Hey, I hope it’s ok to post something like this here. I just wanted to say thanks for the people here^^ A long time ago I joined Reddit and tried to post, comment and communicate about stuff I liked. Only now I noticed how much I became a lurker over the time because of the negativity at Reddit. Snappy comments, no real feedback but hate, sometimes even borderline insults… After nuking and deleting my Reddit account and switching to lemmy I noticed how much I missed it. People here are way more friendly and communicate politely. At least for now… Posting is fun again, all thanks to you all^^ That’s my two cents. Thanks for reading. Love you all, keep safe. Cheers
Indeed. I’ve been on Reddit for 11 years and pretty much lurking all the time. Everything always felt judgemental… Now, my fear is that Lemmy will go the same way once the number of users grows. We’ll see…
I think you are awesome man!
Find smaller communities about the topics you like. They’re basically always friendlier than big monolithic ones, because people on the big ones essentially need to be cranky assholes just to get any kind of attention or feedback.
This will feel a lot more natural here due to each site having its own namespace. You can join @topic instead of @topic and deal with, like, 200 people, rather than 200,000.
The default Reddit subs were generally cesspools in one way are another. And I grew to dread the red “you have a message” notice.
Some of the niche ones were really nice. One of my favorites had rule #1 of “be excellent to each other.” The topic of the sub had nothing to do with movies, Keanu, or silly quotes. One of the users in particular could get pretty salty at times, but he was knowledgeable and people felt free to check him when his tone got to be too much.
A lot of the Reddit userbase issues could be solved by the “unsub” button
But it also just got worse in a myriad of fundamental ways over the past few years. The latest drama is just the proverbial straw on the back