I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.

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[–] 164 points 3 years ago (50 children)

It’s because the majority isn’t here yet. You would have the same quality in smaller subreddits, as long as they are somewhat moderated.

Just wait a few months and you’ll see the idiots returning with their cheap comments.

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  • [–] 89 points 3 years ago (35 children)

    ☝️ This

    Don't kill me 😆

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (15 children)

    Oh god I forgot about those lame “witty” responses, all so original hahaha.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Please, good sir, take my updoot

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Thanks for the gold kind stranger

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Alas, I have only one upvote to give.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (5 children)
  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I also choose this guys wife.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    I love how the emoji is also italic

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Ok hang on this is nuts.

    How about bold? 🥵🤑😈

    How about heading?

    😏🤣👽

    Strikethrough? 😱🤮🤔

    🤡🤡👀🎉😂 Italics are the best though

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Why tf is strikethrough emoji a thing

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

    Only been here a day but the main thing I’ve noticed so far is that the user base reminds me of the old days of Digg and Reddit. Nobody downvoting comments for no good reason, nobody being needlessly hostile or starting shit. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    I don't know, there's still a lot of needless hostility; it's just around different topics.

    Lemmy skews even more heavily left than Reddit and it's still too small to attract organized political trolls, but topics like FOSS vs Paid open source vs closed source gets heated fast. Look at the Sync for Lemmy threads; it's a mess in there.

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

    It's because the majority isn't here yet.

    The Eternal September waits for every platform

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: politics@lemmy.world and politics@lemmy.ml, each with its own moderation style that has to respect the rules of its instance.

    I think that's a lot healthier than having one giant Politics subreddit where it's hard to get involved because of the size and the immaturity of the people.

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

    Did you even use Reddit? It has more political communities than you could count. Just because there's only one r/politics doesn't mean that's the only community you can choose from. Reddit has a lot of problems, but this is not one of them.

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  • [+] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This is still an issue with Lemmy though. Ultimately, one instance's community is going to be "the" community for a given topic, most likely because it's on a popular instance, and at a certain point it's going to devolve the same way default subs did. People who wouldn't join r/SeaWa probably aren't going to join seattle@unpopular.domain with 50 active users, either. Personally, I'm more inclined to choose r/SeaWa over r/Seattle because it sounds less official.

    This seems more like an aesthetic issue than a real problem, and don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting the community name you want on a different instance, but I don't think that's grounds for "Lemmy will never become a circlejerk".

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