality conversations with quality users because it hasn’t been diluted.

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          I miss the larger conversations on smaller communities that Reddit had, just due to its size as a site. For example, r/BeachHouse or r/HighQualityGifs or any miscellaneous game subreddit.

          But I’d bet Lemmy can get there over time. It’ll just be fairly slow-going at first.

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      Which is weirdly ideal, if what you want is a sense of actual community.

      Once you get to metropolitan numbers, you get the same paradoxical disconnectedness that you find in a densely-populated city.