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What is getting worse according to you?
There's just not enough content posted, it takes several hours if not longer for top stories to pop up and that's not even counting that I see the same posts over and over at the top for days. I get it's smaller and such but it's harder to really get into. I'm still here cause I'm not going back to Reddit but I just wish we could get more people in
We all have to start posting more content and interacting we each other. I prefer to use the filter with "Top past 6 hours", you get to see more new content.
Brother you gotta post content
Which filter do you use, Active?
Hot and Top 6 hours / 12 hours / day might work better
After you scroll through active, use hot, use new, use new comments.
It's not going to be a direct Reddit replacement after just growing its userbase to that of a small subreddit.
It's okay, Lemmy is definitely not for everyone in its current state.
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I see, that's unfortunate.
I try to avoid communities with a lot of toxic / troll people (mostly politics and news communities), it's working more or less so far
There's a spectrum of topics between cats and politics / news. To each their own :)
I think Lemmy is going through some growing pains right now. Many of the integral members of the platform, the developers and admins, are overwhelmed with work, because the platform is still in an early stage of development and it's not as functional as it could be.
Additionally, the original servers are clashing with the new servers as they attempt to find common ground. A month or two ago, things were much more chill because people were just starting to explore. But now people have strong feelings about other instances and those feelings need to be hashed out. I am confident that we have enough reasonable people on all sides to reach a pragmatic compromise.
I feel the vast majority of interactions I've had with people on Lemmy have been positive. I hope that Lemmy can be a space that transcends the toxicity of the discourse on other social media platforms. But it will probably take some time to achieve that goal.
Do you not feel the same is true with Reddit?
Downvoted perfectly good and reasonable comments. Some are the correct answers because you know a lot about a particular thing in the world.
Downvoted perfectly good and reasonable submissions
Reddit mods shadow banning your submissions/comments
Reddit mods deleting your submissions/comments and/or locking them.
People in general just being asses.
I'm not saying that Lemmy is perfect but it feels like both can have a similar vibe. A lot of Lemmy people were/still are Reddit people and so it makes sense that both have similar vibes.
What are some of your old accounts?