Reddit Migration

Whatever, nerd.

Haha just kidding. I agree. I bumped into some market study about Reddit (probably on Reddit) a couple months ago that found ~95% of the most upvoted comments were 2 sentences or less. So much for deep, meaningful conversation.

Makes sense, though. If you weren't getting much out of Reddit's vapid content it was probably easier to escape, along with old-ish folks like me, who have lived through this type of thing many times. Reddit became pretty shitty, and I don't see it getting any better. While purging my accounts, I took a peak at the new interface. What a hellscape without adblock and the old site on life support.

Welcome aboard!

I figure this thread is as good as any to put my first comment on. Thank you for the positive message! I felt the same way on Reddit, where I was a lurker for 8 years, just helping people when I could when I was certain I could help. I'll try to do my best to enjoy commenting & connecting with others ♥️

Someone already mentioned in another thread, but it's also much friendlier to those of us in non-US timezones. On Reddit you'd never be heard in an 8h old thread, here you can.

After 4 years lurking on Reddit, this is so much better already and improving rapidly.

Yeah i agree with you, i was def more of a lurker on reddit but it feels good to communicate with wonderful humans like you.

It’s really nice coming on here and seeing 10-20 comments versus the 1-2 I often got on Reddit. It’s really nice here

Sending a warm welcome! I relate—I honestly JUST started to comment here and there on Reddit within this past year. I join kbin and within a week I’ve commented more here then the 8 years I lurked on reddit. It’s just a better overall vibe here.

Welcome! I also came over recently from Reddit as well after 12 years. The smaller niche subs were always friendly, but the bigger subs... well, I felt the same as you, with all of the negativity, drama and trolling. More often than not I simply remained a lurker. I gotta deal with enough stress in real life, don't need to invite it into my leisure time.

The early days, during The Great Digg Migration, weren't bad at all, but it all slid downhill in later years, until it was more about doomscrolling for me and less about actual interaction. Coming here, I feel like everything is new and fresh again, and that everyone is welcoming and friendly. It's been quite refreshing!

Glad to have you with us! This place feels more like a real community. I've commented more on kbin this past week than on reddit the past two years combined.

I definitely agree. On Reddit, I would comment pretty rarely, and many times I've written out comments and then deleted them because it wasn't worth the effort.

kbin isn't the same software as lemmy, but they can talk to each other (the joy of the fediverse). Glad you've found your voice as a result! I also found the culture of most subreddits hard to deal with, too many egos clashing.

I remember there was a specific thread in /r/darktide that I commented on and, while I will admit that the overall topic was potentially volatile given the community - or at least possibly against the collective hivemind of 'tide players - the negativity I got in that thread continually baffled me. I'd attempt to explain and re-explain over and over again and every time it was met with this..."wall" of almost.../hatred/ that I just couldn't wrap my mind around.

One guy I swear felt like he was legitimately getting off on the hatred he was spewing - to the extent that a whole other poster commented on how messed up his responses were.

I eventually /think/ I figured out people were latching on to like a single thing I'd said in my multiple paragraphs of responses but...yeah. It was like people were only looking for that one little bone they could hang on to to be as negative and visceral as possible. It legit took me aback. And I'm only slowly beginning to realize I /don't/ feel that over here.

Hello from kbin! i also noticed this, its so much less intimidating to express yourself here on the fediverse

Same about me. In here fediverse, I feel every comments I got are all living comments if it's upvoted or not.

Indeed. I’ve been on Reddit for 11 years and pretty much lurking all the time. Everything always felt judgemental... Now, my fear is that Lemmy will go the same way once the number of users grows. We’ll see…

For me it's the anonymity that Reddit and this site provide that allows the fear-free freedom of expression. If I had to use my real name I wouldn't post anything ever about anything regardless to whether I agreed with what I wrote or not.

This site isn't completely positive to everything. My pro-Reddit-admin-action comments seem to be getting lots of hate here.

I feel the same way as well. Seemed like a popularity contest on Reddit, but so far the people here are a lot more friendlier!

You keep being awesome too!

Welcome aboard and happy to have you!!!

Posting here at the moment feels like posting on Reddit in the early days. The sense of true community was real, it was more organic content from everyday people instead of the corporate machine that it became with sponsored content, brigading, shills and even subs changing their nature from IAMA Bricklayer to IAMA Movie Star with a movie releasing tomorrow which I'm here to promote. The whole voting system went to crap and the vote numbers were completely out of touch with actual user sentiment.

As long as the fediverse has a more sustainable model and does not go down the corporate route we should be ok until the marketeers, SEOs and advertisers arrive with their thinly veiled attempts at self/client promotion.

yep I liken reddit recently to sitting on a park bench alone, shouting your ideas to the ether and the only replies you get are passerbys that want to tell you you are wrong (often in immense detail). It used to be you could have discussion, like you might have sitting round the break room at work or in bar with friends, a bunch of like minded people on a topic.

Whenever I got a notification from Reddit, there was always that half second of a sinking feeling of "oh shit what did I say to piss someone off."

surprisingly i also feel more confident there are nice people. i hope this will not devolve, it'd be a shame losing a friendly community

So agreed.

Any time I’d get a lot of comments on something on Reddit, going through them involved a lot of eye-rolling and ignoring the ones from people who were just there to troll or to attempt to make people feel bad. I haven’t seen a single comment like that on Lemmy so far.

It's exciting to see the positivity and hope everyone seems to have about lemmy/kbin and the fediverse. I think in general new and smaller social media places tend to have a more positive atmosphere. But it might last longer this time, both due to the lack of corporate interests and just because things can be small and new on the fediverse without it being as much of a problem. The fediverse overall encourages a consciousness of the types of communities you are joining and the cultural differences between them, I'm sure eventually there will be many different communities with different atmospheres and we'll be able to make informed decisions about which to join.