I had joined Reddit twice in my lifetime but was not actively using it, and maybe that’s the reason I’m not very familiar with this forum culture.
I would say that Lemmy is by far the most responsive SNS in terms of the community engagement that I’ve ever used.
I feel like Lemmy is substantially less combative. Reddit has become so very hostile over the years and every thread felt like someone was about to start a fight. Not that there isn’t any here, but there feels like a normal amount, rather than an over-representation of people spoiling for a fight.
Hey watch this:
Vote for Harris.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about Kamala Harris you little bitch? I’ll have you know she supports genocide, and has been involved in upholding a corrupt and punitive “justice” system, and she has over 1500 confirmed fuckups. I am trained in internet argumentation and I’m the top shitposter on the entire FBI watch list. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe your shit takes the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit on the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of leftists across the USA and your ignorance is being noted right now so you better prepare for the storm, liberal. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your opinion. You’re fucking dead wrong, kid. I can dismantle your argument anywhere, anytime, and I can do it in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with appeals to emotion. Not only am I extensively informed on this issue, but I have access to a cherry-picked list of facts that support my opinion and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable stance off the face of this forum, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead wrong, kiddo.
Edit: this is not directed at drag, hence the use of you/your
Thank you for respecting drag’s pronouns!
We all feel a responsibility to be active here ngl. So many of us have made new communities we wanted and just keep posting there to grow communities.
My total activity on only this one Lemmy account is more than all my social media ever combined. And thats just one of my 7 Lemmy accounts.
I feel like it has something to do with the fact that there’s less content, so when you post something, it’s actually going to be seen by people.
I didn’t post or comment anything the last couple years on Reddit, largely because it increasingly felt like shouting into the void.
Yeah Lemmy is a smaller more intimate community. In fact I’m sure we’ve interacted before. Thats just the nature of the platform (and a positive).
Also why I don’t really agree with people who think the number 1 goal of Lemmy is to grow.
