What does Lemmy do better than Reddit?

austinngo@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 181 points –

Just found this space, I'm trying to play around with this platform. Can anyone help to explain?

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It's kinda cool to go to pretty much any post and go "hey! I know almost everyone in the comment section!", but that's a bit of a double edged sword

Haha, yeah. Luckily it's more "Oh, it's you" and less "Oh, it's you". lol

Though I do tend to block trolls very quickly.

Oh, it's you!

Some apps (like Boost) even let you add tags to people's names.

Example

I always get so confused until I remember the context

Interesting, I use boost and didn't know about that. Like client side flairs, neat!

Lol that sounds cool

It can be. Once you get to hyper specific niches, you'll start seeing communities where it's more or less only a single person posting, if anyone's around at all. In more general communities it depends what's going on. There's a few people in the memes and shit posting communities who I swear make just about every post that ends up high up on top/day, and are in half the comment sections too. In communities like ask Lemmy it's usually different people posting, but the same few people replying

Only downside is when you DO finally have an, "Oh, it's you" moment, you'd better hope they're not one of the few people doing the posting.