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Developer of Reddit is Fun just released an app for Tildes. (tildes.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

That's exactly how I feel about Twitter and Facebook, so I avoid all of that. Reddit was great because there wasn't really any benefit to getting "popular" on the platform, and Lemmy is scratching that itch for me as well.

I haven't actually looked at Tildes seriously because when I first heard about it years ago, it just didn't have much content and was invite only, so I bailed.

Lemmy is good enough for me, so I'm here. I could probably go through the effort of getting an account at Tildes and Lobsters, but that's effort I should be spending not being on SM, so I just don't bother. I go to SM to escape, and any barriers just remind me I should be doing something more productive.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Reddit was great because there wasn't really any benefit to getting "popular" on the platform

    Strongly disagree. The whole Karma / award / Gold system combined with algorithms ensures a certain type of posts are favored, and comments / discourse of certain type gets upvotes and visibility. There is a pattern under the most popular Reddit posts and comments and it's not hard to see.

    Lemmy has sort of a half-hearted voting system which I feel is actually beneficial to the experience and the fact there is no algorithm messing about is another big plus.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Sure, it favors types of posts, but not specific users. It still led to karma whoring having a certain value, but overall it seemed to have fewer of the problems of sites like Twitter and Facebook where followers matter. I'd rather have higher quality/popular content float to the top than popular contributors.

    It certainly wasn't perfect and I never claimed it was, but it was way better (for me) than most other social networks because people seemed a lot more genuine, especially on smaller subs (e.g. anything under 1M subs or so, preferably 50-100k).

    And yeah, so far Lemmy's solution seems to work well, and I guess we'll see if the continues as it grows.

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