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  • What do you like better here than on Reddit?

    The interfaces are better, and being able to integrate with mastodon is interesting.

    What do you miss from Reddit?

    The size of the communities, really. On Reddit, a lot of the subs have grown big enough that they can maintain themselves, whereas here, they’re pretty much dead without input. A few of the more interesting counterpart communities that I would frequent a tonne on Reddit are dead now, and if you’re just one user, it does feel like spam to try and contribute to it constantly.

    It’s really only a limit subset of communities that seem very active at all, and they are generally news or politics based.

    Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

    Bit of both. The culture in the larger communities would drift the way of Reddit just by volume, but the smaller ones are a bit more unique, and not always in a good way. Because Lemmy is a bit more tech-focused, I find a lot of the main medium-sized communities tend to have similar abrasiveness you see a bit in tech, though it can depend on both community and server.






  • T156@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlWhat a great start !
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    2 years ago

    Has that ever historically been the case? It’s usually been that a technological development results in loss of jobs, as businesses simply reduce their wage expenditure, whilst expecting the same amount, or more work.

    Like how computerisation has massively increased productivity, but wages and working hours haven’t changed to match.











  • They might be passionate about the topic, but wanting to become a moderator for it is a different beast entirely.

    That’s not a small amount of workload, and they might already have a bunch on their plates already. You don’t know that.

    It also doesn’t help that they’re unsolicited. People tend to ignore those, or treat them as spam, since they didn’t ask for a position, and getting pinged by a stranger is weird.



  • Especially for the level of changes that have taken place. Lemmy basically had a major rewrite to move away from web sockets, and Lemmy.world’s operators are running overtime just trying to fix the site up, and make it work for the massive amount of users that they have, addressing a few of the scaling issues in the processing.