• Neil@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My account here is 4 years old. I was so excited to learn about Lemmy back then, but the user base was painfully low. I’m getting that same excitement I had back then.

    Please new people, make this your permanent home and forget Reddit!

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      1 year ago

      I miss the old lemmy from a week ago when i signed up haha, feels like it blew up so much.

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      1 year ago

      Same boat. It’s kind of amazing, you can literally watch the userbase grow with popular entries getting more and more general upvotes.

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I jumped on a week ago. The change in that time has been totally insane! I went from being able to scroll for an hour maybe for the first few days, to now, it’s developing into a full blown doom-scroll addiction…

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    1 year ago

    I joined a year ago and it’s crazy, i remember getting excited over 20 upvotes, that AMA and the whole 3rd party fiasco really brought a lot of people here!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, u/spez being a terrible CEO/person might be the best thing to happen to the fediverse. I tried Mastodon a few months ago but the community wasn’t big enough to get me hooked. I joined Lemmy earlier this week and I really like the community that’s developing here.

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      1 year ago

      People are just much more supportive and friendlier here. But I guess because we are in a state now before all the assholes join from reddit…

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        1 year ago

        I really hope that won’t be the case. So far I like Lemmy and the vibe here a lot and am not afraid to comment somewhere which was the case on Reddit. I hope it stays that way, guess we’ll see that after the blackout.

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        1 year ago

        Maybe it’s just me but Mastodon seems still way friendlier than Twitter, I guess partly to do with the people but also the platform structure that seems to have less incentive to attack people. Hope it’s the same for Lemmy.

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      1 year ago

      There’s no karma total, lemmy only tracks you individual post/comment vote counts. Break free of the shackles of Karma Addiction!

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        1 year ago

        Karma addiction is a thing…but I don’t get a notification when I get upvoted.it’s not a bad thing…I use infinity to access reddit and it doesn’t show notifications either so I’m used to it…but I got curious about how you track your upvoted because of the meme

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          Up there in the top right corner is the number of upvotes a comment or post has gotten, there’s no total upvote/downvote tracking here.

        • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.world
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          It is a good thing, objectively. But at least on Mlem there is kind of an equivalent of the karma in the profile page (comment score and post score), if you miss that. 😎

          Some may interact less though if there is no karma; gamification works after all. I guess we’ll see.

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            Great point on gamification! I guess we will see if it is a good enough factor or not on here.

            Gamification works if your content is consistently good and dissuades other opinions. How many times have you deleted something you posted that got negative Reddit karma or no likes because you were frankly embarrassed? I did and now I realize I probably regret it.

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          It’s perfect and I wish Reddit did it ages ago. It’s the same as Forums with account levels, it makes you think someone has more input than they actually do, and it opens up the system to people selling accounts or botting accounts to later sell (which is a rampant problem on reddit and there’s now anti-bot bots).

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    Hell, I was surprised when I got 20 on reddit. Specifically once something hit /all your comment never gets read.

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    I feel nostalgic in advance for having stumbled on an inside joke that I was almost around early enough to be on the inside of but can nevertheless clearly project myself there.

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    1 year ago

    I remember before federation was an implemented feature and there were like 5 instances that couldn’t talk with each other. I feel old now.