That's a difficult question, for starters people around here tend to misinterpret what you're saying accidentally or willfully, far more than my experience with reddit previously. Idk if it's because the place just filled with the worst of reddit or the dumbest of reddit, but it seems like reading comprehension is at an all time low.

Second, there needs to be clear divides between communities and their uses. When c/memes and c/linuxmemes have the same content, it's going to give new users the impression that this place is for a very specific kind of person and then they'll quit altogether.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the first point, I can't speak to the overall volume, but I can definitely say that people willfully misinterpreting me was a pretty common occurrence over on Reddit and definitely pushed me to comment less over time, just for the sake of my mental health. I don't think I've been on Lemmy long enough to make a meaningful comparison though.

To add to your second point, Lemmy definitely feels very stale very quickly. Reddit, for all its faults, has a much larger user base with thousands of active communities. On Lemmy, even browsing the everything feed, I only see maybe a couple dozen new and interesting posts a day, and it only takes about 10 minutes of scrolling before I'm looking at stuff from days or weeks ago. Most communities I've tried to explore have one, maybe two posters. Subbing to a community often feels like subbing to one person and hoping it becomes a real community in the future.

I dunno if any of that will push me back to Reddit. If Lemmy doesn't really fit me... I'll probably just give up this last little bit of social media and just browse Imgur for memes when I want.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Tildes has a decent community that I've seen. It's not fediverse but oh well, it seems more like a forum than content aggregation but that's fine with me.

I'll probably stay on lemmy but it really doesn't have the user base for anything but a meme community IMO. Everything else is just Linux and Firefox arguments spilling over into everything else.

[–] AttackBunny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

for starters people around here tend to misinterpret what you’re saying accidentally or willfully, far more than my experience with reddit previously.

Honestly, this is what has driven me away. No matter how innocuous something I say is, there are a bunch of "well, askshewly" asshats to argue an irrelevant part of your statement, or start the "whataboutism" shit. It's exhausting, and frankly, takes all the fun out of it.

That and the bots reposting reddit shit. I may as well go back to reddit. Plus Narwhal is still working....

[–] TheDramaLlama@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Reddit alternative is filled with Reddit Rejects

many such cases!

[–] elskertesla@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed. The userbase is a bit too homogeneous. Also if you say something remotely positive or try to bring some nuance to topics that have a strong circle jerk value on Lemmy you'll get downvoted into oblivion.

[–] MrPloppy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This definitely stifles healthy debate.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly, you have an issue with their specific solution or just don't agree with how extreme they are on a topic You're just assumed to be an "enlightened centrist" and everyone will pile on no matter what.

Even if you reclarify to give an understanding of what you meant they'll either claim you're trying to lie or just ignore what you're saying because they'd prefer to argue with their strawman.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like my comments here have received more thoughtful responses than Reddit. I'm guessing it's pretty community dependent and I've just lucked out so far.

[–] elskertesla@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

If you have the right opinions Lemmy can be a comfortable place.