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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I agree about smaller subs, those are gold.