After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/

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I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.

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It’s because the majority isn’t here yet. You would have the same quality in smaller subreddits, as long as they are somewhat moderated.

Just wait a few months and you’ll see the idiots returning with their cheap comments.

☝️ This

Don't kill me 😆

Oh god I forgot about those lame “witty” responses, all so original hahaha.

Please, good sir, take my updoot

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Thanks for the gold kind stranger

I love how the emoji is also italic

Ok hang on this is nuts.

How about bold? 🥵🤑😈

How about heading?

😏🤣👽

Strikethrough? 😱🤮🤔

🤡🤡👀🎉😂 Italics are the best though

Why tf is strikethrough emoji a thing

Because in unicode strikethrough is achieved by superimposing the strikethrough character on another character. So any regular character, emojis included, can be striked through.

𝕏̶

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Could you possibly share a screeny? They do not appear different on my app/device in italic and I’m so curious!

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Have my poor man's gold 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

"guys can we not do that reddit stuff here?"

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Only been here a day but the main thing I’ve noticed so far is that the user base reminds me of the old days of Digg and Reddit. Nobody downvoting comments for no good reason, nobody being needlessly hostile or starting shit. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

I don't know, there's still a lot of needless hostility; it's just around different topics.

Lemmy skews even more heavily left than Reddit and it's still too small to attract organized political trolls, but topics like FOSS vs Paid open source vs closed source gets heated fast. Look at the Sync for Lemmy threads; it's a mess in there.

I upvote basically everything that isn’t “this”, a Reddit-ism, or just mean/racist/etc.

It's because the majority isn't here yet.

The Eternal September waits for every platform

It’s nice to be here during what will eventually become “the good old days”, rather than finding out about it after it starts to suck.

At least lemmy has lots of mirrored communities so if one starts to suck you can go to a smaller one with the same topic

But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: politics@lemmy.world and politics@lemmy.ml, each with its own moderation style that has to respect the rules of its instance.

I think that's a lot healthier than having one giant Politics subreddit where it's hard to get involved because of the size and the immaturity of the people.

Did you even use Reddit? It has more political communities than you could count. Just because there's only one r/politics doesn't mean that's the only community you can choose from. Reddit has a lot of problems, but this is not one of them.

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It’s already starting, I got downvoted to hell the other day for calling it out when it happened

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Tbh, I kinda miss these links. Lemmy has a big discoverability issue, and part of that is that it's impossible to link to a post or comment in an instance-agnostic way.

Links to communities would at least help to find new communities to join.

links exist. I just don't know how to use them lol

!pokemon@lemmy.world

!pokemon@lemmy.ml

Gotta catch ‘em all.

I just wish I could merge 2 different communities and have dupes handled.

I don't think there are technically dupes. You could have multiple communities across different instances all called "gaming". But that wouldn't mean they all share the same rules and posting formats, etc.

They'd basically be like different subreddits. So you could potentially create a multireddit, but not truly merging "duplicate" communities.

Yeah multicommunities please! Also when you sub to a community a smol popup appears that asks if you'd like to sub to these other communities with the same name. Of course disable in settings.

Yeah, but it would be nice if there was a way to consolidate when a single person posts the same article in every iteration of gaming across the platform.

Ohhh, yeah, that is a sort of unique issue. Even then each one would have different vote and boost counts as well as unique comments sections. I think with a clever enough UI you could still work it out, though.

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Community links exist (!communityname@instance.org), but post/comment links that open thee same post correctly in your own instance don't exist.

And hardly anyonee uses community links at all.

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Yeah, there's the "everything" feed, but it's just not the same as /r/all.

I like to browse "everything " sorted to new. I find new communities that way. And there isn't an underlying algorithm that curated your feed according to what your viewing history is.

That's why it's different from r/all, there is less manipulation.

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Were you not here for the bit about the beans?

Right now the first three or four pages in my feed are almost nothing but pictures of cats in boxes. Which is fine, but it’s hardly brilliant discourse.

Change your sort options. Your lemmy experience will change drastically depending on whether you're sorting by hot, active, top, etc.

I love cats but I had to filter those subs. I don't want my feed to be 1/2 generic pictures of animals I can't pet.

That was a shitpost frenzy, I didn’t see much of that in comment sections!

I thought it was pretty stupid; I wonder if people are going to look back on it in a “narwhal bacon” type’a way.

Seems an unpopular opinion here, but I honestly miss this. The whole "using subreddits as hashtags" thing is how I found a number of interesting subs I would have never otherwise even thought to search for. Yeah, some were very big and well known ones like /holup that got repetitive, but others were some niche thing that fit that specific post in a way that I at least found somewhat funny.

