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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

☝️ This

Don't kill me 😆

[-] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

play stupid games

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I love how the emoji is also italic

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ok hang on this is nuts.

How about bold? 🥵🤑😈

How about heading?

😏🤣👽

Strikethrough? ~~😱🤮🤔~~

🤡🤡👀🎉😂 Italics are the best though

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Don't see any difference for bold emojis.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Why tf is strikethrough emoji a thing

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

To specifically say I was going to smile, but I choose to not.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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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[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My mind is officially blown

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Listen here you little shit

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That italic emoji makes me uncomfortable.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Have my poor man's gold 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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

The Eternal September waits for every platform

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: [email protected] and [email protected], 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[email protected]

Gotta catch ‘em all.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Community links exist ([email protected]), 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I think its supposed to be !community@instance

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Give it a moment

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the compliment kind stranger!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I wish I could giv u gold!!!!!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Your absolutly right, but still I miss the holups.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

lemmy has quality

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The r/dontputyourdickinthat was seemingly unending

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Don't talk about it! That's how you summon them!

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