I know Kbin will grow in time but I miss how huge Reddit was.
I don’t. I like how I can comment on something and not have it buried. Engagement is much higher here
Yeah–I constantly read about how people liked reddit back in the day, or liked digg, but don’t connect it to the fact that the reason why they were better back in the day was because they were smaller and more intimate (for lack of a better word).
I’m excited for the fediverse to grow, but for me it’s already reached that critical mass for it to be engaging
That intimacy was still available on Reddit, but you needed to dig into the niche subs to find it. Commenting on large subs was definitely a cup of water in the ocean feeling.
Oh absolutely–that’s really the only reason I was able to stay on reddit. I do miss some of those smaller communities, but have resorted to actual forums now (if applicable), or just going without.
Shoutouts to the fiberglassflyrodders.com forums
Niche sub is just another way of saying echo chamber. Reddit was shit, every part of it
Right. Those damn knitters and their echo chamber of knitting tricks.
I dare you go say an unpopular opinion in a knitting sub, lets see how good it goes for you
Post something that is clearly crochet
Settle down Hitler
Ehh…as someone who was on Reddit and Digg back in the day, they were much larger than Lemmy currently is.
They weren’t born large. Reddit was seeded with content by the developers before the users came. The secret to growing a community is to grow a community. It all has to start somewhere and frankly, fediverse is starting with a much stronger kick start than digg and Reddit ever had.
Reddit was seeded with content by the developers before the users came.
That makes me wonder how people would feel about copying content from other platforms using bots in order to boost some communities. Those that have <1k subscribers could use some seeding.
There’s a project underway to do just that @BotIt
hear, hear! i don’t miss all the spam and bots.
That’s what she said.
Became so huge that I was typing a comment on Reddit and most of the time half way through I gave up and close the tab cause it wasn’t worth it. It would get buried.
I understand this only because my husband still is looking at reddit. I had to have a talk with him as to why I am changing platforms, the point of not visiting a site during a protest, and how Lemmys and kbin need time to grow. He was looking at news and he said “well your site doesn’t have anything! It’s basically empty where am I supposed to go for discussion!”
I told him he needs to either just view the news sites directly and contribute, or just try to curb usage and allow the sites time to grow. Use your phones native news app for now, whatever it takes to not add to Reddits ad revenue and user count.
If this was reddit, you’d be smothered in replies asking why you haven’t left your husband yet.
I mean, there’s a lot of content here already.
Yeah it’s not the same endless dopamine drip feed conveyor belt that is Reddit, but there’s plenty of content to engage with.
Yeah it’s not the same endless dopamine drip feed conveyor belt that is Reddit
Which sure as hell isn’t a bad thing!
Reddit was small once. Then Digg has a seizure and Reddit grew quickly.
Now it’s Reddit having a fit and we’re seeing more people dabbling in the threadiverse. It won’t be the same pace though, it has the same challenges as Mastodon etc… to encourage people to take a moment to understand federated decentralised Vs the monolithic services they’re used to… but it’s going to grow. June 30th will be the next influx.
I liked it’s size in terms of breadth. You could find a niche subreddit maybe on a TV show, hobby or small community and find an active sub.
However on the bigger subs I hated the fact you were drowned by the hive mind.
The hive mind was so toxic that it was a risky move commentating on something against the flow.
Just hope we can leave that behind.
Breadth is a good way of putting it. The thing that’s making it hard for me to leave Reddit behind is an NFL community with any level of activity. /r/NFL was my main source of football news.
Regardless of how many people stay on Fediverse or return to Reddit, the important thing is that so many people are now aware of, and engaging with, alternatives.
On reddit if you were european you were basically missing the action since the posts were written by americans and already 8 hours old, and your replies would be buried under the hundreds of comments.
Most of the time there was no point if you weren’t present like 1h after a post was made.
The only people who would read your comments would be an AI.
I, too, am a size queen.
Jokes aside, I was telling irl people about how even if I post something to the craft communities, there just isn’t a critical mass to make me feel validated from posting.
I made kind of a big overture in many comment sections agreeing with others that kbin felt kinder and different from 2017-present reddit, but then a lot of folks came in and started up the same low-effort content communities and fell back into the same patterns of memes, so now it kind of feels grubby.
And the places on reddit where I loved lurking and reading analyses and hot takes (news, world news, politics) all are total ghost towns in the Fediverse (at least, what early magazines I’ve subscribed to last weekend).
Whatever the perks are here - and I’m aware it’s all a work in progress at this stage - it lacks robustness for me.
I don’t know if others have the same strategy but I deliberately did not subscribe to any political magazines. I noticed that since I left Reddit I’ve been feeling really great and I think it’s because I haven’t been as exposed to rage inducing political news articles. I’m sticking mainly to chat and Reddit related posts, and I’ve been posting a little bit on the NYC and Brooklyn kbin.social magazines to try and breathe a little life into them (they have no activity). In short, i am curating my Fediverse experience a bit to be mellow.
Typical size queen…
It’s just nice to look at big… websites. 🥺
I’ve seen some sites that claim to sell products to make your website bigger, if anyone is interested. Not that we need it here. I just happened to see the ads is all.
It’s not the size of th site but how you use it that matters…
And anyway, making a girl laugh is the next best thing to giving her an orgasm, so checkmate haters.
