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To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time πŸ™ƒ)

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[–] SVcross@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I like it. Lots of memes, I'm learning a lot. Less people to help, tho.

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like it. I'm not much into the memes but the communities are much smaller so you get more personal discussions.

It's very much like reddit circa 2008 or so. It feels like the claws of marketing people have no presence here. I dare say the word, it feels like there is freedom of expression. To be free, at least partially, from corporate control.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

I found a lot of people who are willing to put effort in posting and commenting.

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I like a few of these communities, and I've had some nice conversations on some things I'm passionate about. But it seems like the population outside my small communities is dominated by violent wanna-be political activists competing for who can express the most outrageous sentiment.

Advocating against violence against one's parents in a hypothetical situation where a parent developed the wrong US politics not only got me downvoted, but also replied to by some asshole from Australia who wanted to rub it in that I was clearly in the out-group.

I don't normally reply when I see things like that, but after seeing so much vitriol I felt the need to leave a comment. I won't be doing it again.

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I first felt like I was missing on news for my niche hobbies but just started going sites directly for news (testing an rss reader this week for the first time in over a decade so that might change). Besides that just looking at the default hot or rising threads hit a lot of what I'm looking for with good discussions.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I never had a reddit account so I used it's implosion as a push off to set me free from 4chan but also not going to that overly policed place.

I think Lemmy is a nice middle ground.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Actually, reading these comments, this place is starting to feel like reddit.

There's absolutely nothing more Reddit than people on Reddit complaining about Reddit and how everyone else on Reddit is shitty and unreasonable (without supplying any context).

So yeah, it seems Lemmy is right on track.

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