It was good when it linked to actually interesting new communities, it was bad when it linked to meta-communities just collecting reddit posts - rimjobsteve, foundthemobileuser, holup half the time, cursedcomments, redditmoment, etc.

I actually liked those as well. I usually skip usernames so when someone linked rimjob steve I at least checked the username.

Same. It's not intrinsically bad, it was abused, but often useful

I just didn't like when people would use them to make fun of each other. Like commenting "r/wooosh" for someone just asking for clarification on something. Using it to say "this comment or post would be appropriate for this subreddit" is fine imo. I just don't like when people try to put others down to make themselves feel better than other people.

I could tolerate almost every redditism if it weren't for the belittling, argumentative, and self-righteous tones that permeated every front page discussion

To be fair the majority of posts I see have barely any comments at all. Not sure if that is so much better.

when it has comments, it rarely have replies

edit: i guess the /s was needed

Be patient my friend, the engagements will come. Although the instances having issues doesn't really make people want to browse lemmy. I practically never browsed past the first page of the feed before Sync for Lemmy got released.

It is so much better now then it was a month ago so imo we are now a floating boat rather than a sinking one that we are using buckets to keep floating

While I, too, appreciate this, I honestly have no idea how to link to another Lemmy instance (or whatever we call them).

I think its supposed to be: !community@instance

Yup, !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
When you type ! and then letters it will bring up a drop down menu

I'm gonna need you to do that about 100 more times and with different communities. Just so I can add them. Jerboa search is wonky lol

You can use this: https://lemmyverse.net/communities to find communities, when you go to a community it will have a link in the sidebar like: !community@instance.com you may have to paste that link into your instance search bar for it to show up. (I think this is only if nobody from your instance has searched for it yet.) Its kinda a pain, but I think this will be a lot easier later down the road.

It's nice to be able to post wherever I want without having my accounts being happening to be x days old or x amount of karma.

Im wondering how long that will last. Surely, at some point, there will be anti spam measures to help combat that.

When Eternal September begins and all the frat boys no longer getting free booze at Reddit stagger down cyber lane looking for another party to crash and see the light is still on at Lemmy's.

It's really nice here. I find everyone is pleasant to one another.

Strange, isn’t it? Takes some time to get used to.

Then, once you start to get used to it, you realize how screwed up reddit must have been for civility to seem strange.

I'm just so excited to have conversations again which aren't full of negativity. I didn't really see how toxic Reddit was until RIF closed down.

My first social media was Livejournal (I bet you're too young to know what that is), which was a private blogging platform, and it was full of really beautiful intimate friendships I maintain to this day 24 years later. I hope for similar vibes for Lemmy.

yeah a lot of the meaningless chatter just isnt established here.

i kinda think that not having a summarized carma score prevents a lot of it.

but i also feel, that this kind of suff is slowly creeping in with the migration of more users.

Its called genralization. Whenever a media reaches a larger audience, that media stops filling its niche and starts trying to appeal to the larger audience. Its a bit more complicated when it comes to a social media, but look at some of the larger subreddits. When they were small and starting off, they were fun and exciting. But after growing a larger audience, they became more genralized. A bit boring.

Users are the same way. After a platform gains enough users, those users start to act in a way that is similar to picking the low hanging fruit. Whatever is the easiest way to garner attention, they do it.

If lemmy grows to reddits size, it'll probably be the same. However, hopefully different instances and nonsummarized karma will mitigate that.

I hope it doesn't peter out like Goat did. I deleted all my 100k plus reddit accounts yesterday. I have so much muscle memory from going to reddit daily that I have to force myself not to go.

The first week is the hardest. It gets better the longer you are able to be intentional about your choices.

welcome to the club, and its great to have you.

There really isn't a critical mass of users here to do that in order to be worthwhile.

As an alternative we have the same memes you know for years in everyones feed here but I actually kind of love that because it's only the best of them!

It reminds me of the time I first started taking antidepressants and they started kicking in. "Holy shit, is this how everyone else feels all the time? This is amazing!" Mine is cripplingly bad and I've had it my entire life. Being a suicidal 7 year old is apparently not normal.

The r/dontputyourdickinthat was seemingly unending

Welcome, please leave your shoes at the door!

I have a question:

Well, on Reddit, with subreddits, you can go inside with your shoes on, right? Then, what if you stepped on dog poop out on the street, and you went to a subreddit without realizing it... If the Redditor father and mother and eldest son and eldest daughter all stepped on poop and went to a subreddit without realizing it...

One day at a time. Only for today. This is how I'm taking this ride. I'm happy with Lemmy as is. I'm in the here, hopefully in the fediverse now.

I hope there is more of that actually. I just haven't found any reasons to use any

Never seen that on reddit either but I suppose I wasn't in subreddits where that was common. 🤷