I think it’s a boon that we’re a tiny fraction of Reddit’s size. Reddit is something like 30+ million MAUs and Lemmy dropped recently from 62k to ~50k. We’re a grain of sand compared to Reddit, and I think the community is better for it.
Lemmy isn’t really a Reddit alternative. We’re too small to have niche thriving communities, and depend 100% on sorting your feed by “all” or “local” to get new content. What’s nice is it feels like one close knit community vs closed off micro communities inside of subreddits.
I get exposed to more things this way oddly enough- viewing content I normally wouldn’t in favor of my smaller selection of subreddits. People are more polite, more informative, and far more original with their comments.
Keep on doing your thing, everyone! We’re building something different here.
Yup, plenty of others posting all the doom and gloom environmental stuff, so I stick to sharing pics of happy fluffballs to balance it out. Love for our fellow beasties is probably what got many environmentalists into it to begin with, and it’s important to remember the fun part of it.
Just realized. Did the owls on r/SuperbOwl get lots of comments? If not, many upvotes with little discussion should probably just be expected for that kind of post.
I followed cute animal subs on Reddit but it totally slipped my mind about how often people would comment. I just looked, upvoted (after all, cute animals are on topic in a cute animal sub), and moved on.
The ratio is probably the same or better technically. They have about 400k subs and the posts get like a dozen comments. I didnt post there though, because there were a good number of daily posts. It’s dead here so far, so I decided it was up to me to be the change I wanted to see.
I do feel good breaking into the 100+ likes, but it’s just kinda one sided feeling. Like if you say hello to someone and they smile, but don’t say hi back ever, if that makes sense.