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.
[email protected] is like this too. I actually thought it was empty/abandoned so I started posting there about conserving wildlife.
Turns out it had one person posting there already, only they are blocked so I can’t see them. Anyway that person was disgruntled and held a poll, but the poll result was most people there want it to be about the environment.
Hah, I do remember hearing something like that about one of the conservative forums last month. I think Teddy Roosevelt would approve.
It’s been funny mentally adjusting to the overton window here.
On reddit the US democrats vs conservatives fight, on the fediverse it’s more often the US democrats vs marxist leninists etc. I find it comparatively relaxing.
I haven’t decided if it’s any better yet. I’m pretty far left, but radicals on both extremes get pretty weird. At least it’s different propaganda!
Totally, at times I can’t even work out what they are saying.
As a New Zealander I used to be mystified by references like “don’t tread on me”. In the fediverse it’s more… weird images of geese.
It’s kind of fun.