Yeah I’m much more forgiving for this platform when it just had a crazy influx of users. In fact, I’m actively participating more because I feel like my voice matters a little bit more then it did on Reddit and I want to see this community thrive
The community sizes here at the current time definitely allow for more user to user interaction. It’s much harder for your voice to get lost in an overwhelming sea of useless comments as it tends to in the larger Reddit subs.
You also don’t have a 50% chance the comment you’re replying to is from a bot and copy and pasted either from that post, another random post, or even the original post that a repost bot stole posted snd you are now commenting on.
Reddit is a bot riddled mess.
It’s nice, but I feel like this is temporary. I don’t see Lemmy being more bot resistant. The bots will probably come. I think that’s alright because it’s just not the main problem that Lemmy is trying to solve.
I’m happy with the server squeeze as well, but mainly because it’ll keep the riff raff out for now who will take one look at this place and be put off by the imperfections and lack of sheer size vs Reddit. Basically, for now we’ll end up with plenty of people here who are willing to put up with the problems and create a good sense of community.
The one thing that concerns me is: when this place becomes more popular, how does this site attempt to avoid the “Reddit moderator” stereotype and encourage good moderation of their communities?
Yeah I’m much more forgiving for this platform when it just had a crazy influx of users. In fact, I’m actively participating more because I feel like my voice matters a little bit more then it did on Reddit and I want to see this community thrive
The community sizes here at the current time definitely allow for more user to user interaction. It’s much harder for your voice to get lost in an overwhelming sea of useless comments as it tends to in the larger Reddit subs.
And I feel like there’s a lot less algorithm generated aggression. It’s nice, reminds me of reddit back in the earlier days.
You also don’t have a 50% chance the comment you’re replying to is from a bot and copy and pasted either from that post, another random post, or even the original post that a repost bot stole posted snd you are now commenting on. Reddit is a bot riddled mess.
It’s nice, but I feel like this is temporary. I don’t see Lemmy being more bot resistant. The bots will probably come. I think that’s alright because it’s just not the main problem that Lemmy is trying to solve.
…yet
I always wondered how reddit would solve it’s not problem, I never knew it would be by driving all the real people to other platforms
I’m happy with the server squeeze as well, but mainly because it’ll keep the riff raff out for now who will take one look at this place and be put off by the imperfections and lack of sheer size vs Reddit. Basically, for now we’ll end up with plenty of people here who are willing to put up with the problems and create a good sense of community.
The one thing that concerns me is: when this place becomes more popular, how does this site attempt to avoid the “Reddit moderator” stereotype and encourage good moderation of their communities?