Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty.

Meanwhile though traffic has increased a lot and I feel well entertained by the traffic in c/hfy c/noncredibledefence c/keepwriting c/worldbuilding and so on. It is certainly less than Reddit but often quality is substancially higher and is "enough" to keep me entertained.

Also I like that you can actually post something without running into a bazillion deletes, bans and moderator shitshat because your post was two words to short, not NCD enough and so on.

Sure, the C64 community on Lemmy is laughable. So is the ARMA community. I still use REddit for that. Also I often check up stuff on r/hfy and r/NCD but since one week I have been prefering Lemmy for that.

Also my longer posts don't get eaten up any more. God, three weeks ago most posts with 3k an more just got lost without feed back. Nowadays I have even manges posts around 20k without breaking them up. Though the editor is still lacking for longer posts. On Reddit I can copy-paste pretty much anything from Libreoffice into Reddits Editor (which is also pretty lacking but differently lacking). On Lemmy I have to run most text through a little perl script to get them even using correct line breaks perl -pe 's/\n/\n\n/' and different sizes for Headlines are much to few to select from.

Not perfect, not even very good but definitely promising.

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[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 12 points 1 year ago

I have to disagree about Lemmy not being very good. It is, IMHO, already very good indeed. It will only improve with time.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

old.lemmy.world is a God send, haven't been back to reddit since!

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've only seen one thread which felt completely like Reddit. The community was for the alien comics, and the comics were taking a dig at imperial units vs metric units. Nothing wrong with that, it was all in good fun and jest.

The comments though were toxic frankly. If you said you liked both systems and provided reasons, you were buried in downvotes. If you discussed some upsides of the imperial system, you were ridiculed to be a child. Even if you were an engineer and you provided a lengthy explanation, it was met with derision. And then there were all the logically inconsistent arguments and the notion that Americans were simultaneously idiots but also apparently complete geniuses with how complex they made the imperial system out to be.

I'm thankful it was just the one thread. All of the politics threads I've viewed have been more civil and open to discussion (and I consume a fair bit of political news). Lemmy, until that thread, felt like a place where nuanced opinions and discussions were encouraged and upvoted. I hope it's just a one off.

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[–] kat@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks for making me aware of c/worldbuilding! It's nice to see more niche communities growing.

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[–] crashoverride@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Well, a couple months ago there were nice reddit apps. If it weren't for that, lemmy would probably still be a ghost town. Now that being said, I'm happy I'm here and will continue to contribute and I'm so happy that I was able to get the username I did!

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Remember when all the discussions were happening in just a couple top posts, mostly meta posts? We've come a long way for sure and I'm proud of everyone.

[–] Forcedlurker@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I feel like I'm stuck between two times periods.

[–] driving_crooner 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To me it feels like reddit 10/12 years ago when still was pretty niche and a meme could take the entire plataform for a week, the Atheist memes are also a blast to the past.

[–] ittu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I've been noticing the same thing.

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